# Kepha Partners

> Kepha Partners is a VC fund backing Software and Enterprise Software. See 54 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Waltham, United States
- Total investments: 54
- Last investment: Oct 2018
- Lead investor: 22%
- Fund size: $85M
- Last fund: May 2012
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/efhjerpe
- Website: http://www.kephapartners.com

Kepha Partners is a VC fund in Waltham focused on Software and Enterprise Software. "Kepha" is Aramaic for "rock." They have a back-to-basics approach focused on pre-seed, seed and Series A companies. They call this "venture building," and it is what created the venture industry in the first place. It is the foundation, or rock, of venture capital.Their mission:1. Be the trueentrepreneur's first choice2. Aggressively build shareholder value that will last for many generations3. Establish a new standard for value-add and become the McKinsey & Co. for entrepreneursThey seek entrepreneurs who have disruptive ideas and know that they can do it better. They recruit executives who are energized by making a difference in how they lead teams and out-execute incumbents. They want to work with people who would rather try and fail vs. not try at all.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 16 | 30% |
| Enterprise Software | 11 | 20% |
| Analytics | 7 | 13% |
| Advertising | 6 | 11% |
| SaaS | 4 | 7% |

74 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 16 | 30% |
| Funding Round | 16 | 30% |
| Series A | 9 | 17% |
| Series B | 3 | 6% |
| Series C | 1 | 2% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 32 | 59% |
| Ireland | 1 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Eric Hjerpe | Partner | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-hjerpe |
| Ed Hamilton | CFO and General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ed-hamilton |
| Jo Tango | Founder & Partner | 17 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jo-tango |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Later | Mavrck is the leading all-in-one influencer marketing platform enabling enterprise brands such as P&G, Reebok, and Walgreens to harness the power of social proof that consumers trust today. Marketers use Mavrck to identify and activate influencers, employees, and consumer advocates to create authentic content at scale. Using its self-serviceproduct, marketers take an automated and data-driven approach to influencer marketing. Founded in 2014, Mavrck is headquartered in Boston, with offices in Denver, has 65 employees, and has raised $20M in venture capital. The platform has been recognized for its superior offering by the Shorty Awards and Retail Innovator Awards, honored as “Best Influencer Marketing Platform” by Digiday, and named to the 2020 Inc. 5000, awarded to America’s fastest-growing private companies. Mavrck was also named a “Leader” among the top emerging influencer marketing platforms in Forrester’s evaluation, The Forrester New Wave™: Influencer Marketing Solutions, 2020. Mavrck's culture of curious hustlers has also been recognized as "Top Company Cultures Among Small Companies" by Entrepreneur. | $5.8M | Series A | Oct 31, 2018 |  |
| ClearGov | ClearGov® is the leading provider of Budget Cycle Management software, focused on helping local governments and their department heads streamline the budget process by automating workflow, increasing collaboration, and centralizing data. ClearGov solutions are powerful enough to support local governments of every size, yet affordable enough foreven the smallest towns and villages. Hundreds of communities across the country rely on our cloud-based Budget Cycle Management solutions to modernize their budget process. Both company and culture have been well-received within the market and communities they serve. ClearGov has been named to the “GovTech 100” for four years running, and recently recognized as one of Boston’s most innovative young companies by being named to BostInno’s 2019 “50 On Fire.” The company has also been named a “best place to work” by USA Today.ClearGov was founded by Chris Bullock in 2015 and is headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts. | $3.5M | Seed | Apr 30, 2018 |  |
| Kemvi | Founded by a team from Columbia and MIT, Kemvi brings together years of expertise in solving difficult real-world data problems. They’ve advised the CIA on economic stability, published papers on black hole physics, worked with the SEC and the Federal Reserve on market regulations, and they’ve had their work covered by the New York Times, Wired,and Forbes. | $1.5M | Seed | May 12, 2017 |  |
| ClearGov | ClearGov® is the leading provider of Budget Cycle Management software, focused on helping local governments and their department heads streamline the budget process by automating workflow, increasing collaboration, and centralizing data. ClearGov solutions are powerful enough to support local governments of every size, yet affordable enough foreven the smallest towns and villages. Hundreds of communities across the country rely on our cloud-based Budget Cycle Management solutions to modernize their budget process. Both company and culture have been well-received within the market and communities they serve. ClearGov has been named to the “GovTech 100” for four years running, and recently recognized as one of Boston’s most innovative young companies by being named to BostInno’s 2019 “50 On Fire.” The company has also been named a “best place to work” by USA Today.ClearGov was founded by Chris Bullock in 2015 and is headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts. | $1.2M | Seed | Mar 29, 2017 |  |
