# Pinnacle Ventures

> Pinnacle Ventures is a VC fund in Menlo Park backing Software and Health Care. See 86 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 86
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 16%
- Last fund: Apr 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pinnacle-ventures/about/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Pinnacleven
- Website: https://www.pinnacleventures.com

Pinnacle Ventures is a private venture capital fund focused on providing debt and equity financing to early-stage companies across information technology, cleantech and healthcare. Pinnacle differentiates itself through the strength and diversity of its team, its creative and flexible financing alternatives and its unique approach to helping itsportfolio companies achieve success.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 12% |
| Health Care | 8 | 9% |
| Biotechnology | 7 | 8% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 8% |
| Internet | 6 | 7% |

115 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 21 | 24% |
| Series B | 17 | 20% |
| Series D | 13 | 15% |
| Seed | 6 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 7% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 50 | 58% |
| Brazil | 2 | 2% |
| Canada | 2 | 2% |
| Singapore | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Donal D. Delaney | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/donal-d-delaney |
| Robert N. Savoie | Partner and COO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-n-savoie |
| Arun Ramamoorthy | General Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arun-ramamoorthy |
| Kenneth Pelowski | Founder and Managing Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kenneth-pelowski |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| VOOX | VOOX is the AI-driven exchange that knows you best and secures cold storage solutions to protect your digital assets. | $50M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 10, 2025 |  |
| Stem Lingo | LINGO coding kits are designed to teach youth aged 13+ about the fundamentals of hardware and software design. | $2.3M | Seed | Oct 31, 2024 |  |
| Nextdoor | Nextdoor is the app where you plug into the neighborhoods that matter to you. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on. Neighbors turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, and build real-world connections with those nearby — neighbors, local businesses, and publicagencies.We believe connecting with others is a universal human need. That truth, and the reality that neighborhoods are among the most important communities in our lives, have been guiding principles for Nextdoor since the beginning.Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in 276,000 neighborhoods around the world, including the United States (nearly 1 in 3 U.S. households), the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, and Canada, with many more to come. Nextdoor is a privately held company based in San Francisco with backing from prominent investors including Benchmark, Shasta Ventures, Greylock Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Riverwood Capital, Bond, Axel Springer, Comcast Ventures, and others. | $18.6M | Post-IPO Equity | Jan 17, 2023 |  |
| Functionland | Monetizing open-source development through blockchain. Dream of free applications that pay the developers coming to life. | $1.1M | Seed | Jan 25, 2022 |  |
| Alphadex | Alphadex is the ultimate cross-chain AMM, incubator and NFT launchpad powered by Moonriver. | $3M | Seed | Jan 18, 2022 |  |
| CloudPay | CloudPay provides managed global payroll services to multinational organizations through a single, unified SaaS solution. By delivering end-to-end managed payroll services through an innovative platform, CloudPay ensures consistent and compliant payroll around the globe while reducing operating costs and minimizing manual processes. CloudPay’sservices and technology standardize the payroll function across geographies, helping organizations increase efficiency, streamline compliance, and achieve greater visibility into payroll performance and costs. The CloudPay solution is backed by deep industry expertise earned over twenty-plus years delivering services to over 2,500 multinational entities. CloudPay’s solution guarantees accurate payroll processing across 130+ countries in more than twenty-five languages. Positioned as a Leader in NelsonHall’s 2019 Payroll Outsourcing NEAT assessment and as an Achiever in Everest Group’s 2019 Multi-Country Payroll Platform report, CloudPay has won multiple awards for its technology and service, including Global Payroll Transformation Project of the Year Award (2017), Payroll Software Product of the Year (2018) and the prestigious Global Payroll Supplier of the Year (2019). To learn more, visit www.cloudpay.net. | $25M | Series C | May 03, 2018 |  |
| Tala Security | Tala provides security solutions to protect enterprise websites against formjacking, magecart, and advanced attacks. It helps websites and web apps enable a completely secure web experience for users.It has developed a completely agent-less solution that leverages new and powerful web standards such as Content Security Policy (CSP). The solutionis fully automated and is compatible with all web technologies. This means that any website could use Tala to protect all of their end-users against web layer attacks, in a matter of minutes. Tala is led by industry veterans and successful entrepreneurs and is backed by VCs, angels and former executives at Symantec, and by the National Science Foundation (NSF). | $2.6M | Seed | Nov 06, 2017 |  |
| Tala Security | Tala provides security solutions to protect enterprise websites against formjacking, magecart, and advanced attacks. It helps websites and web apps enable a completely secure web experience for users.It has developed a completely agent-less solution that leverages new and powerful web standards such as Content Security Policy (CSP). The solutionis fully automated and is compatible with all web technologies. This means that any website could use Tala to protect all of their end-users against web layer attacks, in a matter of minutes. Tala is led by industry veterans and successful entrepreneurs and is backed by VCs, angels and former executives at Symantec, and by the National Science Foundation (NSF). |  | Seed | Oct 01, 2017 |  |
| OpsClarity | OpsClarity is a performance monitoring solution for modern applications and data infrastructure that helps DevOps and engineering teams to continuously visualize, understand and troubleshoot their complex and distributed business-critical applications and infrastructure. Built by alumni from Yahoo, eBay, Facebook, Twitter and Google, OpsClarity isthe only solution that can dynamically adapt to and learn every component of a company’s modern fast data application and infrastructure and extract key insights needed to maximize performance and agility.. | $11M | Series A | Dec 03, 2015 |  |
| TeleStax | Telestax© is quickly becoming the catalyst for bringing real-time communications into the mainstream. Our RestcommONE platform is scalable, highly available and is the only WebRTC platform that supports cloud, on premise and hybrid deployment configurations. RestcommONE is fast becoming the platform of choice for rapidly building enterprise classreal-time messaging, voice and video applications. RestcommONE Marketplace connects these new Omnichannel applications with RestcommOne CPaaS-enabled (Communications Platform as a Service) service providers and increases the revenue opportunity for both. The RestcommONE Marketplace is generating a positive disruption in the real-time communications market by changing the way organizations acquire and utilize their business software. Telestax is the company behind Restcomm™, the most widely adopted open source platform for developing and deploying real time communications applications. Restcomm enables web and mobile developers in all markets to quickly develop, deploy and scale real-time voice, video and messaging applications and services. With over 4.6 million lines of code, the Restcomm project is mature and well established. Greater than 25.6 thousand commits by large team of over 180 committers make the Restcomm community more active than leading open source projects available from the Apache Foundation. Because so many real time communications companies and their products utilize all or part of Restcomm, the product enjoys mass adoption within 90% of the F1000. Restcomm open source is available from GitHub. Restcomm Enterprise is available under a subscription license through Telestax. For more information on Restcomm or Telestax, please visit www.telestax.com. |  |  | Oct 02, 2015 |  |

10 of 86 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Pinnacle Ventures invest in?

Pinnacle Ventures invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Biotechnology startups, most often at Series C and Series B stage. Most of the 86 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 Pinnacle Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Pinnacle Ventures?

The team at Pinnacle Ventures includes Donal D. Delaney (Chief Financial Officer), Robert N. Savoie (Partner and COO) and Arun Ramamoorthy (General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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