Donald Butler
Managing Director @ Thomvest Ventures
Redwood City, United States
Donald Butler is a Series B investor at Thomvest Ventures in Redwood City focused on Software and FinTech. Donald Butler is based out of Palo Alto, California and is the Managing Director of Thomvest Ventures. Donald previously worked at Lehman Brothers as an Analyst. Donald Butler attended the Stanford University.
- Total investments:
- 36
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Donald Butler invests in
SoftwareFinTechFinancial ServicesEnterprise SoftwareVideo
Stages Donald Butler invests in
Series BSeries ASeries CSeries ESeries D
Countries Donald Butler invests in
United States
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (14%)
- FinTech 4 (11%)
- Financial Services 3 (8%)
- Enterprise Software 3 (8%)
- Video 2 (6%)
Stage
- Series B 9 (25%)
- Series A 6 (17%)
- Series C 6 (17%)
- Series E 4 (11%)
- Series D 3 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Baselane
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We are building the future of financial services for the 12+ million individual real estate investors and landlords who own over 25 million homes in the United States. Our mission is to empower real estate investors to thrive. Our platform enables our customers to save time and gain financial visibility and control to make better decisions to growtheir investment portfolios. | $20M / Series B / Oct 01, 2025 | |
Ladder
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Ladder is a digital life insurance company that offers flexible term coverage in minutes saving policyholders up to 40%. It uses an all-digital architecture and real-time underwriting to make life insurance as accessible, affordable, and beloved as it should be. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Itoffers coverage up to $8M in all 50 states. | $100M / Series D / Oct 04, 2021 | |
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Ladder
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Ladder is a digital life insurance company that offers flexible term coverage in minutes saving policyholders up to 40%. It uses an all-digital architecture and real-time underwriting to make life insurance as accessible, affordable, and beloved as it should be. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Itoffers coverage up to $8M in all 50 states. | $100M / Series D / Oct 04, 2021 | |
PeerStreet
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PeerStreet is the leading platform for investing in real estate debt. The platform represents a two-sided marketplace that provides hassle-free access to an asset class that was previously inaccessible to individual investors and connects a vetted network of private lenders with diverse sources of capital to help fuel their growth and bring lendingback to their local communities.PeerStreet was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. | $60M / Series C / Oct 28, 2019 | |
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PeerStreet
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PeerStreet is the leading platform for investing in real estate debt. The platform represents a two-sided marketplace that provides hassle-free access to an asset class that was previously inaccessible to individual investors and connects a vetted network of private lenders with diverse sources of capital to help fuel their growth and bring lendingback to their local communities.PeerStreet was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. | $29.5M / Series B / Apr 05, 2018 | |
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PeerStreet
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PeerStreet is the leading platform for investing in real estate debt. The platform represents a two-sided marketplace that provides hassle-free access to an asset class that was previously inaccessible to individual investors and connects a vetted network of private lenders with diverse sources of capital to help fuel their growth and bring lendingback to their local communities.PeerStreet was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. | $15M / Series A / Nov 17, 2016 | |
Avalanche Technology
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Avalanche is a disruptive technology company developing innovative, ultra high performance enterprise solid-state storage arrays using tightly integrated hardware/software and leveraging its own non-volatile magnetic memory. Backed by top-tier investors and led by a veteran management team, we’ve amassed a distinctive portfolio of more than200 cell, circuit, process and system patents. | $23M / Series F / Feb 02, 2016 | |
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Avalanche Technology
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Avalanche is a disruptive technology company developing innovative, ultra high performance enterprise solid-state storage arrays using tightly integrated hardware/software and leveraging its own non-volatile magnetic memory. Backed by top-tier investors and led by a veteran management team, we’ve amassed a distinctive portfolio of more than200 cell, circuit, process and system patents. | $25M / Series E / Dec 02, 2015 | |
Kabbage
