# Parkview Ventures

> Parkview Ventures is a VC fund in New York backing E-Commerce and CRM. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jul 2012
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurentohana
- Website: http://www.parkviewventures.com

Parkview Ventures is a VC fund in New York focused on E-Commerce and CRM. Parkview is a Technology Merchant Bank advising and investing in early stage ventures in the web and mobile industry.Parkview acts as a strategic adviser to young companies looking for start-up and growth financing. Parkview also acts as a M&A adviser to buyers and sellers of technology companies.Parkview invests its partners'capital in early stage ventures where its partners' expertise can be fully exploited -- interactive advertising, e-commerce, data mining and analytics, financial services, social networks, location-based services, Geo-data and Geo-services, on the web and mobile platforms.Parkview is led by Laurent Ohana, a web entrepreneur, investor, and investment banker. See www.parkviewventures.com

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 29% |
| CRM | 1 | 14% |
| Mobile | 1 | 14% |
| Fashion | 1 | 14% |
| Fitness | 1 | 14% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 43% |
| Series A | 3 | 43% |
| Series C | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 43% |
| France | 1 | 14% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Laurent Ohana | Managing Partner | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laurent-ohana |
| Kim Taipale | General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kim-taipale |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Netpulse | Netpulse is the largest provider of branded mobile club apps that engage members, drive revenue, and integrate deeply with the club's most important technology solutions. Industry leaders such as Gold's Gym, Retro Fitness and Equinox leverage Netpulse's mobile solutions in clubs all over the world. A complete mobile experience isdelivered by partnering with top technology solutions, including ABC Financial, Club Comm and Perkville. Founded in 2001, by Bryan Arp and Intuit co-founder Tom Proulx, Netpulse has since raised $40M in funding and is headquartered in San Francisco. | $15.6M | Series C | Jul 30, 2012 |  |
| Stipple | Stipple is the future of the visual web where the web's biggest asset, digital images, transform into experiences that drive discovery, engagement, purchase, and loyalty in-image. Stipple’s image-based marketing technology stack detects, recognizes, and identifies the content inside images at scale and enables Advertisers and Publishers toapply interactive curated content, accurate native advertising solutions, and connects organically to commerce. Only Stipple's marketing technology offers image analytics, advertising & messaging inside images web-wide and without widgets or embed code at scale. Stipple is based in San Francisco and funded by Floodgate, Kleiner Perkins, Relevance Capital and a syndicate of prominent early-stage investors. | $5M | Series A | May 10, 2012 |  |
| The Luxury Club | The Luxury Club (huisheshang.com) is the first brand authorized luxury e-tailer in China. The website and accompanying e-zine, caters to sophisticated and aspirational Chinese customers and offers a wide range of genuine internationally known designer brands, high fashion items and quality lifestyle products. Through their strategic partnershipwith TaoBao and their almost 370MM registered users, they are able to give brands unparalleled access to the broadest array of today's and tomorrow's Chinese luxury consumers. Their focus is always to be a complementary channel for brands and enhance their brand equity within China, while creating an exciting online shopping destination for their members. |  | Seed | Sep 26, 2011 |  |
| Stipple | Stipple is the future of the visual web where the web's biggest asset, digital images, transform into experiences that drive discovery, engagement, purchase, and loyalty in-image. Stipple’s image-based marketing technology stack detects, recognizes, and identifies the content inside images at scale and enables Advertisers and Publishers toapply interactive curated content, accurate native advertising solutions, and connects organically to commerce. Only Stipple's marketing technology offers image analytics, advertising & messaging inside images web-wide and without widgets or embed code at scale. Stipple is based in San Francisco and funded by Floodgate, Kleiner Perkins, Relevance Capital and a syndicate of prominent early-stage investors. | $2M | Seed | Nov 18, 2010 |  |
| Reachable | Reachable helps teams create and leverage their collective rolodex to find referrals to business opportunities. Reachable enables everyone to consolidate all their contact data in their own contact database, enriches the data with data from Reachable's data partners, and analyzes the contact data to find referrals to sales targets. With thenew Reachable Teams, anyone can create a private network with people they trust, at work or in professional contexts, and leverage their Collective Rolodex. | $6.8M | Series A | Oct 13, 2010 |  |
| Netpulse | Netpulse is the largest provider of branded mobile club apps that engage members, drive revenue, and integrate deeply with the club's most important technology solutions. Industry leaders such as Gold's Gym, Retro Fitness and Equinox leverage Netpulse's mobile solutions in clubs all over the world. A complete mobile experience isdelivered by partnering with top technology solutions, including ABC Financial, Club Comm and Perkville. Founded in 2001, by Bryan Arp and Intuit co-founder Tom Proulx, Netpulse has since raised $40M in funding and is headquartered in San Francisco. | $3.1M | Series A | Oct 26, 2009 |  |
| Reachable | Reachable helps teams create and leverage their collective rolodex to find referrals to business opportunities. Reachable enables everyone to consolidate all their contact data in their own contact database, enriches the data with data from Reachable's data partners, and analyzes the contact data to find referrals to sales targets. With thenew Reachable Teams, anyone can create a private network with people they trust, at work or in professional contexts, and leverage their Collective Rolodex. | $1.2M | Seed | Jan 01, 2007 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Parkview Ventures invest in?

Parkview Ventures invests primarily in E-Commerce, CRM and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 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 Parkview Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Parkview Ventures?

The team at Parkview Ventures includes Laurent Ohana (Managing Partner) and Kim Taipale (General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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