Edward Cluss
Co-Founder, Managing Director and Partner @ Signia Venture Partners
Menlo Park, United States
Edward Cluss is a seed investor at Signia Venture Partners in Menlo Park focused on Information Technology and SaaS. Edward M. Cluss is based out of Menlo Park, California and is the Partner of Signia Venture Partners. Edward previously worked at InfoGear Technologies as a CEO. Edward M. Cluss attended the Harvard Business School.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 56%
Last updated:
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Industries Edward Cluss invests in
Stages Edward Cluss invests in
Countries Edward Cluss invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Information Technology 3 (33%)
- SaaS 2 (22%)
- Computer 2 (22%)
- Software 2 (22%)
- Machine Learning 2 (22%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (33%)
- Series A 3 (33%)
- Series B 2 (22%)
- Series C 1 (11%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Swoop is a VC-backed private transportation tech company headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.Swoop’s mission is to make transportation accessible, transparent, and affordable for everyone.Swoop is disrupting the $74B fragmented private transportation economy, which is stuck in the ’80s. There are 155K SMBs in the US that run on legacy tech,transact at 4.5% credit card fees and have no digital presence. Swoop built an all-in-one platform, Moovs (moovsapp.com), for the SMBs to operate with the best tools and grow their business through our managed marketplace (swoopapp.com). | $3.2M / Seed / Jul 22, 2020 | ||
| Pensa is a leading innovator in changing the way brands and retailers manage retail shelf inventory. Pensa’s data-as-a-service portfolio and use of advanced computer vision and artificial intelligence enable CPG brands and retailers to reduce stockouts and boost revenues by delivering highly accurate real-time visibility of the store shelf at afraction of the cost of other solutions. Pensa partners with top CPG brands and retailers globally, including Johnson & Johnson, General Mills, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Circle K, and Unilever to address a trillion-dollar “blind spot” at a critical time in the industry. | $5M / Series A / Jan 13, 2019 | ||
| Constructor.io is the only search and product discovery platform tailor-made for enterprise eCommerce where conversions matter. Constructor's cloud-based solutions use natural language processing, machine learning-enhanced results ranking, and collaborative personalization to deliver powerful user experiences across all facets of productdiscovery -- from search to browse, recommendations, autosuggest, quizzes, and attribute enrichment.We optimize revenue before relevance. This has allowed us to generate consistent $10M+ lifts for our customers, which include some of the biggest brands in retail like Sephora, American Eagle, Backcountry, Birkenstock, and Bonobos. Constructor is a remote-first company with employees around the world. We were founded in 2015 by Eli Finkelshteyn and Dan McCormick. | $5M / Seed / Oct 20, 2017 | ||
| MomentFeed is a unified platform that helps multi-location brands optimize for proximity search in order to connect customers with brands at the local level. The company's marketing and customer experience management platform enables multi-location brands to influence consumers on mobile. It manages and automates each and all of thelocal-mobile search triggers via its Unified Platform, and helps multi-location brands influence their Proximity Search Optimization to make them more visible across all local discovery channels, ultimately leading to more customers and foot traffic, and increased revenue. | $16.3M / Series C / Feb 24, 2017 | ||
| MomentFeed is a unified platform that helps multi-location brands optimize for proximity search in order to connect customers with brands at the local level. The company's marketing and customer experience management platform enables multi-location brands to influence consumers on mobile. It manages and automates each and all of thelocal-mobile search triggers via its Unified Platform, and helps multi-location brands influence their Proximity Search Optimization to make them more visible across all local discovery channels, ultimately leading to more customers and foot traffic, and increased revenue. | $2.7M / Series B / Sep 30, 2015 | ||
| Pepperdata products provide observability and continuous tuning for the big data analytics stack. Unlike solutions that require manual, time-consuming application-by-application tuning, Pepperdata automatically scales system resources while providing a detailed and correlated understanding of each application using hundreds of real-timeapplication and infrastructure metrics. Companies like Comcast, Philips Wellcentive and NBC Universal depend on Pepperdata to deliver big data success. | $15M / Series B / Apr 16, 2015 | ||
| Pepperdata products provide observability and continuous tuning for the big data analytics stack. Unlike solutions that require manual, time-consuming application-by-application tuning, Pepperdata automatically scales system resources while providing a detailed and correlated understanding of each application using hundreds of real-timeapplication and infrastructure metrics. Companies like Comcast, Philips Wellcentive and NBC Universal depend on Pepperdata to deliver big data success. | $5M / Series A / Apr 29, 2014 | ||
| MomentFeed is a unified platform that helps multi-location brands optimize for proximity search in order to connect customers with brands at the local level. The company's marketing and customer experience management platform enables multi-location brands to influence consumers on mobile. It manages and automates each and all of thelocal-mobile search triggers via its Unified Platform, and helps multi-location brands influence their Proximity Search Optimization to make them more visible across all local discovery channels, ultimately leading to more customers and foot traffic, and increased revenue. | $5.5M / Series A / Dec 11, 2013 | ||
| Pepperdata products provide observability and continuous tuning for the big data analytics stack. Unlike solutions that require manual, time-consuming application-by-application tuning, Pepperdata automatically scales system resources while providing a detailed and correlated understanding of each application using hundreds of real-timeapplication and infrastructure metrics. Companies like Comcast, Philips Wellcentive and NBC Universal depend on Pepperdata to deliver big data success. | Seed / Nov 12, 2012 |
Co-Investors
About Signia Venture Partners
Signia Venture Partners is an early stage fund dedicated to helping passionate entrepreneurs realize their vision and build impactful, high-growth ventures. We invest between $500k and $3m for an initial investment across a wide range of technology businesses, including within marketplaces, ecommerce, gaming, consumer mobile, virtual reality, enterprise technology, big data, and security.
Signia Venture Partners Contacts
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Anagha Raje
CFO
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David Bloom
Senior Associate
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Edward Cluss
Co-Founder, Managing Director and Partner
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Gina Domizio
Operations & Partner Relations Director
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James Kosta
Limited Partner and Operating Partner
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What does Edward Cluss invest in?
Edward Cluss invests primarily in Information Technology, SaaS and Computer startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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