# Stage 1 Ventures

> Stage 1 Ventures is a VC fund in Waltham backing Software and Mobile. See 96 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Waltham, United States
- Total investments: 96
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stage-1-ventures-llc/about/
- Website: http://www.stage1ventures.com

Stage 1 Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that is seeking to build partnerships with great entrepreneurs that are flexible and who want to build meaningful companies. They want to assist you with their global network of relationships as well as provide the capital you need to fuel the growth of your company.Their market focus todayis in Mobile, the Executable Internet or Software as a Service (SaaS) , IPTV and Internet Video, Pay-For-Performance Marketing and Advertising, and Security.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$4.6M |
| Series A | $2M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 15 | 16% |
| Mobile | 11 | 11% |
| SaaS | 10 | 10% |
| Advertising | 8 | 8% |
| Internet | 7 | 7% |

142 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 24 | 25% |
| Seed | 21 | 22% |
| Funding Round | 14 | 15% |
| Pre-Seed | 12 | 13% |
| Series B | 11 | 11% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 69 | 72% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| Ireland | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bill O’Connell | Operating Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-oconnell-2 |
| David H Buckley | Operating Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-h-buckley |
| David William Baum | Founder, Partner & Managing Director | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-william-baum |
| Joesph Pianelli | Operating Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joesph-pianelli |
| Stephen Lyle | Operating Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stephen-lyle |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zeno Power | Zeno Power is a company that creates advanced power systems that use radioisotopes. The company intends to increase the production of small-scale nuclear batteries capable of powering spacecraft and undersea technologies for years.Zeno, founded in 2018 by three Vanderbilt University students, intends to be the first to enter the commercial marketwith a novel new combination of affordability and lightweight. | $50M | Series B | May 14, 2025 |  |
| Vizit | Vizit offers a visual AI platform that predicts and measures the effectiveness of ecommerce content. The technology analyzes audience preferences to enhance visual engagement and drive sales. This solution enables brands to create and optimize content that resonates with consumers, improving overall performance. | $25M | Series B | Oct 02, 2024 |  |
| Gigpro | Gigpro helps leverage the web to your full advantage to serve industry and clients.GigPro is a platform that connects people who want work with businesses that have it. | $16M | Series A | Jul 09, 2024 |  |
| LandTrust | LandTrust is a marketplace where people can list, discover, and book private land for hunting, fishing, and outdoor experiences. LandTrust is the place for getting sportsmen out pursuing their passions on private land. LandTrust also partners with landowners like farmers & ranchers to create new revenue streams from their land's naturalresources, which enables them to be directly compensated for good land management practices & continue to invest in stewarding their land. | $6.8M | Series A | Dec 15, 2022 |  |
| Freight Farms | Freight Farms create access to food in areas of the world where the climate does not support traditional farming methods. The Freight Farms' system brings a high volume of fresh, quality, and affordable food within reach of everyone along the food supply chain. By enabling high-yield crop production in any climate, Freight Farms offer animmediate foundation to grow a local food economy and sustainable food system.Freight Farms was founded in 2013 by Brad McNamara in Boston, Massachusetts. | $17.5M | Series B | Nov 15, 2022 |  |
| CloudTruth | CloudTruth is a unified configuration management company that unifies access and visibility into companies’ infrastructure, applications, and secret configuration data. Its configuration as a service centralizes access to secrets, parameters, and environment variables for the build, deploy and run time needs. | $2.4M | Seed | Nov 10, 2022 |  |
| Senda Biosciences | Senda Biosciences is a developer of therapeutic applications intended for novel treatments of human disease.The company studies the molecular relationships between bacterial, botanical, and human cells as well as how they define health and disease, providing medical professionals with novel medications and delivery methods.Senda Biosciences wasestablished in 2017 by David Kolesky, Ignacio Martinez, and John Casey in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | $123M | Series C | Aug 16, 2022 |  |
| WiTricity | WiTricity is the trailblazer in wireless charging for electric vehicles, leading the development and implementation of magnetic resonance technology across passenger and commercial vehicles alike. The company’s technology is backed by an extensive patent portfolio and is the foundation for ratified global EV wireless charging standards includingSAE, ISO, and GB. Automakers and Tier 1 suppliers turn to WiTricity to help accelerate the adoption of EVs by eliminating the hassle of plug-in charging, setting the stage for future autonomy. | $63M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 09, 2022 |  |
| WiTricity | WiTricity is the trailblazer in wireless charging for electric vehicles, leading the development and implementation of magnetic resonance technology across passenger and commercial vehicles alike. The company’s technology is backed by an extensive patent portfolio and is the foundation for ratified global EV wireless charging standards includingSAE, ISO, and GB. Automakers and Tier 1 suppliers turn to WiTricity to help accelerate the adoption of EVs by eliminating the hassle of plug-in charging, setting the stage for future autonomy. | $63M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 09, 2022 |  |
| XY Retail | Lifestyle brands use XY’s integrated platform to manage their stores, e-commerce, customers, orders, products, inventory and more to sell across the globe. | $4M | Seed | Jun 30, 2022 |  |

10 of 96 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Stage 1 Ventures invest in?

Stage 1 Ventures invests primarily in Software, Mobile and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 96 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 Stage 1 Ventures's check size?

Stage 1 Ventures typically joins rounds of $500k–$4.6M at Seed and $2M–$12M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Stage 1 Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Stage 1 Ventures?

Public channels for Stage 1 Ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Stage 1 Ventures?

The team at Stage 1 Ventures includes Bill O’Connell (Operating Partner), David H Buckley (Operating Partner) and David William Baum (Founder, Partner & Managing Director), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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