# Eric Tobias

> Eric Tobias is a seed investor at High Alpha backing Software, SaaS and Information Technology. See 45 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [High Alpha](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-alpha-llc)
- Total investments: 45
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 16%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erictobias/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/erictobiasiN
- Website: http://erictobias.com/

Eric Tobias is a seed investor at High Alpha focused on Software and SaaS. Eric Tobias is the CEO of Opendate. Eric Tobias is a Partner and Co-founder at High Alpha and was a Co-founder and CEO at iGoDigital. He attended the Indiana University Bloomington.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 13 | 29% |
| SaaS | 9 | 20% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 13% |
| Internet | 4 | 9% |

66 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 18 | 40% |
| Series A | 8 | 18% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 11% |
| Series B | 4 | 9% |
| Series C | 4 | 9% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Backstroke | Backstroke is a technology company. | $2.8M | Seed | Jul 16, 2025 |  |
| ChampionHQ | ChampionHQ operates as a customer marketing platform to activate your customers and fans to create post-sale marketing programs. | $3.3M | Seed | Sep 03, 2024 |  |
| Backstroke | Backstroke is a technology company. | $4.8M | Seed | May 07, 2024 |  |
| Flaunt | Flaunt is a cutting-edge loyalty platform that powers immersive and social programs that boost expansion. | $1.8M | Seed | Feb 06, 2024 |  |
| Zylo | As the leader in SaaS Management, Zylo empowers companies to discover, optimize and govern their SaaS applications while elevating the employee experience. Organizations large and small trust Zylo’s enterprise-proven technology and unparalleled SaaS Management expertise to optimize more than 30 million SaaS licenses and $7 billion in SaaS spend.Zylo’s patent-pending, AI-powered Discovery Engine provides continual, frictionless monitoring of SaaS spend, licenses, and usage to create the industry’s most trusted SaaS system of record. Fueled by more data than any other provider, Zylo delivers actionable insights that allow you to take action quickly to optimize growing SaaS portfolios. For more information, visit zylo.com. | $31.5M | Series C | Nov 29, 2022 |  |
| Cordial | Creating engaging, tailored customers experiences is difficult with rigid legacy architecture and fragmented data. Cordial enables you to collect, normalize, and activate real-time data from anywhere in your technology stack to create and deliver tailored messages that flex and adapt to changing customer signals. Over 200 brands, including 1-800Contacts, La Quinta and Revolve, use Cordial to consolidate redundant technology, eliminate data silos, remove internal friction, and create brand experiences that drive bottom-line impact. | $50M | Series C | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| Encamp | Encamp is a computer software company that specializes in environmental compliance automation, hazardous material tracking, and environmental data management. It helps people to understand, manage, and meet environmental compliance. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. | $30M | Series C | Jun 08, 2022 |  |
| Kevala | Kevala connects healthcare operators to their favorite agencies and internal float staff — with automated scheduling, timesheets, and credential management. | $12.1M | Series A | Feb 14, 2022 |  |
| Bolster | Bolster helps startup CEOs scale themselves, their leadership teams, and their boards.The Bolster marketplace matches startups with executives for interim, fractional, or advisory roles, board appointments, and full-time jobs. Bolster also offers robust mentorship and advisory services. Its services engage its communities of executives, giveexecutives the tools they need to manage their business or consulting practice, help CEOs understand the scalability of their executive teams and boards, and enable investors to seamlessly connect their networks to their portfolio companies. | $11M | Series B | Jan 11, 2022 |  |
| Docket | Docket is a meeting-focused workspace designed for collaborative agenda creation, decision documentation, and action item tracking. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. | $3M |  | Dec 21, 2021 |  |

10 of 45 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Elevate Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elevate-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Allos Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allos-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [IrishAngels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/irishangels) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [IU Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iu-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Costanoa Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/costanoaventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Maven Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maven-ventures-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About High Alpha

VC Fund · Indianapolis, United States

High Alpha, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, is a B2B SaaS venture studio. High Alpha Studio conceives, launches, and scales B2B SaaS companies by providing a blend of studio services, including design, finance, talent, marketing, brand, and go-to-market. High Alpha Capital invests in High Alpha Studio companies and emerging B2B SaaS companies. Thecombination of High Alpha Studio and High Alpha Capital represents a new model for entrepreneurship — the venture studio model — that seeks to help companies reduce friction, increase velocity, and achieve enterprise scale.

5 contacts available at High Alpha.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aman Brar | Operating Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aman-brar |
| Blake Koriath | VP Finance | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blake-koriath |
| Brian Bispala | Co-Founder and CTO of Studio Startup | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-bispala |
| Eric Tobias | Partner and Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-tobias |
| Mike Fitzgerald | Partner and Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-fitzgerald-5 |

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## FAQ

### What does Eric Tobias invest in?

Eric Tobias invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 45 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Eric Tobias last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Eric Tobias closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 45 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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