# Scripps Ventures

> Scripps Ventures is a VC fund in New York backing Internet, E-Commerce and Home Decor. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jan 2002
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.scrippsventures.com

Scripps Ventures is a venture capital firm that caters to early stage internet companies. Scripps Ventures is acquired by Cityfeet, Ezboard, iSyndicate, and Tavolo. Scripps Ventures was founded by Douglas Stern in 1998. It is based in New York.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 2 | 67% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 33% |
| Home Decor | 1 | 33% |
| Communities | 1 | 33% |
| Social Network | 1 | 33% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 1 | 33% |
| Series D | 1 | 33% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ezboard | Ezboard operates a social community platform. The company’s platform enables users to create their profiles and photo galleries, embed third-party content, and reorder photos via drag and drop as well as send hugs, bites, waves, and more. Its platform also provides chat rooms, polls, calendars, drag and drop profile layouts, designer profile skins,activity feeds, photo tagging and notes, blogging, photo editing tools, shoutbox comments, custom profile status, group private messages, alert boxes, text editors and smileys, inbox preview widgets, multiple profiles, and other video embedding features.Ezboard was founded in 1999 and is based in San Francisco, California. |  | Series D | Jan 11, 2002 |  |
| Ezboard | Ezboard operates a social community platform. The company’s platform enables users to create their profiles and photo galleries, embed third-party content, and reorder photos via drag and drop as well as send hugs, bites, waves, and more. Its platform also provides chat rooms, polls, calendars, drag and drop profile layouts, designer profile skins,activity feeds, photo tagging and notes, blogging, photo editing tools, shoutbox comments, custom profile status, group private messages, alert boxes, text editors and smileys, inbox preview widgets, multiple profiles, and other video embedding features.Ezboard was founded in 1999 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $4.5M |  | Jun 21, 2000 |  |
| Homeportfolio.com | HomePortfolio was founded in the 1990s by Rolly Rouse and Tom Ashbrook, two friends from Yale with entrepreneurial spirits and an eagerness to stake their claim in the Internet land rush. While other design enthusiasts were tearing pages out of design magazines and dog-earing decorating books, they were creating the first ever online library ofhigh-end home products—the type of products typically reserved for fancy Design Center showrooms that required a password and secret handshake before one would be granted admission. | $48M | Series C | May 17, 2000 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Labrador Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/labrador-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Advent International](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/advent-international) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BEV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bev-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CondeNet](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/condenet) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [The E.W. Scripps Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/e-w-scripps) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Excite](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/excite-home) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Scripps Ventures invest in?

Scripps Ventures invests primarily in Internet, E-Commerce and Home Decor startups, most often at Series C and Series D stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Scripps Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Scripps Ventures closed in Jan 2002. Shizune tracks 3 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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