# Fairhaven Capital Partners

> Fairhaven Capital Partners is a VC fund backing Software. See 75 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, United States
- Total investments: 75
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 27%
- Fund size: $250M
- Last fund: Oct 2008
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fairhaven-capital/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/FairhavenC
- Website: http://www.fairhavencapital.com/

Fairhaven Capital Partners is a VC fund in Cambridge focused on Software and Information Technology. Fairhaven Capital (previously TD Capital) is a Cambridge, MA based venture capital firm investing in early stage technology startups.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $4M–$13M |
| Series B | $4M–$25M |
| Series C | $7.5M–$42M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 20 | 27% |
| Information Technology | 9 | 12% |
| SaaS | 7 | 9% |
| Enterprise Software | 7 | 9% |
| Mobile | 6 | 8% |

78 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 15 | 20% |
| Series B | 15 | 20% |
| Series C | 11 | 15% |
| Seed | 10 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 8% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 44 | 59% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cheryl Goyette | Partner and CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cheryl-goyette |
| Paul Ciriello | Co-Founder & Managing General Partner | 15 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-ciriello |
| Bob Schnibbe | Chief Operating Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-schnibbe |
| Jim Goldinger | Co-Founder & Managing Director | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-goldinger |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Everglade Works | Everglade Works provides a comprehensive range of IT services and solutions tailored to meet the specific needs of various industries. Their offerings include IT consulting, where they develop customized IT strategies and assess existing infrastructures. The company specializes in cloud services, facilitating cloud migration and management, as wellas software development, which encompasses custom software solutions and application maintenance. The company offers project management to ensure effective planning and execution of IT projects. | $12M | Seed | May 10, 2024 |  |
| LÜK Network | LÜK is a talent marketplace for the fashion and entertainment industries (models, photographers, stylists, hair and makeup artists, etc.). LÜK has assembled the top talent agencies into one location for clients to easily book talent for photo/video shoots. Think Expedia, but for professional talent. Now, LÜK is becoming the payments platformfor the entire industry. Currently, it takes talent agencies 60-150 days to get paid. LÜK is factoring the receivables of the 150 talent agencies in their network to get them paid out same day. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Jul 01, 2018 |  |
| Ionic Materials | Ionic Materials technology team has extensive experience in polymer science, electrochemistry and battery science and they are further supported by leading experts from academia and industry. Ionic’s polymer electrolyte represents a major breakthrough in battery technology. By enabling the creation of batteries that are safer, cheaper, and higherperformance than the current state-of-the-art, Ionic’s polymer electrolyte shatters the traditional battery design paradigm, under which safety, cost, and performance must generally be traded off against one another. They are excited to bring this technology to market with core partners in the battery industry. | $65M | Series C | Feb 07, 2018 |  |
| Pwnie Express | Born and raised in the security community, we're on a roll and just getting started. In late 2009, the original team of Pwnies - Dave Porcello, Gabe Koss, and Oliver Weis - placed the Pwn Plug on the original site (Dave's blog) with little expectation of what was to come.From those humble beginnings, we have focused on providing fullthreat detection of every wireless and wired device in and around your workplace. We are the only company that detects rogue, misconfigured, and unauthorized devices across wired and wireless spectrums. By automating wireless and wired device detection, our solutions continuously detect the devices on or around your network that are open pathways for attackers.Pwnie Express is led by industry veterans with deep security testing and product development experience. Security assessment is our lifeblood, and we believe in making it simple to do the easy things, and possible to do the hard stuff. With Pwn Pulse, a distributed security assessment service, and our award-winning sensors, security teams can get the answers they need in a timely and effective manner. | $8M | Series C | Nov 29, 2017 |  |
| OpenSpace | OpenSpace offers photo documentation which is automatically pinned to plan location with AI. It specializes in computer vision and construction. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $3.5M | Seed | Sep 01, 2017 |  |
