# James Gellert

> James Gellert is a Series A investor at Windcrest Partners (New York) backing SaaS and Software. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Windcrest Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/windcrest-partners)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Dec 2015
- Lead investor: 15%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/james-gellert/0/13/566

James Gellert is a Series A investor at Windcrest Partners in New York focused on SaaS and Software. James Gellert joined Windcrest Partners in 1998 and founded Windcrest Partners Public Investments in 2008. From 2002 through 2008, he was a partner at Windcrest Discovery Investments where he covered technology and business services investments.From 1991 through 1997, James was with Oakes, Fitzwilliams & Co., a London-based investmentbanking firm specializing in public small-cap U.S. companies. James received an AB from Harvard College.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 4 | 31% |
| Software | 4 | 31% |
| Enterprise Software | 4 | 31% |
| Apps | 2 | 15% |
| CRM | 1 | 8% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 31% |
| Seed | 2 | 15% |
| Series B | 2 | 15% |
| Series C | 2 | 15% |
| Series E | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 54% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wyng | Wyng is a privacy-first personalization platform for brands powered by a zero-party data API and privacy by design principles. Wyng makes it easy for marketers to deliver customer experiences that are always welcome, relevant, and compliant. More than 250 brands and enterprises use Wyng to build direct, trusted relationships with their customers. | $7M | Series C | Dec 17, 2015 |  |
| Festicket | Festicket empowers music fans with a seamless service to discover and book tickets and travel packages for music festivals worldwide. The platform offers an end-to-end experience for music travelers, an efficient two-sided marketplace for 1,000+ music festivals across 40 different countries, and a network of 2,000 suppliers for accommodation andtravel packages. | $3M | Series A | Sep 11, 2014 |  |
| GoodData.AI | GoodData provides the platform and expertise for enterprises to create Smart Business Applications that harness your existing data to help you automate, recommend and take better business actions faster and with more reliability. They drive competitive value, performance, and profit by significantly enhancing the data-driven business processesacross the enterprise and its business ecosystem by bringing analytics to the point-of-work.Their clients include enterprises like Penton that need to deliver revenue-generating data products to their clients and software companies like Zendesk that market their own Smart Business Applications using GoodData.It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $25.7M | Series E | Sep 10, 2014 |  |
| Wyng | Wyng is a privacy-first personalization platform for brands powered by a zero-party data API and privacy by design principles. Wyng makes it easy for marketers to deliver customer experiences that are always welcome, relevant, and compliant. More than 250 brands and enterprises use Wyng to build direct, trusted relationships with their customers. | $15M | Series C | Jun 02, 2014 |  |
| Festicket | Festicket empowers music fans with a seamless service to discover and book tickets and travel packages for music festivals worldwide. The platform offers an end-to-end experience for music travelers, an efficient two-sided marketplace for 1,000+ music festivals across 40 different countries, and a network of 2,000 suppliers for accommodation andtravel packages. | $680K | Seed | Mar 11, 2013 |  |
| Wyng | Wyng is a privacy-first personalization platform for brands powered by a zero-party data API and privacy by design principles. Wyng makes it easy for marketers to deliver customer experiences that are always welcome, relevant, and compliant. More than 250 brands and enterprises use Wyng to build direct, trusted relationships with their customers. | $5.7M | Series B | Dec 17, 2012 |  |
| GoodData.AI | GoodData provides the platform and expertise for enterprises to create Smart Business Applications that harness your existing data to help you automate, recommend and take better business actions faster and with more reliability. They drive competitive value, performance, and profit by significantly enhancing the data-driven business processesacross the enterprise and its business ecosystem by bringing analytics to the point-of-work.Their clients include enterprises like Penton that need to deliver revenue-generating data products to their clients and software companies like Zendesk that market their own Smart Business Applications using GoodData.It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $25M | Series C | Jul 25, 2012 |  |
| Axial Networks | Axial is a provider of technology-enabled applications and services used to discreetly connect the participants in the private capital markets to discover and execute financial transactions. The company's mission is to connect every private company with the capital necessary to finance or exit its company. The network allows providers ofcapital to private companies, including lenders, equity investors, and strategic buyers, to find and be found by the right opportunities from the right entrepreneurs and the right bankers at the right time. Advisors and entrepreneurs use Axial to create and manage their company's professional profile, explore and execute financial transactions, and win new business. | $6.5M | Series A | May 17, 2012 |  |
| Voxer | Voxer is a powerful push-to-talk service that works worldwide on any iOS or Android device. You can instantly send voice, text and photos to individuals and groups in real time. | $30M |  | Apr 11, 2012 |  |
| Regent Education | Regent is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of financial aid management software solutions for higher education institutions. SaaS solutions are designed to inter-operate with and enhance existing ERP systems, while enabling institutions to realize a positive, quantifiable ROI in the same fiscal period in which they are deployed. | $2.5M | Series B | Mar 05, 2012 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CVP Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/commonangels) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Edison Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edison-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Eight Roads Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eight-roads-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hearst Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hearst-interactive-media) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Windcrest Partners

VC Fund · New York, United States

Windcrest Partners is a venture capital firm that offers private equity investment services to firms in the energy, network, games, healthcare administration, and internet technology industries. It was founded in 1967 and is based in New York.

3 contacts available at Windcrest Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| James Gellert | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-gellert |
| Michael Gellert | Partner & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-gellert |
| William Fitzgerald | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/william-fitzgerald |

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## FAQ

### What does James Gellert invest in?

James Gellert invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did James Gellert last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for James Gellert closed in Dec 2015. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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