# Scott Dorsey

> Scott Dorsey is a seed investor at High Alpha backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 41 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [High Alpha](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-alpha-llc)
- Location: Indianapolis, United States
- Total investments: 41
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/scott-dorsey/3/b39/96
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ScottDorsey
- Website: https://x.com/ScottDorsey

Scott Dorsey is a Managing Partner and Co-founder at High Alpha and was a Co-Founder, CEO, and Chairman at Salesforce. He attended Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and the Indiana University - Kelley School of Business.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $750k–$7.3M |
| Series A | $3.1M–$28M |
| Series B | $11M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 15 | 37% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 20% |
| SaaS | 7 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 15% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 12% |

72 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 16 | 39% |
| Series A | 9 | 22% |
| Series B | 6 | 15% |
| Series C | 4 | 10% |
| Angel | 1 | 2% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 30 | 73% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Verisoul | Verisoul provides an AI-driven identity verification and fraud-prevention platform designed to help online businesses distinguish real users from bots, fake accounts, and coordinated abuse. The company’s products analyze behavioral signals, device attributes, network patterns, and identity indicators to assess whether an account or transaction isoperated by a genuine human. Verisoul offers tools for user onboarding protection, account integrity monitoring, and ongoing risk assessment across sign-ups, logins, and in-app activity. Its platform supports use cases such as preventing fake account creation, detecting multi-accounting, reducing promotional abuse, and identifying automated or scripted behavior. Verisoul delivers these capabilities through APIs and dashboards that integrate into customer workflows and provide actionable risk scores and alerts. The service is used by digital platforms seeking to maintain trust, reduce fraud-related losses, and protect community quality without relying solely on traditional CAPTCHA or document-based verification methods. | $8.8M | Series A | Dec 16, 2025 |  |
| Markup AI | AI can create content, but Markup AI’s Content Guardian AgentsSM perfect your content. Our API- and MCP-first solution delivers content guardrails directly where your content lives. Markup AI instantly scans, scores, and rewrites any content to enforce your standards for brand voice, terminology, and compliance. Markup AI gives you the confidenceyou need to scale your use of AI. | $27.5M | Series A | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| SmartSuite | SmartSuite develops a work management platform integrating databases, spreadsheets, documents, collaboration tools, and automation features. The platform is designed to streamline business processes by consolidating essential workflow elements into a single system. It enables teams to manage tasks, organize information, and automate repetitiveprocesses without requiring coding expertise. | $13M | Series A | Feb 20, 2025 |  |
| Logik.io | Logik.io is a commerce logic engine platform developer focused on developing high-performance headless configuration technologies. The company's platform offers high-performance headless configuration technology that eliminates the operational limitations of traditional configurators, streamlines complex selling processes, and enablesomnichannel e-commerce sales for enterprise businesses, allowing them to add configuration and guided selling to their existing eCommerce platforms for complex B2C and B2B selling. | $25M | Series B | Oct 08, 2024 |  |
| AudiencePlus | AudiencePlus is pioneering the industry's first owned media software for marketers, enabling companies to build, engage, and monetize an owned audience. We believe that every company is becoming a media company, and are creating software, content, and community to help. | $7.3M | Seed | Sep 10, 2024 |  |
| Bountiful | Bountiful is a platform that leverages the power of social networks to drive exceptional job seekers and develop strong teams. |  | Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| Zylo | As the leader in SaaS Management, Zylo empowers companies to discover, optimize and govern their SaaS applications while elevating the employee experience. Organizations large and small trust Zylo’s enterprise-proven technology and unparalleled SaaS Management expertise to optimize more than 30 million SaaS licenses and $7 billion in SaaS spend.Zylo’s patent-pending, AI-powered Discovery Engine provides continual, frictionless monitoring of SaaS spend, licenses, and usage to create the industry’s most trusted SaaS system of record. Fueled by more data than any other provider, Zylo delivers actionable insights that allow you to take action quickly to optimize growing SaaS portfolios. For more information, visit zylo.com. | $31.5M | Series C | Nov 29, 2022 |  |
| Cordial | Creating engaging, tailored customers experiences is difficult with rigid legacy architecture and fragmented data. Cordial enables you to collect, normalize, and activate real-time data from anywhere in your technology stack to create and deliver tailored messages that flex and adapt to changing customer signals. Over 200 brands, including 1-800Contacts, La Quinta and Revolve, use Cordial to consolidate redundant technology, eliminate data silos, remove internal friction, and create brand experiences that drive bottom-line impact. | $50M | Series C | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| Encamp | Encamp is a computer software company that specializes in environmental compliance automation, hazardous material tracking, and environmental data management. It helps people to understand, manage, and meet environmental compliance. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. | $30M | Series C | Jun 08, 2022 |  |
| Kevala | Kevala connects healthcare operators to their favorite agencies and internal float staff — with automated scheduling, timesheets, and credential management. | $12.1M | Series A | Feb 14, 2022 |  |

10 of 41 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Elevate Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elevate-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [IrishAngels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/irishangels) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [IU Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iu-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Allos Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allos-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Costanoa Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/costanoaventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Emergence Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emergence-capital-095d) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About High Alpha

VC Fund · Indianapolis, United States

High Alpha, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, is a B2B SaaS venture studio. High Alpha Studio conceives, launches, and scales B2B SaaS companies by providing a blend of studio services, including design, finance, talent, marketing, brand, and go-to-market. High Alpha Capital invests in High Alpha Studio companies and emerging B2B SaaS companies. Thecombination of High Alpha Studio and High Alpha Capital represents a new model for entrepreneurship — the venture studio model — that seeks to help companies reduce friction, increase velocity, and achieve enterprise scale.

5 contacts available at High Alpha.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aman Brar | Operating Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aman-brar |
| Blake Koriath | VP Finance | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blake-koriath |
| Brian Bispala | Co-Founder and CTO of Studio Startup | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-bispala |
| Eric Tobias | Partner and Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-tobias |
| Mike Fitzgerald | Partner and Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-fitzgerald-5 |

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## FAQ

### What does Scott Dorsey invest in?

Scott Dorsey invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 41 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 Scott Dorsey's check size?

Scott Dorsey typically joins rounds of $750k–$7.3M at Seed, $3.1M–$28M at Series A and $11M–$25M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Scott Dorsey participates in.

### When did Scott Dorsey last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Scott Dorsey closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 41 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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