| Py | Py is a learn-to-code mobile app that provides courses, including Javascript, Swift, Python, and HTML/CSS. Aside from that, Py also covers a broad a variety of subjects, including humanities, sciences, and even courses like English grammar.The learn-to-code space is changing the learning experience by providing different creative approachesto inspire learners of all ages from board games to programmable robots to gamified learning platforms.Py was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California. In 2019, Py was acquired by Hired, a career marketplace that matches tech talent with innovative companies. | $120K | Seed | Aug 09, 2017 |  |
| LeafLink | LeafLink is a wholesale management platform that connects cannabis brands and retailers. It helps brands and retailers who want to streamline the ordering process, simplify communication, and spend less time on busywork. With a robust online marketplace, CRM, and order management tools, LeafLink has created a centralized sales engine to helpretailers manage and grow their business. LeafLink was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, New York. It serves over 1,200 brands and 3,500 retailers across 22 territories in the US and Canada | $3M | Seed | Apr 03, 2017 |  |
| PathAI | PathAI develops artificial intelligence software and digital pathology systems used in diagnostic workflows, clinical research, and drug development. The company provides AI-powered tools that analyze tissue samples and pathology images to support biomarker discovery, disease characterization, and laboratory operations. Its platform includesAISight, a digital pathology image management system used for case review, image analysis, workflow coordination, and integration of AI applications into pathology environments. PathAI also offers laboratory services, pathology data analysis, and machine learning models designed for clinical trials and pharmaceutical research. The company collaborates with healthcare organizations, pathology laboratories, and biopharmaceutical companies to support precision medicine and pathology digitization initiatives. Its technology is applied in areas such as oncology, liver disease research, companion diagnostics, and pathology workflow automation. | $4.2M | Seed | Dec 06, 2016 |  |
| PathAI | PathAI develops artificial intelligence software and digital pathology systems used in diagnostic workflows, clinical research, and drug development. The company provides AI-powered tools that analyze tissue samples and pathology images to support biomarker discovery, disease characterization, and laboratory operations. Its platform includesAISight, a digital pathology image management system used for case review, image analysis, workflow coordination, and integration of AI applications into pathology environments. PathAI also offers laboratory services, pathology data analysis, and machine learning models designed for clinical trials and pharmaceutical research. The company collaborates with healthcare organizations, pathology laboratories, and biopharmaceutical companies to support precision medicine and pathology digitization initiatives. Its technology is applied in areas such as oncology, liver disease research, companion diagnostics, and pathology workflow automation. | $4.2M | Seed | Dec 01, 2016 |  |
| NanoSteel | NanoSteel is an advanced materials company specializing in the design and commercialization of patented steels with exceptional mechanical properties derived from their nano-scale microstructure. The Company's primary focus is proprietary alloys for use as sheet steel in automotive light-weighting applications. It has developed multiplegenerations of ferrous materials innovations including metallic coatings, additive manufacturing powders, and sheet steel protected by over 300 patents filed and granted worldwide. NanoSteel’s nanostructured steel designs are providing next-generation performance across a wide range of global industrial markets. The company alloys are proven in oil & gas, mining, cement, concrete, and power industries. The recent advanced high strength steel (AHSS) sheet material is poised to redefine how steel is used in the automotive industry. | $2.5M |  | Nov 14, 2016 |  |

10 of 75 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Fairhaven Capital Partners invest in?

Fairhaven Capital Partners invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 75 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Fairhaven Capital Partners's check size?

Fairhaven Capital Partners typically joins rounds of $4M–$13M at Series A, $4M–$25M at Series B and $7.5M–$42M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Fairhaven Capital Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Fairhaven Capital Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Fairhaven Capital Partners?

The team at Fairhaven Capital Partners includes Cheryl Goyette (Partner and CFO), Paul Ciriello (Co-Founder & Managing General Partner) and Bob Schnibbe (Chief Operating Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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