Poplar Ventures
VC Fund
Louisville, United States
Poplar Ventures is an early/growth stage investor and business advisor
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 11%
- Fund size:
- $22M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Poplar Ventures invests in
Stages Poplar Ventures invests in
Countries Poplar Ventures invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Christian Miller
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (56%)
- SaaS 3 (33%)
- Marketing 2 (22%)
- Data Visualization 2 (22%)
- Enterprise Software 2 (22%)
Stage
- Series A 5 (56%)
- Seed 3 (33%)
- Funding Round 1 (11%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
John Willmoth
Founder and Managing Partner
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Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
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Christian Miller
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dvinci® is a customer-centric clean technology company that is accelerating the clean energy movement. We are doing so by enabling a new era of on-demand, clean energy entrepreneurs. | $36M / Series A / Jan 18, 2022 | ||
| VividCharts offers a way to deliver extremely high-quality reports, dashboards, and presentations directly in ServiceNow.VividCharts is a ServiceNow Technology Partner with its data presentation platform available in the ServiceNow Store. VividCharts is built entirely on top of ServiceNow which means that anyone can start creating things likeslide decks and infographics without pulling data out of your ServiceNow instance. Best part? You don't have to manually update their data for periodic presentations.The company was founded in 2018 and based in Lexington, Kentucky. | $2M / Seed / May 06, 2021 | ||
| Podchaser is the world’s most comprehensive podcast database — collecting, enriching, and distributing podcast insights to power discovery for listeners, podcasters, and brands. | $4M / Series A / Jan 14, 2021 | ||
| Switcher Studio is a mobile video app that lets you sync up to four iPhones and iPads to record and stream LIVE video to services like YouTube and Ustream. Insert photos and graphic overlays, manage multi-view effects, and more. | $2.4M / Seed / Apr 13, 2020 | ||
| Podchaser is the world’s most comprehensive podcast database — collecting, enriching, and distributing podcast insights to power discovery for listeners, podcasters, and brands. | $1.7M / Seed / Jan 29, 2020 | ||
| PERQ, a high-growth Indianapolis marketing technology company, has rapidly expanded its footprint. More than 1,000 businesses in the home furnishings, auto retailing and multifamily industries trust PERQ’s Marketing Cloud to empower them with the strategy, process and technology to drive data-driven marketing & sales strategies that lead toincreased sales. | $6M / Series A / Jul 08, 2019 | ||
| SkuVault is a cloud-based inventory management system and warehouse management software. Acquiring and maintaining accurate inventory quantities is a problem common to most all retailers – from overselling (aka out of stocks), mis-picks, and mis-ships, to forgotten stock sitting on a shelf, not even listed for sale. Our system, SkuVault, helps togreatly reduce those inventory issues, and many other problems retailers face. SkuVault deals with your actual, physical inventory, scanned into and out of your warehouse or store, and then uses this real time data to sync to your online marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay, Shopify, etc. | $8M / Series A / Nov 21, 2018 | ||
| QASymphony is a leading agile software company that provides enterprise test case management and exploratory testing solutions for development and QA teams. QASymphony's qTest Platform helps companies create better software by improving speed, efficiency, collaboration and analysis during the testing process. The company has over 400 customersacross 20 countries including Salesforce, Barclays, Adobe, Samsung, Verizon and Office Depot. QASymphony was recently selected by Gartner as a "Cool Vendor in Application Development" and by Red Herring as a "Global Top 100 Winner". The company is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.Background and History:QASymphony was founded in June 2011. QASymphony was co-founded by Vu Lam, CEO and Josh Lieberman. The company has it’s headquarters in Atlanta, GA, with additional offices in Dublin, CA and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. | $2.5M / Series A / Jan 29, 2015 | ||
| Aprimo delivers technology and insight that accelerates marketing productivity and the ability of marketing to document performance. Aprimo provides an Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM) product to leading marketing organizations around the world. Aprimo's software is built on its visionary Enterprise Marketing Backbone which uses aservices oriented architecture (SOA) that eliminates marketing as an island of automation. Aprimo is the global leader in delivering technology and insight that accelerates marketing productivity and the ability of marketing to document effective performance. Aprimo provides an Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM) product to leading marketing organizations around the world. Aprimo's software is built on its visionary Enterprise Marketing Backbone™ which uses a services oriented architecture (SOA) that eliminates marketing as an island of automation. Aprimo Marketing Studio offers an integrated, interactive marketing solution that enables to develop, implement and manage every aspect of online marketing activities. Aprimo Marketing Studio includes traffic generation features missing from nearly all existing marketing automation products. Marketing Studio is designed as a true Software-as-a-Service system to tap underserved market and establish a leadership position in the emerging Online Marketing Management space aimed at mid-size and larger companies. | $14M / Feb 01, 1999 |
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FAQ
What does Poplar Ventures invest in?
Poplar Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Marketing startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Poplar Ventures?
The team at Poplar Ventures includes John Willmoth (Founder and Managing Partner) and Christian Miller (Principal). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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