Split Rock Partners
VC Fund
Minneapolis, United States
Split Rock Partners is a VC fund in Minneapolis focused on Health Care and Medical Device. Split Rock Partners invests in emerging healthcare, software and Internet services companies in the Upper Midwest and West Coast. They are an early-stage venture capital firm that was founded in June 2004 by the former healthcare and software investment teams of St. Paul Venture Capital (SPVC). The Split Rock team managed over $1 billion of venturecapital during our tenure at SPVC, and continues to manage the SPVC healthcare and software portfolio. In May of 2008, they raised $300 million in the second Split Rock Partners fund, the successor to their inaugural $275 million fund raised in April 2005.The Split Rock team believes that it takes great people to translate promising ideas into compelling businesses. They are grounded in a fundamental respect for entrepreneurs and the rare combination of elements required when pioneering new markets. They start by looking for entrepreneurs with the passion, vision, and skills to build leading companies. They then work with entrepreneurs collaboratively, building partnerships based on integrity and mutual respect. The Split Rock team complements management expertise with over 80 years of venture investing and entrepreneurial management experience. They are proud of the strong relationships they have built with talented entrepreneurs and co-investors throughout their history and look forward to building on that tradition.
- Total investments:
- 109
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
- Fund size:
- $300M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Split Rock Partners invests in
Stages Split Rock Partners invests in
Countries Split Rock Partners invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
1 more contact available
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 26 (24%)
- Medical Device 22 (20%)
- Medical 15 (14%)
- Software 10 (9%)
- SaaS 9 (8%)
Stage
- Series B 19 (17%)
- Series A 18 (17%)
- Series C 17 (16%)
- Series D 15 (14%)
- Funding Round 14 (13%)
Country
- United States 55 (50%)
- Brazil 1 (1%)
- France 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jim Simons
Co-Founding Managing Director
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Co-Founding Managing Director | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
David Stassen
Co-Founding Managing Director
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Co-Founding Managing Director | Total investments: 9 | Find email | |
Michael Gorman
Co-Founding Managing Director
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Co-Founding Managing Director | Total investments: 12 | Find email | |
Steven Schwen
CFO
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CFO | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Gravia
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Gravie is a health insurance marketplace designed to help consumers choose and buy insurance, pay for it, and manage all health care expenses in one place. Gravie specializes in the fields of health insurance, health care, and employer benefits. | $90M / Series E / Mar 09, 2022 | |
Gravie
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Gravie is a health benefits platform that offers insurance services. Their software products include Comfort and Ichra. Gravie designed health benefits to help employers control costs. They take a defined contribution approach, to employers set a fixed budget each year. | $75M / Series E / Mar 09, 2022 | |
Gravia
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Gravia offers steel products and services tailored for construction, industry, agribusiness, and metalworking. Its products include steel plates, coils, sheets, pipes, tubes, rebars, beams, angles, wires, bars, rods, mesh, gratings, and customized steel solutions for various industries. | $90M / Series E / Mar 09, 2022 | |
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Gravia
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Gravie is a health insurance marketplace designed to help consumers choose and buy insurance, pay for it, and manage all health care expenses in one place. Gravie specializes in the fields of health insurance, health care, and employer benefits. | $28M / Series D / Mar 18, 2021 | |
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Gravie
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Gravie is a health benefits platform that offers insurance services. Their software products include Comfort and Ichra. Gravie designed health benefits to help employers control costs. They take a defined contribution approach, to employers set a fixed budget each year. | $28M / Series D / Mar 18, 2021 | |
EBR Systems
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EBR Systems, Inc. is an early-stage development venture pursuing novel approaches in cardiac rhythm management. EBR Systems develops devices for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. | $30M / Private Equity / Aug 27, 2019 | |
Nuvaira
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Nuvaira is a new alternative COPD treatment option that specializes in developing devices for treating lung diseases. Nuvaira is currently working on a novel catheter-based system that has the potential to improve lung function, exercise capacity, and quality of life for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.It was founded in 2008and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. | $79M / Series E / Feb 11, 2019 | |
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EBR Systems
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EBR Systems, Inc. is an early-stage development venture pursuing novel approaches in cardiac rhythm management. EBR Systems develops devices for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. | $50M / Private Equity / Nov 14, 2017 | |
TruSignal
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TruSignal, Inc., a TransUnion company, is an innovative leader in people-based marketing technology for Fortune 500 brands, agencies, platforms, publishers and data owners. TruSignal uses predictive scoring, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), to make big data actionable for one-to-one addressable marketing. TruSignal delivers incredibleresults by pinpointing the best people to target at scale and optimizing the bid price for every impression. This is all accomplished through the TruAudience Platform, which combines a robust deterministic identity graph, a massive third-party data set, an advanced AI engine with multiple machine learning algorithms, extensive people-based, omnichannel ID matching technology and a robust set of integration APIs that fuel partner platforms with powerful insights, custom audience building, lookalike audiences, audience expansion and bid price optimization solutions that are easy, accurate, scalable and fast. | $5M / Series A / Oct 12, 2017 | |
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Gravia
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Gravie is a health insurance marketplace designed to help consumers choose and buy insurance, pay for it, and manage all health care expenses in one place. Gravie specializes in the fields of health insurance, health care, and employer benefits. | $14.1M / Series C / Jul 19, 2017 | |
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Co-Investors
Morgenthaler Ventures
14 deals together
Delphi Ventures
9 deals together
Versant Ventures
9 deals together
FirstMark
8 deals together
Advanced Technology Ventures
7 deals together
MB Venture Partners
7 deals together
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FAQ
What does Split Rock Partners invest in?
Split Rock Partners invests primarily in Health Care, Medical Device and Medical startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 109 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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Who are the partners at Split Rock Partners?
The team at Split Rock Partners includes Jim Simons (Co-Founding Managing Director), David Stassen (Co-Founding Managing Director) and Michael Gorman (Co-Founding Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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