# Fresco Capital

> Fresco Capital is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Software and Education. See 102 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 102
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 4%
- Last fund: Nov 2015
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fresco-capital
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/frescocap
- Website: http://fresco.vc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frescocapital/

Fresco Capital is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Education. Investing at the intersection of people and technology.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Fresco Capital. Shizune tracks 9 team members at Fresco Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/fresco-capital-advisors?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$3.1M |
| Series A | $2M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 21 | 21% |
| Education | 19 | 19% |
| SaaS | 12 | 12% |
| EdTech | 8 | 8% |
| Analytics | 8 | 8% |

140 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 53 | 52% |
| Series A | 17 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 6% |
| Series B | 5 | 5% |
| Convertible Note | 3 | 3% |

14 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 51 | 50% |
| Hong Kong | 9 | 9% |
| China | 3 | 3% |
| Canada | 3 | 3% |
| India | 1 | 1% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Stephen Forte | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stephen-forte |
| Angie Lau | Impact Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angie-lau-1a66 |
| Cory Kidd | Impact Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cory-kidd |
| Eriko Suzuki | General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eriko-suzuki |
| Furuzonfar Zehni | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/furuzonfar-zehni |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Subscript | Subscript is a platform that allows users to develop, understand, and manage subscription businesses. This enables members to update the database, calculate measures such as ARR, net revenue retention, CAC, LTV, ARPA, and so on, and analyze customer segments. | $15M | Series A | Feb 27, 2025 |  |
| Buupass | BuuPass aims to provide seamless movement for people. They work with operators to provide digital transport solutions to facilitate convenient movement for commuters. BuuPass is Kenya's first marketplace for bus, shuttle, and train bookings; it's the fastest, easiest way to book. BuuPass is driven by young entrepreneurs who are passionateabout solving real everyday problems by making simple and powerful solutions. They envision a world where people can travel on their terms, be connected to opportunities, and live a life without borders. They provide simple transport solutions to help people get from Point A to Point B. BuuPass believes everyone’s time is valuable. When it comes to booking tickets they believe you should be able to reserve your seat and make payments with convenience. They strongly believe you should have the right to choose what works best for you in regards to your time and money. They offer digital solutions for bus booking. |  | Seed | Feb 27, 2024 |  |
| Reap | Reap is a financial platform that develops financial infrastructure and payment technology focused on stablecoin-enabled transactions and cross-border money movement. The company provides corporate cards, payment APIs, expense management tools, and embedded finance solutions that connect digital assets with traditional financial systems. Itsplatform supports stablecoin-funded payments, card-issuing programs, treasury management, and international payouts for businesses operating across multiple markets. Reap also offers application programming interfaces that allow fintech companies and enterprises to integrate payment and card functionality into their own products and services. The company works with digital asset ecosystems, financial institutions, and Web3 businesses to support settlement, compliance, and financial operations. Its services are used for cross-border payments, digital asset spending, business expense management, and embedded financial workflows. | $40M | Series A | Oct 26, 2022 |  |
| Tangia | Tangia is an all in one platform that allows content creators to supercharge their viewer engagement, boost income, and unleash viewer creativity | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Sep 08, 2022 |  |
| Glints | Glints is Southeast Asia’s largest talent platform for career development and recruitment. Founded in 2013 in Singapore, Glints has empowered more than 1.5 million professionals and 30,000 organizations to realize their human potential. Every day, we are helping organizations build great teams and pairing talent up with great opportunities, onematch at a time. | $50M | Series D | Aug 29, 2022 |  |
| TeiaCare | TeiaCare is an Italian start-up born in 2018 with the aim of transferring technology and innovation knowledge to care homes.Our first solution, Ancelia, is an AI-powered operating system designed to increase transparency in the care and assistance processes, both inside the care home and towards residents' families.TeiaCare, based inMilan, operates in Italy and Spain, has a team of 15 people and is supported by international investors. | $2.6M | Seed | Jul 01, 2022 |  |
| Adni | Lumify Care builds technology to support frontline healthcare workers. | $1.2M | Seed | May 09, 2022 |  |
| CoverGo | CoverGo is the first fully configurable, modular, enterprise-grade, no-code insurance platform for omni-channel distribution, policy admin and claims. CoverGo’s no-code insurance application builder enables general and life insurance companies to configure and deploy any product at record speed and across any cloud.CoverGo’s platform is poweredby hundreds of open insurance APIs to increase connectivity and automate all insurance processes.The CoverGo’s platform is more flexible and adaptable than any comparable system, allowing for ease of product innovation as well as swift integration with existing legacy systems. | $15M | Series A | May 09, 2022 |  |
| PhableCare | PhableCare creates an ecosystem of patients, doctors, hospitals, health devices, insurance, and patient care service providers. In India, 1 in 4 people suffer from chronic ailments. Meanwhile, 80% of patients cannot comply to the treatment plan provided by the doctor leading to even more complications. This poses a huge burden on the healthcaresystem. Phable solves this by making care autonomous and predictive. Our AI-enabled health assistant significantly improves health outcomes by enabling disease-specific guidance and continuous monitoring. | $24.7M | Series B | Apr 11, 2022 |  |
| Subscript | Subscript is a platform that allows users to develop, understand, and manage subscription businesses. This enables members to update the database, calculate measures such as ARR, net revenue retention, CAC, LTV, ARPA, and so on, and analyze customer segments. |  | Seed | Jan 27, 2022 |  |

10 of 102 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kapor Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kapor-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [1776 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1776-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
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- [University Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/university-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [(ERA) Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/er-accelerator) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Fresco Capital invest in?

Fresco Capital invests primarily in Software, Education and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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 Fresco Capital's check size?

Fresco Capital typically joins rounds of $500k–$3.1M at Seed and $2M–$15M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Fresco Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Fresco Capital?

Public channels for Fresco 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 Fresco Capital?

The team at Fresco Capital includes Stephen Forte (Co-Founder & Managing Partner), Angie Lau (Impact Partner) and Cory Kidd (Impact Partner), among 9 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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