# Inspiration Ventures

> Inspiration Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and E-Commerce. See 36 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Burlingame, United States
- Total investments: 36
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 22%
- Fund size: $40M
- Last fund: Nov 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/inspiration-ventures
- Website: http://inspirationvc.com

Inspiration Ventures is a VC fund in Burlingame focused on Software and E-Commerce. Inspiration focuses on technology based companies that need proof of concept capital. In addition to funding, Inspiration offers an entrepreneur to entrepreneur approach that provides operational guidance for young companies.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $350k–$4.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $200k–$675k |
| Series A | $4.8M–$5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 25% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 8% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 8% |
| Apps | 2 | 6% |
| SaaS | 2 | 6% |

60 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 47% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 11% |
| Series A | 2 | 6% |
| Series B | 2 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gady Nemirovsky | Co-Founder and Managing General Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gady-nemirovsky |
| Robert Fanini | Co-Founder & Managing General Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-fanini |
| Roger Lang | General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roger-lang-2f58 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fullproof Systems Inc | FullProof is the first litigation-native AI platform that supports lawyers across the witness lifecycle, from preparation through live examination and post-testimony analysis. Evie, our real-time Second Chair, is the intelligence layer within FullProof that works alongside the lawyer, helping prepare and test strategy ahead of testimony andsurfacing real-time inconsistencies, admissions, and follow-up opportunities during live examinations. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Oct 14, 2025 |  |
| EyeLevel.ai | The world’s most important information doesn’t live on the public Internet and never will. That’s why EyeLevel.ai designed GroundX, their next generation RAG (retrieval augmented generation) platform, to run in the most secure data centers, including air-gapped. Born from a team at IBM Watson, GroundX makes deploying RAG with enterprise gradesecurity, accuracy and scalability easy.GroundX is particularly good at understanding complex documents, which cause most RAG systems to fail. It recently topped the DocBench leaderboard for multimodal RAG accuracy, beating OpenAI, Anthropic and even humans. Trusted by Air France, Samsung, Dartmouth and 3,000 global developers, GroundX users have ingested more than 7B tokens of data on the platform. | $700K |  | May 01, 2024 |  |
| Sagen.ai | Sagen AI personal assistant can answer any question that you would normally "Google" or ask ChatGPT to find the answer. And coming soon, your Sagen AI assistant will be able to create to do and shopping lists, fetch the weather, news and sports reports, send reminders to yourself and your family members, keep track of your goals, andmanage your calendar. | $200K | Pre-Seed | Apr 25, 2024 |  |
| Sagen.ai | Sagen AI personal assistant can answer any question that you would normally "Google" or ask ChatGPT to find the answer. And coming soon, your Sagen AI assistant will be able to create to do and shopping lists, fetch the weather, news and sports reports, send reminders to yourself and your family members, keep track of your goals, andmanage your calendar. | $250K | Pre-Seed | Dec 11, 2023 |  |
| Sagen.ai | Sagen AI personal assistant can answer any question that you would normally "Google" or ask ChatGPT to find the answer. And coming soon, your Sagen AI assistant will be able to create to do and shopping lists, fetch the weather, news and sports reports, send reminders to yourself and your family members, keep track of your goals, andmanage your calendar. | $300K | Pre-Seed | Mar 21, 2023 |  |
| Caban Systems | Caban systems designs and manufactures software enabled modular lithium ion energy storage solutions for off-grid and weak grid telecom sites. | $51M | Series B | Jul 22, 2022 |  |
| Truth Bridge (formerly Bridge To College) | Bridge to College Inc uses a free survey to match students to colleges that are a social, financial, and academic fit. Next, our team of researchers (PhDs and EdDs with expertise in higher education, race, machine learning, and organizational leadership) provides the data with research to colleges and high schools to support their admissions andcounseling processes. | $350K | Seed | Jan 10, 2022 |  |
| Truth Bridge (formerly Bridge To College) | Bridge to College Inc uses a free survey to match students to colleges that are a social, financial, and academic fit. Next, our team of researchers (PhDs and EdDs with expertise in higher education, race, machine learning, and organizational leadership) provides the data with research to colleges and high schools to support their admissions andcounseling processes. | $350K | Seed | Jan 10, 2022 |  |
| Polymer | Polymer is a data governance and privacy platform for third-party SaaS applications such as Slack, Dropbox, Gdrive, Zendesk, Zapier, and many others. This protects against data loss and cyber breaches. The solution provides a single pane of glass to configure, permission, and track usage of sensitive data across the organization to become PII,PHI,HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA compliant. | $4M | Seed | Dec 13, 2021 |  |
| Beulr | Beulr generates video recordings, transcriptions, and summaries from meetings on Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. It captures key information and provides users with accessible content for review. It also processes the documenting and referencing of meeting discussions. | $675K | Pre-Seed | Aug 21, 2021 |  |

10 of 36 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Seven Peaks Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seven-peaks-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Cascade Seed Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cascade-angels-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Motivate Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/motivate-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Portland Seed Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/portland-seed-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Tensility Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tensility-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Inspiration Ventures invest in?

Inspiration Ventures invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 36 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 Inspiration Ventures's check size?

Inspiration Ventures typically joins rounds of $350k–$4.3M at Seed, $200k–$675k at Pre-Seed and $4.8M–$5M 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 Inspiration Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Inspiration Ventures?

Public channels for Inspiration Ventures include LinkedIn 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 Inspiration Ventures?

The team at Inspiration Ventures includes Gady Nemirovsky (Co-Founder and Managing General Partner), Robert Fanini (Co-Founder & Managing General Partner) and Roger Lang (General Partner). 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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