# Puget Sound Venture Club

> Puget Sound Venture Club is a VC fund backing Software and Health Care. See 104 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bellevue, United States
- Total investments: 104
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 2%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.pugetsoundvc.com

Puget Sound Venture Club is a VC fund in Bellevue focused on Software and Health Care. Puget Sound Venture club is to provide a forum to review venture opportunities. It is a focused community of accredited investors who represent themselves or their organizations while providing access to the experience and insight of other investor members.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $764k–$4M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $100k–$1.8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 22 | 21% |
| Health Care | 18 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 13 | 13% |
| Biotechnology | 12 | 12% |
| SaaS | 9 | 9% |

164 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 30 | 29% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 28 | 27% |
| Seed | 22 | 21% |
| Series A | 10 | 10% |
| Series B | 3 | 3% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 90 | 87% |
| Canada | 4 | 4% |
| Turkey | 1 | 1% |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gary Ritner | Founder, Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gary-ritner |
| Kathi Jones | Staff Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kathi-jones |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Renewal Mill | Renewal Mill is a next generation ingredient company that upcycles fiber and protein produced during large-scale food manufacturing into high-quality ingredients and products. In doing so, Renewal Mill, the recent winner of IFT's Food Disruption Challenge, is reducing waste and improving nutrition. Partnering with its first pilot facility inOakland, CA, Renewal Mill uses its proprietary technology to upcycle the byproduct of soymilk manufacturing, called okara, into a high protein, high fiber, gluten free flour. The company uses that flour to create baked good products that are currently sold at convenience stores in the Bay Area and can be found at tech company offices. Renewal Mill will soon be in nationwide distribution and has already started work on additional byproduct sources from other nuts and legumes. |  | Series A | Jun 01, 2023 |  |
| Bamboo Learning | Bamboo Learning Based in Seattle, is an education-focused software and services company with a mission to become the most trusted guide to lifelong learning using voice-first devices and software. Bamboo Learning is focused on developing skills for Alexa and that enables children and adults to have fun learning and practicing different subjectswhile listening, viewing pictures, and using their voice. Bamboo Skills, including Bamboo Math and Bamboo Music, automatically get more challenging as children and adults master different levels. |  | Seed | Dec 07, 2021 |  |
| Tidal Vision | Tidal Vision is a commercial-scale manufacturer of chitosan, a non-toxic, non-hazmat, biodegradable, and market-proven industrial biopolymer extracted from crab shells. Its zero-waste chitosan extraction process produces by far the most consistent quality and lowest cost chitosan in the industry. Tidal Vision converts chitosan from different specsinto ready-to-use formulas that are optimized for industrial applications. | $9.3M | Series A | Dec 01, 2021 |  |
| Humming | Humming develops a digital advertising network that makes advertising easy, funny, and accessible.The company's network technology uses powerful demand-side platforms and advertising networks, offering the impressive capability to target, engage, and optimizes campaign performance, enabling small businesses to reach big business by levelingthe playing field with access to the tools, data, and knowledge.Bill Herling and Jill Nealey-Moore established the company in Tacoma, Washington in 2018. |  | Seed | Nov 03, 2021 |  |
| Groopit | Groopit is a collaboration platform for leaders solving big problems. Collect real-time data from cross functional, remote, and decentralized teams to accelerate collaboration. The enterprise SaaS offering drives results at a time when collaboration alternatives are desperately needed. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Oct 27, 2021 |  |
| VKTRY Performance Insoles | VKTRY Performance Insoles are the only insoles on the market that combine the comfort of a foam cushion with the energy potential of heel-to-toe carbon fiber. | $100K | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 15, 2021 |  |
| Botanisol Analytics | Botanisol Analytics improves measurements and analytics with engineering and science and provides agricultural biotechnology services. The company makes devices that are simple to use and clear to interpret. Its portable and durable device can be used in a wide variety of applications in the agricultural supply chain.Botanisol Analytics wasfounded in 2018 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. |  | Series A | Sep 27, 2021 |  |
| BlackBoiler | BlackBoiler is a legal technology company that creates contract efficiency solutions for companies, law firms, and legal service providers. Through proprietary Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing technologies, BlackBoiler's Ai-Assisted Contract Review is the first product to instantaneously review and revise contracts right in TrackChanges, just like an attorney. This enables companies, law firms, and legal services providers to leverage historical contract review work to review and redline future inbound documents in a fraction of the time. | $1.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 27, 2021 |  |
| FruitScout | FruitScout is a mobile-based, AI-powered precision crop load management (PCLM) platform. | $4M | Seed | Sep 22, 2021 |  |
| HTuO Biosciences | Biotechnology company | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Aug 31, 2021 |  |

10 of 104 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Puget Sound Venture Club invest in?

Puget Sound Venture Club invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Information Technology startups, most often at Funding Round and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 104 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 Puget Sound Venture Club's check size?

Puget Sound Venture Club typically joins rounds of $764k–$4M at Seed and $100k–$1.8M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Puget Sound Venture Club participates in.

### How do I contact Puget Sound Venture Club?

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### Who are the partners at Puget Sound Venture Club?

The team at Puget Sound Venture Club includes Gary Ritner (Founder, Manager) and Kathi Jones (Staff Member). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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