# Covera Ventures

> Covera Ventures is a VC fund in Austin backing Software and Mobile. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, United States
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Jul 2021
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/covera-ventures/
- Website: http://www.coveraventures.com

Covera Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage technology companies with a primary focus on infrastructure, wireless and mobility, software, and technology-enabled service companies. Our team of experienced investment professionals is committed to working with entrepreneurs to build great companies that address unmetneeds in the marketplace. In addition to providing capital, we leverage our broad industry knowledge, relationships and investment experience to complement the strengths of the entrepreneur. Covera Ventures' typical investments range between $1 million to $5 million, with additional capital available to support future expansion. The principals of Covera Ventures have a significant history and track record in building entrepreneurial companies.Effective August 14, 2009, the Hunt Ventures team of investment professionals spun out from Hunt Consolidated, Inc. and is now operating as Covera Ventures.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 33% |
| Mobile | 6 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 19% |
| Content | 3 | 11% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 11% |

52 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 8 | 30% |
| Series B | 6 | 22% |
| Series C | 4 | 15% |
| Seed | 2 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 7% |

9 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Berry Cash | Managing Director | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/berry-cash |
| Jeff Williams | Managing Director | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-williams-11 |
| Joe Martinez | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joe-martinez |
| Mike Bierman | President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-bierman |
| Tom Huseby | Venture Partner | 22 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-huseby |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ClearRoad | ClearRoad is reassessing the value of public space and building the funding infrastructure for the future of mobility. The ClearRoad IoT platform facilitates the monetization of roads by government agencies across North America through road usage pricing. It flexibly operates under any programmatic and regulatory designs, across a range ofexisting and planned vehicle usage identification technologies. The company has already established itself in this nascent space, with existing per-mile programs in Oregon and Washington State, and partnerships with established leaders in the tolling and telematics industries. If we’re going to get the congestion pricing we need to reduce traffic in our cities, government agencies will need help to automate toll road pricing for any section of road without the need for traditional proprietary hardware infrastructure. | $2.4M | Seed | Jul 27, 2021 |  |
| The Arena Group | The Arena Group provides dynamic, digital destinations that delight consumers with stories and news about the things they love – their favorite sports teams, the inside scoop on personal finance, and the latest on lifestyle essentials. We are building out a dynamic media ecosystem that brings together consumers, publishers and advertisers in aproven strategy that brings sustainable performance gains in traffic, engagement, and monetization by harnessing the authority of sought-after brands and the editorial prowess of our leading writers and editors. In this way we leverage a single platform to scale utilizing best in class capabilities in direct sales and programmatic advertising, data, SEO, social, and operations. | $20M | Post-IPO Equity | Jun 07, 2021 |  |
| Fleet | Previously known as Shipstr, Fleet is efficiently streamlining the commercial shipping industry through a cloud-based platform. Fleet provides a cloud-based platform that businesses can use to book transportation for international freight. Fleet is the first platform to address the needs of shippers moving commercial freight overseas. Fleetprovides instant quotes, improved decision making by showing provider lead times, ratings and reliability, direct access to all of the service providers, and a team room to communicate directly with service providers for status and view shipping documents. | $4M | Seed | Apr 12, 2016 |  |
| Innography | Innography delivers a correlation, visualization, and collaboration analytics software platform that enables companies to fully manage, protect, and exploit patent portfolios. It focuses on answering IP questions more quickly, more accurately, and more insightfully than was possible before. Every feature and visualization is designed to solve abusiness need, not just present pretty graphs or list out reams of data. Innography was launched on 2006 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. | $3.5M | Series B | Jan 30, 2014 |  |
| Alert Logic | Alert Logic, the leader in security and compliance solutions for the cloud, provides Security-as-a-Service for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid infrastructures, delivering deep security insight and continuous protection for customers at a lower cost than traditional security solutions. Fully managed by a team of experts, the Alert LogicSecurity-as-a-Service solution provides network, system and web application protection immediately, wherever your IT infrastructure resides. Alert Logic partners with the leading cloud platforms and hosting providers to protect over 3,600 organizations worldwide. Built for cloud scale, the Alert Logic patented platform stores petabytes of data, analyses over 400 million events and identifies over 50,000 security incidents each month, which are managed by its 24×7 Security Operations Center. Alert Logic, founded in 2002, is headquartered in Houston, Texas, with offices in Seattle, Dallas, Cardiff, Belfast and London.The company’s products and services include:o SaaS Solutions -Threat Manager – Intrusion Detection -Log Manager – Log Management & SIEM -Web Security Manager – Web Application Firewall -ScanWatch – Vulnerability Assessment -Amazon Web Services Cloud Security - Intrusion Detection for AWSo Managed Security Services -ActiveWatch & ActiveWatch Premier -LogReview Alert Logic was founded in 2002. For more information, please visit http://www.alertlogic.com | $12.2M | Series F | Jun 05, 2012 |  |
| SensorLogic | SensorLogic provides M2M application hosting and the only PaaS (platform-as-a-service) provider that offers easily customizable M2M solutions with a pre-integrated nation-wide GSM/GPRS network. Customers using Sensorlogic's XpressIQ Service Suite have access to ready-to-use applications for GPS tracking, asset monitoring and control, aswell as value-added network services | $5M |  | Dec 13, 2010 |  |
| Innography | Innography delivers a correlation, visualization, and collaboration analytics software platform that enables companies to fully manage, protect, and exploit patent portfolios. It focuses on answering IP questions more quickly, more accurately, and more insightfully than was possible before. Every feature and visualization is designed to solve abusiness need, not just present pretty graphs or list out reams of data. Innography was launched on 2006 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. | $3M | Series B | Feb 22, 2010 |  |
| Innography | Innography delivers a correlation, visualization, and collaboration analytics software platform that enables companies to fully manage, protect, and exploit patent portfolios. It focuses on answering IP questions more quickly, more accurately, and more insightfully than was possible before. Every feature and visualization is designed to solve abusiness need, not just present pretty graphs or list out reams of data. Innography was launched on 2006 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. | $6.5M | Series A | Aug 01, 2008 |  |
| SensorLogic | SensorLogic provides M2M application hosting and the only PaaS (platform-as-a-service) provider that offers easily customizable M2M solutions with a pre-integrated nation-wide GSM/GPRS network. Customers using Sensorlogic's XpressIQ Service Suite have access to ready-to-use applications for GPS tracking, asset monitoring and control, aswell as value-added network services | $9M | Series C | Apr 30, 2008 |  |
| CoreTrace | CoreTrace is a privately held company based in Austin, Texas. CoreTrace makes endpoint control and security solutions. The company develops and sells whitelisting solution, BOUNCER. BOUNCER prevents unauthorized applications from executing and neutralizes malware and attacks (e.g., rootkits, zero-day attacks, and memory-based exploits such asbuffer overflows). | $8M | Series A | Nov 09, 2007 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Boston Millennia Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boston-millennia-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Sevin Rosen Funds](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sevin-rosen-funds) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Austin Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/austin-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Hunt Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hunt-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Startech Early Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startech-early-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [UPS Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ups-strategic-enterprise-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Covera Ventures invest in?

Covera Ventures invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Covera Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Covera Ventures?

The team at Covera Ventures includes Berry Cash (Managing Director), Jeff Williams (Managing Director) and Joe Martinez (Venture Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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