# Ned Renzi

> Ned Renzi is a seed investor at Birchmere Ventures (Pittsburgh) backing EdTech and Mobile. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Birchmere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/birchmere-ventures)
- Location: Pittsburgh, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Jun 2021
- Lead investor: 30%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nedrenzi
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/NedRenzi
- Website: https://x.com/NedRenzi

Ned Renzi is a seed investor at Birchmere Ventures in Pittsburgh focused on EdTech and Mobile. Ned Renzi has 3 current jobs including General Partner at Enjoy The Work, Fouding Partner at Birchmere Ventures, and Co-Founder at Hustle Fitness, Inc.. Additionally, Ned Renzi has had 1 past job as the Senior Manager at Concurrent Technologies Corporation. He attended the University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business, George WashingtonUniversity, and Penn State University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| EdTech | 2 | 20% |
| Mobile | 2 | 20% |
| Software | 2 | 20% |
| Education | 2 | 20% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 20% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 30% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 30% |
| Series B | 2 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 10% |
| Series C | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 40% |
| Canada | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PAPER | Paper is a developer of an educational platform designed to make personalized tutoring available to all students. It provides tutoring, after-school enrichment, and college and career resources to support students at every step of their academic journey. The platform connects students with a certified educator who can answer questions and providecontextualized feedback on exactly where the student went wrong in the learning process. | $99.2M | Series C | Jun 30, 2021 |  |
| PAPER | Paper is a developer of an educational platform designed to make personalized tutoring available to all students. It provides tutoring, after-school enrichment, and college and career resources to support students at every step of their academic journey. The platform connects students with a certified educator who can answer questions and providecontextualized feedback on exactly where the student went wrong in the learning process. | $11M | Series B | Dec 15, 2020 |  |
| Sleeper | Sleeper is a sports platform intended for fantasy leagues and eSports. The platform connects fans and people to create a community and friendship that enable users to enjoy a sporting event in a communal way that creates lasting memories. | $20M | Series B | May 12, 2020 |  |
| PAPER | Paper is a developer of an educational platform designed to make personalized tutoring available to all students. It provides tutoring, after-school enrichment, and college and career resources to support students at every step of their academic journey. The platform connects students with a certified educator who can answer questions and providecontextualized feedback on exactly where the student went wrong in the learning process. | $7.5M | Series A | Mar 11, 2020 |  |
| PAPER | Paper is a developer of an educational platform designed to make personalized tutoring available to all students. It provides tutoring, after-school enrichment, and college and career resources to support students at every step of their academic journey. The platform connects students with a certified educator who can answer questions and providecontextualized feedback on exactly where the student went wrong in the learning process. |  |  | Feb 13, 2019 |  |
| Ampd | Ampd's enterprise Adtech platform is transforming how brand and commerce teams optimize media for the modern shopper journey. With agentic routing, closed-loop attribution, and commerce optimization, Ampd empowers fragmented teams to align and drive share growth at retail. | $2M | Seed | Apr 12, 2018 |  |
| Sleeper | Sleeper is a sports platform intended for fantasy leagues and eSports. The platform connects fans and people to create a community and friendship that enable users to enjoy a sporting event in a communal way that creates lasting memories. | $2M | Seed | Aug 11, 2017 |  |
| PAPER | Paper is a developer of an educational platform designed to make personalized tutoring available to all students. It provides tutoring, after-school enrichment, and college and career resources to support students at every step of their academic journey. The platform connects students with a certified educator who can answer questions and providecontextualized feedback on exactly where the student went wrong in the learning process. | $1.6M | Seed | Aug 25, 2016 |  |
| TenMarks Education | At TenMarks, we believe that students learn best when they're engaged, nurtured, and motivated, and that teachers are key to improving math achievement. Founded in 2009, to help maximize teacher effectiveness in the classroom and to make their lives easier, we've created a web-based learning environment that simplifies assignments,automates grading, and drives student learning through engaging videos and interactive lessons.With headquarters located in Burlingame, CA, TenMarks is used by students across 25,000 schools and 7,000 districts. Each day, students in all 50 states use TenMarks to solve millions of math problems, improving their math skills and confidence. TenMarks aims to positively impact the lives of over 20 million students by 2016.TenMarks has just launched the most robust online adaptive math program for practice, instruction, assessment, and intervention, EVER - one that helps teachers reinforce classroom instruction, easily assess, grade and intervene based on CCSS learning trajectories, and drive automated differentiation. Completely redesigned from the ground up and built for Common Core Math Standards. |  |  | Sep 16, 2011 |  |
| Cerebellum Software | Cerebellum Software, developer technology for linking e-business applications with corporate data systems. | $13.8M |  | Jun 07, 2000 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Reach Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reach-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Salesforce Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/salesforce-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Anges Quebec](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anges-quebec) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bullpen Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bullpen-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Real Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/real-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Birchmere Ventures

VC Fund · Pittsburgh, United States

Across five funds and two decades, we've helped build numerous successful companies such as Cvent (event management - IPO) , TenMarks (math tutoring - acquired by Amazon) CyOptics (optical chips - acquired by Avago), Neolinear (EDA - acquired by Cadence), and FreeMarkets (B2B marketplace - IPO).We believe great companies can start anywhere(but to scale quickly they may require a coastal presence), and the best engineers and scientists do not go to just a few schools on each coast. These core principles lead us to invest in companies from across the country overlooked by many other investors, uncovering hidden gems and helping them scale up.

4 contacts available at Birchmere Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ned Renzi | Fouding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ned-renzi |
| Sean Sebastian | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sen-sebastian |
| Ivan Koon | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ivan-koon |
| Sean Ammirati | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sean-ammirati |

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## FAQ

### What does Ned Renzi invest in?

Ned Renzi invests primarily in EdTech, Mobile and Software startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 10 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 Ned Renzi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ned Renzi closed in Jun 2021. Shizune tracks 10 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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