Nimble Partners
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Nimble Partners is a multi-stage venture capital platform dedicated to partnering with investors and innovators through fund commitments, direct investments, and secondary transactions across the lifecycle of private technology companies. Our comprehensive investment approach includes:Venture Funds: Partnering with emerging seed and early-stageventure managers to support groundbreaking startups.Growth Investments: Investing in breakout companies with proven traction to drive expansion and success.Secondaries: Acquiring stakes in late-stage market leaders through secondary transactions.Backed by a team with decades of combined experience, deep industry knowledge, and a shared vision for driving innovation, Nimble Partners is committed to fostering growth and creating transformative outcomes. Whether you are a startup looking to accelerate growth or an established company preparing for an IPO, Nimble Partners supports your journey toward success.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 40%
- Fund size:
- $64M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Nimble Partners invests in
Stages Nimble Partners invests in
Countries Nimble Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $3.6M–$4.3M
- Series A
- $6.5M–$52M
- Series B
- $20M–$170M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Aerospace 2 (13%)
- Information Technology 2 (13%)
- Media and Entertainment 2 (13%)
- Satellite Communication 2 (13%)
- iOS 1 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (13%)
- Series A 2 (13%)
- Series B 2 (13%)
- Series C 2 (13%)
- Series D 1 (7%)
Country
- United States 9 (60%)
- Kenya 1 (7%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ken Wallace
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Sumeet Jain
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
John Burbank
Founder
|
Founder | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Seth Spalding
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| CloudNC develops advanced software that enables factories to autonomously manufacture precision parts. Precision manufacturing is fundamental to every aspect of modern life - without it, there are no cars, aircraft, or ships. No mobile phones or computers. No houses or hospitals, no factories or power plants. No food. In the modern world,virtually nothing can be made without precision parts. And yet, the manufacturing industry has been slow to modernize and adopt the innovations that are shaping the future. CloudNC's mission is to automate manufacturing and create a clean and sustainable industrial revolution that accelerates humanity. They’re building the autonomous factories of the future to make manufacturing 10x more efficient, sustainable and faster than anything today.They’re reimagining manufacturing, making it more efficient and productive than ever before, and opening a unique opportunity for investors to transform a $150bn industry.CloudNC elevates an entire industry and put manufacturing back at the cutting edge. | $20M / Series B / Sep 08, 2026 | ||
| RADAR is a platform that combines RFID and computer vision to automate and augment retail store processes. Our technology offers unprecedented speed and location accuracy, which allows stores to: 1) Manage inventory efficiently through automated inventory counts, improved in-store replenishment, and instantaneous customer stock checks. 2) Measureall customer-product interactions, giving physical stores the same insight into consumer behavior and product performance as online stores. 3) Eliminate checkout lines altogether through our autonomous checkout tool.RADAR was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, NY, USA. | $170M / Series B / May 19, 2026 | ||
| Astranis develops small communications satellites designed for geostationary and other high Earth orbits. The company manufactures software-defined satellites used for broadband connectivity, government communications, navigation resilience, and space-based infrastructure applications. Its MicroGEO platform is built to provide dedicated satellitecapacity for telecommunications providers, enterprises, and public sector organizations serving remote or underserved regions. Astranis also develops satellite systems with onboard propulsion, radiation-hardened electronics, and configurable bandwidth management technologies for mission flexibility. The company operates across spacecraft design, satellite manufacturing, launch coordination, and in-orbit operations through integrated engineering and testing capabilities. Its satellite network solutions support internet connectivity, defense communications, and resilient positioning and navigation services for commercial and government customers. | $300M / Series E / May 06, 2026 | ||
| Panthalassa is a technology company focused on developing renewable energy systems in the ocean, particularly to power computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure. The company works on harnessing wave energy to generate electricity at sea, which can then be used to run offshore data centers or converted into fuels that are transported backto land. | $140M / Series B / May 04, 2026 | ||
| Reliable Robotics provides advanced automation systems for aviation companies. The company was founded by Juerg Frefel and Robert Rose in 2017 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States. | $160M / Series D / Apr 21, 2026 | ||
| Crowdbotics makes it faster than ever to build complete, scalable apps for business. With Crowdbotics any product manager can turn ideas into real code using a matched library of components and a network of on-call experts. Crowdbotics references a library of millions of production-grade software packages to identify the most effective componentsand workflows for a given project. Crowdbotics then handles infrastructure, implementation, maintenance, operations, monitoring, and security for the life of the project. | $32M / Series A / Oct 28, 2025 | ||
| We design, build, launch, and operate satellites for high resolution Earth observation, new communications capabilities, and exquisite signal monitoring for low cost distribution via an integrated web platform. | Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 12, 2024 | ||
| Voyage Foods is securing the future of our favorite foods. Many of the foods we love face uncertain futures due to a range of health, environmental and social reasons, and it will soon become harder to safely, economically and responsibly enjoy a cup of coffee, a bite of chocolate or a spoonful of peanut butter. Through the use of natural,sustainable and upcycled ingredients, combined with proprietary technology and food science, Voyage is creating delicious new foods that taste and look just like their original counterparts – unencumbered by global environmental issues. Our first three platforms: Nut-Free Spreads, Cocoa-Free Chocolate and Bean-Free Coffee. | $52M / Series A / May 08, 2024 | ||
| Canopy Connect is the fastest way to collect verified insurance information. Consumers despise filling out long forms and don't readily have the answers to their current insurance situation. As a result, your business receives incomplete or inaccurate information—conversion suffers and retention suffers.More than 3,500 companies use CanopyConnect—including insurance agencies, insurance marketplaces, insurance carriers, lenders, and embedded insurance players—to verify insurance information in seconds.Consumers simply sign in via Canopy Connect with their current insurance carrier credentials to securely share policy details, declarations pages, driver information, enriched property details, claims history, and commercial loss runs. Your business can access all of this verified insurance information through the Canopy Connect dashboard or via API. Then connect the data directly to your comparative rater, CRM, AMS, POS with our direct integrations to the insurance and lending ecosystem. | $6.5M / Series A / Oct 25, 2023 | ||
| We design, build, launch, and operate satellites for high resolution Earth observation, new communications capabilities, and exquisite signal monitoring for low cost distribution via an integrated web platform. | $75M / Series B / Nov 08, 2022 | ||
| See all 15 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Nimble Partners invest in?
Nimble Partners invests primarily in Aerospace, Information Technology and Media and Entertainment startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 15 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 Nimble Partners's check size?
Nimble Partners typically joins rounds of $3.6M–$4.3M at Seed, $6.5M–$52M at Series A and $20M–$170M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Nimble Partners participates in.
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Who are the partners at Nimble Partners?
The team at Nimble Partners includes Ken Wallace (Partner), Sumeet Jain (Partner) and John Burbank (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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