# Hudson Ventures

> Hudson Ventures is a VC fund in New York backing Software and Advertising. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Apr 2011
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hudson-ventures/about/
- Website: http://www.hudsonventures.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Hudson-Ventures-138711099494088/

Hudson Ventures is a New York venture capital firm with over $170 million of capital under management. They have decades of experience in operating and growing technology companies, and have successfully managed every phase of a company's life cycle. Their expertise enables them to add value in both leading investment syndicates andco-investing with other venture funds. They invest primarily in early stage technology companies in the Northeast. Their focused geographic strategy supports a close working relationship with their portfolio companies and helps to facilitates their rapid growth.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 33% |
| Advertising | 4 | 27% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 20% |
| Mobile | 2 | 13% |
| Computer | 2 | 13% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 5 | 33% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 20% |
| Series A | 2 | 13% |
| Series C | 2 | 13% |
| Series D | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Glen Lewy | Senior Managing Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/glen-lewy |
| Jay Goldberg | Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jay-n-goldberg |
| Bill Carson | Managing Director | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-carson |
| John P. Truehart | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-p-truehart |
| Kim P. Goh | Senior Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kim-p-goh |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Scanbuy | Scanbuy provides cloud-based mobile connection solutions and a platform to generate, manage, and measure intelligent barcode campaigns.The company’s mobile engagement platform provides tools to track the performance of campaigns with various features, including mobile website builder, surveys, mobile web pages, specialized branding, designerQR codes, and many others. It offers mVision Insights, a tool that provides clients with access to marketing engagement activities; mPromo, a mobile offer service that helps clients bring in new businesses; mTargeting, a solution that organizes customers into neat groups with common interests; mPackaging that allows clients to convert the UPC or EAN barcode on various packages; and software development tools.Scanbuy’s mobile engagement suite empowers brands, retailers, and marketers to create, manage, and deliver personalized tailored experiences directly to consumer smartphones; and platform enables the delivery of coupons, product information, videos, websites, social networking, surveys, e-commerce, and more. It offers its applications for Android and iOS devices.Scanbuy was founded in 2000 and is based in New York, United States with additional offices in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Israel, Spain, and the United Kingdom. | $12.5M |  | Apr 21, 2011 |  |
| Scanbuy | Scanbuy provides cloud-based mobile connection solutions and a platform to generate, manage, and measure intelligent barcode campaigns.The company’s mobile engagement platform provides tools to track the performance of campaigns with various features, including mobile website builder, surveys, mobile web pages, specialized branding, designerQR codes, and many others. It offers mVision Insights, a tool that provides clients with access to marketing engagement activities; mPromo, a mobile offer service that helps clients bring in new businesses; mTargeting, a solution that organizes customers into neat groups with common interests; mPackaging that allows clients to convert the UPC or EAN barcode on various packages; and software development tools.Scanbuy’s mobile engagement suite empowers brands, retailers, and marketers to create, manage, and deliver personalized tailored experiences directly to consumer smartphones; and platform enables the delivery of coupons, product information, videos, websites, social networking, surveys, e-commerce, and more. It offers its applications for Android and iOS devices.Scanbuy was founded in 2000 and is based in New York, United States with additional offices in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Israel, Spain, and the United Kingdom. | $5M |  | Apr 20, 2011 |  |
| [x+1] | [x+1] is the only marketing technology company recognized as a leader in both the Forrester DMP and DSP Wave Reports.[x+1] Origin Platform is a programmatic marketing hub that empowers the world's best brands to engage audiences in progressively relevant conversations across a full spectrum of paid and owned digital channels. [x+1]Origin Data Management Platform (DMP), powered by the Predictive Optimization Engine (POE™) and a wholly-integrated DSP, blends first and third-party data with predictive decisioning to engage audiences across online display, mobile web, apps, email, site, and other digital channels. This is why the world’s best brands including seven of the top financial services advertisers rely on [x+1] for their programmatic marketing. The company is headquartered in New York City with offices in Connecticut, Illinois, Michigan and California. For more information visit www.xplusone.com | $10M | Series B | Jan 03, 2011 |  |
| [x+1] | [x+1] is the only marketing technology company recognized as a leader in both the Forrester DMP and DSP Wave Reports.[x+1] Origin Platform is a programmatic marketing hub that empowers the world's best brands to engage audiences in progressively relevant conversations across a full spectrum of paid and owned digital channels. [x+1]Origin Data Management Platform (DMP), powered by the Predictive Optimization Engine (POE™) and a wholly-integrated DSP, blends first and third-party data with predictive decisioning to engage audiences across online display, mobile web, apps, email, site, and other digital channels. This is why the world’s best brands including seven of the top financial services advertisers rely on [x+1] for their programmatic marketing. The company is headquartered in New York City with offices in Connecticut, Illinois, Michigan and California. For more information visit www.xplusone.com | $16M | Series A | Jun 01, 2008 |  |
