Cornerstone Venture Partners
VC Fund
New York, United States
Cornerstone Venture Partners is a principal investment firm that specializes in providing early-stage capital and strategic guidance to technology companies.The firm invests in companies with various types of B2B technologies including Big Data, logistics, edge computing, marketing and sales tech, VR, and IoT with a preferred initial investmentup to $1 million and the option of additional follow-up investments.Cornerstone Venture Partners is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Los Angeles and Israel.
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 35%
- Fund size:
- $200M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Cornerstone Venture Partners invests in
Stages Cornerstone Venture Partners invests in
Countries Cornerstone Venture Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $400k–$3M
- Pre-Seed
- $100k–$1.5M
- Series A
- $3M–$5.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 8 (47%)
- Information Technology 3 (18%)
- Mobile 2 (12%)
- Sensor 2 (12%)
- Analytics 2 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (47%)
- Series A 3 (18%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (12%)
- Series B 2 (12%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (6%)
Country
- Israel 7 (41%)
- United States 3 (18%)
- India 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Hanan Brand
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Aron Rissman
Limited Partner & Advisor
|
Limited Partner & Advisor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Michael Ozechov
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Zosia Ulatowski
Principal, Fund Operations
|
Principal, Fund Operations | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| NewSpace is a Aerospace Research and Technologies Industry, It designs and develops Persistent Drones for Earth Observation and Communications. | $33M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 01, 2024 | ||
| DealHub's award-winning Revenue Amplification Platform offers the most complete and connected revenue workflow for your organization. The zero-code, purpose-built platform empowers visionary leaders to connect their teams and processes, execute deals, and create predictable pipeline more effectively than ever before.DealHub centralizesbuyer communications from opportunity to renewal, and connects everything you need to close the deal.The company’s many customers benefit from real-time buyer intent and sales insights, faster time-to-revenue, and automated approval workflows – all from one easy-to-use guided selling playbook.The Revenue Amplification Platform includes: Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) Contract Management Subscription Management Sales Proposals Document Generation Buyer Engagement E-signatureNative integration with your CRM (Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce and Freshworks).Visit www.dealhub.io to optimize and accelerate your Sales and Revenue operations. | $20M / Series B / Jun 02, 2021 | ||
| Youtiligent's machine learning based technology monitors the electric pattern of the un-connected (“dumb”) device and converts it into meaningful business insights. The company creates a new way of communication between vendors and manufacturers to their customers' appliances, enabling a real-time understanding and predictive learning ofthe devices supplies needs and services. The company enables it's customers across multiple sectors, as food & beverage, industrial and logistics, to base their decisions on real-time data usage, saving costs and improving efficiency. | $1.5M / Seed / Jun 10, 2019 | ||
| Squaretalk is a unified, AI-powered communication platform designed to simplify and scale business outreach across voice, messaging, email, and social channels. | Series A / Apr 23, 2019 | ||
| User1st Ltd. provides a cloud-based service designed that enables accessibility professionals, webmasters, content managers, user experience managers, and developers to make any website accessible without changing the existing codebase. This revolutionary product detects, fixes, and monitors any website simply by adding a single line of code– thenthe User1st Code-Fix Editor does the rest.User1st has designed a platform that enables businesses to achieve accessibility compliance in ways never before imagined at a fraction of the traditional time and costs. Not only providing protection from lawsuits but also reaching new customers never before able to engage online.User1st gives your team powerful tools to guide them through enabling all of the various aspects of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 standards including: assistive keyboard navigation, dynamic color contrast, and screen reader compliance. User1st Accessibility Suite is continuously tested across all major browsers and across all major screen readers enabling the largest possible impact to reaching disabled users.User1st is being used everyday by tens of thousands of individuals. With the data collected, User1st continually updates its platform to better assist individuals with versatile disabilities such as: visual disabilities, hearing disabilities, and motor disabilities. Additionally, many in the elderly population that do not self-identify as disabled benefit from the these capabilities improving their Internet experience. | $5.5M / Series B / Mar 15, 2019 | ||
| User1st Ltd. provides a cloud-based service designed that enables accessibility professionals, webmasters, content managers, user experience managers, and developers to make any website accessible without changing the existing codebase. This revolutionary product detects, fixes, and monitors any website simply by adding a single line of code– thenthe User1st Code-Fix Editor does the rest.User1st has designed a platform that enables businesses to achieve accessibility compliance in ways never before imagined at a fraction of the traditional time and costs. Not only providing protection from lawsuits but also reaching new customers never before able to engage online.User1st gives your team powerful tools to guide them through enabling all of the various aspects of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 standards including: assistive keyboard navigation, dynamic color contrast, and screen reader compliance. User1st Accessibility Suite is continuously tested across all major browsers and across all major screen readers enabling the largest possible impact to reaching disabled users.User1st is being used everyday by tens of thousands of individuals. With the data collected, User1st continually updates its platform to better assist individuals with versatile disabilities such as: visual disabilities, hearing disabilities, and motor disabilities. Additionally, many in the elderly population that do not self-identify as disabled benefit from the these capabilities improving their Internet experience. | $2.9M / Seed / Mar 15, 2019 | ||
| Youtiligent's machine learning based technology monitors the electric pattern of the un-connected (“dumb”) device and converts it into meaningful business insights. The company creates a new way of communication between vendors and manufacturers to their customers' appliances, enabling a real-time understanding and predictive learning ofthe devices supplies needs and services. The company enables it's customers across multiple sectors, as food & beverage, industrial and logistics, to base their decisions on real-time data usage, saving costs and improving efficiency. | $600K / Seed / Jan 01, 2019 | ||
| TEXEL is a cloud-based video technology startup company from Israel that addresses the streaming video services market, including entertainment, sports, and VOD. It’s product, Engagement Cloud™, enables leading streaming services to offer an individualized, multi-feed, highly-social, interactive viewing experience across all devices. | $3M / Seed / Sep 12, 2018 | ||
| Axonize provides an IoT orchestration platform that completely automates the process of IoT deployment, enabling enterprises to deploy any IoT solution in only a few days. Axonize main 3 pillars are visibility, automation, and analytics. | $5.5M / Series A / Apr 12, 2018 | ||
| OptimalQ uses big data predictive analytics and thoughtful algorithms to develop a real-time technology that helps call centers reach more leads. It designs the product to increase answer rates and help select the customers who are most receptive to a sale. It provides a customer availability platform that identifies when people are physically andemotionally available to take sales calls. Its technology capitalizes on customer information such as time zone, country, and age, and adds real-time information to the lead selection process. It currently offers three main products: Insight API that users can integrate with any CRM in the market; OptimalCall, a fully automated real-time lead selection system; and ActiveLeads that gives sales agents real-time availability notifications and allows them to make smarter choices when deciding which lead to call. | Seed / Jan 01, 2018 | ||
| See all 17 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Cornerstone Venture Partners invest in?
Cornerstone Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Cornerstone Venture Partners invest in?
Cornerstone Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $400k–$3M at Seed, $100k–$1.5M at Pre-Seed and $3M–$5.5M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Cornerstone Venture Partners's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Cornerstone Venture Partners took part in.
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Who are the partners at Cornerstone Venture Partners?
The team at Cornerstone Venture Partners includes Hanan Brand (General Partner), Aron Rissman (Limited Partner & Advisor) and Michael Ozechov (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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