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Kabbage is a financial technology and data company pioneering a new, automated way for small businesses to access working capital. The company simplifies the manual application process to one that is 100% online and automated. Businesses can use their business data to submit an application online and receive an answer in minutes instead of waitingweeks and filling out numerous forms like traditional lending methods. Businesses can access ongoing lines of credit up to $250,000.Kabbage leverages business data generated such as revenue, accounting data, business transactions, shipping data, social media and other sources to understand a business’s overall health and calculate credit lines throughout the customer lifecycle.The company began serving online merchants in 2011 and extended its automated lending platform to all small businesses – online and brick-and-mortar – in February 2014.In November 2013, Kabbage expanded its business to mobile with an iOS and Android app that enables users to apply or access their funds from their smartphones.Kabbage used to provide a consumer lending product, Karrot, but it is no longer available.Kabbage expanded the application of its platform in March 2015 by licensing the data and technology platform to power lending for other organizations. The company was named one of Forbes magazine’s Most Promising Companies list for the second year in a row. Kabbage further extended its lending reach in May 2015 with the announcement of the new Kabbage Card, which gives businesses the ability to pay for items at the point of sale with a purchasing card tied to their Kabbage account. Kabbage also collaborated with MasterCard in May 2015 to make Kabbage’s data and technology platform available through MasterCard’s network of acquirers.In August 2015, Kabbage was named the 36th fastest-growing private company in America on the Inc. 500 list. In October 2015, Kabbage completed a Series E funding round of $135 million led by Reverence Capital Partners. Holland’s ING, Spain’s Santander (via InnoVentures, Santander's venture capital arm); and Canada’s Scotiabank also participated in the round. Kabbage also announced a strategic partnership with ING to deliver instant capital to small businesses throughout Spain.In June 2016, Kabbage was named to CNBC's annual Disruptor 50 list of the most forward-thinking and ambitious companies that are revolutionizing industries and markets worldwide. Two months later, Kabbage was named to the Inc. 500 list of the country's fastest-growing private companies for the second year in a rowIn August 2016, Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) upgraded and affirmed ratings on Class A2-2 Certificates issued by Kabbage Funding 2014-1 Resecurization Trust. The certificates were upgraded from BBB+(sf) to A-(sf) based on structural improvements to the transaction’s concentration requirements and the existence of more historical data relating to Kabbage’s collateral. KBRA also affirmed the ratings on the Class B2A Certificates of BB-(sf), Class B2B Certificates of BB-(sf) and Class B2C Certificates of B+(sf), which were initially rated in November 2015.In 2017, the company raised $250 million from Softbank Group Corp., raising its total equity funding to $500 million, making Kabbage one of the most well-funded companies with a female co-founder at the helm. It also secured the largest asset-backed securitizations of small business loans in the online lending industry of $525 million. In November, it diversified its debt-funding sources further with a $200 million revolving credit facility with Credit Suisse, earning investment-grade ratings of ‘A’ and ‘BBB’ by DBRS. It ranked on the Inc. 500 list as one of the country’s fasting-growing private companies for a third consecutive year, on Deloitte’s Fast 500 list, among CB Insights Fintech 250, in the top 10 of KPMG’s Fiintech 100, and its co-founder, Kathryn Petralia, was named one of Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women in the World. | Series E / Sep 04, 2015 | |
NetBase Solutions
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NetBase delivers the social intelligence that global brands and agencies use to publish, monitor, analyze, and engage with customers in real-time. Using a high-precision natural language processing (NLP) engine, their platform processes billions of social media posts to extract structured insights delivered via customizable dashboards.It wasfounded in 2004 and headquartered in Mountain View, California. | $9M / Series E / Apr 29, 2015 | |
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Co-Investors
About Thomvest Ventures
Thomvest is a cross-stage venture capital firm specializing in early-stage, growth-stage, start-up, and mid-venture investments. The company primarily focuses on opportunities with early-to-mid-stage companies in the fields of financial technology, marketing technology, cybersecurity, sales, and cloud infrastructure sectors. As part of their focuson these areas, they are committed to helping their companies become leaders in their fields through their work with them and through the focus on understanding where value can be created in these industries, as can be seen from the research they publish regularly.
Thomvest Ventures Contacts
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Andrew Pinkerton
Partner
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Donald Butler
Managing Director
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Amrit Dhillon
Senior Associate
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Jonathan Barker
Venture Partner
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Nima Wedlake
Principal
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FAQ
What does Donald Butler invest in?
Donald Butler invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 36 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Donald Butler last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Donald Butler closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 36 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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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