# Dace Ventures

> Dace Ventures is a VC fund in Waltham backing Advertising and Social Media. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Waltham, United States
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Jan 2022
- Lead investor: 37%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dace-ventures/
- Website: http://www.daceventures.com

Dace Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in internet-related innovations focused on digital media, consumer marketing and mobile services.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Advertising | 5 | 26% |
| Social Media | 4 | 21% |
| Internet | 3 | 16% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 16% |
| News | 2 | 11% |

46 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 26% |
| Series B | 4 | 21% |
| Series C | 3 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 16% |
| Seed | 2 | 11% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dave Andonian | Managing Partner, Founder & Owner | 11 | — |
| Jon Chait | General Partner | 3 | — |
| Kevin Schwartz | Entrepreneur in Residence | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Infinityy | Infinityy is a property technology platform for real estate that connects people, leads tours, and answers questions on demand. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| Kanvas Labs | Kanvas Labs is building a mobile platform that allows its users to create micro-social networks around real world experiences. It enables its users to create videos with photos and gifs or record with a custom stop motion camera. These clips can be edited with text, stickers, overlays, drawings, or music and then shared with friends and followerson the networks, as well as other social destinations such as | $1M | Seed | Feb 25, 2014 |  |
| Yieldmo | Yieldmo is one of the fastest-growing digital advertising and attention analytics companies. Our premium marketplace allows advertisers to create, measure, model, and optimize campaigns for unmatched scale and performance. We ultimately deliver better results by harnessing the power of attention data to drive superior audience engagement andretargeting. | $8M | Series B | Dec 09, 2013 |  |
| Yieldmo | Yieldmo is one of the fastest-growing digital advertising and attention analytics companies. Our premium marketplace allows advertisers to create, measure, model, and optimize campaigns for unmatched scale and performance. We ultimately deliver better results by harnessing the power of attention data to drive superior audience engagement andretargeting. | $4.1M | Series A | Aug 30, 2012 |  |
| Cartera Commerce | Cartera Commerce delivers the industry's most comprehensive, fully-managed, performance-based offer platform for card issuers, airline frequent flyer programs and merchants. Cartera works with two of the three largest financial institutions, all five of the largest airlines and hundreds or merchant advertisers to power personalized,omni-channel shopping and marketing programs that build consumer engagement and loyalty, maximize card spend and create new revenue streams. The Cartera offer platform delivers relevant offers via multiple digital marketing channels including website, online banking, email, mobile, and social media. The company is headquartered in Lexington, MA. | $12.2M | Series D | Jun 05, 2012 |  |
| Ticket Evolution | Ticket Evolution is a software company owned by over 120 Ticket Brokers in the secondary ticket industry. As one of the largest ticket aggregators in the space, they specialize in cutting edge software applications for ticket resellers including a complete point of sale solution, b2b portal, API and mobile apps just to name few. | $3.5M | Series A | May 21, 2012 |  |
| LocaModa | LocaModa created, produced and managed multi-channel marketing programs for brands and agencies. LocaModa was venture backed and headquartered in Cambridge, MA. LocaModa was acquired by Monster Media. | $1.7M | Debt Financing | Mar 25, 2011 |  |
| LocaModa | LocaModa created, produced and managed multi-channel marketing programs for brands and agencies. LocaModa was venture backed and headquartered in Cambridge, MA. LocaModa was acquired by Monster Media. |  |  | Mar 25, 2011 |  |
| Vitrue | Vitrue offers the industry’s most scalable and secure cloud-based social marketing solution, enabling brands to harness the full marketing potential of social on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube and emerging platforms. The award-winning Vitrue SRM platform collectively manages more than one billion social relationships in over 100 countriesacross more than 4,500 social accounts for its clients. For more information, visit www.vitrue.com. | $17M | Series C | Feb 17, 2011 |  |
| Collecta | Collecta monitors the update streams of popular realtime blogs and sites like Twitter, Wordpress, and Flickr, and shows results as they happen. Results can be filtered by status updates, comments, stories, or photos. The entire engine is built around the XMPP standard, which pushes out data on a continual basis, so that for every search you endup watching a stream that keeps updating itself. | $4.7M |  | Jun 10, 2010 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Dace Ventures invest in?

Dace Ventures invests primarily in Advertising, Social Media and Internet startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 19 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 Dace Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Dace Ventures?

The team at Dace Ventures includes Dave Andonian (Managing Partner, Founder & Owner), Jon Chait (General Partner) and Kevin Schwartz (Entrepreneur in Residence). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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