# Cove Fund

> Cove Fund is a VC fund in Irvine backing Software and SaaS. See 42 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Irvine, United States
- Total investments: 42
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 43%
- Fund size: $30M
- Last fund: Oct 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/covefund/
- Website: http://covefund.com

Cove Fund is a seed-stage venture capital fund that provides startup funding for promising new ventures. The funds invest in early-stage technology and life science companies that demonstrate the potential to address markets with differentiated products and services, and that can achieve significant value-creating inflection points with their seedfunding.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 19% |
| SaaS | 7 | 17% |
| Health Care | 7 | 17% |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 10% |
| Biotechnology | 4 | 10% |

88 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 27 | 64% |
| Series A | 7 | 17% |
| Series B | 2 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 2% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 2% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| J.C. Ruffalo | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/j-c-ruffalo-c2d8 |
| Mike Benvenuti | Manager, Cove Fund II | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-benvenuti |
| Paul Voois | Manager, Cove Fund II | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-voois |
| Fred Selby | Manager, Cove Fund I | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fred-selby |
| Hans Imhof | Manager, Cove Fund I | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hans-imhof-2d1c |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BLNG | BLNG is a Generative AI company providing design software and data products for the jewelry industry. | $3M | Seed | Apr 08, 2025 |  |
| Occuspace | Occuspace is bringing new intelligence to the physical world. By capturing how many people are in a space, Occuspace is helping businesses more accurately understand, control, and improve the way their spaces are being used to enhance the visitor experience and increase efficiencies and cost savings. | $6M | Series A | Mar 17, 2025 |  |
| XILO | XILO is a workflow automation platform designed for traditional insurance agencies and companies. It helps them to improve the connection between online and offline customer experiences, automate back-office tasks, and integrate multiple systems to minimize data entry. This allows these companies to stay competitive and adapt to the changingmarket. | $7.2M | Series A | Jan 22, 2025 |  |
| Wethos AI | Wethos harnesses is the power of AI to address real-world challenges, offering smart, data-driven solutions that boost efficiency, streamline operations, and uncover hidden potential, empowering businesses to excel in a rapidly evolving environment. | $7.5M | Seed | Aug 15, 2024 |  |
| Occuspace | Occuspace is bringing new intelligence to the physical world. By capturing how many people are in a space, Occuspace is helping businesses more accurately understand, control, and improve the way their spaces are being used to enhance the visitor experience and increase efficiencies and cost savings. | $3.6M | Seed | Aug 24, 2023 |  |
| GroGuru | GroGuru is a privately held company based in San Diego, CA which provides precision soil and irrigation monitoring systems to the commercial agriculture industry. GroGuru enables farmers to increase crop yields while optimally use water, energy and other scarce resources in a sustainable way. GroGuru sells an innovative hardware-enabledsubscription-based solution to farmers that enables optimal irrigation. GroGuru’s patented 100 percent wireless underground system (WUGS) enables a permanent installation of soil sensors, even in annual field crops like corn and soybeans that have a destructive harvest. GroGuru’s patented WUGS-based systems can be buried below the till depth and communicate through several feet of soil wirelessly, thus eliminating the need for the sensors to be annually installed and removed for seeding and harvesting, respectively, for these annual crops. GroGuru is part of EvoNexus, AgLaunch, the Yield Lab, SVG-Thrive and Plug and Play AgTech accelerator programs. | $2.3M | Series A | Aug 03, 2023 |  |
| VECKTA | VECKTA is the Energy Transition Market Platform. VECKTA integrates the world’s most advanced energy system engineering tools with an end-to-end marketplace to integrate and accelerate the development of distributed energy systems (DES) and microgrid projects. VECKTA empowers businesses and communities to quickly and easily baseline their energysituation today, customize a solution specific to their needs (cost, reliability and/or emissions) and then seamlessly engage and contract the best equipment, services, and capital providers in the market to finance, deploy and operate it sustainably and profitably. | $3.5M | Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| ECFX | ECFX develops innovative software that addresses unmet automation needs in the legal industry. Our first product, ECFX Notice, automates the downloading, profiling, storing, and distribution of court documents in ECF notices for both Federal and State courts. Electronic court documents are automatically downloaded and stored anywhere, includingthe firm DMS, client share folders, and practice group file repositories. Email notifications with the court documents attached are sent to all relevant attorneys, legal assistants, paralegals, and docketing clerks. Team members can choose to receive the documents in the format of their preference (PDFs, links to the documents in the firm DMS, or links to the documents in ECFX Cloud), and the email notifications can include internal firm data such as matter number and matter name. Administrators can also track a variety of electronic court filing activities using a powerful Analytics Dashboard. | $7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 21, 2023 |  |
| CARI Health | Cari Health develops remote medication monitors that allow clinicians to prescribe medications and receive real-time reporting on medication levels. Its monitors are wireless sensors that are worn on the patient's skin and continuously send data about medication levels to the cloud.The company was founded in 2015, incorporated in 2021 and isheadquartered in San Diego, California. | $2.3M | Seed | Jan 10, 2023 |  |
| CELITECH | CELITECH is an award-winning premium connectivity platform for global travel companies and their customers & employees. Our highly secure US-hosted & US-made eSIM solution delivers affordable, best-in-class cellular data service in 160+ countries. We power travel-related companies to generate new revenues and mobile engagement whilehelping their travelers save 80% on data roaming. Reach out to learn how we rock your world. | $1.2M | Seed | Aug 17, 2022 |  |

10 of 42 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Okapi Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/okapi-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Serra Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/serra-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Mark IV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-iv-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [1855 Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1855-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Mooring Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mooring-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [TCA Venture Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tech-coast-angels) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Cove Fund invest in?

Cove Fund invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 42 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Cove Fund?

The team at Cove Fund includes J.C. Ruffalo (Venture Partner), Mike Benvenuti (Manager, Cove Fund II) and Paul Voois (Manager, Cove Fund II), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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