Eric Hjerpe
Partner @ Kepha Partners
Boston, United States
Eric Hjerpe is a Partner at Kepha Partners. Eric previously worked at Partner as a Atlas Venture. He attended MIT Sloan School of Management and Brown University.Eric Hjerpe brings over 25 years of operating and investing experience to Kepha Partners. In the late 1980s, he founded a software company that wrote desktop software for productdevelopment engineers. In the early 1990s while at MIT Sloan, he worked for the Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), studying new software development methods. In the mid 1990s, his team at Silicon Graphics was one of the first to deploy complex applications over the web. In the late 1990s, at Siebel Systems, Eric started the Siebel subsidiary SiebelNet, which partnered with USinternetworking (USi) to provide Siebel Enterprise Applications via the internet. He became interested in venture capital when, at Siebel Systems, he sponsored the company's investment in USi, which returned 12x in less than a year. Prior to Kepha Partners, Eric was a Venture Partner and Partner at Atlas Venture, where he spent 6 years.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
Last updated:
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Industries Eric Hjerpe invests in
Stages Eric Hjerpe invests in
Countries Eric Hjerpe invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 3 (25%)
- Software 2 (17%)
- Retail 1 (8%)
- GovTech 1 (8%)
- Consumer 1 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (42%)
- Series A 2 (17%)
- Series C 1 (8%)
- Series D 1 (8%)
- Series E 1 (8%)
Investments
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ClearGov
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ClearGov® is the leading provider of Budget Cycle Management software, focused on helping local governments and their department heads streamline the budget process by automating workflow, increasing collaboration, and centralizing data. ClearGov solutions are powerful enough to support local governments of every size, yet affordable enough foreven the smallest towns and villages. Hundreds of communities across the country rely on our cloud-based Budget Cycle Management solutions to modernize their budget process. Both company and culture have been well-received within the market and communities they serve. ClearGov has been named to the “GovTech 100” for four years running, and recently recognized as one of Boston’s most innovative young companies by being named to BostInno’s 2019 “50 On Fire.” The company has also been named a “best place to work” by USA Today.ClearGov was founded by Chris Bullock in 2015 and is headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts. | $3.5M / Seed / Apr 30, 2018 | |
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ClearGov
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ClearGov® is the leading provider of Budget Cycle Management software, focused on helping local governments and their department heads streamline the budget process by automating workflow, increasing collaboration, and centralizing data. ClearGov solutions are powerful enough to support local governments of every size, yet affordable enough foreven the smallest towns and villages. Hundreds of communities across the country rely on our cloud-based Budget Cycle Management solutions to modernize their budget process. Both company and culture have been well-received within the market and communities they serve. ClearGov has been named to the “GovTech 100” for four years running, and recently recognized as one of Boston’s most innovative young companies by being named to BostInno’s 2019 “50 On Fire.” The company has also been named a “best place to work” by USA Today.ClearGov was founded by Chris Bullock in 2015 and is headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts. | $1.2M / Seed / Mar 29, 2017 | |
Linkable Networks
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Linkable Networks provides a digital shopper attribution platform intended to reward, engage, activate, and retain consumers in the store. The platform uses SaaS that turns online, mobile, email, print, and radio advertisements into linkable savings offers tied to the consumer's credit or debit card, allowing retailers and brands toautomatically measures and aggregates purchases across any national retailer for use by loyalty companies to reward and track consumer spending. | $16.7M / May 01, 2015 | |
Triblio
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Triblio account based marketing software enables marketers to create ABM campaigns to:Customize messaging, content, and CTAs by account segments: prospect vs. customer, product interest, content topic interest, firmagraphics, or funnel stageUnify marketing and sales messaging across corporate channels for specific account targetsConnectsales and email cross-sell/upsell campaigns across multiple channelsIncrease engagement of unknown contacts and visitors within target accountsDetermine purchase intent and contentinterest unknown and unknown visitor behavior by accountRequest a demo at http://www.triblio.com | $3.4M / Seed / Jun 05, 2014 | |
OwnerIQ
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OwnerIQ provides online advertising solutions and marketing channels for brands, retailers, and manufacturers. It offers Path to Purchase Targeting solution that enables users to reach potential customers online by targeting them in various phases of purchases, such as in-market shopping, intent, ownership, and duress as well as drives new onlinecustomers; Retailer Targeted Marketing solution that provides advertisers with data and transparency to their targeted media campaigns as well as transforms online retailers into targeted audience segments; and Vendor Targeted Marketing solution that enables retail advertisers to reach audiences as well as creates online marketing channels to reach in-market shoppers and drive greater sales.In addition, the company provides reporting suites such as campaign performance and purchase intent impact reports as well as product ownership and intender network trends reports that offers advertisers and partners with insight into in-market shopping behavior, consumer brand and product preferences, and retail channel activity.OwnerIQ was founded in 2006 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. | $7.5M / Series E / Jul 02, 2012 | |
