# Forefront Venture Partners

> Forefront Venture Partners is a VC fund backing Software and E-Commerce. See 58 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boca Raton, United States
- Total investments: 58
- Last investment: Dec 2024
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last fund: Aug 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philnadel
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/NadelPhil
- Website: http://www.forefrontvp.com/

Forefront Venture Partners is a VC fund in Boca Raton focused on Software and E-Commerce. Forefront Venture Partners invests in innovative post-revenue companies led by dynamic, growth-oriented entrepreneurs. We invest $200k-$500k in Seed and Series A rounds.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $750k–$5M |
| Series A | $4M–$12M |
| Series B | $2.3M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 11 | 19% |
| E-Commerce | 9 | 16% |
| Information Technology | 9 | 16% |
| SaaS | 5 | 9% |
| Retail | 4 | 7% |

124 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 22 | 38% |
| Series A | 21 | 36% |
| Series B | 4 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 7% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 5% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 42 | 72% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 5% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 2% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 2% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Philip Nadel | Co-Founder and Managing Director | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/philip-nadel |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jome | Find, compare, and buy your new construction home — all in one place | $9.8M | Series A | Dec 18, 2024 |  |
| Zoneomics | Zoneomics is a zoning information and land use data analysis platform. It provides real estate zoning information through the aggregation of municipal zoning mapping, code and ordinance records, and data. Users can access the information on municipal zoning map websites, permitted land uses, and development standards. | $3M | Seed | Oct 23, 2024 |  |
| Illuma | Illuma Labs provides real-time voice authentication for customers around the world. With a technology that has its origins in R&D projects with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate, the company’s solutions support secure communications in verticals ranging from financial services and insurance toe-commerce. Illuma Shield, the company’s flagship solution, leverages signal processing, machine learning, and AI to offer call centers a real-time voice authentication solution that analyzes voices in natural conversation and provides a high authentication accuracy rate in a short period of time. | $9M | Series A | Sep 10, 2024 |  |
| Illuma | Illuma is a credit union service organization that offers real-time voice authentication and fraud prevention solutions for credit unions. | $9M | Series A | Sep 10, 2024 |  |
| Fuel Me | Fuel Me is a comprehensive platform designed to streamline the procurement process for fuel, lubricants, and other related products and services within the transportation and construction industries, among others. Its primary objective is to simplify the ordering and delivery process for businesses requiring bulk fuel, making it more efficient,cost-effective, and transparent. | $18M | Series A | Mar 20, 2024 |  |
| Sprout.ai | Sprout.ai, the advanced claims automation solution, harnesses the power of Contextual AI to revolutionise the insurance experience for global insurers and their consumers alike. The solution leverages proprietary Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies to deliver significantly reduced claim settlementtimes, increased fraud detection and industrial grade security to insurers.The solution is already deployed across three continents focusing on the property, motor and health insurance verticals. www.sprout.ai. | $7.1M |  | Oct 31, 2023 |  |
| Sprout.ai | Sprout.ai is an AI-powered claims automation software platform built specifically for insurers, transforming how claims are processed from First Notice of Loss (FNOL) through to settlement. By automating routine tasks, supporting intelligent decision-making, and enabling straight-through processing (STP) across both low and high-complexity claims,Sprout.ai helps insurers reduce operational costs, accelerate claims turnaround times, and strengthen claims leakage prevention and fraud detection, while improving experiences for both customers and claims teams.The platform leverages advanced AI, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) technologies to ingest and interpret unstructured data, including documents, invoices, images, emails, and handwritten notes, converting it into structured, actionable insights. This enables fast, accurate, and consistent decision-making across coverage verification, fraud detection, liability assessment, and settlement recommendations, with full transparency and explainability.Designed to support real-world claims operations, Sprout.ai empowers claims handlers with intelligent recommendations to confidently manage complex cases, while enabling end-to-end automation of high-volume claims processes. By combining FNOL automation, AI-driven workflows, and STP capabilities, Sprout.ai helps insurers deliver faster, fairer, and more efficient claims outcomes at scale. | $6.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 31, 2023 |  |
| Scan.com | Scan.com is a diagnostic imaging platform. | $12M | Series A | Apr 16, 2023 |  |
| NameCoach | NameCoach is a platform for cultural and gender inclusion, which empowers organizations to easily collect audio name recordings, gender identity, and other identity-related info via customized links or widgets - and embed this critical info in online systems through a web application, API, and 3rd party integrations. It was founded in 2014 and isbased in Palo Alto, California. | $8M | Series A | Nov 17, 2022 |  |
| Circuit | Circuit is a turn-key provider of micro-transit, ev fleet and on-demand technology services. The company's services uses electric vehicles which can be booked through application which are provided with responsible and efficient drivers, enabling users to access their shuttle service at their convenience. | $11M | Series A | Sep 07, 2022 |  |

10 of 58 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Forefront Venture Partners invest in?

Forefront Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 58 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 Forefront Venture Partners's check size?

Forefront Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $750k–$5M at Seed, $4M–$12M at Series A and $2.3M–$25M 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 Forefront Venture Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Forefront Venture Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Forefront Venture Partners?

The team at Forefront Venture Partners includes Philip Nadel (Co-Founder and Managing Director). 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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