# Philipp Stauffer

> Philipp Stauffer is a seed investor at FYRFLY Venture Partners backing Software and SaaS. See 33 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [FYRFLY Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fyrfly-venture-partners)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 33
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippstauffer
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/PhilippStauffer
- Website: https://x.com/PhilippStauffer

Philipp Stauffer is a co-founder and managing director at Fyrfly Venture Partners.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $120k–$6.8M |
| Series A | $3.8M–$24M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 30% |
| SaaS | 7 | 21% |
| Mobile | 3 | 9% |
| Health Care | 3 | 9% |
| Apps | 2 | 6% |

71 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 42% |
| Series A | 7 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 9% |
| Series B | 2 | 6% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 42% |
| Switzerland | 5 | 15% |
| France | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Poetiq | Poetiq develops an AI meta-system that builds self-improving reasoning agents on top of existing large language models. The system discovers task-specific reasoning strategies, optimizes multi-step knowledge extraction, and synthesizes fragmented information into reliable answers. It focuses on recursive self-improvement, allowing agents to learnfrom solved tasks to perform better on new ones. Poetiq applies this approach to benchmarks like ARC-AGI and real-world workflows, improving accuracy and cost across models from multiple providers. The company works with partners to address complex AI reasoning and retrieval challenges in practical applications. | $45.8M | Seed | Jan 30, 2026 |  |
| rready | Engage employees by unleashing their ambition and creativity. Let them take responsibility for their idea and create the next big thing. rready provides Saas solutions for innovation management to create lasting cultural change, because this is what you need to start and grow your own intrapreneurial movement. | $4M | Series A | Nov 09, 2023 |  |
| Altoida | Altoida is creating a new gold standard in brain health with Precision Neurology. We're radically transforming the method for measuring brain function and diagnosing neurological disease, using just your smartphone or tablet.Our products are backed by more than 20 years of innovative research in digital biomarkers, augmented reality (AR),and artificial intelligence (AI).Altoida received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation in July 2021. Our first device is a Computerized Cognitive Assessment Aid that is classified as Class II, 510(k) exempt. | $14M | Series A | Mar 30, 2022 |  |
| Unique AI | Unique is a venture-backed B2B SaaS sales intelligence platform, transforming sales by empowering both sales teams and customers. Unique leverages the power of AI to augment sales teams with real-time coaching and insights to close more deals and build better customer partnerships; and to give customers a better, more transparent, informed buyingexperience. | $6.3M | Seed | Dec 08, 2021 |  |
| Locatee | Locatee is the leading workplace analytics solution that transforms complex data into space utilisation insight. Developed with a strong focus and a deep understanding of the corporate real estate challenges facing the modern world of work, Locatee empowers leaders and managers to make decisions about their business buildings with confidence.Locatee works by leveraging office occupancy data from multiple sources, processing them using unique patented technology, and beautifully visualising them all in one place. With workplace intelligence at fingertips’ length, it’s easy to identify optimisation potential, realise savings, and enhance company’s workplace experience across the entire real estate portfolio. | $7.5M |  | Sep 22, 2021 |  |
| Locatee | Locatee is the leading workplace analytics solution that transforms complex data into space utilisation insight. Developed with a strong focus and a deep understanding of the corporate real estate challenges facing the modern world of work, Locatee empowers leaders and managers to make decisions about their business buildings with confidence.Locatee works by leveraging office occupancy data from multiple sources, processing them using unique patented technology, and beautifully visualising them all in one place. With workplace intelligence at fingertips’ length, it’s easy to identify optimisation potential, realise savings, and enhance company’s workplace experience across the entire real estate portfolio. | $9M |  | Sep 22, 2021 |  |
| Locatee | Locatee is the leading workplace analytics solution that transforms complex data into space utilisation insight. Developed with a strong focus and a deep understanding of the corporate real estate challenges facing the modern world of work, Locatee empowers leaders and managers to make decisions about their business buildings with confidence.Locatee works by leveraging office occupancy data from multiple sources, processing them using unique patented technology, and beautifully visualising them all in one place. With workplace intelligence at fingertips’ length, it’s easy to identify optimisation potential, realise savings, and enhance company’s workplace experience across the entire real estate portfolio. | $8.3M | Series B | Sep 22, 2021 |  |
| Capsule Social | Capsule Social operates as a decentralized social media platform. | $2.5M | Seed | Apr 12, 2021 |  |
| Locatee | Locatee is the leading workplace analytics solution that transforms complex data into space utilisation insight. Developed with a strong focus and a deep understanding of the corporate real estate challenges facing the modern world of work, Locatee empowers leaders and managers to make decisions about their business buildings with confidence.Locatee works by leveraging office occupancy data from multiple sources, processing them using unique patented technology, and beautifully visualising them all in one place. With workplace intelligence at fingertips’ length, it’s easy to identify optimisation potential, realise savings, and enhance company’s workplace experience across the entire real estate portfolio. | $3.9M | Series A | May 07, 2020 |  |
| Beekeeper | Beekeeper is a mobile-first communication platform that reaches every shift, location, and language through real-time messaging and targeted streams. Managers keep frontline teams productive and turnover low by automating workflows while leveraging an analytics dashboard to measure engagement. Beekeeper integrates with operational systems, makingthem accessible in one central portal. | $45M | Series B | Sep 16, 2019 |  |

10 of 33 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alpana Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpana-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Verve Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/verve-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Tomahawk.VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tomahawk-vc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [VI Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vi-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Zürcher Kantonal Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/z%C3%BCrcher-kantonalbank) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Atomico](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atomico) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About FYRFLY Venture Partners

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Fyrfly Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that focuses on data and intelligence. The firm prefers to invest in startups and early-stage companies in the information technology sector.

2 contacts available at FYRFLY Venture Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Julie Maples | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julie-allegro |
| Philipp Stauffer | Co-Founder and Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/philipp-stauffer |

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## FAQ

### What does Philipp Stauffer invest in?

Philipp Stauffer invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 33 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 Philipp Stauffer's check size?

Philipp Stauffer typically joins rounds of $120k–$6.8M at Seed and $3.8M–$24M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Philipp Stauffer participates in.

### When did Philipp Stauffer last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Philipp Stauffer closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 33 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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