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. Ed is a partner with Signia Venture Partners and board member of Nativo, Cie Games and Joy & Revelry. He served as CEO of InfoGear Technologies (original iPhone) and then as a VP and GM at Cisco from 1997 through 2001. From 1987 to 1995, Ed helped build startup Aspect Telecommunications into a profitable public company and served as VicePresident, Marketing and Corporate Development. Ed holds B.S. and M.S. Engineering degrees from MIT and an MBA from 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
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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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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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