# Jeff Parks

> Jeff Parks is a Series D investor at Riverwood Capital (San Francisco) backing Software and SaaS. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Riverwood Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/riverwood-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 70%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-parks-9597b3/
- Website: https://www.riverwoodcapital.com/team_member/jeff-parks/#:~:text=Jeff%20has%20extensive%20experience%20investing,and%20expertise%20to%20those%20initiatives.

Jeff Parks is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Riverwood Capital. Jeff co-heads the Firm and has been involved since inception in the development of the Riverwood Capital franchise and the scalability journey of several of Riverwood’s portfolio companies.Prior to establishing Riverwood Capital, Jeff was an investment executive at KohlbergKravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), where he focused on large scale leveraged buyout investments in the technology sector, and an investment professional in the Principal Opportunities Fund at Oaktree Capital Management, where he specialized in private equity investment in distressed companies. Earlier in his career, Jeff was an investment banker at UBS Investment Bank in Los Angeles.Jeff has extensive experience investing in global technology companies. During his career, Jeff has led investments in a vast array of companies and worked closely with several successful entrepreneurs in scaling globally, bringing both capital and expertise to those initiatives. He earned a Dual BA in Economics and Mathematics from Pomona College (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in Claremont, California.Jeff is a Director of Degreed, Druva, Files.com, ForgeRock (NYSE: FORG), HG Insights, Sauce Labs, Sensor Tower, UGSI, and Vacasa (NASD: VCSA) (Chairman), and a Board Advisor, and/or former Director of several other companies including Accellion, Forecast5 (Chairman), LogRhythm, Nutanix (NASD: NTNX), SintecMedia (Chairman), Spredfast, Ticketfly, and Virtual Instruments. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of Pomona College.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 13 | 48% |
| SaaS | 7 | 26% |
| Enterprise Software | 7 | 26% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 19% |
| Compliance | 4 | 15% |

