# Five Elms Capital

> Five Elms Capital is a VC fund in Kansas City backing Software and SaaS. See 102 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kansas City, United States
- Total investments: 102
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 77%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/2301526/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/FiveElms
- Website: http://www.fiveelms.com

Five Elms Capital is a growth investor in software businesses that users love, providing capital and resources to help companies accelerate growth and further cement their role as industry leaders.With over $3 billion in assets under management and a team of over 80 professionals, Five Elms has invested in more than 70 software platformsworldwide. Beyond providing capital, Five Elms delivers strategic and operational expertise, focused on executing initiatives that move the needle on growth, retention, product, and AI to set companies up for long-term success. For more information, visit fiveelms.com.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $2M–$30M |
| Series B | $3.7M–$32M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 45 | 44% |
| SaaS | 23 | 23% |
| Information Technology | 19 | 19% |
| Enterprise Software | 12 | 12% |
| Health Care | 10 | 10% |

147 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 31 | 30% |
| Series B | 20 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 18 | 18% |
| Private Equity | 14 | 14% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 8 | 8% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 61 | 60% |
| Canada | 3 | 3% |
| Australia | 3 | 3% |
| Sweden | 2 | 2% |
| Belgium | 2 | 2% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Austin Gideon | Principal | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/austin-gideon |
| Fred Coulson | Managing Partner & Founder | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fred-coulson |
| Joe Onofrio | Managing Director | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joe-onofrio |
| Reed Edwards | Principal | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reed-edwards |
| Ryan Mandl | Managing Director | 19 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-mandl |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BoreDM | BoreDM specializes in providing web-based geotechnical software solutions designed to enhance the efficiency of creating and managing bore logs and other geotechnical data. Their platform supports DXF export for stick logs compatible with major CAD software like AutoCAD, Microstation, and OpenRoads, facilitating seamless integration into existingworkflows. BoreDM's software also offers out-of-the-box Excel exports, enabling users to easily handle data in a familiar format. With a focus on adaptability, BoreDM prides itself on implementing feature requests rapidly, often within a day, ensuring their software meets the evolving needs of their users. Additionally, BoreDM is developing a mobile experience, BoreDM Field, aimed at optimizing data logging for borehole, test pit, and instrumentation on the go, although it is primarily optimized for larger screen sizes at present. |  | Series A | Jun 01, 2026 |  |
| Opus1.io | Opus1.io is the end to end platform for music and performing arts schools - Scheduling, Invoicing, Self-booking, Payments etc. |  | Series B | Mar 26, 2026 |  |
| Trybe | Next generation Bookings & Business Management Software for the Spa & Leisure Industry. | $30M | Series A | Jan 12, 2026 |  |
| Prospyr Medical | Prosypr provides aesthetic practices with a single, easy-to-use platform with all of the tools they need to keep a full schedule and spend time where it matters most: serving patients. Market, schedule, serve, chart, and more all in one place. | $13.6M | Private Equity | Dec 15, 2025 |  |
| Ritten | Ritten delivers a platform that helps clinicians and administrators provide personalized, data-informed care. The company's platform offers customized workflow configurations that help to deliver complex treatment consistently and compliantly, enabling clinicians and administrators to maintain a comprehensive patient record that tracks allaspects of a patient's care, including clinical notes, medications, and treatment plans, and deliver personalized, data-informed care. | $35M | Series B | Dec 11, 2025 |  |
| Digitail | Pet care has stagnated and veterinarians need modern tools to build long-term and meaningful relationships with pet parents. Digitail is solving the gap between the ever-growing expectations of millennial pet parents and the experience offered by veterinarians with their current tools. | $23M | Series B | Nov 10, 2025 |  |
| Magma Math | Magma Math is an e-learning math platform for K–12 classrooms that helps improve teaching practises and learning for students. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 20, 2025 |  |
| Barti | Barti offers an AI-powered electronic health record and practice management platform tailored for eye care providers. The company delivers tools that streamline eye exam documentation through AI Scribe, simplify patient intake, scheduling, billing, messaging, and optical/contact lens ordering, unifying practice operations under a singlesystem. It incorporates AI-driven capabilities like AI History and AI Smart Scan to expedite information retrieval and data entry from documents. Designed in collaboration with optometrists, ophthalmologists, and opticians, the platform addresses specialty needs through features such as myopia management and vision therapy templates.Barti was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, USA. | $12M | Series A | Aug 25, 2025 |  |
| FMX | Facilities Management eXpress (FMX) was formed out of a need for facilities managers to more effectively do their job. Early in 2012, two of their founders, both engineers, were conducting an energy conservation project for a local school district. The district needed a way to easily manage their facilities remotely while maximizing energy savings.Their founders began searching for software capable of scheduling preventive maintenance to ensure energy savings, streamlining event scheduling to minimize the running time of HVAC systems, and tracking and responding to heating/cooling complaints to meet the needs of the school staff. Many of the software solutions they explored were feature rich but way too complicated. This unmet need for an easy-to-use but functional system inspired their founders to create a solution of their own. After developing the first version of a tool to enhance the energy project, they realized the benefits that such a solution could provide to a wider customer base — and FMX was born! The FMX team continues to extend the FMX experience to customers to provide a simple solution for solving real world facilities management challenges. |  | Private Equity | Jul 21, 2025 |  |
| Spacelift | Spacelift is an infrastructure orchestration platform that manages provisioning, configuration, and governance workflows across tools like Terraform, Ansible, OpenTofu, Kubernetes, Pulumi, and CloudFormation. It integrates with version control systems to enable collaborative, GitOps-style workflows with features such as policy‑as‑code, driftdetection, and scheduled automation. Platform teams use it to empower developers with self‑service infrastructure templates, lifecycle hooks, stack dependencies, and multi‑stack workflows, while maintaining access control through spaces and approval policies. The platform supports both public and private execution environments and offers a GraphQL API, webhooks, SSO integrations, and a self‑hosted option for compliance needs. Pricing includes a free tier and additional plans that scale with team size, worker types, and governance requirements. | $51M | Series C | Jul 10, 2025 |  |

10 of 102 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Five Elms Capital invest in?

Five Elms Capital invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 102 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 Five Elms Capital's check size?

Five Elms Capital typically joins rounds of $2M–$30M at Series A and $3.7M–$32M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Five Elms Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Five Elms Capital?

Public channels for Five Elms Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Five Elms Capital?

The team at Five Elms Capital includes Austin Gideon (Principal), Fred Coulson (Managing Partner & Founder) and Joe Onofrio (Managing Director), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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