# RPS Ventures

> RPS Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 36%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rps-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/rpsventures
- Website: https://www.rpsventures.com

RPS Ventures is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Information Technology. PS Ventures is a late-stage venture capital firm that is a collaborative between Blue Pool Capital, SoftBank Group, and Jerry Yang.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 18% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 18% |
| Retail | 3 | 14% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 14% |
| Mobile | 2 | 9% |

57 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series D | 8 | 36% |
| Series C | 7 | 32% |
| Series B | 5 | 23% |
| Series E | 1 | 5% |
| Series F | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 55% |
| India | 2 | 9% |
| Spain | 1 | 5% |
| South Korea | 1 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kabir Misra | Founding General Partner | 15 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kabir-misra |
| Samantha Wang | Founding General Partner | 1 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Handspring Health | Handspring is redesigning the family mental healthcare experience from the ground up. Our omnichannel care delivery model tightly integrates different modalities of care, including in-person, digital and devices. Through the use of technology, health plan partnerships, and highly trained clinicians. Handspring Health aims to make quality mentalhealthcare more accessible to all families. | $19M | Series B | Jul 07, 2026 |  |
| Fiddler Labs | Fiddler’s mission is to allow businesses of all sizes to unlock the AI black box and deliver transparent AI experiences to end-users. We enable businesses to build, deploy, and maintain trustworthy AI solutions. Fiddler’s next-generation ML Model Performance Management platform empowers data science and AI/ML teams to validate, monitor,explain, and analyze their AI solutions to accelerate AI adoption, meet regulatory compliance, and build trust with end-users. The platform provides complete visibility and understanding of AI solutions to customers. Fiddler works with pioneering Fortune 500 companies as well as emerging tech companies. | $30M | Series C | Jan 27, 2026 |  |
| Luminance | Luminance develops document analysis software to secure big data systems for multinational and governmental organizations. Its software provides overview of various companies and picks out warning signs without any instructions; and document clustering and filtering to enable users focus on eliminating administrative tasks. Luminance identifiesrisk clauses, data visualization, and anomaly detection, as well as reviews and enables users to allocate tasks and track the progress of their team; and manages numerous mergers, acquisitions, and financings. It also helps lawyers and legal teams to categorize, review, and analyze various documents and contracts in the data room. Emily Foges founded founded Luminance in 2015. It has its headquarters in Cambridge in the United Kingdom. | $75M | Series C | Feb 18, 2025 |  |
| Makestar | Makestar is a platform that provides K-culture content and information. Makestar allows artists and production companies to share their visions with a global audience. Makestar brings Hallyu stars and fans from all over the world together. It also offers the opportunity for fans to interact with celebrities and participate in the creation ofcontent. | $22.4M | Series D | Oct 08, 2024 |  |
| Blumira | Blumira's end-to-end platform offers both automated threat detection and response, enabling organizations of any size to more efficiently defend against cybersecurity threats in near real-time. It eases the burden of alert fatigue, the complexity of log management, and the lack of IT visibility. Blumira's cloud SIEM can be deployed inhours with broad integration coverage across cloud, endpoint protection, firewall, and identity providers including Office 365, G Suite, Crowdstrike, Okta, Palo Alto, Cisco FTD, and many others. | $15M | Series B | Jun 07, 2023 |  |
| Emotive | Emotive is a conversational sms marketing service. They build for the fashion, food, beverages, fitness, and household markets. Their features include automated text messages, e-commerce sms, business texting, mass texting, sms broadcasts, cart recovery, and CRM with text messaging. Their NLP is used to learn about the customers and their issues sothat their partner stores can make recommendations. | $20M | Series B | Mar 01, 2022 |  |
| Paack | Online sales growth and customer satisfaction are hampered by inadequate delivery experiences. Existing last mile delivery companies are incapable of providing a truly customer-centric approach. Our proprietary technology stack and operational excellence is built specifically to service time slot deliveries, controlled entirely by the endcustomer. This creates unprecedented results through basket conversion, loyalty, repeat purchase, acquisition, brand image and customer satisfaction, plus they can actually help the environment.Paack operates in Europe (UK, France, Spain and Portugal). | $224.8M | Series D | Jan 26, 2022 |  |
| Pavilion Data Systems, Inc. | Pavilion Data Systems is redefining storage to put real-time performance at scale within reach of all. Pavilion provides unmatched storage performance and density, without the cost and complexity of legacy all flash arrays (AFAs). Pavilion provides consistent, predictable performance across the fabric with ultra-low latency and linear scalability.Pavilion has disrupted the enterprise storage landscape with its innovative architecture and software and is pulling the industry into a new category of storage appliances: Hyperparallel Flash Arrays. Hyperparallel Flash Arrays utilize multiple controllers within a single system and leverage the parallelism of flash to go beyond the limitations of legacy, dual controller AFAs, delivering breakthrough performance and value. Pavilion is the leader of this new “Third wave” of storage with the largest deployments and most deployments because the customer need for ever-increasing data throughput continues to expand.Pavilion Data Systems brings together experienced technology professionals with expertise in storage system architecture, network switch design, dense micro-server architectures, and solid-state storage technology to deliver a ground-breaking storage system design that is purpose-built to take advantage of memory-class media available both today and in the future. | $45M | Series D | Jan 20, 2022 |  |
| Reltio | Innovative Global 2000 companies trust Reltio to manage their mission-critical data to win in the experience economy. Reltio Connected Customer 360 is at the heart of customer experience to drive hyper-personalization, accelerate real-time operations, and simplify compliance with customer consent and privacy laws. It’s an award-winning cloud-nativeplatform that enables business agility, real-time operations at enterprise scale, and insight-ready data for big ideas.Reltio customers include AstraZeneca, HP, Inc., PennyMac, Fairview Health, and MGM Resorts International. Cloud platform providers, AWS and Google Cloud, technology partners, Salesforce/MuleSoft, Talend, and influential strategy partners, Accenture Interactive, Deloitte, IQVIA, Dun & Bradstreet, and many others, partner with Reltio for a trusted customer data foundation. | $120M | Series E | Nov 04, 2021 |  |
| Versa Networks | Versa Networks, the leader in SASE, combines extensive security, advanced networking, full-featured SD-WAN, genuine multitenancy, and sophisticated analytics via the cloud, on-premises, or as a blended combination of both to meet SASE requirements for small to extremely large enterprises and Service Providers. Versa SASE is available on-premises,hosted through Versa-powered Service Providers, cloud-delivered, and via the simplified Versa Titan cloud service designed for Lean IT. Thousands of customers globally with hundreds of thousands of sites trust Versa with their networks, security, and clouds. Versa Networks is privately held and funded by Sequoia Capital, Mayfield, Artis Ventures, Verizon Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Liberty Global Ventures, Princeville Global Fund and RPS Ventures. | $84M | Series D | Jun 30, 2021 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

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- [Amazon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amazon) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does RPS Ventures invest in?

RPS Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Retail startups, most often at Series D and Series C stage. Most of the 22 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 RPS Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at RPS Ventures?

The team at RPS Ventures includes Kabir Misra (Founding General Partner) and Samantha Wang (Founding General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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