# Elsewhere Partners

> Elsewhere Partners is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 35 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, United States
- Total investments: 35
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 80%
- Fund size: $175M
- Last fund: May 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/11203486/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ElsewhereNation
- Website: https://elsewhere.partners/

Elsewhere Partners is a growth capital firm that invests in B2B software companies that are located outside of traditional venture hubs

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Elsewhere Partners. Shizune tracks 9 team members at Elsewhere Partners. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/elsewhere-partners?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 14 | 40% |
| Information Technology | 9 | 26% |
| SaaS | 6 | 17% |
| Enterprise Software | 5 | 14% |
| Big Data | 2 | 6% |

46 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 14 | 40% |
| Series B | 3 | 9% |
| Private Equity | 3 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 6% |
| Seed | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 37% |
| Canada | 2 | 6% |
| Israel | 2 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 6% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Pacitti | Founder and Partner | 56 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-pacitti |
| Cody Younkin | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cody-younkin-2d07 |
| Josh Stephens | Chief Technology Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/josh-stephens |
| Meaghan Mahoney | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/meaghan-mahoney-397a |
| Michael Massad | Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-massad-fae3 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Undo | Undo is the time travel debugging company for Linux. We equip developers with the technology to understand complex code and fix bugs faster. Developers spend far too much time figuring out what code actually does – either to find and fix bugs or to understand other people’s code. With time travel debugging, developers can see exactly what thesoftware did, and create better software faster. By integrating Undo’s LiveRecorder into their CI workflow, C/C++, Go, and Java software teams can easily and quickly diagnose the root causes of new regressions, legacy bugs, and flaky tests – before they hit customers. Thousands of developers across leading technology firms including SAP, Juniper Networks, and Siemens use LiveRecorder to improve developer productivity, developer velocity, and software quality. | $37M | Private Equity | Jun 16, 2026 |  |
| ActivTrak | ActivTrak helps companies unlock productivity potential. Our award-winning workforce analytics and productivity management software provides expert insights that empower people, optimize processes, and maximize technology. Additionally, with data sourced from more than 9,000 customers and over 450,000 users, ActivTrak’s Workforce Productivity Labis a global center for ground-breaking research and expertise that helps companies embrace and embody the future of work. Based in Austin, Texas, ActivTrak is backed by Sapphire Ventures and Elsewhere Partners, and is led by a seasoned team of software industry veterans. To learn more visit: https://activtrak.com/. |  | Private Equity | Nov 12, 2025 |  |
| AppSignal | Leading European real-time APM provider. Errors, performance, hosts, custom metrics & more. For Ruby and Elixir. | $22M | Series A | May 06, 2025 |  |
| AppSignal | Leading European real-time APM provider. Errors, performance, hosts, custom metrics & more. For Ruby and Elixir. | $22M | Series A | May 06, 2025 |  |
| Portnox | Portnox is a market leader for network access control and management solutions that scale from small to medium businesses through to large-scale government and enterprise organizations. By spanning the diversity of network technologies and devices in use today, the Portnox platform allows companies to grow, optimize and evolve their infrastructurewhile ensuring security and compliance.The IT landscape of today continues to challenge organizations to accommodate an ever changing landscape of users, devices, locations and environments. As the variety and complexity grows, the challenge to maintain policy and compliance while delivering productivity and efficiency amplifies. | $37.5M | Series B | Apr 08, 2025 |  |
| Deskpro | Deskpro is a Cloud and On Premise customer service platform which empowers organizations to grow their customer relationships. The platform is multi-channel across email, chat, web forms, voice and social and includes tools for publishing customer help centres. | $25M | Series A | Jun 25, 2024 |  |
| Deskpro | Deskpro is a Cloud and On Premise customer service platform which empowers organizations to grow their customer relationships. The platform is multi-channel across email, chat, web forms, voice and social and includes tools for publishing customer help centres. | $25M | Series A | Jun 25, 2024 |  |
| Deskpro | Deskpro is a Cloud and On Premise customer service platform which empowers organizations to grow their customer relationships. The platform is multi-channel across email, chat, web forms, voice and social and includes tools for publishing customer help centres. | $25M | Series A | Jun 25, 2024 |  |
| rater8 | The rater8 platform enables healthcare organizations of all sizes to build online reviews and automate real-time feedback from patients and providers with surveys. Providers, hospitals, and group practices use this feedback to drive an overall better patient experience and build robust online reviews across all the online review sites most likelyto impact a practice or provider’s online reputation. The result is increased word-of-mouth referrals for new patients by improving patient experiences.rater8 consistently outperforms every other online reputation management and patient satisfaction platform on the market because we understand that customers want great results quickly. We’ve built a solution that delivers exceptional results, and we continue to give outstanding support throughout the subscription. |  | Series A | Apr 04, 2024 |  |
| Learnsoft | Learnsoft reimagined organizational learning and compliance training software with a powerful and innovative fully automated and configurable LMS and TMS platform. Our technology eliminates time-consuming onboarding, programming and administration processes so that employees can easily learn and go and provides managers with real-time statustransparency. | $16.7M | Series A | Sep 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 35 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Austin Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/austin-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Dundee Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dundee-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Invest Nebraska](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/invest-nebraska) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Nebraska Angel Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nebraska-angel-network) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Nelnet](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nelnet) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Nelnet](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/Nelnet) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Elsewhere Partners invest in?

Elsewhere Partners invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 35 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Elsewhere Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Elsewhere Partners?

The team at Elsewhere Partners includes Chris Pacitti (Founder and Partner), Cody Younkin (Associate) and Josh Stephens (Chief Technology Officer), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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