# Interlock Partners

> Interlock Partners is a VC fund in Dallas backing Software and FinTech. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dallas, United States
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 19%
- Fund size: $3.2M
- Last fund: Jun 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/interlock-partners/
- Website: http://interlock.vc

Interlock Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm based out of Texas and New York

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 19% |
| FinTech | 4 | 15% |
| Apps | 3 | 11% |
| Analytics | 3 | 11% |
| E-Learning | 3 | 11% |

63 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 11 | 41% |
| Seed | 5 | 19% |
| Series B | 5 | 19% |
| Series C | 4 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 17 | 63% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Carl Sparks | Managing Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carl-sparks |
| Harry Hawks | Managing Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harry-hawks |
| Inobat Karras | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inobat-kapras |
| Jeff Williams | Managing Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-williams-11 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The Realest | The Realest is an online auction website that offers next-generation authentication standard and marketplace for entertainment memorabilia. | $12M | Series A | Jan 28, 2026 |  |
| Nada | Nada is the homeowner finance platform helping families unlock and manage their home wealth through innovative financial products and an integrated platform built for every stage of homeownership. Its flagship Home Equity Agreement (HEA) provides a debt-free way for homeowners to access their equity, and the company is currently active across 14states with continued expansion underway.In addition to HEAs, Nada provides integrated mortgage and real estate services — helping homeowners finance, buy, sell, or stay — and offering the guidance and tools that build long-term financial freedom.Through Homeshares.co, Nada has also introduced the first retail investment platform dedicated to the HEA asset class, aligning diversified capital to expand opportunity for homeowners.Nada is backed by LiveOak Venture Partners, Nomura, Interlock Partners, Revolution, and 7BC Venture Capital | $10M | Series A | Dec 02, 2025 |  |
| Honor Education | Honor Education is an e-learning based education management agency. | $38M | Series A | Jul 08, 2025 |  |
| Renaissant | IntelAegis combine sensors, analytic engines, web based and mobile platforms to create, distill and make information useable. | $5M | Series A | Jul 15, 2024 |  |
| Nada | Nada is the homeowner finance platform helping families unlock and manage their home wealth through innovative financial products and an integrated platform built for every stage of homeownership. Its flagship Home Equity Agreement (HEA) provides a debt-free way for homeowners to access their equity, and the company is currently active across 14states with continued expansion underway.In addition to HEAs, Nada provides integrated mortgage and real estate services — helping homeowners finance, buy, sell, or stay — and offering the guidance and tools that build long-term financial freedom.Through Homeshares.co, Nada has also introduced the first retail investment platform dedicated to the HEA asset class, aligning diversified capital to expand opportunity for homeowners.Nada is backed by LiveOak Venture Partners, Nomura, Interlock Partners, Revolution, and 7BC Venture Capital | $4M | Seed | Jun 13, 2024 |  |
| Tradeteq | Tradeteq is the intelligent trade finance distribution platform providing powerful tools and services that enable investors to understand, access, and execute trade finance investment. Tradeteq opens trade finance to the global capital markets, empowering banks to distribute trade finance assets, similar to other asset classes. Banks andinstitutional investors can join Tradeteq’s platform to efficiently connect, interact, and transact. | $12.5M | Series A | Sep 06, 2023 |  |
| GoodBuy Gear | Good Buy Gear is a developer of an online marketplace used to extend the life of the baby and kids' gear and make the lives of parents a little easier. Its platform uses product photos, descriptions, recommends pricing, and promotes kids' items in order to sell products quickly, enabling customers to enjoy a safe and easy shoppingexperience with curated product collections.Good Buy Gear was co-founded by Kristin Langenfeld and Jessica Crothers in 2016 and is headquartered in Arvada, Colorado. | $14M | Series B | Jun 20, 2023 |  |
| Music Audience Exchange | Music Audience Exchange develops a platform that facilitates music partnerships and provides marketing services. It is powered by an insights engine that matches brands to artists and a proprietary marketing automation system for generating and distributing brand-new music content to targeted audiences across audio, video, social, and live. Thecompany was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Frisco, Texas. | $4.1M | Series B | Oct 20, 2022 |  |
| Black Crow AI | Black Crow AI develops a business analytics platform that delivers machine learning predictions. Its platform provides real-time insights to the business users at companies of any size, for less than the cost of 1 data scientist. Black Crow’s ML predictions improve new customer acquisition scale and efficiency by 25-50%. | $33M | Series A | Mar 31, 2022 |  |
| Forecastr | Forecastr is an online software that enables founders to forecast their revenue, predict runway, understand their numbers, and get funded. The company allows users to build a custom financial model from their existing data. | $2.5M | Seed | May 17, 2021 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Acadia Woods Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acadia-woods-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [3one4 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/3one4) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [LEGO Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lego-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Interlock Partners invest in?

Interlock Partners invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Apps startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 27 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 Interlock Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Interlock Partners?

The team at Interlock Partners includes Carl Sparks (Managing Partner), Harry Hawks (Managing Partner) and Inobat Karras (Principal). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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