# Inventures

> Inventures is a VC fund in San Ramon backing E-Commerce and SaaS. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Ramon, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Feb 2024
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/inventuresteam
- Website: http://www.inventures.com

Inventures is an alliance management company specializing in expanding markets for new and growing companies by creating, launching, and managing collaborative alliances or "business ecosystems." Alliances often engage us to help them define their goals and desired results. We work closely with legal advisors and founding sponsors tostructure their alliance so they have a strong organizational foundation.We also play a key role in developing required solutions, e.g., specs, standards, reference implementations, test suites, certification and compliance programs

## Contacts

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

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 75% |
| SaaS | 2 | 50% |
| Internet | 2 | 50% |
| CRM | 1 | 25% |
| Big Data | 1 | 25% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Series B | 1 | 25% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Poland | 2 | 50% |
| United States | 2 | 50% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Katarzyna Dąbrowska | CEO and Co-founder | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/katarzyna-d%C4%85browska |
| Bill Chase | Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-chase |
| Darrell Garner | Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/darrell-garner |
| Deepak Kamlani | Founder and Chief Executive Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deepak-kamlani |
| John Ehrig | Executive Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-ehrig |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| edrone | Edrone is an autonomous e-commerce CRM platform that provides advanced marketing automation solutions. Edrone collects, processes, and triggers customer data to help understand customers' behavior (Customer Intelligence) and engage them (Marketing Automation) with an all-in-one e-commerce marketing cloud, allowing businesses to automate theirmarketing activities and engage store visitors to increase sales.Edrone's customers include major European online stores as well as developing eStores. Among the Edrone customers are: x-Kom, Eastend, CitySport, Agent Provocateur, Tous, Wojas, Muve, and over 500 other stores. Each month Edrone handles Internet transactions worth over 3 billion Euros. | $5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 01, 2024 |  |
| TrustMate | Reviews collection SAAS | $1.5M | Seed | Feb 01, 2022 |  |
| Shop LIT Live | Shop LIT Live is a live streaming platform that connects brands and merchants to consumers through immersive shopping experiences. The company provides a stage for brands to tell their stories and showcase their products. | $6M | Seed | Apr 26, 2021 |  |
| Proofpoint | Proofpoint Inc. is a leading next-generation security and compliance company that provides cloud-based solutions to protect the way people work today. Proofpoint solutions enable organizations to protect their users from advanced attacks delivered via email, social media and mobile apps, protect the information their users create from advancedattacks and compliance risks, and respond quickly when incidents occur.Proofpoint provides email security, encryption, archiving and data loss prevention solutions for over 3,000 enterprise-level accounts including global enterprises, universities and government agencies.Proofpoint, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Sunnyvale, California. | $9M | Series B | Oct 14, 2003 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Müller Medien](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/m-ller-medien) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Atmos Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atmos-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Benchmark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benchmark) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CRCM Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/china-rock-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Colopl Next](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/colopl-next) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CRCM](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/CRCM) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Inventures invest in?

Inventures invests primarily in E-Commerce, SaaS and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Poland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Inventures's check size?

Inventures typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$6M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Inventures participates in.

### How do I contact Inventures?

Public channels for Inventures include 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 Inventures?

The team at Inventures includes Katarzyna Dąbrowska (CEO and Co-founder), Bill Chase (Vice President) and Darrell Garner (Vice President), 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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