# Pelion Venture Partners

> Pelion Venture Partners is a VC fund backing Software. See 238 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Salt Lake City, United States
- Total investments: 238
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 34%
- Last fund: Jan 2025
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pelion-venture-partners
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/PelionVC
- Website: http://pelionvp.com

Pelion Venture Partners is a VC fund in Salt Lake City focused on Software and Information Technology. Pelion Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs and invests in early-stage B2B software-based companies. Since 1986, Pelion Venture Partners has been helping entrepreneurs turn early-stage concepts into tomorrow's industry-leading companies. Pelion invests in early-stage B2B software across the US. With 7 investment team members, Pelion has deepand diverse industry and investment experience. They are hands-on in their approach and work collaboratively with each portfolio company.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$10M |
| Series A | $6.1M–$40M |
| Series B | $7M–$60M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 73 | 31% |
| Information Technology | 31 | 13% |
| SaaS | 23 | 10% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 21 | 9% |
| Enterprise Software | 19 | 8% |

191 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 60 | 25% |
| Series A | 55 | 23% |
| Seed | 45 | 19% |
| Series C | 21 | 9% |
| Series D | 8 | 3% |

13 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 139 | 58% |
| Mexico | 1 | 0% |
| Barbados | 1 | 0% |
| Tanzania | 1 | 0% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chad Packard | General Partner | 24 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chad-packard |
| Matt Mosman | General Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-mosman |
| Alayzain Rizavi | Senior Associate | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alayzain-rizavi |
| Benjamin Lambert | General Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benjamin-lambert |
| Bradley Hintze | Financial Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bradley-hintze-32ce |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vendelux | Vendelux is the leading Event Intelligence Platform that helps marketers make more data-driven decisions around event attendance, sponsorship, and hosting. Customers match CRM data against a proprietary database of over 30,000 events, including speaker, sponsor, and attendee information, to easily find their prospects, customers, and competitorseverywhere they are going to be. | $50M | Series B | Jul 08, 2026 |  |
| Redo | Redo develops a free return automation application for brand owners. It turns refunds into exchanges or store credit. It also automates the return process to operate under preferences and helps clients transform their returns center into a profit center. Its package protection simplifies claims management with an all-in-one customer portal, makingit easy to offer, track, and resolve claims. | $81M | Series B | Jun 23, 2026 |  |
| UpGuard | UpGuard is a cybersecurity platform that helps organizations monitor, assess, and manage cybersecurity risk across internal systems and third-party vendors. Its platform evaluates digital assets to identify security gaps, misconfigurations, and exposure points that may impact data protection and operational integrity. The company offers tools forvendor risk management, enabling teams to review and track the security posture of external partners. Its solutions also include attack surface monitoring, which maps internet-facing assets to detect vulnerabilities and unauthorized changes. UpGuard supports security teams with reporting and workflow features that assist in risk assessment, remediation tracking, and compliance alignment. | $75M | Series C | Feb 26, 2026 |  |
| Mojo AI | Mojo AI develops an AI-driven platform that helps to save lives and reduce injuries at industrial worksites. It leverages the vast amounts of historical and ongoing data that exist inside of organizations to provide better insights and allow leaders to solve problems early—before they become crises. | $10M | Series B | Feb 24, 2026 |  |
| Jump | Jump is an AI-powered assistant that redefines how wealth advisors manage their client interactions and compliance tasks. Created to turn conversations into actionable tasks, comprehensive notes, and compliance records, Jump offers a complete solution for advisors seeking efficiency and accuracy in their daily operations. | $80M | Series B | Feb 19, 2026 |  |
| Brandlight | Brandlight is a digital technology company that provides an AI-driven platform for monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing how brands appear and are represented across AI-generated search and conversational results on platforms. Its platform tracks real-time AI visibility signals, including brand mentions, sentiment, share of voice, and citationsources, to help marketing, content, and brand teams understand how AI models reference their content and narratives. Brandlight also offers analytics and governance tools that enable users to assess competitive context, identify content opportunities, and align AI-facing messaging with brand strategy. The company works with enterprise clients to integrate insights into digital strategies that bridge traditional SEO with emerging AI discovery workflows and support decision-making around content optimization and brand presence in AI-mediated interactions. Brandlight’s technology emphasizes multi-engine coverage and structured visibility intelligence tailored to evolving AI search landscapes. | $30M | Series A | Feb 11, 2026 |  |
| Vybe | Vybe is a software company that provides pre-built integrations and AI tools for users to develop and launch internal AI-powered apps. | $10M | Seed | Dec 10, 2025 |  |
| Valinor Discovery | Valinor Discovery uses machine learning to simulate drug performance and support data-driven drug development decisions. | $13M | Seed | Dec 10, 2025 |  |
| Crew | Crew is the best place for families to bank. Crew replaces your old bank by helping parents manage their finances and set their children up for the future. | $3.8M | Seed | Nov 05, 2025 |  |
| Cactus | We're building an AI copilot for solopreneurs to automate their admin work. Our AI answers the phone, qualifies customers, and books in revenue. Think Jarvis for Ironman. Cactus is the AI business assistant that empowers solopreneurs to succeed. | $7M | Seed | Nov 05, 2025 |  |

10 of 238 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kickstart](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kickstart-seed-fund) — VC Fund, 21 deals together
- [BYU Cougar Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cougar-capital) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
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- [EPIC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/epic-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Pelion Venture Partners invest in?

Pelion Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 238 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 Pelion Venture Partners's check size?

Pelion Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$10M at Seed, $6.1M–$40M at Series A and $7M–$60M 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 Pelion Venture Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Pelion Venture Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Pelion Venture Partners?

The team at Pelion Venture Partners includes Chad Packard (General Partner), Matt Mosman (General Partner) and Alayzain Rizavi (Senior Associate), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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