Divergent Ventures
VC Fund
Seattle, United States
Divergent Ventures is a VC fund in Seattle focused on Software and Information Technology. We have participated in all stages of venture investing. Our preferred initial investment point is in the first professional round. We will consider seed stage investments and we reserve capital for participating in follow on rounds. Our themes are around Big Data, Data Driven Applications, Storage, and Cloud Infrastructure: We have over 30 yearsof experience building products and services and investing in companies that provide the technical building blocks that todayâ€:tm:s networks and information systems are built upon. Early Stage investing is well served by being accessible and available. We have found that time zones make it much more difficult to deliver on the promise of close involvement. We have successfully invested across the country, but are focusing our current efforts on the west coast. The Managing Directors are Kevin Ober, Rob Shurtleff, and Todd Warren--highly experienced and successful early-stage investors. The firm invests in early-stage companies. Our experience has taught us the importance of being closely involved with the companies we invest in, partnering with management to help overcome the many challenges faced by early-stage companies. In addition to investment capital, we actively work with our portfolio company management teams and potitial investment management teams to refine their plans, introduce them to potential customers, employees and investors.
- Total investments:
- 33
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 12%
- Fund size:
- $875k
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Divergent Ventures invests in
Stages Divergent Ventures invests in
Countries Divergent Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.9M–$4M
- Series A
- $3M–$8M
- Series B
- $2M–$8M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 10 (30%)
- Information Technology 8 (24%)
- Analytics 7 (21%)
- Big Data 6 (18%)
- SaaS 5 (15%)
Stage
- Series A 10 (30%)
- Seed 7 (21%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (12%)
- Series B 3 (9%)
- Funding Round 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Rob Shurtleff
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Todd Warren
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 11 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marker Learning specializes in learning disability evaluations, diagnosis and support services. | $4M / Seed / Nov 02, 2021 | ||
| The mission at Wicket Labs is to level the playing field for media companies in an arena where data determines the winners. The founding team is well positioned with over 40 years of combined experience working for and with the biggest media companies in the world. We are building the Wicket Scorecard as the only audience insights platform formedia companies who need unique insights into their video business that drive more informed decision making and better results. Wicket Labs is a Seattle based company with a commitment to integrity, diversity, empathy, and curiosity. We are looking for colleagues, partners and customers to join our growing team. | $1.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 26, 2020 | ||
| The mission at Wicket Labs is to level the playing field for media companies in an arena where data determines the winners. The founding team is well positioned with over 40 years of combined experience working for and with the biggest media companies in the world. We are building the Wicket Scorecard as the only audience insights platform formedia companies who need unique insights into their video business that drive more informed decision making and better results. Wicket Labs is a Seattle based company with a commitment to integrity, diversity, empathy, and curiosity. We are looking for colleagues, partners and customers to join our growing team. | $2.8M / Seed / Jul 12, 2018 | ||
| Reniac is a group of passionate entrepreneurs with data, software and systems experience from companies such as LinkedIn, IBM, Xilinx, Samsung, Riverbed and Napatech. | Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 15, 2017 | ||
| SpaceIQ is an innovative technology driven software company that provides cloud-based workplace management platform. SpaceIQ is a Silicon Valley, VC backed technology company founded by seasoned business and technology leaders to transform every workplace from a cost center into a competitive advantage. The SpaceIQ workplace management platform isa smart IWMS and CAFM solution with a suite of powerful and easy-to-use workplace optimization features such as space planning, move management, real estate forecasting, and more, helping companies of any size to increase engagement, fuel productivity and reduce costs through operational efficiency, and centralized visibility. SpaceIQ is headquartered in Mountain View, California with offices in Sandy, Utah. The company was founded on 2016. | $7M / Series A / Jul 16, 2017 | ||
| The mission at Wicket Labs is to level the playing field for media companies in an arena where data determines the winners. The founding team is well positioned with over 40 years of combined experience working for and with the biggest media companies in the world. We are building the Wicket Scorecard as the only audience insights platform formedia companies who need unique insights into their video business that drive more informed decision making and better results. Wicket Labs is a Seattle based company with a commitment to integrity, diversity, empathy, and curiosity. We are looking for colleagues, partners and customers to join our growing team. | $2M / Seed / Jun 06, 2017 | ||
| Socedo helps you reach your target prospects when they are showing interest in your space, by leveraging intent data from the social web.Social intent data includes all the things that people do on social networks that provide insights into what they care about and whether they are in a buying cycle. Socedo has the largest source of B2B intentdata from Twitter. B2B marketers can use our solutions to identify in-market prospects based on real-time behaviors. With Socedo, you can:-Find and connect with new prospects based on keywords found in Tweets, engagements with your competitors or any other entity on Twitter.-Get social media insights on your existing contacts and target accounts in real-time & accelerate existing prospects through your funnel -Sync enhanced lead data into Marketo. Gain valuable demographic and behavioral information about your new leads, including company info, job title, email addresses, and phone numbers, social profiles and social actions.In addition, we can also match existing leads in your Marketo instance to their social media profiles, monitor leads' social media activities and help you identify sales opportunities and re-connect with dormant leads based on their recent actions on Twitter. Socedo works with many brands that use Marketo as their marketing automation platform, including Microsoft, F5, Extreme Networks, GoAnimate, and Heinz Marketing. Request a demo: www.socedo.com | $1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 24, 2017 | ||
| Appuri helps online and mobile businesses keep their users longer. Appuri Backstop uses machine learning to predict which users are likely to leave and the reasons why -- so product and marketing teams can take action to stop churn before it starts.Appuri provides a full Data Platform as a Service that delivers data ingest, processing andoutput integrated into their existing business processes. We also deliver all data into a petabyte-scale data warehouse giving them secure, direct SQL access to their user segmentation data.Our main competitor is companies expending internal resources to build an ad-hoc solution themselves. | $4.3M / Seed / Mar 21, 2017 | ||
| CloudCoreo define a stack as everything in a deployment, including provider managed services (network, DNS, security groups, etc); not just VMs. CloudCoreo is:- a platform for creating, modifying and maintaining stacks- a searchable repository of stacks- an automation engine that keeps everything correct and allows any stack to be deployed toany cloud. | $2.9M / Seed / Oct 11, 2016 | ||
| BlueTalon is a provider of data-centric security for big data, data lakes, and new data initiatives. The company's Policy Engine delivers precise, consistent, and dynamic user access controls to data across Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra, and SQL-based data platforms. The BlueTalon Audit Engine provides a full audit trail at the level of detailrequired for compliance to regulations: user and data. Fortune 100 have deployed BlueTalon to eliminate security blind spots and gain visibility and control at the data layer across cloud-based and on-premises environments. BlueTalon was named a 2016 Gartner cool vendor and won numerous security and big data awards. | $16M / Series A / Aug 25, 2016 | ||
| See all 33 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Divergent Ventures invest in?
Divergent Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Analytics startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 33 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 Divergent Ventures's check size?
Divergent Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.9M–$4M at Seed, $3M–$8M at Series A and $2M–$8M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Divergent Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Divergent Ventures?
The team at Divergent Ventures includes Rob Shurtleff (Managing Partner) and Todd Warren (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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