# StarVest Partners

> StarVest Partners is a VC fund in New York backing Software and SaaS. See 81 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 81
- Last investment: Jun 2020
- Lead investor: 27%
- Fund size: $245M
- Last fund: Jan 2009
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/starvest-partners
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/StarVest
- Website: http://www.starvestpartners.com

StarVest Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in expansion, and growth capital investments.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 19 | 23% |
| SaaS | 16 | 20% |
| Analytics | 9 | 11% |
| Enterprise Software | 9 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 10% |

86 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 21 | 26% |
| Series B | 18 | 22% |
| Series D | 9 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 9 | 11% |
| Series E | 6 | 7% |

13 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 40 | 49% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Joe Kanfer | Chairman | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joe-kanfer |
| Laura Sachar | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 15 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laura-sachar |
| Richard L.Veron | Of Counsel | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-l-veron |
| Robert E.Kelly | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-e-kelly |
| Deborah Farrington | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deborah-farrington |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Planful | Planful is the pioneer of financial performance management cloud software. The Planful platform is used by the Office of the CFO around the globe to streamline business-wide planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and visual analytics. Planful empowers users to plan confidently, close faster, and report accurately. More than 1,000customers, including Boston Red Sox, Del Monte, TGI Friday’s, and 23andMe, rely on Planful to accelerate cycle times, increase productivity, and improve accuracy across the end-to-end FP&A process. Planful is a private company backed by Vector Capital, a leading global private equity firm. Learn more at www.planful.com. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 25, 2020 |  |
| Entelo | Entelo applies intelligence to big data to help modern recruiters find, qualify, and acquire talent. Today over 600 customers of all sizes and industries trust Entelo to provide their talent acquisition teams with higher candidate engagement, actionable insights, and increased productivity. To learn how leading companies such as Capital One, Cisco,Facebook, GE, Genentech, Netflix, Northrop Grumman, and Target are building their organizations using Entelo, visit www.entelo.com. |  |  | Aug 26, 2019 |  |
| Ceros | Ceros is a cloud-based experiential content creation platform that empowers marketers and designers to create rich, interactive content without code or traditional web development. | $14M | Series C | Feb 28, 2019 |  |
| ConveyIQ | ConveyIQ provides an intelligent candidate engagement platform. Its platform features an all-in-one bespoke communication framework for the entire candidate journey. ConveyIQ delivers personalized applicant communication that companies need to ensure a remarkable candidate journey. | $5.5M | Series B | Oct 16, 2018 |  |
| Catalog | Catalog is a developer of a data conversion and storage platform used to offer the next generation of digital data archives and computation. Its platform facilitates the encoding of data and information into DNA format and makes it economically attractive to use DNA as the major medium for long-term archival of data that enables customers to storedigital information in DNA molecules. It brings cutting-edge synthetic biology technologies to the world of information storage and computation.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $4M | Seed | Jun 26, 2018 |  |
| Vyze | Vyze is a financial technology leader in consumer financing solutions. NCL helps merchants launch and implement innovative lending programs that provide more consumers with the financing options they want and need. NCL’s simple solutions deliver increased sales and a better consumer financing experience while giving retailers and manufacturersgreater control over their lending options. | $13.1M | Series C | Aug 11, 2017 |  |
| Catalog | Catalog is a developer of a data conversion and storage platform used to offer the next generation of digital data archives and computation. Its platform facilitates the encoding of data and information into DNA format and makes it economically attractive to use DNA as the major medium for long-term archival of data that enables customers to storedigital information in DNA molecules. It brings cutting-edge synthetic biology technologies to the world of information storage and computation.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $5M | Seed | Jul 12, 2017 |  |
| Ceros | Ceros is a cloud-based experiential content creation platform that empowers marketers and designers to create rich, interactive content without code or traditional web development. | $11M | Series B | Aug 02, 2016 |  |
| Vyze | Vyze is a financial technology leader in consumer financing solutions. NCL helps merchants launch and implement innovative lending programs that provide more consumers with the financing options they want and need. NCL’s simple solutions deliver increased sales and a better consumer financing experience while giving retailers and manufacturersgreater control over their lending options. | $13M | Series B | Jun 02, 2016 |  |
| ConveyIQ | ConveyIQ provides an intelligent candidate engagement platform. Its platform features an all-in-one bespoke communication framework for the entire candidate journey. ConveyIQ delivers personalized applicant communication that companies need to ensure a remarkable candidate journey. | $5M | Series B | May 23, 2016 |  |

10 of 81 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Trident Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trident-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Advanced Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/advanced-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [RRE Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rre-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Desmarais Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/desmarais-group) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Grotech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grotech-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does StarVest Partners invest in?

StarVest Partners invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Analytics startups, most often at Series C and Series B stage. Most of the 81 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 StarVest Partners?

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### Who are the partners at StarVest Partners?

The team at StarVest Partners includes Joe Kanfer (Chairman), Laura Sachar (Co-Founder & Managing Partner) and Richard L.Veron (Of Counsel). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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