Rothenberg Ventures
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Rothenberg Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Virtual Reality. Rothenberg Ventures invests in early-stage frontier technology startups. Its team of investors, operators, and community builders support founders through portfolio success programs across virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, robotics, drones, space, next-generation hardware, and IoT. It was founded in 2012 andheadquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Total investments:
- 107
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 6%
- Fund size:
- $20M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Rothenberg Ventures invests in
SoftwareVirtual RealityE-CommerceInternetSaaS
Stages Rothenberg Ventures invests in
SeedSeries ASeries BFunding RoundConvertible Note
Countries Rothenberg Ventures invests in
United StatesCanadaIndiaJapanSpain
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 26 (24%)
- Virtual Reality 21 (20%)
- E-Commerce 12 (11%)
- Internet 10 (9%)
- SaaS 9 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 56 (52%)
- Series A 17 (16%)
- Series B 8 (7%)
- Funding Round 6 (6%)
- Convertible Note 3 (3%)
Country
- United States 79 (74%)
- Canada 3 (3%)
- India 1 (1%)
- Japan 1 (1%)
- Spain 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Dave Haase
Chief Financial Officer
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Chief Financial Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Firdavs Abdunazarov
Investment Analyst
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Investment Analyst | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Hannah Han
Controller
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Controller | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Mike Rothenberg
General Partner and Founder
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General Partner and Founder | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
Skye Jordan
Events and Office Manager
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Events and Office Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Amelia Virtual Care
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Psious develops a virtual reality platform designed to bring value to mental health treatment. The company's platform uses hyper-realistic virtual environments to treat anxiety disorders by means of virtual exposure therapy, enabling professionals to improve mental health therapies. | $1.5M / Seed / May 07, 2018 | |
VRChat
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VRChat is a virtual reality social platform that allows users to easily build social virtual reality content. Any virtual world built with the VRChat platform instantly becomes a social VR world. This means VRChat users can explore and play in these worlds together, in a social setting. Using VRChat, content creators can take their 3D worlds and bewalking around those worlds in VR, with friends, in under an hour. Users can then sell their content to other users using the VRChat market place.It was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $4M / Series A / Sep 21, 2017 | |
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VRChat
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VRChat is a virtual reality social platform that allows users to easily build social virtual reality content. Any virtual world built with the VRChat platform instantly becomes a social VR world. This means VRChat users can explore and play in these worlds together, in a social setting. Using VRChat, content creators can take their 3D worlds and bewalking around those worlds in VR, with friends, in under an hour. Users can then sell their content to other users using the VRChat market place.It was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $1.2M / Seed / Oct 04, 2016 | |
InsiteVR
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InsiteVR helps architects and 3D designers easily create immersive virtual reality experiences. At InsiteVR.com architects and 3D designers can upload existing 3D models, which are then converted and optimized for viewing in virtual reality devices like the Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard or simply on mobile devices.Trying to understand 3D spacesby looking at static two-dimensional pictures is not intuitive. Communicating those 3D designs to a client, friend or colleague who isn't trained to understand 3D space isn't always trivial either. With virtual reality, architects and designers can effortlessly communicate the essence of their designs, save time and feel confident their viewer understands the design. | $1.5M / Seed / Aug 19, 2016 | |
Wave
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Wave focuses on interactive virtual experiences with a mission to help artists make money at the intersection of gaming and entertainment. Wave’s technology enables musicians to create lifelike avatars of themselves that can “perform” their music on a virtual stage. Most of these virtual shows take place either on the company’s YouTube channel, butWave’s apps let users tune in on gaming consoles, phones or even the Oculus Rift VR headset. While watching a Wave, viewers can log in to comment in a chat function and give live feedback to the avatar performers. | $2.5M / Seed / Aug 05, 2016 | |
Data.world
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data.world makes it easy for everyone—not just the “data people”—to get clear, accurate, fast answers to any business question. Our cloud-native data catalog maps your siloed, distributed data to familiar and consistent business concepts, creating a unified body of knowledge anyone can find, understand, and use.data.world is also home to theworld’s largest collaborative data community. It’s where people team up on everything from social bot detection to award-winning data journalism. We use what we learn from this community to improve the enterprise product and vice versa. Our team co-created the Manifesto for Data Practices, the most effective, ethical, and modern approach to data teamwork. More people signed the Manifesto for Data Practices in its first year than signed the Agile Manifesto in its first two years combined. In 2019 DataPractices.org became a Linux Foundation Project. The vendor-neutral community features new, open courseware to help people and organizations improve data practices through inclusion, experimentation, accountability, and impact.We are a Public Benefit Corporation. Most corporations are required to prioritize shareholder returns above all else. Not us. We are legally structured as a Public Benefit Corporation so we can pursue our mission and shareholder value with equal vigor. This ability is rare, powerful, and sustaining. | $14M / Jul 11, 2016 | |
SPECTRA VR
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SpectraVR is a virtual reality media production and technology startup, the first in this space in India, founded by a highly experienced team of media and technology experts. We create the best 360 degree experiences using the latest 360° camera techniques and software capabilities. We were founded on the passion to push the limits of 360° filmmaking and to awe people with amazing full scope images.The team of SpectraVR has a long and in-depth experience of online media production and technology. In wide range from full feature films to tv-commercials, SpectraVR is able to deliver quality on every platform. Specialized in story telling, our background is mainly focused on extreme sports, travel, food, & music - combining our passion with work. We work closely with our clients to build innovative 360 degree experiences and enable them to tell their story in an immersive, fun and engaging way. | Seed / Jul 06, 2016 | |
Keen
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Keen is the embedded analytics API that makes shipping custom user-facing analytics easy and seamless. It develops tools and infrastructure to help developers deliver in-product analytics to their customers. Its platform can handle all aspects of event data management, from collection to application. Keen enables users to stream, store, query, andpresent data all in one place and get a competitive advantage over the competition. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. | $14.7M / Series B / Jun 29, 2016 | |
Kespry
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Kespry provides an aerial intelligence platform that transforms how organizations capture, analyze, and share insights about their business. It provides the information they need to accelerate their operations. Purpose-built for industrial use yet simple enough for any user, a wide variety of industries rely on Kespry to solve business-criticalproblems. Delivering a fully integrated solution from drone data capture to industry-specific analytics, Kespry serves customers across North America, Europe, and Australia, including John Deere, Hancock Claims Consultants, Catastrophe Response Unit (CRU), Fluor, Lehigh Hanson/Heidelberg, and Colas USA. | $16M / Series B / Jun 21, 2016 | |
TimeLooper
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TimeLooper's immersive time travel technology enables tourists to turn back the clock and experience historical events and sites at key moments in history through virtual reality videos appearinig as apps on iPhones. | $1.9M / Seed / Jun 01, 2016 | |
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FAQ
What does Rothenberg Ventures invest in?
Rothenberg Ventures invests primarily in Software, Virtual Reality and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 107 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 Rothenberg Ventures?
The team at Rothenberg Ventures includes Dave Haase (Chief Financial Officer), Firdavs Abdunazarov (Investment Analyst) and Hannah Han (Controller). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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