# Partner Ventures

> Partner Ventures is a VC fund backing Venture Capital and Financial Services. See 65 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Portola Valley, United States
- Total investments: 65
- Last investment: Aug 2023
- Lead investor: 2%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/partner-ventures
- Website: http://www.partnervc.com/

Partner Ventures is a 'secondary direct' venture capital fund. We provide liquidity to preferred stockholders of excellent companies, typically taking a seat on the company's Board of Directors. We work collaboratively with portfolio company management and board to help achieve its growth, profitability and liquidity objectives.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $649k–$2.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Venture Capital | 18 | 28% |
| Financial Services | 16 | 25% |
| Finance | 13 | 20% |
| Software | 12 | 18% |
| Business Development | 10 | 15% |

104 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 22 | 34% |
| Private Equity | 11 | 17% |
| Seed | 10 | 15% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 8 | 12% |
| Secondary Market | 5 | 8% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 38 | 58% |
| Spain | 4 | 6% |
| Brazil | 4 | 6% |
| Mexico | 4 | 6% |
| Poland | 3 | 5% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Blake Winchell | Managing Director | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blake-winchell |
| Brett Byers | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brett-byers |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Boulder Field | Boulder Field is a venture capital firm that is looking to acquire and grow one tech-enabled company. |  | Private Equity | Aug 25, 2023 |  |
| Software Legacy Partners | Software Legacy Partners is a venture capital firm that seeks to acquire a private software company. |  |  | Aug 08, 2023 |  |
| Long Horizon Partners | Long Horizon Partners is a venture capital firm that aims to acquire and operate a small or medium sized business. |  |  | Jul 28, 2023 |  |
| Nuqleous | Nuqleous' SaaS products enable customers to optimize sales for 700+ categories across 3,700 brands representing $40.9 billion annual sales. | $26M | Series A | Jul 25, 2023 |  |
| Lionfield Capital | Lionfield Capital is a private investment company. That aims to acquire and operate one platform company. |  |  | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| Velis Real Estate Tech | Velis offers technology innovations for commercial real estate. We have created five cloud platforms that combine software & IoT. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 19, 2023 |  |
| Vertos Medical | Vertos Medical is a healthcare company that offers medical devices used in the treatment of common spinal diseases. The company commercializes the percutaneous treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). It also offers minimally invasive lumbar decompression devices for the treatment of various forms of LSS. The company offers its devices in theUnited States. Vertos Medical was founded by Dr. Dave Solsberg and Dr. Don Schomer in 2005 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California. | $26M | Series C | Jun 06, 2023 |  |
| Echo Point Books & Media | Echo Point Books & Media is one of the country’s leading online booksellers, with hundreds of thousands of books sold online (and counting everyday). We work with top quality publishers, such as Shambhala Publications, Guilford Press, Chelsea Green Publishing, Sounds True, New Harbinger, Storey Communications, and Allworth Press. |  | Private Equity | Apr 13, 2023 |  |
| The Asclepian Group | The Asclepian Group offers growth capital and strategy to clinicians and healthcare founders. |  | Private Equity | Mar 04, 2023 |  |
| The Asclepian Group | The Asclepian Group offers growth capital and strategy to clinicians and healthcare founders. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 04, 2023 |  |

10 of 65 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Anacapa Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anacapa-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [M2O](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/m2o-inc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Versant Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/versant-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [10b](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/10b-14b1) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Abenteuer Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abenteuer-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Akkadian Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akkadian-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Partner Ventures invest in?

Partner Ventures invests primarily in Venture Capital, Financial Services and Finance startups, most often at Funding Round and Private Equity stage. Most of the 65 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 Partner Ventures's check size?

Partner Ventures typically joins rounds of $649k–$2.3M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Partner Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Partner Ventures?

Public channels for Partner Ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Partner Ventures?

The team at Partner Ventures includes Blake Winchell (Managing Director) and Brett Byers (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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