63 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series D | 6 | 22% |
| Private Equity | 4 | 15% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 11% |
| Seed | 2 | 7% |
| Series C | 2 | 7% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 18 | 67% |
| Argentina | 1 | 4% |
| Australia | 1 | 4% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LeapXpert | LeapXpert enables enterprises to embrace consumer messaging applications and integrate them into their business-critical applications and processes. The company's Federated Messaging Orchestration Platform (FMOP™) is an enterprise conversational solution between Employees and Clients. It empowers companies to securely communicate from acentral source while allowing customers to use the messaging app of their choice. FMOP elevates messaging to a formal business communication channel, similar to calling or emailing. It allows companies to control communications between employees, suppliers, customers, and other interested parties. It resolves the business, compliance, and regulatory challenges the rise of messaging applications’ use in business channels has created. It currently has three of the ten top global banks as customers, with tens of thousands of users. | $180M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 30, 2026 |  |
| DealHub AI | DealHub's award-winning Revenue Amplification Platform offers the most complete and connected revenue workflow for your organization. The zero-code, purpose-built platform empowers visionary leaders to connect their teams and processes, execute deals, and create predictable pipeline more effectively than ever before.DealHub centralizesbuyer communications from opportunity to renewal, and connects everything you need to close the deal.The company’s many customers benefit from real-time buyer intent and sales insights, faster time-to-revenue, and automated approval workflows – all from one easy-to-use guided selling playbook.The Revenue Amplification Platform includes: Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) Contract Management Subscription Management Sales Proposals Document Generation Buyer Engagement E-signatureNative integration with your CRM (Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce and Freshworks).Visit www.dealhub.io to optimize and accelerate your Sales and Revenue operations. | $100M | Private Equity | Jan 20, 2026 |  |
| HammerTech Global | HammerTech is a cloud-based, collaborative performance & productivity platform, ensuring safety, quality, and operational efficiency. In 2015, HammerTech was founded to create a safe, zero waste industry that connects every aspect of jobsite safety, quality, and operations... (from people, to machines, and materials.) HammerTech has built areputation of great service and exceptional software all around Australia. So much so, that we were asked to head to the United States and provide our platform and service to the North American market. Once we landed, we were able to make more connections with construction companies who wanted to streamline their field operations and create operational excellence in their companies, and well, the rest is how we’re building a new chapter in our company history. | $70M | Private Equity | Jul 15, 2024 |  |
| Hyperproof | Hyperproof is a cloud-based compliance operations software that collects evidence automatically and manages a compliance program intelligently. It serves as a system of record for an organization’s compliance data and gives teams involved in compliance with the tools they need to collaborate with stakeholders in and outside of their organization.With this innovative approach, it helps organizations meet their highest aspirations and demonstrate their commitment to protecting their customers, shareholders, partners, and suppliers along with the greater community. The software not only reduces administrative work from compliance processes, but it also helps organizations mitigate their risks on an ongoing basis which is especially important in a time when the regulatory and economic environments are uncertain and cybersecurity risk is on the rise.HyperProof was founded in 2018 by Craig Unger and it is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. | $40M | Private Equity | Aug 30, 2023 |  |
| SpyCloud | SpyCloud is a developer of a prevention platform used to prevent users' accounts and thwart online fraud. Its platform provides early data recovery, data cleansing, password cracking, and automated remediation that enable businesses to safeguard the identity of their employees, consumers and suppliers. It helps businesses of all sizes preventdata breaches and account takeover attacks by alerting when employee or company assets have been compromised. The company accomplishes this through early-warning breach detection service powered by a team of intelligence analysts. | $110M | Series D | Aug 23, 2023 |  |
| Gladly | For business leaders who want to get AI right, Gladly is the only customer experience AI that delivers the cost savings you need AND the customer devotion that drives lasting business value. Trusted by the world's most customer-centric brands—including Crate & Barrel, Breeze Airways, and Ulta Beauty—Gladly is purpose-built to engagecustomers, not deflect them. Learn more at gladly.ai | $55M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 14, 2022 |  |
| Alation | Alation is the leader in enterprise data intelligence solutions including data search & discovery, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation. Alation’s initial offering dominates the data catalog market. Thanks to its powerful Behavioral Analysis Engine, inbuilt collaboration capabilities, and open interfaces,Alation combines machine learning with human insight to successfully tackle even the most demanding challenges in data and metadata management. More than 300 enterprises drive data culture, improve decision making, and realize business outcomes with Alation including AbbVie, American Family Insurance, Cisco, Exelon, Fifth Third Bank, Finnair, Munich Re, NASDAQ, New Balance, Parexel, Pfizer, US Foods and Vistaprint. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Alation was named to Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces list and is backed by leading venture capitalists including Blackstone, Costanoa, Data Collective, Dell Technologies, Icon, ISAI Cap, Riverwood, Salesforce, Sanabil, Sapphire, and Snowflake Ventures. For more information, visit alation.com. | $123M | Series E | Nov 02, 2022 |  |
| Alation | Alation is the leader in enterprise data intelligence solutions including data search & discovery, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation. Alation’s initial offering dominates the data catalog market. Thanks to its powerful Behavioral Analysis Engine, inbuilt collaboration capabilities, and open interfaces,Alation combines machine learning with human insight to successfully tackle even the most demanding challenges in data and metadata management. More than 300 enterprises drive data culture, improve decision making, and realize business outcomes with Alation including AbbVie, American Family Insurance, Cisco, Exelon, Fifth Third Bank, Finnair, Munich Re, NASDAQ, New Balance, Parexel, Pfizer, US Foods and Vistaprint. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Alation was named to Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces list and is backed by leading venture capitalists including Blackstone, Costanoa, Data Collective, Dell Technologies, Icon, ISAI Cap, Riverwood, Salesforce, Sanabil, Sapphire, and Snowflake Ventures. For more information, visit alation.com. | $110M | Series D | Jun 03, 2021 |  |
| Degreed | Degreed provides companies with a platform that enables employees to develop their skills and create skill profiles. Using that data, the platform can promote career mobility by connecting users to project, gigs, and job opportunities. It integrates and curates all the resources people use to learn including learning management systems and millionsof courses, videos, articles, books, and podcasts.The company was launched in 2012 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California. | $153M | Series D | Apr 13, 2021 |  |
| Digital House | Digital House is a coding school where new generations of coders and digital professionals are trained to imagine, innovate, and create what they always dreamed. It was established in 2015 and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. | $50M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 25, 2021 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Sapphire Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sapphire-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Level Equity Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/level-equity) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [NewSpring](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/newspring-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Assurant Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/assurant-growth-investing) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Costanoa Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/costanoaventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Dell Technologies Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dell-technologies-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Riverwood Capital

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Riverwood Capital is a growth-stage technology investment firm that invests in technology companies in need of financial and intellectual capital to scale.

5 contacts available at Riverwood Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Caitlin Mitchell | Director, Marketing & Communications | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caitlin-mitchell |
| Eric Ma | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-ma-5 |
| Francisco Alvarez-Demalde | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/francisco-alvarez-demalde |
| Jeff Parks | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-parks |
| Anant Goel | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anant-goel-6d35 |

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## FAQ

### What does Jeff Parks invest in?

Jeff Parks invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series D and Private Equity 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.

### When did Jeff Parks last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jeff Parks closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 27 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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