# Runway Growth Capital

> Runway Growth Capital is a VC fund backing Software and Health Care. See 81 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: California City, United States
- Total investments: 81
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 89%
- Fund size: $275M
- Last fund: Dec 2017
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/18118078/
- Website: https://runwaygrowth.com/

Runway Growth Capital is a VC fund in California City focused on Software and Health Care. Our mission is to support passionate entrepreneurs in building great businesses by lending capital to companies looking to fund growth with minimal dilution.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Runway Growth Capital. Shizune tracks 7 team members at Runway Growth Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/runway-growth-capital?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Post-IPO Debt | $10M–$250M |
| Debt Financing | $9.3M–$75M |
| Private Equity | $14M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 22 | 27% |
| Health Care | 14 | 17% |
| Medical Device | 11 | 14% |
| SaaS | 9 | 11% |
| Medical | 9 | 11% |

133 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 58 | 72% |
| Post-IPO Debt | 4 | 5% |
| Private Equity | 4 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 4% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 2% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 61 | 75% |
| Canada | 2 | 2% |
| Germany | 2 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brian Sapp | Managing Director - Head of West Coast Origination | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-sapp |
| Carl Rizzo | Chief Compliance Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carl-rizzo |
| David Spreng | CEO, CIO & Founder | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-spreng |
| Greg Greifeld | Deputy Chief Investment Officer, Head of Credit, Managing Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-greifeld |
| Jeff Goldrich | Managing Director, Technology | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-goldrich-2e8b |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FINN | At finn our mission is to make mobility fun and sustainable: We help everyone who loves driving their own car but refuses the struggle, commitment and intransparent costs associated with car ownership. We achieve this by offering all-inclusive, immediately available, monthly car-subscriptions. Best thing, yet: While you drive we plant trees asevery journey is CO2 compensated. | $45.4M | Debt Financing | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| Kin Insurance | Kin Insurance is a direct-to-consumer digital insurer focusing on the homeowner's insurance market. Kin Insurance enhances homeowners insurance convenience and affordability by removing external agents. The tech platform offers a seamless user experience, personalized coverage options, and efficient claims service. Kin utilizes extensiveproperty data for precise pricing and improved underwriting results. | $45M | Debt Financing | Oct 09, 2025 |  |
| DigiCert | DigiCert, Inc. provides high-assurance SSL certificates to government agencies, financial institutions, educational and medical institutions, and companies worldwide. It offers standard and wildcard SSL certificates, extended validation certificates, and unified communications certificates; and code signing certificate solutions that include Adobe,Apple, Java, and Microsoft code signing certificates. The company also provides managed public key infrastructure solutions that allow organizations to take control of SSL certificate management, including issuing new certificates and reissuing, replacing, and revoking existing SSL certificates. DigiCert, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is based in Lindon, Utah. | $9.3M | Debt Financing | Oct 09, 2025 |  |
| Skillshare | Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of inspiring classes for creative and curious people, on topics including illustration, design, photography, video, freelancing, and more. The company's community offers classes on any type of skill, from baking cupcakes to raising startup capital to varying fields in design, business,and technology, enabling members to harness their creative power and learn skills in an enhanced way. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York. | $12.9M | Debt Financing | Oct 09, 2025 |  |
| JobGet | JobGet is the social platform for jobs. It is the fastest job platform for anyone looking for a job in the retail and hospitality industry, reducing the timeline from weeks to minutes. Consistently a Top 10 rated app in the iOs and Android play store helping thousands of job seekers engage with leading employers.Getting a job shouldn’t take hoursfilling online applications and waiting for weeks to hear back. We help accelerate the process with smart matching and a talk, text and video enabled platform.We are currently working with thousands of employers around the US on finding the right staff quickly, as well as helping thousands of jobseekers find their dream jobs within minutes.JobGet is a 2019 MassChallenge winner, as well as a 2019 MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge Winner. We are looking to reshape the employment landscape for hourly employers and professionals to be instant, accessible, and efficient. | $1M | Debt Financing | Oct 09, 2025 |  |
| Madison Reed | Madison Reed is a beauty company revolutionizing the way women color their hair. The fast-growing startup uses technology, a proprietary ammonia-free formula, and a team of licensed colorists to deliver salon-quality hair color to homes nationwide for under $25. Headquartered in San Francisco, Madison Reed is a privately held company backed bytop-tier venture capital firms including Norwest Venture Partners, True Ventures and Maveron.Founded in 2013, Madison Reed started with a simple mission: To create a luxurious prestige hair color made with ingredients you can feel good about. Madison Reed’s conditioning formula is crafted without ammonia, parabens, resorcinol, PPD, phthalates, and gluten.The entire color and hair care line is enriched with argan oil, keratin, and ginseng root extract to protect and pamper hair. Its products can be found online, on mobile, and through select retailers including Sephora, QVC, and Ulta Beauty.It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $40M | Debt Financing | Oct 09, 2025 |  |
| Nalu Medical | Nalu Medical is an early-stage company that develops a range of medical devices. Their vision to modernize and improve the technology in medical devices, thus improving the lives of people.The Nalu neurostimulation system is a battery-free, micro-implantable pulse generator (iPG) currently cleared by the FDA for both Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS)and Peripheral Nerve Stimulation (PNS) for mitigating chronic pain. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Carlsbad, California. | $21.1M | Debt Financing | Oct 09, 2025 |  |
| FiscalNote | FiscalNote is a privately-held company that uses artificial intelligence and big data to deliver immediate predictive analytics of governmental action to pinpoint impact.FiscalNote's flagship platform provides real-time legislative predictive capabilities as well as enterprise collaboration and visualization tools for data on campaignfinance, demographics, news, and open data to government relations professionals to help them make faster decisions. | $25.8M | Post-IPO Debt | Oct 09, 2025 |  |
| Swing Education | Swing provides substitute teachers to fill hard-to-fill staff absences. On average, U.S. students spend 5% of the typical school year with substitute teachers, which translates to over 6 months of their K-12 school career.Failing to fill a substitute teacher opening not only impacts students, but causes teachers, school leaders, andadministrators to shuffle around to cover gaps. There's also the time administrators spend on the logistical issues of finding, recruiting, screening, scheduling, and paying contract substitute teachers. Swing's marketplace helps schools cover hard-to-fill absences by seamlessly providing substitute teachers on-demand. | $20M | Debt Financing | Jul 15, 2025 |  |
| Autobooks | Autobooks is a comprehensive accounting and bookkeeping solution designed for small businesses. It enables users to accept online payments, create digital invoices, and automate tasks. The company integrates with financial institutions to provide tailored banking solutions for small businesses, simplifying payment processing and accounting directlythrough online banking channels. It helps businesses manage cash flow effectively by automating invoices and payments without lock-up periods or third-party processes. | $40M | Debt Financing | May 08, 2025 |  |

10 of 81 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Runway Growth Capital invest in?

Runway Growth Capital invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Medical Device startups, most often at Debt Financing and Post-IPO Debt stage. Most of the 81 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Runway Growth Capital's check size?

Runway Growth Capital typically joins rounds of $10M–$250M at Post-IPO Debt, $9.3M–$75M at Debt Financing and $14M–$30M at Private Equity. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Runway Growth Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Runway Growth Capital?

Public channels for Runway Growth Capital include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Runway Growth Capital?

The team at Runway Growth Capital includes Brian Sapp (Managing Director - Head of West Coast Origination), Carl Rizzo (Chief Compliance Officer) and David Spreng (CEO, CIO & Founder), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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