# Riverfront Ventures

> Riverfront Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Health Care. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Pittsburgh, United States
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Fund size: $21M
- Last fund: Jun 2014
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/riverfront-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Riverfront_VC
- Website: https://www.riverfrontventures.com/

Riverfront Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed and early-stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in companies in Pittsburgh with the potential to create high-paying jobs. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 15% |
| Health Care | 3 | 11% |
| Robotics | 2 | 7% |
| Therapeutics | 2 | 7% |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 7% |

54 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 9 | 33% |
| Series C | 4 | 15% |
| Seed | 3 | 11% |
| Series B | 2 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gary Glausser | Managing Director | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gary-glausser |
| Jeffrey McDaniel | Associate Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeffrey-mcdaniel |
| Peter Erin | Senior Investment Associate | 137 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-erin-40b1 |
| Raul Valdes-Perez | Limited Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/raul-valdes-perez |
| Richard Lunak | Founder & Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rich-lunak |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Handl Health | Handl Health is a technology platform transforming how health plans are evaluated, designed and managed. By unifying healthcare pricing, utilization, benefit and quality data into a single analytical and operational layer, Handl empowers brokers, carriers and third-party administrators to build flexible, cost-effective health benefits. Handl’stechnology delivers the infrastructure, analytics and insights needed to power the next generation of alternative health plans. | $14.2M | Series A | Feb 23, 2026 |  |
| Rimsys | Rimsys is a world-leading Regulatory Information Management (RIM) software for medical technology companies. Built by and for regulatory affairs professionals, Rimsys digitizes, automates, and creates regulatory order to ensure products adhere to changing global regulations. It is the only holistic RIM software for medical devices, in-vitrodiagnostics, and medical device software that makes it easy to manage global UDI requirements and navigate the pillars of regulatory affairs, including product registration, standards management, essential principles/GSPR, and regulatory intelligence. | $5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 30, 2024 |  |
| Handl Health | Handl Health is a technology platform transforming how health plans are evaluated, designed and managed. By unifying healthcare pricing, utilization, benefit and quality data into a single analytical and operational layer, Handl empowers brokers, carriers and third-party administrators to build flexible, cost-effective health benefits. Handl’stechnology delivers the infrastructure, analytics and insights needed to power the next generation of alternative health plans. | $2.5M | Seed | Apr 24, 2024 |  |
| Vali Cyber | Vali Cyber specializes in addressing Linux-specific security solutions. It secures workloads effectively, prevents attacks via hardening, and catches anything that gets through. It also minimizes the resource impact of security, saving costly computer resources for real work. | $15M | Seed | Sep 26, 2023 |  |
| Aspinity | Aspinity offers neuromorphic all-analog integrated circuit technology that can replicate the functionality of digital signal processors. It reduces the system power requirements for always-on sensing applications.Their vision is that battery life does not have to stand in the way.It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania. | $5M | Series B | Sep 19, 2023 |  |
| IRALOGIX | iraLogix, an advanced, institutional IRA record-keeping and trading technology offering web-based institutional IRA record-keeping services. By providing the industry's only end-to-end, fully paperless system, they allow their clients to provide high-quality IRA products that offer seamless access to professional advice, education, andinstitutionally priced investments regardless of account size. iraLogix was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. | $22M | Series C | Jul 13, 2022 |  |
| IRALOGIX | iraLogix, an advanced, institutional IRA record-keeping and trading technology offering web-based institutional IRA record-keeping services. By providing the industry's only end-to-end, fully paperless system, they allow their clients to provide high-quality IRA products that offer seamless access to professional advice, education, andinstitutionally priced investments regardless of account size. iraLogix was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. | $22M | Series C | Jul 13, 2022 |  |
| Gridwise | The Gridwise app is the leading business platform for gig economy drivers, helping them maximize their earnings and track their business performance all in one place. Their app empowers 100s of thousands of all US gig drivers to run their businesses with unique demand insights, earnings, and activity tracking, performance reporting, and amarketplace of gig worker benefits. | $12.7M | Series A | May 26, 2022 |  |
| Gridwise | The Gridwise app is the leading business platform for gig economy drivers, helping them maximize their earnings and track their business performance all in one place. Their app empowers 100s of thousands of all US gig drivers to run their businesses with unique demand insights, earnings, and activity tracking, performance reporting, and amarketplace of gig worker benefits. | $12.7M | Series A | May 26, 2022 |  |
| Gridwise | The Gridwise app is the leading business platform for gig economy drivers, helping them maximize their earnings and track their business performance all in one place. Their app empowers 100s of thousands of all US gig drivers to run their businesses with unique demand insights, earnings, and activity tracking, performance reporting, and amarketplace of gig worker benefits. | $12.7M | Series A | May 26, 2022 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Riverfront Ventures invest in?

Riverfront Ventures invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Robotics startups, most often at Series A and Series C stage. Most of the 27 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 Riverfront Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Riverfront Ventures?

The team at Riverfront Ventures includes Gary Glausser (Managing Director), Jeffrey McDaniel (Associate Partner) and Peter Erin (Senior Investment Associate), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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