Sidekick Partners
VC Fund
New York, United States
Sidekick Partners is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and E-Commerce. Sidekick is a value-add venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups and focuses on the consumer and technology sectors. The Sidekick community members have deep networks and are based primarily in New York, Texas, and California. Our members fall into three main buckets: successful entrepreneurs, private equity executives, and Fortune100 executives. Our community is excited to provide strategic value every step of the way.
- Total investments:
- 21
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
Last updated:
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Industries Sidekick Partners invests in
SoftwareE-CommerceRetailAnalyticsInsurTech
Stages Sidekick Partners invests in
SeedSeries AVenture - Series Unknown
Countries Sidekick Partners invests in
United StatesUnited Kingdom
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Walton Ward
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (29%)
- E-Commerce 4 (19%)
- Retail 3 (14%)
- Analytics 3 (14%)
- InsurTech 3 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 13 (62%)
- Series A 5 (24%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 15 (71%)
- United Kingdom 2 (10%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Walton Ward
Founder & Manager
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Founder & Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
LemonEdge
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LemonEdge is a low-code development platform with an integrated accounting engine, designed for financial services. They solve a wide range of complex financial challenges, across the entire industry through a flexible development approach and a suite of powerful tools tailored to the financial services. | $21M / Series A / Jul 29, 2026 | |
SafeGuard Privacy
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SafeGuard Privacy develops a bundled solution to revolutionize corporate privacy compliance management errors. Founded in 2018 by technology and privacy experts, SafeGuard Privacy offers the first platform for comprehensive privacy compliance management and collaboration. A key feature of the platform is its comprehensive and independentassessments that evaluate a company’s privacy programs and guide them on their path to compliance. Its workflow management and governance tools, including policy wizards, training, secure document storage, real-time reporting, and true auditing features, empower businesses with everything they need to mitigate risk and demonstrate compliance—all while saving time and money. In addition, The Vendor Compliance Hub simplifies the industry's RFI process, making it easy for vendors to demonstrate privacy compliance to their partners and mitigate third-party liability. For more information, visit www.safeguardprivacy.com. | $3.6M / Seed / Jul 31, 2024 | |
Arrive Recommerce
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Arrive Recommerce is leading the resale market with a profitable, sustainable and scalable branded resale channel. Returns to Recommerce™ focuses on turning a cost center into a profit center by helping brands and retailers divert products such as non-new returns, excess inventory, and damaged inventory into a fully-branded revenue generatingresale channel. Arrive’s Recommence Management Technology, Recommerce Storefront Technology and Analytical Tools allow brands to drive more revenue, more customers and improve operational efficiency. Arrive collaborates with companies in adjacent verticals such as returns management, logistics, and ecommerce enablement to increase margin and value for our brands. Arrive was named the 4th Most Innovative Retail Company by Fast Company in 2022. Notable partners include brands like YETI and Burton Snowboards. | $16M / Series A / Jul 17, 2023 | |
Rebuy Engine
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Rebuy is an omnichannel personalization engine built to increase online sales and conversions by upselling, cross-selling, recommending products, and personalizing the online shopping experience. At its core Rebuy is an automated, data-driven, personalization engine built on its own API. Merchants can use Rebuy to unlock significant gains fromtheir online store by using our prebuilt personalization workflow objects or by building their own workflows using Rebuy’s API.Rebuy is a leader in the personalization space working and integrating with the best apps in e-commerce including Recharge, Refersion, Klaviyo, ARPU, Nacelle, Okendo, Yotpo, Stamped.io and more helping to power some of the web’s most innovative brands including Pura Vida, Kettle & Fire, Primal Kitchen, Road iD, Vanity Planet, SiO Beauty, Crossnet, and more.The company's vision is to create a commerce personalization engine that knows what you want before you do. | $17M / Series A / Feb 24, 2023 | |
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Rebuy Engine
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Rebuy is an omnichannel personalization engine built to increase online sales and conversions by upselling, cross-selling, recommending products, and personalizing the online shopping experience. At its core Rebuy is an automated, data-driven, personalization engine built on its own API. Merchants can use Rebuy to unlock significant gains fromtheir online store by using our prebuilt personalization workflow objects or by building their own workflows using Rebuy’s API.Rebuy is a leader in the personalization space working and integrating with the best apps in e-commerce including Recharge, Refersion, Klaviyo, ARPU, Nacelle, Okendo, Yotpo, Stamped.io and more helping to power some of the web’s most innovative brands including Pura Vida, Kettle & Fire, Primal Kitchen, Road iD, Vanity Planet, SiO Beauty, Crossnet, and more.The company's vision is to create a commerce personalization engine that knows what you want before you do. | $17M / Series A / Feb 24, 2023 | |
