# Labrador Ventures

> Labrador Ventures is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Software and Internet. See 56 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 56
- Last investment: Apr 2011
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.labrador.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Financial-Service/Labrador-Ventures

Labrador Ventures is a seed stage venture fund in Silicon Valley. With over $200 million under management, Labrador has invested in more than 90 companies over the last 19 years. Labrador Ventures invests in information services, applied materials science, software, messaging and data communications. via: Labrador Ventures

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 12 | 21% |
| Internet | 10 | 18% |
| Video | 4 | 7% |
| Mobile | 4 | 7% |
| Advertising | 4 | 7% |

66 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 12 | 21% |
| Series A | 11 | 20% |
| Series C | 6 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 11% |
| Series D | 5 | 9% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 28 | 50% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Joe Jennings | Entrepreneur-In-Residence | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joe-jennings |
| Larry Kubal | Founder ,Managing Director & Partner | 20 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/larry-kubal |
| Stuart Davidson | Managing partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stuart-davidson |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rocket Fuel | Rocket Fuel is a programmatic media-buying platform developing artificial intelligence to improve marketing ROI in digital media across web, mobile, video, and social channels. It combines the science of artificial intelligence with the scale of big data to improve the effectiveness of programmatic marketing. The platform can be used to achievebrand and direct-response objectives in diverse industries across North America, Europe, and APAC.Rocket Fuel currently offers a complete digital marketing hub that includes data management, programmatic media-buying, site optimization, and predictive analytics capabilities that extend across a marketer's paid and owned channels, and personalize every customer interaction.Rocket Fuel was launched in 2008 by Abhinav Gupta, Richard Frankel, and George John. It is based in Redwood City, C.A. | $6.6M | Series C | Apr 04, 2011 |  |
| Rocket Fuel | Rocket Fuel is a programmatic media-buying platform developing artificial intelligence to improve marketing ROI in digital media across web, mobile, video, and social channels. It combines the science of artificial intelligence with the scale of big data to improve the effectiveness of programmatic marketing. The platform can be used to achievebrand and direct-response objectives in diverse industries across North America, Europe, and APAC.Rocket Fuel currently offers a complete digital marketing hub that includes data management, programmatic media-buying, site optimization, and predictive analytics capabilities that extend across a marketer's paid and owned channels, and personalize every customer interaction.Rocket Fuel was launched in 2008 by Abhinav Gupta, Richard Frankel, and George John. It is based in Redwood City, C.A. | $10M | Series B | Sep 22, 2010 |  |
| Transpera | Transpera is a mobile technology company that provides a comprehensive platform for monetizing videos on mobile phones. Transpera services online content owners, network operators and advertisers by providing their patent-pending advertising platform and bridging technology -- an all-in-one style solution for connecting the necessary piecesinvolved in successful and profitable mobile video deployments. Transpera powers mobile video services for internet video brands including MTV Networks, Discovery Networks, Fox Reality Channel, the Travel Channel, CBS News, Associated Press, AccuWeather.com, Revision3, Next New Networks, Break.com, maniaTV, eBaumsworld and Zoovision among others. |  | Series C | Jun 02, 2010 |  |
| Integrating PV | Integrated Photovoltaics is a leading developer of next-generation photovoltaic solutions. Integrated Photovoltaics is a privately held company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. | $8.5M | Series A | Mar 26, 2010 |  |
| EoPlex Technologies | EoPlex Technologies is the creator of a high-volume 3D printing technology and process that is capable of printing proprietary inks that allow for volume manufacture of complex, multi-material devices that are difficult and expensive, if not impossible, to manufacture with conventional technology. This technology is disruptive in areas ofsemiconductor packaging and IOT/MEMs devices. Email info@eoplex.com for more information. | $3.8M |  | Nov 30, 2009 |  |
| Yardbarker Media | Yardbarker aggregates news articles about sports from around the web. These articles are submitted by users and voted up in a Digg-like fashion. Amateur writers can also contribute to the site with blog posts about their favorite sports topics.Sports videos and photos are also aggregated alongside articles.Professional Athletes like BaronDavis, Greg Oden, Champ Bailey, and Donovan McNabb, and Rajon Rondo contribute weekly blog entries. While Yardbarker.com is the company's content hub page, the company also runs a network of 600+ sports blogs, fan sites, and male content focused websites. In October 2008, the company announced FARK.com as their latest network addition as well as reaching 10 million unique people. | $634K |  | Jun 08, 2009 |  |
| Pandora | Pandora is the world’s most powerful music discovery platform, offering a personalized experience for each of our listeners wherever and whenever they want to listen to music—whether through mobile devices, car speakers or connected devices in the home. Unlike traditional radio that broadcasts the same content at the same time to all of itslisteners, we enable our listeners to create personalized stations and playlists, as well as search and play songs and albums on-demand. The Music Genome Project, our content programming algorithms and data collected from our listeners power our ability to predict listener music preferences, play music content suited to the tastes of each individual listener and introduce listeners to the music we think they will love. Founded by musicians, Pandora also empowers artists with valuable data and tools to help grow their audience and connect with their fans.Pandora is available as an ad-supported radio service, a radio subscription service called Pandora Plus and an on-demand subscription service called Pandora Premium. The majority of our listener hours occur on mobile devices, with the majority of our revenue generated from advertising on our ad-supported radio service on these devices. With billions of data points that help us understand our users' preferences, we offer both local and national advertisers the opportunity to deliver targeted messages to our listeners using a combination of audio, display and video advertisements. We also generate increasing revenue from our subscription offerings. | $14.7M | Series E | Jan 16, 2009 |  |
| PlayPhone | PlayPhone provides social gaming solutions to the world's leading wireless carriers, aggregating a global gaming community and offering game developers quick access to millions of gamers, seamless monetization and powerful marketing opportunities.Game developers can use the FREE SDK to give games access to worldwide distribution throughtraditional, indie and carrier app stores, instant player matching, social gaming hooks and social network integration, virtual economy management tools, real-time analytics and the most advanced payment solutions available including one-click carrier billing. Integration takes just a few hours. Headquartered in San Mateo, PlayPhone has a presence in more than 25 countries throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. The FREE SDK is available at developer.playphone.com | $15M |  | Sep 30, 2008 |  |
| Rocket Fuel | Rocket Fuel is a programmatic media-buying platform developing artificial intelligence to improve marketing ROI in digital media across web, mobile, video, and social channels. It combines the science of artificial intelligence with the scale of big data to improve the effectiveness of programmatic marketing. The platform can be used to achievebrand and direct-response objectives in diverse industries across North America, Europe, and APAC.Rocket Fuel currently offers a complete digital marketing hub that includes data management, programmatic media-buying, site optimization, and predictive analytics capabilities that extend across a marketer's paid and owned channels, and personalize every customer interaction.Rocket Fuel was launched in 2008 by Abhinav Gupta, Richard Frankel, and George John. It is based in Redwood City, C.A. | $6.8M | Series A | Jul 01, 2008 |  |
| Mixbook | Mixbook lets you create personalized photo products with your friends through an easy, online interface. | $1M | Series A | Jul 01, 2008 |  |

10 of 56 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Labrador Ventures invest in?

Labrador Ventures invests primarily in Software, Internet and Video startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 56 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 Labrador Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Labrador Ventures?

The team at Labrador Ventures includes Joe Jennings (Entrepreneur-In-Residence), Larry Kubal (Founder ,Managing Director & Partner) and Stuart Davidson (Managing partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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