| LogMatrix | LogMatrix offers a unique Network and System management solution that enables customers to meet difficult requirements, and adapt quickly to changes in the business and increase availability. For your organization it will drive services revenue and allow you to quickly deploy specific monitoring solutions, to meet specific requirements, and fillgaps where other products cannot. These solutions would then be re-usable for similar customers. |  | Series D | Mar 26, 2008 |  |
| Scanbuy | Scanbuy provides cloud-based mobile connection solutions and a platform to generate, manage, and measure intelligent barcode campaigns.The company’s mobile engagement platform provides tools to track the performance of campaigns with various features, including mobile website builder, surveys, mobile web pages, specialized branding, designerQR codes, and many others. It offers mVision Insights, a tool that provides clients with access to marketing engagement activities; mPromo, a mobile offer service that helps clients bring in new businesses; mTargeting, a solution that organizes customers into neat groups with common interests; mPackaging that allows clients to convert the UPC or EAN barcode on various packages; and software development tools.Scanbuy’s mobile engagement suite empowers brands, retailers, and marketers to create, manage, and deliver personalized tailored experiences directly to consumer smartphones; and platform enables the delivery of coupons, product information, videos, websites, social networking, surveys, e-commerce, and more. It offers its applications for Android and iOS devices.Scanbuy was founded in 2000 and is based in New York, United States with additional offices in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Israel, Spain, and the United Kingdom. |  | Series B | Dec 12, 2006 |  |
| Constant Contact | Constant Contact provides email marketing, social media marketing, event marketing, and online survey tools to help small organizations grow their businesses by building stronger customer relationships.More than 500,000 small businesses, nonprofit organizations, and member associations rely on Constant Contact's easy-to-use, affordableonline tools to create and deliver personalized, professional communications that engage customers, members and prospects wherever they congregate online -- from their email inboxes to their social networks. Launched in 1998, Constant Contact made email marketing simple for small organizations and continues this tradition today providing the education and tools to make social media marketing simple for small organizations as well.As an industry leader in permission based online marketing, Constant Contact partners with the leading providers of online marketing and social media marketing solutions. Constant Contact welcomes developers and partners to utilize its API and contribute to its Constant Contact App MarketPlace. | $15M |  | Jun 30, 2006 |  |
| Pivot | Pivot was created in order to streamline trade desk communication by enhancing electronic trading and enabling real-time dialogue between traders and their vast network.Pivot is an interenterprise network that leverages Wall Street 2.0 communication and collaboration capabilities to create revenue-generation tools for trading-related workflowswithin the capital markets arena. The Pivot Network helps turn conversations into ideas and ideas into transactions by integrating information, relationships and transactions into a single pivot point, giving customers the best information to base decisions. | $8M | Series B | Apr 11, 2006 |  |
| Netkey | Netkey is a recognized leading provider of enterprise-class software for the development, deployment, management and security of self-service kiosk and digital signage applications, content and devices. Netkey helps businesses increase sales, enhance the customer experience and improve communications with consumers and employees. | $3M | Series C | Jul 20, 2004 |  |
| Constant Contact | Constant Contact provides email marketing, social media marketing, event marketing, and online survey tools to help small organizations grow their businesses by building stronger customer relationships.More than 500,000 small businesses, nonprofit organizations, and member associations rely on Constant Contact's easy-to-use, affordableonline tools to create and deliver personalized, professional communications that engage customers, members and prospects wherever they congregate online -- from their email inboxes to their social networks. Launched in 1998, Constant Contact made email marketing simple for small organizations and continues this tradition today providing the education and tools to make social media marketing simple for small organizations as well.As an industry leader in permission based online marketing, Constant Contact partners with the leading providers of online marketing and social media marketing solutions. Constant Contact welcomes developers and partners to utilize its API and contribute to its Constant Contact App MarketPlace. | $4.5M |  | Dec 03, 2002 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Hudson Ventures invest in?

Hudson Ventures invests primarily in Software, Advertising and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series B and Funding Round stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Hudson Ventures?

The team at Hudson Ventures includes Glen Lewy (Senior Managing Director), Jay Goldberg (Partner) and Bill Carson (Managing Director), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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