# Stardust Venture Partners

> Stardust Venture Partners is a VC fund in Washington backing Advertising and SEO. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jul 2013
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stardust-venture-partners

Stardust Venture Partners is an early-stage seed angel investment firm formed by Glen Hellman and Nancy Nolting. They focus on technology companies headquartered in the Washington DC Capital Region. They only:* invest in highly leverageable B2B technology product companies. * co-invest, never lead, * source their own deals (code for don'tcall us, thay'll call you).Investment Criteria * Exceptional Entrepreneurs * Great Teams * Disruptive Blue Ocean Products * ...and not the Next Anything... the only thingBefore contacting us read this:- See more at: http://drivenforward.com/stardust-venture-partners#sthash.iq0D1bN1.dpuf

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Advertising | 2 | 50% |
| SEO | 1 | 25% |
| Local | 1 | 25% |
| Video | 1 | 25% |
| Mobile | 1 | 25% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Angel | 1 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Social Tables | Social Tables is a web-based event planning platform for hospitality, meeting, and event professionals. They wanted to make event planning less stressful so they built software using cutting-edge technology that consolidates every part of your event planning process. Social Tables eases designing a floorplan, streamlines the arduous seatingprocess, saves you a ton of time, and makes event planning fun again. Specialties such as Attendee Information Management, Floor Plan Design, Seating Chart Creation, Guest Engagement, Social Seating, Event Planning | $1.6M | Seed | Jul 30, 2013 |  |
| spotflux | Officially launched in March 2012 at South by Southwest, spotflux is devoted to protecting your digital privacy and security anywhere and on any device. Our tiny, but powerful product not only encrypts your internet traffic, it also performs millions of cloud-based, real-time calculations to remove tracking cookies and viruses without slowing yourdevice. | $1.5M | Series A | Mar 07, 2012 |  |
| Veenome | Veenome automatically translates videos into data at a very large scale to help Ad Networks and Publishers lift their CPMs through targeting, reduce fraud through viewability detection and eliminate brand safety/objectionable content concerns.Specifically the data that we create from these videos includes:IAB Category, IAB Subcategory,Brand Safety Category, Viewability(Player size, player page position, autoplay and muting detection), Duration, Player Size, Media Size, Media Type, Media URL, Page URL and FPS | $500K | Angel | Nov 21, 2011 |  |
| Talk Local | Talk Local connects your business to consumers who are looking for your services! The consumer fills out a service request that includes a brief description, desired appointment time, and where they are located. Talk Local then broadcasts the consumer’s service request to you for free. | $1.3M | Seed | Nov 01, 2011 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dingman-center-angels) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Fortify Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fortify-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ecosystem Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ecosystem-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Goldin Ventures — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [J. Hunt Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/j-hunt-holdings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Stardust Venture Partners invest in?

Stardust Venture Partners invests primarily in Advertising, SEO and Local startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 4 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 Stardust Venture Partners last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Stardust Venture Partners closed in Jul 2013. Shizune tracks 4 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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