# Novak Biddle Venture Partners

> Novak Biddle Venture Partners is a VC fund backing Software. See 105 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bethesda, United States
- Total investments: 105
- Last investment: Mar 2019
- Lead investor: 30%
- Fund size: $150M
- Last fund: Sep 2012
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/novakbiddlevp
- Website: http://www.novakbiddle.com

Novak Biddle Venture Partners is a VC fund in Bethesda focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Novak Biddle Venture Partners provides equity financing and assistance to the management of young, information technology companies. They seek investment opportunities where the combination of ideas, dollars, experience, and relationships can create long-term, sustainable value.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 23 | 22% |
| Enterprise Software | 13 | 12% |
| Education | 10 | 10% |
| Information Technology | 10 | 10% |
| Wireless | 7 | 7% |

92 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 29 | 28% |
| Series B | 28 | 27% |
| Series C | 17 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 11 | 10% |
| Seed | 5 | 5% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 52 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jack Biddle | Co-Founder & General Partner | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jack-biddle |
| Roger Novak | Managing Member | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/e-rogers-novak-jr |
| Andrea S. Kaufman | General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrea-s-kaufman |
| Annie Lurth | Accounting Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/annie-lurth |
| Kelley Smith | Venture Partners | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kelley-smith |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WealthEngine | WealthEngine.com is the leading wealth research services firm for nonprofit organizations and financial services companies. Recognizing the value of wealth indicators and identifying links to prospects, WealthEngine gathers information to assist wealth managers, marketers and development professionals to create strategies for up-selling,cross-selling or fundraising.Headquartered in Bethesda, MD, WealthEngine offers sophisticated analytics, offering cutting-edge wealth identification products and services. Thousands of financial service providers and prospect researchers depend on our data mining expertise and sophisticated ratings. | $6.5M | Debt Financing | Mar 05, 2019 |  |
| Volley | In residence at JPMorgan Chase with >$10 million in backing from Zuckerberg Ventures, Fathom Capital, and Silicon Valley Bank (SVB); senior execs from Apple, Facebook, and Goldman Sachs; and a Silicon Valley team of machine learning and enterprise EdTech innovators from Google, the NSA and CIA, Carnegie Mellon, and Goldman, Volley (volley.com)is on mission to synthesize the world’s enterprise knowledge. The platform offers autonomous knowledge management and learning technologies for the enterprise, used in the Fortune 100 for training in cybersecurity, operational risk management, BPM, anti-fraud, corporate knowledge, sales enablement, and more. With Volley, firms accelerate time-to-expertise by automatically generating intelligent “microlearning” or "microbriefing" experiences personalized to employees or customers while pinpointing hidden knowledge gaps. Volley is the first such member of the UC Santa Cruz Center for Excellence in Data Science Research and a private sector advisor to the U.S. Advisory Committee on Artificial Intelligence. | $2.3M | Seed | Mar 10, 2016 |  |
| Carspring | Carspring is the simple, stress-free way to buy used cars online, delivered directly to your doorstep. They are Europe's fastest growing online used car dealership. They offer inspected cars, flexible finance, nationwide delivery, 14 day money-back guarantee, 6 months' warranty and 6 months roadside assistance. | $3.3M | Series A | Jul 31, 2015 |  |
| Digital Signal | Digital Signal specializes in three-dimensional long-range facial recognition solutions for government and commercial clients. It offers enterprise biometric solutions and customized applications to suit customer needs. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia. | $10.6M |  | Jan 22, 2015 |  |
| Orchestro | Orchestro develops a Software-as-a-Service based demand signal management platform. Over 110 global brands rely on Orchestro’s proprietary demand orchestration platform to seamlessly execute their omnichannel strategy. We increase speed-to-insight by harmonizing disparate demand data and applying adaptive analytics to execute profitable actions.Our clients can proactively analyze and act on business exceptions to dramatically reduce lost sales opportunities, improve revenue, and enhance service levels. | $9.8M |  | Dec 22, 2014 |  |
| WealthEngine | WealthEngine.com is the leading wealth research services firm for nonprofit organizations and financial services companies. Recognizing the value of wealth indicators and identifying links to prospects, WealthEngine gathers information to assist wealth managers, marketers and development professionals to create strategies for up-selling,cross-selling or fundraising.Headquartered in Bethesda, MD, WealthEngine offers sophisticated analytics, offering cutting-edge wealth identification products and services. Thousands of financial service providers and prospect researchers depend on our data mining expertise and sophisticated ratings. | $7M | Series B | May 05, 2014 |  |
| Parchment | Parchment is an education technology company allowing learners, educators, and employers to request, verify, and share credentials through the most advanced academic credentials management system. The system has helped millions of people and thousands of schools and universities to exchange more than 15 million credentials globally. Founded in2003, Parchment Inc. is headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ, with offices in Roseville, CA, Denver, CO, Grand Rapids, MI, Toronto, ON and Washington, DC. | $35M | Series D | Mar 19, 2014 |  |
| UniversityNow | UniversityNow is an education and technology start-up based in San Francisco. Its mission is to help ensure that affordable, high-quality post-secondary education is available to people everywhere. To accomplish this, UniversityNow has built the most affordable and accessible accredited online learning platform for Patten University(http://patten.edu).UniversityNow's vision is a world in which no one is deprived of access to quality education — a world in which students can obtain recognized college degrees that improve their futures, without taking on the burden of student debt. | $19M | Series C | Sep 24, 2013 |  |
| SolidFire | SolidFire is building the first and only primary storage system designed specifically for cloud service providers. Using an all-solid-state, scale-out architecture with patented efficiency technologies for dramatically reduced power, cooling, and capacity consumption, our high-performance and high-efficiency storage solution lets cloud providersguarantee sustained performance to thousands of servers from a single storage system.The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Boulder, Colorado. | $31M | Series C | Jul 25, 2013 |  |
| SocialRadar | SocialRadar is building technology that makes people aware of the people and connections around them. Developing leading-edge technologies in the mobile, social and location space, SocialRadar is building applications on iPhone, Android and Google Glass that will change the way people connect. | $12.8M | Series A | Jun 19, 2013 |  |

10 of 105 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Novak Biddle Venture Partners invest in?

Novak Biddle Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Education startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 105 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Novak Biddle Venture Partners?

The team at Novak Biddle Venture Partners includes Jack Biddle (Co-Founder & General Partner), Roger Novak (Managing Member) and Andrea S. Kaufman (General Partner), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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