# Jason Caplain

> Jason Caplain is a Series A investor at Bull City Venture Partners backing Software and CRM. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Bull City Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bull-city-venture-partners)
- Location: Raleigh, United States
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 47%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncaplain/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/jcaplain
- Website: http://www.southcap.com/

Jason Caplain is a Series A investor at Bull City Venture Partners in Raleigh focused on Software and CRM. Jason is a general partner and co-founded Southern Capitol Ventures after spending two years at Red Hat (NYSE:RHT), the world's premier open source and Linux provider. There, he directed the company's global budgeting process, provided financial analysis for the successful IPO in August 1999 and performed due diligence on many of thecompany's acquisitions. Prior to Red Hat, Jason was at Harrison Hurley and Company, an investment banking and business-consulting firm headquartered in Providence, RI.Jason currently serves on the boards of ReverbNation and Zift Solutions and is also a board observer for eTix, WeddingWire and DoublePositive Marketing Group. Previously, he was on the board of Synthematix (acquired by Symyx Technologies NASDAQ:SMMX) and a board observer for Batanga (merged with Planeta Networks.) He was also on the Executive Committee of the board of directors at CED which is the largest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation. While at Southern Capitol Ventures, he has had several interim roles with portfolio companies including CFO and Director of Business Development.Jason has received the Triangle Business Journal's "40 under 40" leadership award and was named in 2009 by TechJournal South as one the Southeast's Internet Mavens. He is a Guest Lecturer as part of the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program at NC State University. Jason received his BS in Finance from Bentley College. Jason's blog is Southeast VC.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 18% |
| CRM | 2 | 12% |
| Music | 2 | 12% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 12% |
| SaaS | 1 | 6% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 24% |
| Seed | 3 | 18% |
| Series B | 3 | 18% |
| Series C | 1 | 6% |
| Series D | 1 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Levitate | Levitate helps relationship-based businesses keep in touch with clients, prospects, and referral sources. It aims to help make the world a more entrepreneurial and creative place by building software that helps small businesses and small entrepreneurial teams within large companies grow. | $16M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 05, 2026 |  |
| Levitate | Levitate helps relationship-based businesses keep in touch with clients, prospects, and referral sources. It aims to help make the world a more entrepreneurial and creative place by building software that helps small businesses and small entrepreneurial teams within large companies grow. | $16M | Series E | Mar 05, 2026 |  |
| Tiga Labs | Tiga Labs transforms B2B selling with generative AI. | $2M | Seed | Mar 05, 2025 |  |
| Levitate | Levitate helps relationship-based businesses keep in touch with clients, prospects, and referral sources. It aims to help make the world a more entrepreneurial and creative place by building software that helps small businesses and small entrepreneurial teams within large companies grow. | $15M | Series D | Aug 08, 2024 |  |
| Levitate | Levitate helps relationship-based businesses keep in touch with clients, prospects, and referral sources. It aims to help make the world a more entrepreneurial and creative place by building software that helps small businesses and small entrepreneurial teams within large companies grow. | $14M | Series C | Apr 05, 2023 |  |
| Tiny Earth Toys | Tiny Earth Toys is an educational toy subscription company that offers age-based educational kits exchanged every four months. The customers receive three wooden educational kits a year. Each kit is selected by learning experts and includes 6-9 sustainable wooden toys (no plastic or batteries) and a comprehensive play guide. | $1.6M | Seed | Nov 09, 2022 |  |
| Levitate | Levitate helps relationship-based businesses keep in touch with clients, prospects, and referral sources. It aims to help make the world a more entrepreneurial and creative place by building software that helps small businesses and small entrepreneurial teams within large companies grow. | $6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 06, 2022 |  |
| Tiny Earth Toys | Tiny Earth Toys is an educational toy subscription company that offers age-based educational kits exchanged every four months. The customers receive three wooden educational kits a year. Each kit is selected by learning experts and includes 6-9 sustainable wooden toys (no plastic or batteries) and a comprehensive play guide. | $1.5M | Seed | Oct 15, 2021 |  |
| Levitate | Levitate helps relationship-based businesses keep in touch with clients, prospects, and referral sources. It aims to help make the world a more entrepreneurial and creative place by building software that helps small businesses and small entrepreneurial teams within large companies grow. | $8M | Series B | Feb 25, 2021 |  |
| LaunchNotes | LaunchNotes is the personalized, automated, and secure way to connect their teams and users to their product development lifecycle. The company enables entire organizations to move at the same speed as their dev teams, no matter how fast those teams may be shipping software. It provides the right updates to the right people at the right time sothat no one, internally or externally, is ever surprised by product changes. | $1.8M | Seed | Aug 26, 2020 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Tippet Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tippet-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Harbert Growth Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harbert-growth-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/northwestern-mutual-future-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Novak Biddle Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/novak-biddle-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Duke Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/duke-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Protagonist](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/protagonist-27b9) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Bull City Venture Partners

VC Fund · Raleigh, United States

Bull City Venture Partners invests in early-stage technology companies. The firm evaluates investments based on innovation and growth potential. It provides capital and support to these companies. The industries served include technology, healthcare, and consumer products.

5 contacts available at Bull City Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Jones | Co-Founder and General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-jones-3 |
| Jason Caplain | Co-Founder and General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-caplain |
| John G. Scanlon | Limited Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-g-scanlon |
| Michael Lee | Senior Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-lee-6d34 |
| Noreen Allen | Limited Partner and Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/noreen-allen |

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## FAQ

### What does Jason Caplain invest in?

Jason Caplain invests primarily in Software, CRM and Music startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 17 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 Jason Caplain last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jason Caplain closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 17 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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