Boundless
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Boundless, the free online textbook replacement, is making the world's open educational content more useful for students by connecting them with the wealth of high quality, openly licensed, and free educational content. | $8M / Series A / Apr 05, 2012 | |
Cloze
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Cloze is like a personal assistant for your professional relationships that is always prompting you at the right moment and remembering what you don’t.It pulls from your apps to automatically create one view of every person and company - all their contact details, and your complete history - every email back and forth, your phone callstogether, your meetings, your notes on Evernote, documents you exchanged and your interactions on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. We’ll even grab email signatures so your contacts are always up-to-date.It's all organized for you - by contact, company and meeting - without any busy work.With everything in one place, Cloze can put advanced data science to work for you. Cloze figures out who is important and keeps them top of mind, and will even remind you to reach out to a contact and refresh a fading relationship.Cloze organizes by companies too - without any setup. See your complete interaction history with any company, automatically in one place: contacts, email, meetings, phone calls, notes, documents and social media too.There’s no data entry - Cloze is the automatic way to remember everyone. | $1.2M / Seed / Apr 02, 2012 | |
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OwnerIQ
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OwnerIQ provides online advertising solutions and marketing channels for brands, retailers, and manufacturers. It offers Path to Purchase Targeting solution that enables users to reach potential customers online by targeting them in various phases of purchases, such as in-market shopping, intent, ownership, and duress as well as drives new onlinecustomers; Retailer Targeted Marketing solution that provides advertisers with data and transparency to their targeted media campaigns as well as transforms online retailers into targeted audience segments; and Vendor Targeted Marketing solution that enables retail advertisers to reach audiences as well as creates online marketing channels to reach in-market shoppers and drive greater sales.In addition, the company provides reporting suites such as campaign performance and purchase intent impact reports as well as product ownership and intender network trends reports that offers advertisers and partners with insight into in-market shopping behavior, consumer brand and product preferences, and retail channel activity.OwnerIQ was founded in 2006 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. | $7M / Series D / Jun 20, 2011 | |
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Boundless
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Boundless, the free online textbook replacement, is making the world's open educational content more useful for students by connecting them with the wealth of high quality, openly licensed, and free educational content. | $1.7M / Seed / Apr 28, 2011 | |
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Linkable Networks
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Linkable Networks provides a digital shopper attribution platform intended to reward, engage, activate, and retain consumers in the store. The platform uses SaaS that turns online, mobile, email, print, and radio advertisements into linkable savings offers tied to the consumer's credit or debit card, allowing retailers and brands toautomatically measures and aggregates purchases across any national retailer for use by loyalty companies to reward and track consumer spending. | $8.4M / Series A / Mar 10, 2011 | |
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Co-Investors
About Kepha Partners
"Kepha" is Aramaic for "rock." They have a back-to-basics approach focused on pre-seed, seed and Series A companies. They call this "venture building," and it is what created the venture industry in the first place. It is the foundation, or rock, of venture capital.Their mission:1. Be the trueentrepreneur's first choice2. Aggressively build shareholder value that will last for many generations3. Establish a new standard for value-add and become the McKinsey & Co. for entrepreneursThey seek entrepreneurs who have disruptive ideas and know that they can do it better. They recruit executives who are energized by making a difference in how they lead teams and out-execute incumbents. They want to work with people who would rather try and fail vs. not try at all.
Kepha Partners Contacts
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Eric Hjerpe
Partner
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Ed Hamilton
CFO and General Partner
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Jo Tango
Founder & Partner
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What does Eric Hjerpe invest in?
Eric Hjerpe invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Retail startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 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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The most recent investment recorded for Eric Hjerpe closed in Apr 2018. Shizune tracks 12 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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