# Frances Schwiep

> Frances Schwiep is a Series A investor at Two Sigma Ventures (New York) backing Software and CRM. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Two Sigma Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/two-sigma-ventures)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 46%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frances-schwiep-554832b/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/schwiepit
- Website: https://x.com/schwiepit

Frances Schwiep is a New York-based venture capital investor focusing on early-stage investments in enterprise tech companies, with a particular focus on startups that are leveraging AI and digital assets to redefine the future of cities and communication mediums in a “cloudy” and mobile world. Prior to joining Comcast Ventures, Frances was aninvestor at Highland Capital and Redstar Ventures, where she focused on finance tech, healthcare IT, and B2B marketplaces. Before that she was a product manager at MC10 Inc., a wearable computing company where she helped develop applications for the company’s bio-sensors in sports and healthcare verticals. Frances began her career in data science and consulting and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 31% |
| CRM | 2 | 15% |
| SaaS | 2 | 15% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 15% |
| Cloud Data Services | 2 | 15% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 46% |
| Seed | 5 | 38% |
| Series B | 2 | 15% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 46% |
| Mexico | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Distributional | Distributional makes AI safe, reliable and secure. | $19M | Series A | Oct 08, 2024 |  |
| Objective | Objective, Inc. was created for teams like yours, who care about business outcomes over convoluted pipelines, and customer delight over endless tinkering. Our AI knows what users are looking for, even when the true meaning of your data is buried deep inside pixels and paragraphs. | $13M | Seed | Oct 18, 2023 |  |
| Flatfile | Flatfile provides software products that focus specifically on solving the problem of data onboarding, the process businesses use to accept data from other organizations. Flatfile automatically learns how imported data should be structured and cleaned, enabling customers and teams to spend more time using their data instead of fixing it. | $50M | Series B | Sep 27, 2022 |  |
| Obvious | Obvious develops an AI-powered workspace platform for creating and managing business content, workflows, and applications. The platform enables users to generate documents, spreadsheets, presentations, dashboards, timelines, and custom applications through AI-assisted tools and collaborative features. It also supports workflow automation, recurringtasks, integrations with external systems, and shared workspaces for teams. Obvious provides built-in tools for coding, project organization, meeting transcription, and data management within a unified interface. The platform is used across functions such as marketing, recruiting, operations, and business analysis. | $50M | Series B | Sep 27, 2022 |  |
| MonetizeNow | MonetizeNow is an interface with APIs for a rules engine that runs on a scalable microservices architecture. It is designed to handle the enterprise-grade complexity of subscriptions, one-time purchases, and usage. They support sales channels such as self-service, CRM, partners, in-product, and marketplaces. | $3M | Seed | Nov 11, 2021 |  |
| Nelo | Nelo develops a mobile application for financial transactions. It began operation on April 8, 2019, with its headquarters in Mexico City. | $20M | Series A | Oct 12, 2021 |  |
| Sora | Sora is a low-code intelligent workflow automation and data integration tool that connects different corporate applications such as HR, IT, and other systems and data sets to provide a smarter, more user-friendly experience for employees, business owners, and HR professionals. | $14M | Series A | Aug 24, 2021 |  |
| Flatfile | Flatfile provides software products that focus specifically on solving the problem of data onboarding, the process businesses use to accept data from other organizations. Flatfile automatically learns how imported data should be structured and cleaned, enabling customers and teams to spend more time using their data instead of fixing it. | $35M | Series A | Mar 10, 2021 |  |
| Obvious | Obvious develops an AI-powered workspace platform for creating and managing business content, workflows, and applications. The platform enables users to generate documents, spreadsheets, presentations, dashboards, timelines, and custom applications through AI-assisted tools and collaborative features. It also supports workflow automation, recurringtasks, integrations with external systems, and shared workspaces for teams. Obvious provides built-in tools for coding, project organization, meeting transcription, and data management within a unified interface. The platform is used across functions such as marketing, recruiting, operations, and business analysis. | $35M | Series A | Mar 10, 2021 |  |
| Flatfile | Flatfile provides software products that focus specifically on solving the problem of data onboarding, the process businesses use to accept data from other organizations. Flatfile automatically learns how imported data should be structured and cleaned, enabling customers and teams to spend more time using their data instead of fixing it. | $7.6M | Seed | May 27, 2020 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Gradient](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gradient-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Afore Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/afore-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Hanover Technology Investment Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hanover-technology-investment-management) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Scale Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scale-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Workday Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/workday-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Two Sigma Ventures

VC Fund · New York, United States

Two Sigma Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City investing capital and expertise in entrepreneurs leveraging data and computing to create the future. In partnership with our parent company, Two Sigma Investments, we provide entrepreneurs access to a proprietary network of experts and startup resources to give them acompetitive edge.

5 contacts available at Two Sigma Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Colin Beirne | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/colin-beirne |
| David Joerg | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-joerg |
| Dusan Perovic | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dusan-perovic |
| Edward Schmidt | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edward-schmidt |
| Frances Schwiep | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frances-schwiep |

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## FAQ

### What does Frances Schwiep invest in?

Frances Schwiep invests primarily in Software, CRM and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 13 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 Frances Schwiep last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Frances Schwiep closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 13 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?

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