# Pete Solvik

> Pete Solvik is a Series B investor at Jackson Square Ventures backing Software and SaaS. See 45 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Jackson Square Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jsv)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 45
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/psolvik
- Website: http://www.jsv.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pete.solvik

Pete Solvik is a Series B investor at Jackson Square Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. Pete is Managing Director & co-founder at San Francisco-based Jackson Square Ventures. He also is Managing Director of Sigma Partners.He is responsible for JSV & Sigma Partner's investments in DocuSign - board member since 2006, Chair Nom/Gov Committee, led Series A & serves on the board of Seismic Software, is director& Series A or B lead investor in Mynd, Tala Security, Winmore, MagicBook.ai & Figg, & former investor & board member at Centrify (acquired by Thoma Bravo), Topio (acquired by NetApp), KACE (acquired by Dell), Digital Fuel (acquired by VMWare), & Encover (acquired by SYNNEX).He is on the Board & served as Chair, 2014-18 of the animal conservation nonprofit WildAid.Prior to JSV & Sigma, Pete was senior vp & Chief Information Officer of Cisco Systems w/ worldwide responsibility for information technology, internet initiatives & productivity strategy. He managed IT @Cisco for 10 yrs during the company's rapid growth from $300 million to over $25 billion in annual sales, & formed Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group vertical industry marketing organization.He has been a Board Director of over 20 private & public companies, and has chaired Audit, Compensation, & Nominating/Governance committees. A graduate of the University of Illinois, Pete lives in San Francisco with his wife.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 18% |
| SaaS | 4 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 9% |
| Retail | 2 | 4% |
| Computer | 2 | 4% |

47 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 11 | 24% |
| Series C | 7 | 16% |
| Series A | 4 | 9% |
| Series E | 4 | 9% |
| Series D | 3 | 7% |

