# Startup Capital Ventures

> Startup Capital Ventures is a VC fund in Menlo Park backing SaaS and Software. See 54 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 54
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 19%
- Fund size: $25M
- Last fund: Feb 2006
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-capital-ventures
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/startupcv
- Website: http://www.startupcv.com

Startup Capital Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the enterprise. Based in Silicon Valley, we focus on early-stage companies that require relatively small amounts of capital to achieve success. The firm leverages its investments with unparalleled operations experience from a team of seasoned professionals. Generally, wetarget capital efficient companies, such as software, that are generating some revenue and can show likelihood of reaching near-term profitability.We focus on investing in strong management teams, not just technologies and strive to build a supportive working relationship with their companies based on flexibility, integrity, and patience.We know firsthand the hard work and challenges of building successful companies. Our extensive network of strategic contacts and their presence makes a difference in how rapidly our companies achieve critical milestones. Our geographic focus is principally Silicon Valley as well as Hawaii, Texas, and Oklahoma, where the firm has extensive relationships.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 7 | 13% |
| Software | 6 | 11% |
| FinTech | 4 | 7% |
| Security | 4 | 7% |
| Health Care | 4 | 7% |

89 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 17 | 31% |
| Seed | 10 | 19% |
| Series B | 10 | 19% |
| Series C | 4 | 7% |
| Series D | 2 | 4% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 31 | 57% |
| Canada | 2 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bob Rees | General Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-rees |
| Catherine Ngo | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/photo-a-catherine-ngo-a-catherine-ngo |
| Denis Coleman | Strategic Advisor | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/denis-coleman |
| Donavan Kealoha | Managing Director | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/donavan-r-kealoha |
| John Davidson | Founder & GP | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-davidson |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Glow | Glow is an insurance company that aims to transform insurance to better protect people. The company is working toward holistic coverage for work, life and everything in between. Glow was founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California. | $24M | Series A | Nov 08, 2022 |  |
| Breinify | Breinify’s mission is to democratize data science. Today, we have built a powerful predictive personalization at scale platform for consumer enterprises. Our lightweight platform enables consumer brand marketers to deliver powerful personalization in real-time without having to support an in-house data science team.Breinify customers includeBevMo!, Duraflame, Hidden Valley Ranch, and many more to drive $125M in new revenue, 20x results (between split testing) for 2+ page visits, and +105% in CRM growth.Breinify technology is powered by our proprietary AI which blends traditional machine learning and complex temporal algorithms to learn, react, be proactive, and make extremely granular intelligent decisions that vary for each individual at any time. In 2021, Breinify has up-sold to >80% of existing customers with incredible land and expand / GTM strategies. Breinify is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Raised a $11M oversubscribed seed round led by Gutbrain Ventures, PBJ Capital, and Streamlined Ventures. Participation from CXO Fund, Startup Capital Ventures, Amino Capital, Sterling Road, and others. | $6.2M | Seed | Apr 10, 2021 |  |
| HYAS | HYAS Infosec is the leading provider of proactive threat intelligence and protective DNS solutions. As the authority on cyber adversary infrastructure, HYAS enables organizations to see beyond the traditional threat landscape and proactively defend against sophisticated cyber attacks. With a focus on innovation and excellence, HYAS Infosec deliversunparalleled security solutions that empower organizations to protect their critical assets and maintain trust with their customers. For more information, please visit HYAS.com. | $15.9M | Series B | Feb 25, 2021 |  |
| Breinify | Breinify’s mission is to democratize data science. Today, we have built a powerful predictive personalization at scale platform for consumer enterprises. Our lightweight platform enables consumer brand marketers to deliver powerful personalization in real-time without having to support an in-house data science team.Breinify customers includeBevMo!, Duraflame, Hidden Valley Ranch, and many more to drive $125M in new revenue, 20x results (between split testing) for 2+ page visits, and +105% in CRM growth.Breinify technology is powered by our proprietary AI which blends traditional machine learning and complex temporal algorithms to learn, react, be proactive, and make extremely granular intelligent decisions that vary for each individual at any time. In 2021, Breinify has up-sold to >80% of existing customers with incredible land and expand / GTM strategies. Breinify is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Raised a $11M oversubscribed seed round led by Gutbrain Ventures, PBJ Capital, and Streamlined Ventures. Participation from CXO Fund, Startup Capital Ventures, Amino Capital, Sterling Road, and others. | $3.6M | Seed | Feb 14, 2020 |  |
