# Elevation Partners

> Elevation Partners is a VC fund in New York backing Mobile and Internet. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Jul 2016
- Lead investor: 47%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/elevation-partners/
- Website: http://www.elevation.com

Elevation Partners is a newly formed private equity firm that makes large-scale investments in market-leading media, entertainment, and consumer-related businesses. Elevation focuses on investing in intellectual property and content oriented businesses, as well as traditional media and entertainment companies, Elevation hopes to help media andentertainment businesses create and market great content and insure it reaches the widest audience possible.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mobile | 2 | 13% |
| Internet | 2 | 13% |
| Software | 2 | 13% |
| Analytics | 2 | 13% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 13% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 20% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |
| Series C | 1 | 7% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 47% |
| Canada | 2 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adam Hopkins | Managing Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-hopkins |
| Avie Tevanian | Managing Director | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avie-tevanian |
| Bret Pearlman | Co-Founder & Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bret-pearlman |
| Fred Anderson | Co-Founder & MD | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fred-anderson |
| Roger McNamee | Managing Director, Co-Founder | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roger-mcnamee |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Upthere | Upthere is a cloud computer designed to be the one home for your personal data—your photos, videos, music, and documents. With Upthere Home you can save, view, search, organize, and share anything from your Upthere account. | $77M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 27, 2016 | http://www.upthere.com |
| Bit Stew Systems | Bit Stew Systems is the creator of the platform for Software Defined Operations for the Industrial Internet. It provides a robust, scalable software platform that provides real-time analytics, dynamic event management, and a fast and easy way to integrate into both IT and operational systems and applications.It was founded in 2005 and isheadquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia. | $17.2M | Series B | May 12, 2015 | http://www.bitstew.com |
| MarketShare | MarketShare is an advanced analytics software/technology company that helps businesses grow efficiently by uncovering which actions really drive results. Founded in 2005, MarketShare has a track record of ground-breaking innovations in data, modeling, and software and has worked with more than half of the Fortune 100 companies. The MarketShareDecisionCloud platform provides a combination of technology, data, modeling, and business intelligence solutions that improve decision-making. MarketShare is based in Los Angeles, California with offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Tokyo, Bangalore, and other cities worldwide. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 19, 2014 | http://www.marketshare.com |
| Sharethrough USA | Sharethrough today is one of the leading independent omnichannel ad exchanges in the world. We are committed to preserving an open internet with independent and accessible content funded by quality advertising. Our mission is to build a sustainable advertising ecosystem for journalists, content creators and app developers, by connecting publishersand advertisers with true technology innovation supporting all ad formats, devices, and user experiences.The first building block of Sharethrough started at Stanford where Dan Greenberg and Rob Fan were teaching assistants in the first-ever "Facebook class". One of their core observations during this time was that the best performing monetization strategy for the applications they built was genuinely interesting sponsored content that was presented in a non-interruptive format. This learning led to the founding of Sharethrough and the company’s role in evangelizing the native advertising movement. Sharethrough merged with District M in February 2021. By doubling the exchange overnight, we now have a dedicated team of 140 talented employees across 8 offices in the US & Canada to help us achieve our goals. With the mission of modernizing online advertising, Sharethrough is one of the fastest growing technology companies, with one of the world’s most sophisticated monetization software platforms, predicated on helping digital media as whole move beyond the pervasive model of interruptive, low value online advertising. | $10M | Series D | Sep 29, 2014 | http://sharethrough.com |
| Machinio | Machinio is a search engine for buying and selling new and used industrial equipment and machinery. | $1M | Seed | May 05, 2014 | http://www.machinio.com |
| Sharethrough USA | Sharethrough today is one of the leading independent omnichannel ad exchanges in the world. We are committed to preserving an open internet with independent and accessible content funded by quality advertising. Our mission is to build a sustainable advertising ecosystem for journalists, content creators and app developers, by connecting publishersand advertisers with true technology innovation supporting all ad formats, devices, and user experiences.The first building block of Sharethrough started at Stanford where Dan Greenberg and Rob Fan were teaching assistants in the first-ever "Facebook class". One of their core observations during this time was that the best performing monetization strategy for the applications they built was genuinely interesting sponsored content that was presented in a non-interruptive format. This learning led to the founding of Sharethrough and the company’s role in evangelizing the native advertising movement. Sharethrough merged with District M in February 2021. By doubling the exchange overnight, we now have a dedicated team of 140 talented employees across 8 offices in the US & Canada to help us achieve our goals. With the mission of modernizing online advertising, Sharethrough is one of the fastest growing technology companies, with one of the world’s most sophisticated monetization software platforms, predicated on helping digital media as whole move beyond the pervasive model of interruptive, low value online advertising. | $7M | Series C | Jan 22, 2014 | http://sharethrough.com |
| Bit Stew Systems | Bit Stew Systems is the creator of the platform for Software Defined Operations for the Industrial Internet. It provides a robust, scalable software platform that provides real-time analytics, dynamic event management, and a fast and easy way to integrate into both IT and operational systems and applications.It was founded in 2005 and isheadquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia. | $5M | Series A | Dec 19, 2013 | http://www.bitstew.com |
| Seamless Toy Company | Seamless Toy Company enable kids to be makers.Their first product, ATOMS, is a system of plug-n-play sensors, motors, and action blocks for kids (and anyone) to add interactive functionality to their creations. ATOMS are fun, fast and don't require any electronics or programming skills to get going.ATOMS work seamlessly with LEGO andother toys, can be sewn or velcro-ed onto fabrics, or bolted onto more permanent creations.ATOMS work with iOS devices (Android soon), so users can control their ATOMS from their iPhone/iPod/iPad, and can also inversely control their iPhone from ATOMS.ATOMS are sold through starter sets that show kids what each ATOM does through already-popular play experiences (imaginary characters and kid-scale play). However, we expect kids' interest in ATOMS to outlast the starter-set themes, as they go onto use ATOMS in their own creations.ATOMS can also be bought individually for the "from-scratch" project doer, and we will be releasing a new ATOM every month to serve our enthusiastic repeat customers. | $2.6M | Seed | Nov 13, 2013 | http://www.myATOMS.com |
| Sano | Sano is building a small, wearable sensor that can capture and transmit blood chemistry data continuously to virtually any device. The company will liberate this data to a third-party development and analytical platform called the API for the bloodstream. | $4.2M | Seed | Jan 07, 2013 | http://sano.co |
| MarketShare | MarketShare is an advanced analytics software/technology company that helps businesses grow efficiently by uncovering which actions really drive results. Founded in 2005, MarketShare has a track record of ground-breaking innovations in data, modeling, and software and has worked with more than half of the Fortune 100 companies. The MarketShareDecisionCloud platform provides a combination of technology, data, modeling, and business intelligence solutions that improve decision-making. MarketShare is based in Los Angeles, California with offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Tokyo, Bangalore, and other cities worldwide. | $32M |  | Apr 14, 2011 | http://www.marketshare.com |

10 of 15 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Elevation Partners invest in?

Elevation Partners invests primarily in Mobile, Internet and Software startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 15 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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### Who are the partners at Elevation Partners?

The team at Elevation Partners includes Adam Hopkins (Managing Director), Avie Tevanian (Managing Director) and Bret Pearlman (Co-Founder & Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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