10 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cloverleaf AI | Cloverleaf AI is the only video-based research tool that gives you eyes into every government meeting. Instead of sitting through hours of meetings, we provide the ability to jump to the exact moment in a government meeting that is relevant to you, based on keywords and campaigns created specifically for your organization. Share clips with yourteam, find opportunities for revenue generation, hear how you and your competitors are being discussed, and understand what’s coming down the pike from school district to state and federal legislature meetings. | $2.8M | Seed | Nov 07, 2024 |  |
| OneNotary | OneNotary builds an online notary infrastructure that enables Remote Online Notarization (RON), in any SaaS solution within hours and helps to keep customers inside their existing working tools. A seamless, no-code integration platform with a fleet of over 10,000 notaries spread across the United States, making OneNotary a world-class notarysolution. OneNotary’s team will shoulder the burden of handling a notarization:1. Quick Integration. OneNotary provides a comprehensive toolkit for integrating an online notary platform to any web-based solution within hours, not days or months, keeping your customers inside your platform or regular working tools.2. 24/7 On-Demand Notaries. Well-trained vetted notaries from all over the United States can remotely cover any comprehensive notarization and apostille case. 3. Full Legal Support. OneNotary takes the hassle out of navigating state-specific notary laws. We ensure that our team remains compliant with applicable laws by reviewing legislation daily!4. Autonomous (AI) Document Preparation. AI-based tools assist notaries in completing documents within seconds and verify the documents are compliant and error-free prior to completing each session. | $5M | Series A | Mar 26, 2024 |  |
| Spiceology | Spiceology is a food and beverages company that offers a custom blending, private label, food service, industrial, and modernist ingredients. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Washington, United States. | $7M | Series B | Jan 13, 2022 |  |
| Seismic | Seismic’s leading sales enableSeismic is the leading global sales and marketing enablement solution, improving close rates, and delivering larger deals for sales while increasing marketing’s impact on the bottom line. Large enterprises use Seismic to increase sales productivity through the automatic distribution of relevant information andpersonalized content to reps for any buyer interaction. Powerful content controls and visibility into usage ensures brand integrity and reduces risk. Seismic’s machine learning and analytics capabilities continuously improve the entire enablement process for large enterprises, increasing the ROI of sales content and tying it directly to revenue. Headquartered in San Diego and with more than 300 employees across the globe, Seismic is privately held by its executive team and investment firms General Atlantic, JMI Equity, and Jackson Square Ventures. | $170M | Series G | Aug 16, 2021 |  |
| Seismic | Seismic’s leading sales enableSeismic is the leading global sales and marketing enablement solution, improving close rates, and delivering larger deals for sales while increasing marketing’s impact on the bottom line. Large enterprises use Seismic to increase sales productivity through the automatic distribution of relevant information andpersonalized content to reps for any buyer interaction. Powerful content controls and visibility into usage ensures brand integrity and reduces risk. Seismic’s machine learning and analytics capabilities continuously improve the entire enablement process for large enterprises, increasing the ROI of sales content and tying it directly to revenue. Headquartered in San Diego and with more than 300 employees across the globe, Seismic is privately held by its executive team and investment firms General Atlantic, JMI Equity, and Jackson Square Ventures. | $92M | Series F | Sep 29, 2020 |  |
| Seismic | Seismic’s leading sales enableSeismic is the leading global sales and marketing enablement solution, improving close rates, and delivering larger deals for sales while increasing marketing’s impact on the bottom line. Large enterprises use Seismic to increase sales productivity through the automatic distribution of relevant information andpersonalized content to reps for any buyer interaction. Powerful content controls and visibility into usage ensures brand integrity and reduces risk. Seismic’s machine learning and analytics capabilities continuously improve the entire enablement process for large enterprises, increasing the ROI of sales content and tying it directly to revenue. Headquartered in San Diego and with more than 300 employees across the globe, Seismic is privately held by its executive team and investment firms General Atlantic, JMI Equity, and Jackson Square Ventures. | $100M | Series E | Dec 19, 2018 |  |
| Seismic | Seismic’s leading sales enableSeismic is the leading global sales and marketing enablement solution, improving close rates, and delivering larger deals for sales while increasing marketing’s impact on the bottom line. Large enterprises use Seismic to increase sales productivity through the automatic distribution of relevant information andpersonalized content to reps for any buyer interaction. Powerful content controls and visibility into usage ensures brand integrity and reduces risk. Seismic’s machine learning and analytics capabilities continuously improve the entire enablement process for large enterprises, increasing the ROI of sales content and tying it directly to revenue. Headquartered in San Diego and with more than 300 employees across the globe, Seismic is privately held by its executive team and investment firms General Atlantic, JMI Equity, and Jackson Square Ventures. | $40M | Series C | May 25, 2016 |  |
| Lanetix | Lanetix is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of CRM and logistics. It features CRM software exclusively for the global logistics and transportation industry. The company provides cloud-based collaboration, customer lifecycle, and digital process automation (DPA) platform for the companies.It was founded in 2013 andheadquartered in San Francisco, California. |  | Series B | Apr 20, 2016 |  |
| Empyr | Empyr is a card-linked offer engagement platform for national brands and digital publishers. It powers online-to-offline (O2O) commerce programs for some of the world’s largest tech companies, banks, airlines, hotels, and more. Each year in the US over $3 trillion in offline commerce is being driven by online/mobile, but most of that is notbeing tracked or monetized, representing a large untapped opportunity. Empyr’s direct integrations with all three leading credit card associations, including Visa and MasterCard, make it possible for online consumers to earn cashback at offline merchants in a frictionless way, simply by paying with a debit or credit card. Referring websites or apps also earn revenue from every purchase, and merchants are able to attribute actual offline sales to specific online marketing campaigns. Empyr’s growing network of partners currently includes Microsoft, LivingSocial, Coupons.com, Swagbucks and over 1,500 other partners. Empyr has raised $35M through it's parent company Mogl and currently has 60 employees. |  |  | Aug 07, 2015 |  |
| MOGL | MOGL is a restaurant rewards app on a mission to end hunger in the US. Members earn 10% cash-back at 1000's of participating restaurants by paying with a linked credit or debit card. Within seconds of paying they will get an alert on their phone giving them the option to donate some or all of the cash-back to a local food bank. Members cantrack the progress being made in their city using the Hunger Tracker and compete against friends to see who can donate the most meals. MOGL Loyalty Services, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Solana Beach, California. |  |  | Aug 07, 2015 |  |

10 of 45 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Avalon Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avalon-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Austin Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/austin-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Frazier Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frazier-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Ignition Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ignition-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [JMI Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jmi-equity) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Jackson Square Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Jackson Square Ventures is an an early stage venture capital firm that invests in software businesses.

5 contacts available at Jackson Square Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bob Spinner | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-spinner |
| Gregory Gretsch | Founding Partner & Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gregory-gretsch |
| John Otterson | Partner, Administration, and LP Relations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-otterson |
| Pete Solvik | Founding Partner & Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pete-solvik |
| Victor Echevarria | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/victor-echevarria |

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## FAQ

### What does Pete Solvik invest in?

Pete Solvik invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 45 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Pete Solvik last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Pete Solvik closed in Nov 2024. Shizune tracks 45 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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