| Apliant | Apliant was founded by insurance, technology, and marketing professionals to improve local insurance agency distribution. We work to build smarter technology that empowers the traditional insurance agent, helping them find and retain more clients through a simplified workflow.Designed for the sales-driven insurance agent, Apliant is auser-friendly, on-demand platform that serves as every insurance agent's dream toolkit including everything they need to easily and quickly connect with insurance-shopping customers in their existing market and beyond. |  | Seed | Jul 29, 2016 |  |
| Paradigm4, inc. | Paradigm4’s SciDB – the latest innovation from renowned database researcher, Turing Award winner, and entrepreneur, MIT Professor Michael Stonebraker – is a radically new computational database for mining insights from genomic, clinical, image, financial markets, instrument, and sensor data. Paradigm4 is changing what’s possible with Big Data byanswering bigger, harder questions. Industry leaders like Foundation Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, NASA, PEAK6, Novartis, MIT Lincoln Laboratories, and others use SciDB for collaborative, reproducible research. |  | Series A | Nov 30, 2015 |  |
| Later | Mavrck is the leading all-in-one influencer marketing platform enabling enterprise brands such as P&G, Reebok, and Walgreens to harness the power of social proof that consumers trust today. Marketers use Mavrck to identify and activate influencers, employees, and consumer advocates to create authentic content at scale. Using its self-serviceproduct, marketers take an automated and data-driven approach to influencer marketing. Founded in 2014, Mavrck is headquartered in Boston, with offices in Denver, has 65 employees, and has raised $20M in venture capital. The platform has been recognized for its superior offering by the Shorty Awards and Retail Innovator Awards, honored as “Best Influencer Marketing Platform” by Digiday, and named to the 2020 Inc. 5000, awarded to America’s fastest-growing private companies. Mavrck was also named a “Leader” among the top emerging influencer marketing platforms in Forrester’s evaluation, The Forrester New Wave™: Influencer Marketing Solutions, 2020. Mavrck's culture of curious hustlers has also been recognized as "Top Company Cultures Among Small Companies" by Entrepreneur. | $5M | Series A | Nov 13, 2015 |  |
| Volt Active Data | VoltDB's in-memory SQL database combines streaming analytics with transaction processing in a single, horizontal scale-out platform. Customers use VoltDB to build applications that process streaming data the instant it arrives to make immediate, per-event, context-aware decisions. By delivering real-time in-transaction analytics that alwaysproduces correct results, VoltDB enables businesses to capture the economic value and develop new revenue opportunities in the mobile, financial services, IoT, energy, advertising, and security industries. The company is privately held with offices in Bedford, Massachusetts, and Santa Clara, California. | $9.8M |  | Jul 22, 2015 |  |
| Adored | Adored is a loyalty experience platform that is strengthening the relationships users have with the businesses they visit and the brands they love. The Adored app uses iBeacon indoor location technology to automatically reward customers and immerse them in experiences that enhance each visit. These remarkable experiences are what build brandloyalty and advocacy, and ultimately increase the lifetime value of each customer. Adored has been downloaded over 10,000 times and is active at dozens of locations ranging from ski resorts and arenas to cafes and bars. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Manchester, New Hampshire. | $2.3M | Seed | Jul 08, 2015 |  |
| Linkable Networks | Linkable Networks provides a digital shopper attribution platform intended to reward, engage, activate, and retain consumers in the store. The platform uses SaaS that turns online, mobile, email, print, and radio advertisements into linkable savings offers tied to the consumer's credit or debit card, allowing retailers and brands toautomatically measures and aggregates purchases across any national retailer for use by loyalty companies to reward and track consumer spending. | $16.7M |  | May 01, 2015 |  |

10 of 54 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Kepha Partners invest in?

Kepha Partners invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 54 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Kepha Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Kepha Partners?

The team at Kepha Partners includes Eric Hjerpe (Partner), Ed Hamilton (CFO and General Partner) and Jo Tango (Founder & Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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