Jeff Kearl
General Partner @ Pelion Venture Partners
San Clemente, United States
Jeff Kearl is a Managing Director at Pelion Ventures. He previously served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Stance. He previously Co-founded Precedent Investments in 2012. He previously served as a Venture Partner at Zetta Venture Partners.He previously served as Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Marketing Officer of Arteis, Inc. He previously served as Director of Strategy and New Ventures for Hewlett Packard. Jeff previously worked as an Associate at vSpring Capital. Jeff founded Freeport.com, Inc. and served as its Vice President of Business Development & Product Marketing. He served as the Chairman of Skullcandy, Inc. (NASDAQ: SKUL) from 2005 to 2013. He is currently on the board of directors of Scopely, Just Water and Domo (NASDAQ: DOMO). Jeff Kearl holds a BA in Marketing from Brigham Young University.
- Total investments:
- 45
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 13%
Last updated:
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Industries Jeff Kearl invests in
Stages Jeff Kearl invests in
Countries Jeff Kearl invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$4M
- Series A
- $2M–$30M
- Series B
- $2.4M–$37M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 14 (31%)
- E-Commerce 8 (18%)
- SaaS 7 (16%)
- Mobile 6 (13%)
- Enterprise Software 5 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 14 (31%)
- Series A 14 (31%)
- Series B 10 (22%)
- Series C 3 (7%)
- Funding Round 2 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Coco is a last-mile delivery service that deploys human-operated sidewalk robots to transport goods from merchants to their customers. Its robot fleet serves thousands of customers per week in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Austin, and Houston, paving the way for a more optimistic future of delivery that benefits local communities.Launched inFebruary 2020, the company has partnered with national restaurant brands like SBE (Umami Burger) and is actively scaling across many locations. It serves a wide range of family-operated restaurants like Bangkok West Thai in Santa Monica and San Pedro Brewing Company in Los Angeles. | $80M / Series B / Jun 11, 2025 | ||
| Ecco is an AI-powered streaming content discovery app designed to help users quickly and easily find movies and TV shows across all major streaming platforms—including Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Amazon Prime, Max, Peacock, and Tubi. The app leverages advanced AI search technology to let users search not only by title or actor but also by descriptivephrases, such as “movies where ninjas are surfing” or “shows with blue-skinned characters.” Ecco then instantly returns the most relevant results, showing users where to watch them. | $7M / Seed / May 01, 2025 | ||
| Open Raven is the data security posture management company that prevents leaks, breaches, and compliance incidents. For security teams with modern cloud infrastructures to locate and secure sensitive, toxic, and exposed data within hundreds or thousands of accounts, billions of objects, and petabytes of data, existing tools don’t work. The OpenRaven Data Security Platform is the secure, private, budget-safe solution that closes data visibility gaps – and just works. | $20M / Series B / Sep 08, 2022 | ||
| Trace is a software platform that automatically edits and delivers personalized moments for each player. Trace is a ground-breaking technology that automatically films and edits video into moments for every player on the field. With Trace, players, parents, and coaches are delivered the edited moments that matter to them instead of the whole game. | $47M / Series C / Apr 12, 2022 | ||
| Coco is a last-mile delivery service that deploys human-operated sidewalk robots to transport goods from merchants to their customers. Its robot fleet serves thousands of customers per week in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Austin, and Houston, paving the way for a more optimistic future of delivery that benefits local communities.Launched inFebruary 2020, the company has partnered with national restaurant brands like SBE (Umami Burger) and is actively scaling across many locations. It serves a wide range of family-operated restaurants like Bangkok West Thai in Santa Monica and San Pedro Brewing Company in Los Angeles. | $36M / Series A / Aug 25, 2021 | ||
| Overtime is a sports network for the next generation of sports fans. It produces original content across YouTube, Snapchat, and IGTV, as well as highly engaging short-form content on Instagram and TikTok.Based in NYC, Overtime is funded by top VC firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Greycroft Ventures as well as industry leaders like Kevin Durantand former NBA Commissioner David Stern. | $80M / Series C / Apr 22, 2021 | ||
| Servis.ai is a complete CRM platform with robust work management. We help teams get everything in one place, work more collaboratively to get more done, and track and improve performance. Designed for the new world of work, remote teams thrive with complete visibility into day-to-day activity, real-time collaboration, and powerful code-freecustomization. By eliminating time spent searching for information and manual entry, FreeAgent empowers leaders to optimize sales, marketing, customer success, project management and more -- so every employee has workdays full of impact. | $12.6M / Series A / Apr 21, 2021 | ||
| Droplet offers digital process automation solutions that eliminate the need for paper documents and time-consuming approval workflows. Droplet's robust forms, streamlined workflows, and data-driven insights make digital transformation simple. Droplet assembles everything required to manage the data and requests to power processes in humanresources, finance, information technology, and other areas. | $2M / Seed / Apr 01, 2021 | ||
| dot.LA is a digital newsroom covering L.A.'s startup and tech community. dot.LA’s mission is to celebrate and empower the Los Angeles startup and tech community, fueling innovation around the world. | $4M / Seed / Jan 09, 2020 | ||
| BallerTV is a sports media startup covering the nation’s top amateur sports. The company also develops technology and operations solutions for mobile broadcasting. BallerTV was founded in 2016 and is currently headquartered in Pasadena, California. | $1.5M / Seed / May 16, 2018 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Pelion Venture Partners
Pelion Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs and invests in early-stage B2B software-based companies. Since 1986, Pelion Venture Partners has been helping entrepreneurs turn early-stage concepts into tomorrow's industry-leading companies. Pelion invests in early-stage B2B software across the US. With 7 investment team members, Pelion has deep and diverse industry and investment experience. They are hands-on in their approach and work collaboratively with each portfolio company.
Pelion Venture Partners Contacts
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Chad Packard
General Partner
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Matt Mosman
General Partner
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Alayzain Rizavi
Senior Associate
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Benjamin Lambert
General Partner
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Bradley Hintze
Financial Associate
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FAQ
What does Jeff Kearl invest in?
Jeff Kearl invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 45 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Jeff Kearl invest in?
Jeff Kearl typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$4M at Seed, $2M–$30M at Series A and $2.4M–$37M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Jeff Kearl's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Jeff Kearl took part in.
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When did Jeff Kearl last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jeff Kearl closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 45 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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