| Wootcloud | WootCloud is the only smart device security platform that uncovers unmanaged devices on both the radio and network spectrum, and analyzes over 300 device parameters to generate device risk scores. This helps organizations discover gaps in their device risk posture and the opportunity to close these gaps. | $3.6M | Seed | Apr 01, 2019 |  |
| Kuprion | Kuprion’s™ revolutionary, copper based nanotechnology is a highly electrically conductive material enabling a new generation of printable electronics and integrated circuit chips. Connections between chip-to-chip or chip-to-board are up to 10 times the electrical and thermal conductivity of existing materials - perfect for smaller and more powerfulproducts from phones to electric cars.Our nanoCopper technology is based on work that began at Lockheed Martin in 2008. They were researching ways to replace traditional solder with a high-performance, RoHS- compliant alternative for high-power, high-reliability applications. With widespread interest from the commercial sector, all rights and patents were transferred to Kuprion in 2019 to commercialize the family of pastes and inks. Since then, Kuprion has garnered Fortune 100 customers, 20 patents, and VC funding with offices and manufacturing in San Jose, CA | $5M | Series A | Mar 29, 2019 |  |
| Interset | Interset, now a part of Micro Focus, equips security teams with analytics to detect, investigate, and respond to threats before data is stolen. Our user and entity behavioral analytics augments existing security tools and leverages machine learning to measure the unique footprint of systems and users—distilling billions of events into a handfulof prioritized threat leads. What used to take months, now takes minutes. A member of the In-Q-Tel portfolio, Interset is trusted to protect critical data and infrastructure in the finance, high tech manufacturing, healthcare, utility, and energy industries. |  | Series B | Jan 18, 2019 |  |
| Interset | Interset, now a part of Micro Focus, equips security teams with analytics to detect, investigate, and respond to threats before data is stolen. Our user and entity behavioral analytics augments existing security tools and leverages machine learning to measure the unique footprint of systems and users—distilling billions of events into a handfulof prioritized threat leads. What used to take months, now takes minutes. A member of the In-Q-Tel portfolio, Interset is trusted to protect critical data and infrastructure in the finance, high tech manufacturing, healthcare, utility, and energy industries. |  | Series B | Dec 17, 2018 |  |
| HYAS | HYAS Infosec is the leading provider of proactive threat intelligence and protective DNS solutions. As the authority on cyber adversary infrastructure, HYAS enables organizations to see beyond the traditional threat landscape and proactively defend against sophisticated cyber attacks. With a focus on innovation and excellence, HYAS Infosec deliversunparalleled security solutions that empower organizations to protect their critical assets and maintain trust with their customers. For more information, please visit HYAS.com. | $6.7M | Series A | Sep 24, 2018 |  |
| W&W Sens | W&W Sens has developed semiconductor based high-speed but low cost optical sensors. Applications include data center interconnects and LiDAR. |  | Series C | Aug 10, 2018 |  |

10 of 54 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Altos Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altos-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [CXO Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cxo-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Healthy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/healthy-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Seraph Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seraph-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Sterling Road](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sterling-road) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Streamlined](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/streamlined-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Startup Capital Ventures invest in?

Startup Capital Ventures invests primarily in SaaS, Software and FinTech startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 54 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 Startup Capital Ventures?

The team at Startup Capital Ventures includes Bob Rees (General Partner), Catherine Ngo (Venture Partner) and Denis Coleman (Strategic Advisor), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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