Crescendo Ventures
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
Crescendo Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, CA.
- Total investments:
- 106
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Crescendo Ventures invests in
SoftwareTelecommunicationsInformation TechnologyInternetMobile
Stages Crescendo Ventures invests in
Series CSeries BFunding RoundSeries ASeries D
Countries Crescendo Ventures invests in
United StatesSwedenUnited KingdomCanadaGermany
Round sizes
Series B $6.7M–$60MSeries C $5M–$40M
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
2 more contacts available
Round size
- Series B
- $6.7M–$60M
- Series C
- $5M–$40M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 17 (16%)
- Telecommunications 10 (9%)
- Information Technology 10 (9%)
- Internet 9 (8%)
- Mobile 8 (8%)
Stage
- Series C 25 (24%)
- Series B 24 (23%)
- Funding Round 18 (17%)
- Series A 11 (10%)
- Series D 10 (9%)
Country
- United States 50 (47%)
- Sweden 2 (2%)
- United Kingdom 2 (2%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
- Germany 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
David Spreng
Founder & Managing Partner
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Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
Peter van Cuylenburg
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Wayne Cantwell
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 10 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Pluria
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Pluria is the leading international B2B SaaS solution to allow companies to provide their remote teams across LatAm and Europe with access to a curated network of flexible workspaces. | $2M / Seed / May 12, 2026 | |
Guidde
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Guidde provides an AI-powered video documentation platform that helps teams capture, edit, organize and share instructional video content for software processes and workflows. It enables users to record screen activity and transform it into structured, narrated guides that can support training, onboarding, support documentation and knowledgetransfer. The platform includes tools for automatic transcription, voiceover generation in multiple languages, and tagging to make video content searchable and contextually available within existing tools. Guidde also offers integration options so that videos can be embedded in help desks, CRM systems and collaboration platforms to support users where they work. Its capabilities allow teams to standardize and scale video-based instruction across both internal and external audiences. | $11.6M / Series A / Oct 31, 2023 | |
eASIC
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eASIC, a fabless semiconductor company, manufactures eASIC platforms that reduce the cost of ownership and time to production of customized silicon devices. It develops Nextreme family of devices that reduce development cost and turn-around times compared to standard cell ASICs, while reducing power consumption and unit cost for designs,Nextreme-3, a fourth generation eASIC platform, and Nextreme-2, a third generation eASIC platform. eASIC also provides easicopy ASIC that provides OEMs with a path from Nextreme-3, Nextreme-2, or Nextreme devices to a cell-based easicopy ASIC, which thereby helps OEMs reduce device cost and power consumption further, or increase performance, and eZ-IP alliance program to bring a wealth of verified eASIC-ready IP cores to help customers get to market faster. Its products are used in various applications that span from wireless infrastructure to consumer handheld devices. eASIC serves customers worldwide. Zvi Or-Bach founded eASIC in 1999, with its headquarters in Santa Clara in California with additional offices worldwide. | $23.5M / Private Equity / Sep 11, 2013 | |
eSilicon
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eSilicon, a pioneering semiconductor Value Chain Producer (VCP), provides a comprehensive suite of ASIC design, productization and manufacturing services, enabling a flexible, low-cost, lower-risk path to volume production of integrated circuits (ICs). The company delivers custom chips (ASICs) to system original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) andfabless semiconductor companies (FSCs) who serve a wide variety of markets including the consumer, computer, communications and industrial segments.eSilicon creates a unique, optimized semiconductor Value Chain for each customer and each design - from design services and tools, to IP and materials suppliers, to test and packaging providers. By integrating this Value Chain with its internal expertise and proven eSilicon Enterpriseâ„¢ infrastructure, the ASIC services and solutions provider produces more than 10 million leading-edge chips per year. | $1.1M / Jul 01, 2012 | |
Envivio
