# Rising Tide

> Rising Tide is a VC fund in Menlo Park backing Software and Biotechnology. See 77 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 77
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 8%
- Fund size: $6M
- Last fund: Sep 2017
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/risingtidevc/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/RisingTideVC
- Website: http://rtf.vc/

Rising Tide is a VC fund in Menlo Park focused on Software and Biotechnology. Rising Tide their technological advancements in big data analytics, computer-aided design, optical sensors, mobile applications in vertical markets, community-connected networks, and services.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 15 | 19% |
| Biotechnology | 11 | 14% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 11 | 14% |
| Internet | 9 | 12% |
| Machine Learning | 9 | 12% |

129 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 32 | 42% |
| Series A | 12 | 16% |
| Series B | 8 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 9% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 5% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 49 | 64% |
| Canada | 7 | 9% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Arie van Gemeren | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arie-van-gemeren |
| Ashif Mawji | Venture Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashif-mawji-8667 |
| Brent MacDonald | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brent-macdonald |
| Hisham Jazzar | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hisham-jazzar |
| Joseph Kell | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joseph-kell-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Coral Vita | Coral Vita grows corals to revitalize dying reefs. | $8M | Series A | Jun 06, 2025 |  |
| ParkBooker | ParkBooker is an independent online travel agent, and we believe that holiday park travelers deserve more when it comes to discovering new destinations and parks and planning and booking their holidays. | $381.1K | Pre-Seed | Feb 18, 2025 |  |
| Parade | Parade is the leading capacity management platform for freight brokerages. | $17M |  | Sep 14, 2023 |  |
| ALICE Technologies | ALICE Technologies is the world's first AI-powered construction simulation platform. Founded in 2015 based on research from Stanford University, ALICE leverages artificial intelligence to analyze a project's complex building requirements,  generate highly efficient building schedules, and tune those schedules as needed duringconstruction. ALICE enables contractors and owners to plan, bid, and build more effectively, reducing construction times and labor costs by $30 million for a typical $500 million construction project. ALICE Technologies works with construction leaders in the infrastructure and commercial construction segments, such as Parsons, HDCC, and Kajima Corporation. Learn more at www.alicetechnologies.com. | $30M | Series B | Jun 13, 2022 |  |
| Activ Surgical | Activ Surgical is a digital surgery company focused on improving surgical efficiency, accuracy, patient outcomes, and accessibility. Its scalable and patent-protected surgical software platform technology is driven by computer vision, artificial intelligence, analytics, and machine learning to enhance a surgeon’s intra-operative decision making,and reduce unintended and preventable surgical complications.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $15M | Series B | Mar 22, 2022 |  |
| Reach | Reach is a payment platform that simplifies how businesses sell cross-border. We combine dynamic checkout, intelligent routing, and Merchant of Record local acquiring to offer you the most cost-effective way to sell to global customers. Reach was established in 2015 by Sam Ranieri in Calgary, Alberta. | $23.8M | Series A | Mar 21, 2022 |  |
| Tribal | Tribal is a payments and financing platform using the latest emerging technologies to provide small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in emerging markets with better access to financial services. Tribal offers these SMBs access to modern payment methods like multi-currency physical and ​virtual business credit cards​, local and internationalwires, along with short-term financing, and a powerful ​spend management platform​ to track and control their expenses—all in one seamless interface. Tribal has raised from SoftBank Latin America Fund, QED Investors, BECO Capital, Stellar Development Foundation, and Coinbase Ventures. The company is also among an elite group of companies chosen as part of the Visa FinTech Fast Track program. | $60M | Series B | Feb 03, 2022 |  |
| Kiwi Grocery | Kiwi Grocery is an online application for grocery and food products. They offer same-day delivery services. Their application can be found online. It also provides transparent pricing and weekly price checks. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Dec 31, 2021 |  |
| CoinList | CoinList's mission is to help builders launch and grow innovative digital assets, expand access for early adopters, and be the most trusted brand in digital finance. We're the global leader in new token issuance, helping blue chip projects like Filecoin, Solana, Near, Algorand, Ondo, and others connect with millions of new token holders.We support the full lifecycle of crypto investment, from token sales through distribution, trading, lending, staking and access to decentralized-finance opportunities. CoinList users trade and store Bitcoin, Ether, and many other popular crypto assets through our full-service trading products on mobile and CoinList.co, while also getting access to the best new tokens before they list on other exchanges. Our customers include validators, miners, founders, CEOs, crypto funds, bitcoin OGs, as well as a broad array of crypto enthusiasts. | $100M | Series A | Oct 26, 2021 |  |
| Enable | Enable is a cloud-based software platform that helps distributors, manufacturers, and retailers to calculate, plan, and accrue rebate deals precisely to drive profitable growth. The company's mission is to build an ideal business-to-business deal management solution. Its products help companies acquire, retain, and serve their customers byworking collaboratively with their trading partners using joined-up plans and incentive programs.Enable was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $45M | Series B | Aug 18, 2021 |  |

10 of 77 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
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- [Artis Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artis) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Rising Tide invest in?

Rising Tide invests primarily in Software, Biotechnology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 77 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 Rising Tide?

The team at Rising Tide includes Arie van Gemeren (Principal), Ashif Mawji (Venture Partner) and Brent MacDonald (Partner), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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