Rincon Venture Partners
VC Fund
Santa Barbara, United States
Rincon Venture Partners is a VC fund in Santa Barbara focused on Software and SaaS. Rincon Venture Partners seeks to partner with extraordinary entrepreneurs and support them as they build world-class businesses. Rincon is an early-stage venture capital firm that targets investment opportunities in Web-based businesses that are led by 'serial founding teams', have proven recurring revenue models and are pursuing capital-efficient operating plans. They typically invest in companies where initial product or service development is largely complete, and the company's forward-looking focus is on market engagement and expansion. They take an active role in guiding and supporting portfolio companies by committing resources for such activities as Board representation, providing strategic and tactical guidance, filling key management positions, facilitating subsequent financings and achieving liquidity events.
- Total investments:
- 84
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 27%
- Fund size:
- $40M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Rincon Venture Partners invests in
Stages Rincon Venture Partners invests in
Countries Rincon Venture Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$4.6M
- Series A
- $1.5M–$11M
- Series B
- $2.3M–$25M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 20 (24%)
- SaaS 11 (13%)
- Analytics 11 (13%)
- Advertising 9 (11%)
- Mobile 8 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 30 (36%)
- Seed 20 (24%)
- Series B 11 (13%)
- Funding Round 8 (10%)
- Series C 5 (6%)
Country
- United States 47 (56%)
- Denmark 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jim Andelman
Managing Partner, Co-Founder & Managing Director
|
Managing Partner, Co-Founder & Managing Director | Total investments: 67 | Find email | |
Lisa Riedmiller
Controller
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Controller | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Loren Shepard
Administrative Director
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Administrative Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| mPulse Mobile, the leader in mobile health engagement, drives improved health outcomes and business efficiencies by engaging individuals with meaningful and interactive dialog. mPulse Mobile combines technology, analytics and industry expertise that helps healthcare organizations activate their customers to adopt healthy behaviors. With over 10years experience, a hundred million messages sent, and 100+ Health Plan, Provider, Pharma and Wellness customers, mPulse Mobile has the data, the expertise and the technology to drive healthy behavior change. | $16M / Series C / Aug 11, 2020 | ||
| Zingle, a Medallia company (MDLA), is a software solution that helps businesses communicate with customers via texting and other mobile messaging channels.Zingle allows businesses to engage, support, and respond to customers in the new mobile messaging era. Zingle’s cloud-based platform works on any device and provides all the software tools todeliver an instant, actionable, and seamless customer service experience.By combining the immediacy of chat with the flexibility of mobile, Zingle is enabling businesses to provide the "instant gratification" service that their customers increasingly expect across a number of industries.Zingle pioneered the business messaging space in 2009 by being the first to offer business texting on its patented platform. Today over 2,000 businesses use Zingle, including Hyatt, Whole Foods, Marriott, and ZipCar. Zingle is the only company to offer simple yet powerful technology like messaging workflow, analytics, integrations, and automation. More info: http://www.zingle.com. | $11M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 31, 2019 | ||
| Qordoba’s AI helps everyone at a company write with the same style, terminology, and brand voice. With Qordoba’s dynamic content guidelines, organizations can achieve consistency and clarity across all types of content — including communications and marketing, technical documentation, product, customer knowledge bases, HR and legal policies, andmore. Companies such as Intuit, Twitter, Braintree, Visa, and Marriott use Qordoba to empower their writers to create better content. We were named a CNBC Upstart 100 company in 2019 and one of Forbes’ Cloud 100 Rising Stars in 2018.Visit qordoba.com to learn more. | $11.5M / Series B / Oct 11, 2018 | ||
| Raken provides mobile-first technology to streamline field workflows for the construction industry. Raken's digital toolbox connects the field to the office with daily reports, time cards, toolbox talks, photo management, production tracking and more. Swinerton Renewable Energy, John W. Danforth, Broadway Mechanical and thousands of other topgeneral contractor and subcontractor firms use Raken for their field reporting needs. To find out more, visit www.rakenapp.com. | $10M / Series A / Jun 05, 2018 | ||
| Nordsense is a SaaS-based smart waste management platform that helps with the waste collection processes.It offers a sensor that can be installed in any type of container to monitor waste level even when the bins use a plastic bag to hold the waste and its user-friendly platform monitors in real-time which waste bins need servicing, enablingcities, waste operators, and waste haulers to perform waste operations much more efficiently. The solution provides a positive environmental impact by reducing both the number of vehicles on the road and fuel consumption, as well as preventing unattractive and unsanitary overflowing bins. | $2.1M / Seed / Jun 01, 2018 | ||
| At Rainforest, we know you need to ship fast, with confidence. To achieve that, you need an easy-to-create, easy-to-maintain QA testing platform. We understand that QA can be tough to manage when you’re stuck in the QA gap between the scrappy “ship everything” stage and enterprise-level code-first frameworks. That’s why we’ve helped thousands ofstartups run more than 60M tests to ship products faster with AI-driven QA that anyone can run on Rainforest. | $25M / Series B / Jan 23, 2018 | ||
| JazzHR is powerful, user-friendly and affordable recruiting software built to help growing companies exceed their recruiting goals. JazzHR's best-in-class solution replaces manual, time-consuming hiring tasks with intuitive tools and automation, empowering hiring managers to recruit and hire the right talent faster. To learn more about JazzHR,visit jazzhr.com. | $6.6M / Series D / Oct 25, 2017 | ||
| Fuel50 is the AI-powered opportunity marketplace that delivers internal talent mobility and workforce reskilling. With hyper-personalized AI and a deeply embedded commitment to diversity and inclusion, Fuel50 mobilizes your talent. Fuel50’s ethical AI matches your people to opportunities in real-time, automatically maps your workforcearchitecture, and provides deep data insights for predictive talent and workforce planning. Over 70 organizations around the globe saw immediate impact since deploying Fuel50, with up to 65% increase in lateral movement, 35% increase in internal recruitment, and 60% reduction in employee churn. Fuel50 powers the workforce of the future. | $2.5M / Series A / Oct 04, 2017 | ||
| HAAWK Specializing in YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram rights management, user-generated content monetization, copyright enforcement, digital music distribution, and micro-sync licensing. | $2.4M / Seed / Sep 20, 2017 | ||
| LiftIgniter is the personalization API. We are a machine learning personalization layer that powers intelligent, real-time, dynamic learning interactions on all customer touchpoints. Each user action has an intelligent reaction. LiftIgniter was part of the Winter 2014 YCombinator class and is based in San Francisco, California. | $6.4M / Series A / Aug 17, 2017 | ||
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FAQ
What does Rincon Venture Partners invest in?
Rincon Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Analytics startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 84 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Rincon Venture Partners invest in?
Rincon Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$4.6M at Seed, $1.5M–$11M at Series A and $2.3M–$25M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Rincon Venture Partners's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Rincon Venture Partners took part in.
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Who are the partners at Rincon Venture Partners?
The team at Rincon Venture Partners includes Jim Andelman (Managing Partner, Co-Founder & Managing Director), Lisa Riedmiller (Controller) and Loren Shepard (Administrative Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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