# Hillcrest Venture Partners

> Hillcrest Venture Partners is a VC fund in Glendale backing SaaS and Internet. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Glendale, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jun 2017
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hillcrest-venture-partners/
- Website: http://www.hillcrestvp.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Hillcrest-Venture-Partners-214419435391937/

Hillcrest Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that takes a methodical approach to investing in seed to growth stage technology companies. Leveraging our experience with venture capital investing, operating startup companies, strategy development, product management, and investment banking, we help promising entrepreneurs createtomorrow's leading technology companies.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 2 | 33% |
| Internet | 2 | 33% |
| Security | 2 | 33% |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| Analytics | 2 | 33% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Series B | 1 | 17% |
| Series C | 1 | 17% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 17% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Courtney Hall | Co-Founder and Managing Director | 0 | — |
| Darin Chen | co-founder and Managing Director | 0 | — |
| Jim Dovey | Managing Director | 0 | — |
| JULIAN LIN | co-founder and Managing Director | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Branded Online | Branded Online, Inc. (BOL) is a dynamic technology company that delivers enterprise-class ecommerce, marketing, and logistics solutions to brands. BOL helps brands reach their potential by delivering scalable growth, effective marketing, and operational efficiencies. By offering world-class technology and solutions, our clients gain the control,scalability, growth, and cost savings they need to compete with the largest retailers on earth. Since 1999 Branded Online has become a trusted partner to some of the world’s leading fashion brands. The company specializes in providing the technology, infrastructure, and operational services needed to continuously drive commerce, improve customer engagement, and better address the complexities inherent in high-performing omni-channel commerce operations. | $4.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 14, 2017 |  |
| VirtuLocity Networks | VirtuLocity Networks Inc. is a Silicon Valley start-up focused on making your Internet and cloud connectivity faster. Their software has been tested and proven around the world by Content Distributed Network providers (CDN's), carrier operators, cable MSO's, and mobile phone providers to improve their end customer's networkconnections. |  | Seed | Mar 01, 2017 |  |
| MomentFeed | MomentFeed is a unified platform that helps multi-location brands optimize for proximity search in order to connect customers with brands at the local level. The company's marketing and customer experience management platform enables multi-location brands to influence consumers on mobile. It manages and automates each and all of thelocal-mobile search triggers via its Unified Platform, and helps multi-location brands influence their Proximity Search Optimization to make them more visible across all local discovery channels, ultimately leading to more customers and foot traffic, and increased revenue. | $16.3M | Series C | Feb 24, 2017 |  |
| NS8 | NS8 is a comprehensive fraud prevention platform that combines behavioral analytics, real-time scoring, and global monitoring to help online businesses minimize risk. Its patented scoring technology provides actionable data about the type, quality, and trustworthiness of transactions, which businesses leverage to automate fraud management workflowsto suit their individual needs. | $900K | Seed | Jan 05, 2017 |  |
| Phizzle | Phizzle EDGMaker - Unlocking & Digitizing the Most Valuable Scientific Data in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing. ​Phizzle is the only IoT solution to remotely operate and automate multi-vendor particle counters for scientific data applications in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Clear Air, and Food Manufacturing. The EDGMaker software stack offersfully digitized testing and compliance processes to reduce labor, human error, and wasted batches in regulated manufacturing. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $6.1M | Series B | Mar 23, 2016 |  |
| Notion | Notion is a smart self-monitoring system that empowers home and property owners to be proactive in protecting their spaces, people, and possessions. The company offers data analytics, intuitive user experience, and an all-in-one, the oreo-sized sensor that allows for real-time alerts ranging from motion and temperature to water leaks and alarms sothat customers can be notified of issues at home instantly.The company was established by Brett Jurgens and Ryan Margoles in 2013 and it is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. | $2.5M | Seed | May 26, 2015 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DNX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dnx-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Startup Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startup-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [A.M.E. Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-m-e-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bloomberg Beta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bloomberg-beta) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blu Venture Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blu-venture-investors) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Frontier Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dfj-frontier) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Hillcrest Venture Partners invest in?

Hillcrest Venture Partners invests primarily in SaaS, Internet and Security startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Hillcrest Venture Partners?

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

The team at Hillcrest Venture Partners includes Courtney Hall (Co-Founder and Managing Director), Darin Chen (co-founder and Managing Director) and Jim Dovey (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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