# Julie Maples

> Julie Maples is a seed investor at FYRFLY Venture Partners backing Enterprise Software. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [FYRFLY Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fyrfly-venture-partners)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/julieallegro
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/
- Website: http://www.allegrovc.com

Julie Maples is a seed investor at FYRFLY Venture Partners in San Francisco focused on Enterprise Software and Software. Julie Maples - General Partner @ FYRFLY Venture Partners

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Enterprise Software | 6 | 43% |
| Software | 5 | 36% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 29% |
| B2B | 2 | 14% |
| Mobile Apps | 2 | 14% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 36% |
| Series A | 3 | 21% |
| Series B | 3 | 21% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 7% |
| Series D | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 71% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PolyGone Systems, Inc | PolyGone Systems is a cleantech company that removes microplastic pollutants from waterways. PolyGone Systems was founded in 2021. | $4M | Seed | Feb 12, 2026 |  |
| Amplo | Amplo is a smart maintenance platform. That provides automated diagnostic services, IoT asset management, an IoT machine expert system, and root cause analysis solutions. The company's customers inquiries are addressed through email and online applications. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Sep 08, 2022 |  |
| Mobi.AI | Mobi Systems provides technologies enhance web and mobile products for companies in the mobility. | $21.1M | Series A | Oct 27, 2021 |  |
| Meograph | Meograph develops an augmented reality application that makes 3D people from 2D video. It brings users into AR or VR games with their micro-expressions using devices they already have. With just an average smartphone or webcam it literally converts video into 3D locally on the device. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in SanFrancisco, California. | $760K | Seed | Mar 09, 2015 |  |
| Pley | Pley is building the next generation of play. It puts the power of educational toys in people’s hands in a more affordable, convenient and eco-friendly way. Pley’s goal is to change the very paradigm of playtime for kids by providing an affordable subscription service for educational toys. Leveraging collaborative consumption, it aims to raisea more creative and skillful generation. | $10M | Series B | Feb 02, 2015 |  |
| Feed Media Group | Feed Media Group makes it easy, fast and legal for businesses to use music to drive revenues by delivering the most engaging customer experiences. | $1.2M | Seed | Sep 03, 2014 |  |
| Tango Card | Tango Card provides leading incentive-delivery technology to organizations in the B2B space. Globally, enterprise companies use this technology to deliver an extensive catalog of domestic and global e-gift cards as part of consumer loyalty programs, sales incentive programs, health and wellness engagement, and employee recognition. Tango Cardbelieves instantly delivering the most desirable rewards maximizes impact and drives real business results. This belief is woven into Tango Card’s industry-leading products: RaaS API, which integrates digital rewards into web platforms and applications, and Rewards Genius™, a self-serve portal for administering rewards. | $3.3M | Series B | Apr 02, 2014 |  |
| Pley | Pley is building the next generation of play. It puts the power of educational toys in people’s hands in a more affordable, convenient and eco-friendly way. Pley’s goal is to change the very paradigm of playtime for kids by providing an affordable subscription service for educational toys. Leveraging collaborative consumption, it aims to raisea more creative and skillful generation. | $6.8M | Series A | Mar 20, 2014 |  |
| Kanjoya | Kanjoya gives every company the ability to go inside the heads of their key people. Using pioneering artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and machine learning, Kanjoya’s SaaS product platform accurately reveals the emotion and intent driving critical business outcomes, from employee engagement, to performance, and even tocustomer experience. Delivered as comprehensive products servicing mission-critical workflows from engagement to performance, Kanjoya decisively enables a better company. Data is easy, it's the people behind it that are incredibly complex. Being able to understand both qualitative and quantitative signals is the missing key to revealing motivations, emotions and intentions. Kanjoya's journey began with the award-winning Experience Project- a set of properties providing a community of hundreds of millions of people sharing experiences and emotions. This provided meaning and empathy peer to peer, and created a unique data set that powered Kanjoya's innovations in enabling technology to, for the first time, recognize "human" signals in unstructured data, from emotions to thematics to intentions. | $4M | Series D | Nov 05, 2013 |  |
| Edgecase (formerly Compare Metrics) | Edgecase (formerly Compare Metrics) is the platform behind today’s most inspiring shopping experiences. By allowing shoppers to communicate their unique preferences, context and shopping style, we empower them to discover products on their own terms.Using a proprietary combination of machine learning and human content curation, the Edgecaseplatform enables shopping experiences as unique as the brands we work with. Our solutions integrate new and evolving layers of merchandising data to fuel product discovery, omni-channel engagement and online experiences that today's shoppers crave.Edgecase was founded in 2012 and is based in Austin, Texas. Our team is made up of experts in retail technology, machine learning and natural language processing. Together, we’re committed to creating memorable shopping experiences and propelling what's next in retail. Forward-thinking retailers using Edgecase include: Crate and Barrel, Golfsmith, Kate Somerville, Rebecca Minkoff, Urban Decay, and The Wasserstrom Company. | $4.2M | Series A | May 21, 2013 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Floodgate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/floodgate) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SWaN & Legend Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/swan-legend-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Maven Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maven-ventures-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Western Technology Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/western-technology-investment) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Allegro Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allegro-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Austin Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/austin-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About FYRFLY Venture Partners

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Fyrfly Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that focuses on data and intelligence. The firm prefers to invest in startups and early-stage companies in the information technology sector.

2 contacts available at FYRFLY Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Julie Maples | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julie-allegro |
| Philipp Stauffer | Co-Founder and Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/philipp-stauffer |

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## FAQ

### What does Julie Maples invest in?

Julie Maples invests primarily in Enterprise Software, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 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 Julie Maples last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Julie Maples closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 14 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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