# Kodiak Venture Partners

> Kodiak Venture Partners is a VC fund backing Software. See 119 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wellesley, United States
- Total investments: 119
- Last investment: Oct 2017
- Lead investor: 25%
- Fund size: $290M
- Last fund: May 2001
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.kodiakvp.com

Kodiak Venture Partners is a VC fund in Wellesley focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Kodiak Venture Partners pursues a disciplined investment strategy that is focused on building seed and early stage technology companies into high-growth industry market leaders. Kodiak partners have deep expertise in building and investing in market leaders. The team invests in markets where they have had proven success over the years.Foundedin 1999, Kodiak manages three funds totaling $676M and targets companies in eastern North America. Kodiak forges deep relationships with entrepreneurs at the earliest stages and works with a hands-on approach to formulate business strategies, build management teams, and develop critical alliances and customer relationships.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3.5M–$16M |
| Series B | $4.5M–$30M |
| Series C | $6.3M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 22 | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 9 | 8% |
| Information Technology | 9 | 8% |
| Wireless | 8 | 7% |
| Manufacturing | 8 | 7% |

90 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 28 | 24% |
| Series C | 28 | 24% |
| Series A | 24 | 20% |
| Series D | 14 | 12% |
| Funding Round | 10 | 8% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 45 | 38% |
| Canada | 7 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| China | 1 | 1% |
| Japan | 1 | 1% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Louis J. Volpe | Director | 20 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/louis-j-volpe |
| Andrey Zarur | Managing Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrey-zarur |
| Bruce Gregory | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bruce-gregory |
| Dave Furneaux | Founder & Managing Partner | 23 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-furneaux |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lumicell | Lumicell is specializing in the field of image-guided cancer surgery. The company's technology illuminates cancer cells in the tumor cavity, enabling physicians to take action in real-time to improve patient outcomes. The company's lead product, consisting of a fluorescent optical contrast agent and a handheld illumination device, iscurrently under clinical investigation in patients undergoing breast cancer surgery. A planned pivotal study aims to evaluate the ability of the technology to reduce positive margin rates and reduce repeat surgeries while sparing healthy tissue. Lumicell technology is also being investigated in colorectal cancer, Barrett’s Esophagus, pancreatic cancer, and brain metastases. In clinical studies to date, no cancer has been missed and the safety profile of the optical contrast agent has been demonstrated.Lumicell was founded in 2008 and is based in Newton, MA, USA. | $28.7M | Series C | Oct 24, 2017 |  |
| Greenlight Biosciences | GreenLight Biosciences is an integrated life sciences company with a cutting-edge platform to deliver higher-quality RNA at a lower cost and more quickly than was ever before possible. GreenLight develops RNA products and collaborates with industry leaders to advance vaccine development, pandemic preparation, crop management, plant protection andsupport the health of bees and other pollinators. | $18M | Series D | Sep 13, 2017 |  |
| Greenlight Biosciences | GreenLight Biosciences is an integrated life sciences company with a cutting-edge platform to deliver higher-quality RNA at a lower cost and more quickly than was ever before possible. GreenLight develops RNA products and collaborates with industry leaders to advance vaccine development, pandemic preparation, crop management, plant protection andsupport the health of bees and other pollinators. | $7M | Series A | Aug 12, 2013 |  |
| Emergent Payments | Emergent Payments delivers optimized payment solutions in high growth markets. We help merchants and partners grow revenues and open new markets. The company is based in Palo Alto, California with development centers in North Carolina and Shanghai, as well as international offices in Luxembourg, India, China, South Korea, Brazil, Singapore,Malaysia, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Japan.The company sold its Digital Commerce platform (Live Gamer Elements) to Autodesk in 2014, in order to focus on its core payments technology and business. It rebranded as Emergent Payments in early 2015 and invested in the payments platform, team and operations in high growth international markets. | $6.8M | Series C | Jul 01, 2013 |  |
| Newforma | Newforma develops, sells, and supports project information management (PIM) software for architecture, engineering, and construction firms worldwide, and the owners they serve. Newforma’s mission is to transform the AEC industry as the first industry-focused and integrated solution to connect firms to each other, to their project information, totheir processes, and to remote team members, all for the purpose of more successful project delivery. Customers are using Newforma software to manage information on more than 1.4 million projects worldwide, raising productivity, reducing exposure to risk, strengthening their brands, and freeing time and attention to focus on design, construction, and client service.The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Manchester, New Hampshire. | $5.1M | Series D | May 18, 2013 |  |
| Fluxion Biosciences | Fluxion Biosciences was formed in 2005 to address critical needs for cellular analysis tools in the pharmaceutical, biotech and research industries. The company has developed a proprietary microfluidic platform which enables precise cellular manipulation, rapid low-volume compound addition, environmental control and software-based data acquisition. | $2M |  | Oct 01, 2012 |  |
| GlassHouse Technologies | GlassHouse Technologies (acquired by Signature Technology Group in 2014) is a global provider of data center consulting services. GlassHouse consultants offer a vendor-independent approach to architect, implement and operate IT environments that drive high performance and agility. GlassHouse delivers its services through TransomSM, a uniquedelivery framework comprised of proprietary software tools, methodologies and domain expertise that offer unprecedented visibility into enterprise infrastructures. With this insight, GlassHouse enables customers to identify and mitigate operational inefficiencies, yielding significant cost savings, reducing risk and creating a more stable environment to ensure service levels are continually met. | $4.4M | Debt Financing | Jan 23, 2012 |  |
| LiveGamer | Live Gamer provides e-commerce solutions for micro-transaction based businesses. It offers monetization solutions that go beyond payments to drive core business metrics and optimize new transaction-based revenue streams. LGI serves web-based, online gaming, social networks, mobile applications, toys, and entertainment companies inf. | $8.5M |  | Nov 15, 2011 |  |
| Emergent Payments | Emergent Payments delivers optimized payment solutions in high growth markets. We help merchants and partners grow revenues and open new markets. The company is based in Palo Alto, California with development centers in North Carolina and Shanghai, as well as international offices in Luxembourg, India, China, South Korea, Brazil, Singapore,Malaysia, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Japan.The company sold its Digital Commerce platform (Live Gamer Elements) to Autodesk in 2014, in order to focus on its core payments technology and business. It rebranded as Emergent Payments in early 2015 and invested in the payments platform, team and operations in high growth international markets. | $8.5M | Series B | Nov 14, 2011 |  |
| Fluxion Biosciences | Fluxion Biosciences was formed in 2005 to address critical needs for cellular analysis tools in the pharmaceutical, biotech and research industries. The company has developed a proprietary microfluidic platform which enables precise cellular manipulation, rapid low-volume compound addition, environmental control and software-based data acquisition. | $12M | Series C | Oct 09, 2011 |  |

10 of 119 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Kodiak Venture Partners invest in?

Kodiak Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 119 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Kodiak Venture Partners's check size?

Kodiak Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $3.5M–$16M at Series A, $4.5M–$30M at Series B and $6.3M–$30M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kodiak Venture Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Kodiak Venture Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Kodiak Venture Partners?

The team at Kodiak Venture Partners includes Louis J. Volpe (Director), Andrey Zarur (Managing Partner) and Bruce Gregory (Venture Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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