Crown Affair
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Crown Affair is a haircare brand that develops haircare products and hair tools for daily maintenance, styling, and scalp care routines. The company offers shampoos, conditioners, hair oils, styling creams, repair treatments, towels, combs, and brushes intended to support different hair textures and care preferences. Its product line includessulfate-free and paraben-free formulations, along with non-aerosol styling and cleansing products for scalp and strand management. The company also provides educational content and haircare guidance focused on washing, air drying, hydration, detangling, and long-term hair maintenance practices. Crown Affair distributes products through direct-to-consumer channels and retail partnerships while supporting digital tools such as hair quizzes and product matching experiences. Its offerings are used for everyday hair cleansing, conditioning, repair, styling, and texture management across multiple hair types. | $5M / Series A / May 12, 2022 | |
Get Bizzy
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Alex and Andrew started Bizzy, a coffee brewing company that offers organic cold brew coffee. Their passion for cold brew coffee started years ago after graduating from college. At the time, both had corporate jobs, were training for a 24-hour obstacle race, and were running a group fitness company. Because of their busy schedules and drive tosucceed, sleep became less important to them.In order to be their best, they needed something that could give them a quick jolt of energy. At first, they would drink anything that would keep them awake. As former college students, they started with what they knew - energy drinks. They quickly found that this was an extremely unhealthy option and one that would leave them with a hard crash once the sugar wore off. As they looked further into what was actually in these products they were disgusted at the amount of sugar and synthetic ingredients they were consuming. So, as any corporate employee would do, they turned to their trusty friend, coffee. Every morning they would wake up 15 minutes early just to brew a pot of drip coffee, but just like everything else they tried, it had several drawbacks. The coffee took way too long to brew, produced a terrible tasting product, and wasn't convenient to take with them. Three things in their mind were unacceptable.In the summer of 2012, they stumbled upon cold brew coffee. It fulfilled all of their requirements for the perfect source of energy, it was natural, sugar-free, and simple, but there was one very significant drawback, it wasn't at all convenient. To make it on their own took them 24 hours and if they wanted to buy it they had to wait in line at a coffee shop. Over the next several years their love for cold brew grew, and so did their frustration with its lack of convenience and availability. They spent the next 2-years researching a way to create the highest quality product, in the most convenient way, and in 2015 they launched Bizzy - the healthiest and most convenient coffee on the market. | $7.1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 17, 2022 | |
Banked
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Banked provides an account-to-account payment software platform that lets consumers, businesses and banks process payments in real-time, more securely. To leverage the Banked checkout system, businesses need to embed the company’s API and this can be done across mobile apps, customer portals, emailed invoices or even text messages. | $27.1M / Series A / Feb 14, 2022 | |
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LemonEdge
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LemonEdge is a low-code development platform with an integrated accounting engine, designed for financial services. They solve a wide range of complex financial challenges, across the entire industry through a flexible development approach and a suite of powerful tools tailored to the financial services. | Seed / Jan 21, 2022 | |
CoverForce
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CoverForce is an API platform that enables users to quote, pay, and bind commercial insurance for property and casualty needs. The platform provides instant access to various insurance products, streamlining the process for sales teams and representatives. CoverForce facilitates the integration of insurance solutions into existing workflows,allowing businesses to enhance their operational efficiency. By offering a comprehensive suite of tools, CoverForce supports organizations in managing their insurance requirements effectively while ensuring a seamless user experience. | $5M / Seed / Jan 01, 2022 | |
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FAQ
What does Sidekick Partners invest in?
Sidekick Partners invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Retail startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 21 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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The team at Sidekick Partners includes Walton Ward (Founder & Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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