# Staenberg Venture Partners

> Staenberg Venture Partners is a VC fund backing Software and Internet. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Mar 2016
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonstaenberg
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/staenman
- Website: http://www.staenberg.com

Staenberg Venture Partners is a Seattle-based venture capital firm focused on the technology industry. With $100 million under management, they invest at all stages of company development from concept to maturity. By leveraging an extensive partner network in Silicon Valley and the Pacific Northwest, their firm provides a unique and importantbridge between these two technology centers.Staenberg Venture Partners provides more than just financial contributions. They help their portfolio companies build winning management teams and obtain access to expert resources. All of their Limited Partners work in the high-tech industry, many playing influential roles. They add value through consulting to early-stage companies and co-invest in later-stage companies alongside other institutional funds.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 40% |
| Internet | 4 | 27% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 13% |
| Business Development | 2 | 13% |
| Test and Measurement | 2 | 13% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 20% |
| Series B | 3 | 20% |
| Series D | 3 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 13% |
| Seed | 1 | 7% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 67% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jon Staenberg | Managing Director | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jon-staenberg |
| Paul Nortaras | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-nortaras |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bigstep | Bigstep.com is a cloud provider dedicated to making professional analytics solutions accessible to companies of all sizes. It enables businesses, large and small, to get started with a production-ready big data environment in just a few clicks, all in the Full Metal Cloud, purpose built for big data.Bigstep.com was founded in 2013 by Lucas Roh,serial entrepreneur, and founder of Hostway Corporation and Affinity Global. It is headquartered in London and operates infrastructure in the U.K. and Germany. | $2.2M | Seed | Mar 15, 2016 |  |
| Appvance.ai | Appvance.ai is the leader in AI-driven test generation, which is revolutionizing how software testing is performed. The company’s premier product is Appvance IQ, the world’s first AI-driven, unified test automation system. It helps enterprises improve the quality, performance and security of their applications, while transforming the efficiency andoutput of testing teams. Appvance.ai is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in Costa Rica and India. Investors in the company include Javelin Ventures, Staenberg Ventures, Social Internet Fund, FundersClub, Three Bridges Ventures and HB Asset Management. | $1.4M | Series A | Mar 15, 2014 |  |
| Serious Energy | Serious Materials develops and manufactures sustainable green building materials that dramatically reduce the impact of the 'built environment' on the climate.The company was voted #1 at Cleantech Venture Forum XII, won the first Aspen Institute award for innovation in Corporate Energy Conservation and Global Gypsum Product of theYear. It has also been recognized by TIME/CNN, Fortune, Business Week, AlwaysOn and more as one of the most promising green companies. | $19.8M | Series D | Jun 28, 2010 |  |
| Corrigo | Corrigo, Inc. provides mobile software as a service applications for field service in the United States. It offers service management, maintenance management, work order, commercial property management, warranty management, job tracking, service dispatch, and employee time tracking software solutions for maintenance, installation, and repairorganizations. The company’s products include WorkTrack Service Management to manage service businesses by controlling people, customers, cash flow, and costs; and WorkTrack Construction & Crews, a wireless location and time card software system for construction companies and subcontractors to submit job and time information directly from the field by eliminating the need for paper timesheets. Its products also include WorkTrack Facilities Management, a facilities management tool; and CorrigoNet service management software that streamlines maintenance operations and service management by coordinating information flow between customers, service and dispatch agents, technicians and vendors, and management in the service delivery process. The company serves commercial property, multifamily property, homebuilding, corporate facility, and retail and food industries. It offers deployment, integration, training, security, and support services. Corrigo, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Wilsonville, Oregon. | $10M | Series E | Jun 14, 2007 |  |
| VetCentric | VetCentric, Inc., a privately-held company headquartered near Baltimore, MD, is the only national veterinary-focused pharmacy offering home delivery of FDA- and EPA-approved pharmaceuticals, compounded medications, and therapeutic and wellness diets to pet owners on behalf of veterinary practices. Its comprehensive suite of services providespractices with a customized online store, home delivery and client communications. VetCentric is Vet-VIPPS accredited and firmly supports the Veterinarian-Client-Patient relationship in all its business practices, allowing veterinarians to stay at the center of their patients' care while improving service, encouraging compliance and decreasing practice operating costs. | $14.5M |  | Dec 12, 2002 |  |
| Again Technologies | Motiva, Inc. is the technology leader for global enterprise incentive management (EIM) software and services, enabling companies to create and manage flexible, highly targeted incentive programs that drive top-line and bottom-line results across the extended enterprise. The Motiva software solution allows businesses to rapidly align performancewith strategic objectives for sales, services, channels, customers and suppliers. Founded in 1996, Motiva is headquartered in Pleasanton, California. | $6.5M | Series D | Nov 15, 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. |  | Series D | Jan 11, 2002 |  |
| Again Technologies | Motiva, Inc. is the technology leader for global enterprise incentive management (EIM) software and services, enabling companies to create and manage flexible, highly targeted incentive programs that drive top-line and bottom-line results across the extended enterprise. The Motiva software solution allows businesses to rapidly align performancewith strategic objectives for sales, services, channels, customers and suppliers. Founded in 1996, Motiva is headquartered in Pleasanton, California. | $15M | Series C | Dec 10, 2001 |  |
| Atesto Technologies | Atesto is an automated Web testing service that enables organizations to develop, deploy and monitor Web applications without needing to license, install and manage software and hardware systems and infrastructure. The company’s software suite, Atesto Functional Test, tests and validates complex, static and dynamic Web applications. The companyalso offers load testing and monitoring services, to address performance and application maintenance needs. The Automated Load Test services simulate complex real-life application scenarios using live Internet traffic from a globally distributed network and the Response Watch service features periodic transaction and Web application monitoring capability from global locations. Both services include detailed, real-time, online reports on application performance and analysis. | $15M | Series B | Apr 03, 2001 |  |
| Again Technologies | Motiva, Inc. is the technology leader for global enterprise incentive management (EIM) software and services, enabling companies to create and manage flexible, highly targeted incentive programs that drive top-line and bottom-line results across the extended enterprise. The Motiva software solution allows businesses to rapidly align performancewith strategic objectives for sales, services, channels, customers and suppliers. Founded in 1996, Motiva is headquartered in Pleasanton, California. | $9.3M | Series B | Aug 23, 2000 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Sierra Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sierra-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [InterWest Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/interwest-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [Credit Suisse First Boston](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/credit-suisse-first-boston) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Labrador Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/labrador-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Staenberg Venture Partners invest in?

Staenberg Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Internet and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Staenberg Venture Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Staenberg Venture Partners?

The team at Staenberg Venture Partners includes Jon Staenberg (Managing Director) and Paul Nortaras (Chief Financial Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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