John Dougery
Co-Founder & Managing Director @ Inventus Capital Partners
San Francisco, United States
John Dougery is a Series A investor at Inventus Capital Partners in San Francisco focused on Information Technology and Software. John Dougery is based out of Menlo Park, California and is the Managing Director & Co-founder of Inventus Capital Partners. John previously worked at Silicon Graphics as a product group. John Dougery attended the University of California, Berkeley.
- Total investments:
- 21
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
Last updated:
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Industries John Dougery invests in
Stages John Dougery invests in
Countries John Dougery invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Information Technology 4 (19%)
- Software 3 (14%)
- Internet 2 (10%)
- Shopping 2 (10%)
- Analytics 2 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 12 (57%)
- Seed 2 (10%)
- Series B 2 (10%)
- Series C 1 (5%)
- Series D 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 12 (57%)
- India 2 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Motivo
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Motivo has developed proprietary computational technology to use graph analytics, AI and machine learning for the semiconductor IC segment. In the IC space, we dramatically accelerate yield improvement with tera scale data analytics and machine learning. | $12M / Series A / Aug 12, 2021 | |
Credit Sesame
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Credit Sesame is a credit and loan company that makes consumer credit and loan management simple and automated. The company marries its deep understanding of how personal credit works with the latest in digital banking to offer the only free online and mobile digital banking service that helps consumers manage and grow their credit and cash in oneplace as they spend and save. Credit Sesame also provides personalized recommendations regarding personal loans, home loans, student loans, credit cards, and refinancing opportunities that can help members improve their credit and spending power. It gives its members free access to credit score monitoring, credit reports, and identity protection tools.Credit Sesame was founded on April 1, 2010, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States. | $51M / Series G / Jun 08, 2021 | |
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Credit Sesame
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Credit Sesame is a credit and loan company that makes consumer credit and loan management simple and automated. The company marries its deep understanding of how personal credit works with the latest in digital banking to offer the only free online and mobile digital banking service that helps consumers manage and grow their credit and cash in oneplace as they spend and save. Credit Sesame also provides personalized recommendations regarding personal loans, home loans, student loans, credit cards, and refinancing opportunities that can help members improve their credit and spending power. It gives its members free access to credit score monitoring, credit reports, and identity protection tools.Credit Sesame was founded on April 1, 2010, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States. | $43M / Series F / Aug 30, 2019 | |
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Credit Sesame
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Credit Sesame is a credit and loan company that makes consumer credit and loan management simple and automated. The company marries its deep understanding of how personal credit works with the latest in digital banking to offer the only free online and mobile digital banking service that helps consumers manage and grow their credit and cash in oneplace as they spend and save. Credit Sesame also provides personalized recommendations regarding personal loans, home loans, student loans, credit cards, and refinancing opportunities that can help members improve their credit and spending power. It gives its members free access to credit score monitoring, credit reports, and identity protection tools.Credit Sesame was founded on April 1, 2010, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States. | $26.6M / Series E / Oct 25, 2017 | |
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Credit Sesame
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Credit Sesame is a credit and loan company that makes consumer credit and loan management simple and automated. The company marries its deep understanding of how personal credit works with the latest in digital banking to offer the only free online and mobile digital banking service that helps consumers manage and grow their credit and cash in oneplace as they spend and save. Credit Sesame also provides personalized recommendations regarding personal loans, home loans, student loans, credit cards, and refinancing opportunities that can help members improve their credit and spending power. It gives its members free access to credit score monitoring, credit reports, and identity protection tools.Credit Sesame was founded on April 1, 2010, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States. | $16M / Series D / May 12, 2015 | |
SysCloud
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SysCloud was founded in 2013 with the mission of providing products to migrate, protect and help manage organizations Google Apps domains. Our backup product can be used as a cloud based solution and is also available for on-premise backup, restore and archiving. We help enterprises and educational institutions more easily transition to Google Appsand ensure continued safeguarding of their users data.SysCloud delivers backup and disaster recovery software solutions for home, business and managed service providers. Our portfolio of products includes complete protection solutions for Google Apps for Business in both virtual and physical environments.SysCloud's Google Apps Backup is single click domain level software to automatically backup, search and restore all Google Apps for Business data including GMail and Google Docs for unlimited number of employees, unlimited storage with 512 bit encryption of all data. | $2.5M / Series A / Nov 14, 2014 | |
ActivityHero
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ActivityHero is an online portal that connects parents with after-school activity providers and summer camps. It specializes in the fields of Ed-tech, education, family, and marketplace. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | $2.2M / Seed / Sep 02, 2014 | |