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Envivio (NASDAQ: ENVI) is a leader in software-based solutions for multi-screen video processing and delivery. Envivio solutions remove the boundaries of traditional television and make the world’s video content universally enjoyable by all viewers, on any device, across any network, at any time. Now in its second decade of developingmarket-leading video convergence solutions, Envivio powers services for more than 300 content and service provider customers around the world, including eight of the top 10 mobile operators, nine of the top 10 broadband providers and three of the top four US cable operators. Envivio is headquartered in South San Francisco, California and has offices worldwide including France, England, China, Singapore and Japan. Visit www.envivio.com for more information. | $1.5M / Jan 01, 2012 | |
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eASIC
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eASIC, a fabless semiconductor company, manufactures eASIC platforms that reduce the cost of ownership and time to production of customized silicon devices. It develops Nextreme family of devices that reduce development cost and turn-around times compared to standard cell ASICs, while reducing power consumption and unit cost for designs,Nextreme-3, a fourth generation eASIC platform, and Nextreme-2, a third generation eASIC platform. eASIC also provides easicopy ASIC that provides OEMs with a path from Nextreme-3, Nextreme-2, or Nextreme devices to a cell-based easicopy ASIC, which thereby helps OEMs reduce device cost and power consumption further, or increase performance, and eZ-IP alliance program to bring a wealth of verified eASIC-ready IP cores to help customers get to market faster. Its products are used in various applications that span from wireless infrastructure to consumer handheld devices. eASIC serves customers worldwide. Zvi Or-Bach founded eASIC in 1999, with its headquarters in Santa Clara in California with additional offices worldwide. | Series E / Jun 14, 2010 | |
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Envivio
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Envivio (NASDAQ: ENVI) is a leader in software-based solutions for multi-screen video processing and delivery. Envivio solutions remove the boundaries of traditional television and make the world’s video content universally enjoyable by all viewers, on any device, across any network, at any time. Now in its second decade of developingmarket-leading video convergence solutions, Envivio powers services for more than 300 content and service provider customers around the world, including eight of the top 10 mobile operators, nine of the top 10 broadband providers and three of the top four US cable operators. Envivio is headquartered in South San Francisco, California and has offices worldwide including France, England, China, Singapore and Japan. Visit www.envivio.com for more information. | $1M / Debt Financing / Dec 31, 2009 | |
Arteris
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Arteris is a leading provider of system IP for the acceleration of system-on-chip (SoC) development across today’s electronic systems. Arteris network-on-chip (NoC) IP technology and SoC integration automation software enable higher product performance with lower power consumption and faster time to market, delivering better SoC economics so itscustomers can focus on dreaming up what comes next. Learn more at arteris.com. | $9.7M / Series D / Dec 18, 2009 | |
Metaplace
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Metaplace is a developer of next generation social games. It originally developed a virtual worlds platform that got shutdown in January 2010. The company changed direction since has been leveraging the platform to build next generation social games. | $6.7M / Series B / Oct 22, 2008 | |
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Envivio
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Envivio (NASDAQ: ENVI) is a leader in software-based solutions for multi-screen video processing and delivery. Envivio solutions remove the boundaries of traditional television and make the world’s video content universally enjoyable by all viewers, on any device, across any network, at any time. Now in its second decade of developingmarket-leading video convergence solutions, Envivio powers services for more than 300 content and service provider customers around the world, including eight of the top 10 mobile operators, nine of the top 10 broadband providers and three of the top four US cable operators. Envivio is headquartered in South San Francisco, California and has offices worldwide including France, England, China, Singapore and Japan. Visit www.envivio.com for more information. | $25M / Sep 01, 2008 | |
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FAQ
What does Crescendo Ventures invest in?
Crescendo Ventures invests primarily in Software, Telecommunications and Information Technology startups, most often at Series C and Series B stage. Most of the 106 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Crescendo Ventures's check size?
Crescendo Ventures typically joins rounds of $6.7M–$60M at Series B and $5M–$40M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Crescendo Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Crescendo Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Crescendo Ventures?
The team at Crescendo Ventures includes David Spreng (Founder & Managing Partner), Peter van Cuylenburg (General Partner) and Wayne Cantwell (General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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