Resilinc
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Resilinc is the leading cloud provider of supply chain resilience and risk management intelligence and analytics. Industry leaders like Amgen, GM, and EMC rely on Resilinc to mitigate risks end-to-end, while achieving long-term competitive advantage, and building brand and shareholder value. Resilinc’s flagship solution platform and servicesdeliver the fastest time-to-value while ensuring the lowest resource impact. It accomplishes this by providing the world’s largest repository of supplier and part intelligence leveraging the power of our “LinkedIn” supplier community; the most robust set of dashboard visualization and patent-pending analytic functionality for proactive planning and risk quantification; and the only solution that personalizes your impact analysis by automatically connecting incidents with your supply chain map so you don’t have to. | $8M / Series A / Feb 02, 2014 | |
Espresso Logic
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Industry’s first reactive programming-based database backend as a service for web and mobile applications.Espresso provides an instant RESTful server for developers to connect web and mobile applications to external databases including MySQL, Oracle Server and Microsoft SQL Server. Enterprise developers can now use the Espresso Designer tosecurely manage access to database rows and columns based on individual roles. Just register and you can start using it right away – no downloads or configuration. Reduces SQL backend development time from months to days for mobile and web apps. Key highlights:Create RESTful server for SQL database in minutes versus daysEnterprise class API created in minutes for exposing corporate databaseRow/column level security and access control based on rolesExcel or Google Docs user can access SQL databases in real-time | $1.6M / Seed / Nov 07, 2013 | |
Dhingana
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Dhingana is an Indian on-demand music service that wants its users to discover new traditional Indian and Bollywood music across the globe. Dhingana gives access to millions of songs in more than 35 Indian languages and genres. The service is available for iOS, Blackberry, Google's Play Store, Nokia Devices and on its homepage.Dhingana users can share music on Facebook and see what people are listening to via Facebook's Open Graph. Users discovering music are able to like, favorite and comment on albums and playlists. With Dhingana Gold, subscribers can enjoy premium features like download and offline sync unlimited songs, access to music in HD quality, ad-free experience and ability to sync downloads across up to two devices. Launched in 2007, Dhingana was founded by twin brothers, Snehal & Swapnil Shinde and Sushil Choudhari, former employees of Yahoo Microsoft and Symantec. The service is based out in Silicon Valley’s Sunnyvale with offices in Pune, India. | $7M / Series B / Oct 26, 2012 | |
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Co-Investors
Menlo Ventures
6 deals together
Globespan Capital Partners
5 deals together
IA Capital Group
4 deals together
Plug and Play
3 deals together
ATW Partners
2 deals together
Garage Technology Ventures
2 deals together
About Inventus Capital Partners
Inventus Capital Partners is an investment firm that provides financial services to start-ups, entrepreneurs, and founders. The GPs have backed nearly 90 Founders to date, typically at the Seed or early-Series A stage, and invest with high conviction behind a very select number of new teams each year.Over the past 10 years, Inventus has helpedSilicon Valley founders grow from early-stage startups into meaningful companies with aggregate annual sales of over $1 billion today. Notable Inventus companies include Poshmark in the $330 billion fashion industry, Credit Sesame in the $500 billion consumer credit & finance markets, and Sierra Atlantic in the $100 billion outsourced product development industry.Investment themes include online consumer marketplaces and business automation software, but the Inventus GPs are particularly interested in backing Founders with a unique and often surprising vision for re-ordering industries and re-inventing consumer experiences for the digital age.While we make investments of conviction to lead financings and apply our own operating successes to coach Founders on strategy, hiring, and growth hacking, we’ve also institutionalized the persistent delivery of high-impact customer and partner introductions via CXOBridge.Inventus co-founded and catalyzed CXOBridge in 2016 with the goal of helping participating startups grow revenue 10x in 2years by matching them with decision-makers at Fortune1000 customers and partners. CXOBridge is an independent organization with a full-time team applying a merit-based approach to selecting startups that solve high-priority problems for the program’s Fortune-1000 participants. To date, 46 startups and 300+ corporates are active in the program, resulting in over $300m of value creation so far. CXOBridge provides startups persistent help with revenue growth and sales traction at scale and is the latest example of the unique capabilities of our firm.
Inventus Capital Partners Contacts
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John Dougery
Co-Founder & Managing Director
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Kanwal Rekhi
Managing Director and Co-Founder
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Manu Rekhi
Managing Director
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Manu Rekhi
Managing Director
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Rutvik Doshi
Managing Director
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FAQ
What does John Dougery invest in?
John Dougery invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and Internet startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 21 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 John Dougery last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for John Dougery closed in Aug 2021. Shizune tracks 21 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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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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