# Stereo Capital

> Stereo Capital is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing SaaS and FinTech. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Aug 2024
- Lead investor: 26%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.stcap.com

Stereo Capital is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on SaaS and FinTech. STCAP is a growth-stage fund focused on sales efficient and data-driven technology companies. It invests in data-generating businesses. They believe there is no greater driver of business success than quick, quantifiable feedback. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 3 | 16% |
| FinTech | 3 | 16% |
| Security | 3 | 16% |
| Software | 3 | 16% |
| B2B | 2 | 11% |

50 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series D | 8 | 42% |
| Series C | 5 | 26% |
| Series B | 2 | 11% |
| Series A | 1 | 5% |
| Series E | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 63% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dmitry Dakhnovsky | Managing Partner | 13 | — |
| Jim Smith | Managing Partner | 16 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HomeLight | HomeLight is building the future of real estate — today. Our vision is a world where every real estate transaction is simple, certain, and satisfying for all.The best real estate agents rely on HomeLight’s platform to deliver better outcomes to homebuyers and sellers during every step of the real estate journey, whether that's enabling anall-cash offer, unlocking liquidity of their existing home to buy a new one, or creating certainty through a modern closing process. Each year, HomeLight facilitates billions of dollars of residential real estate business on its platform for thousands of agents.Founded in 2012, HomeLight is a privately held company with offices in Scottsdale, San Francisco, New York, and Seattle, with backing from prominent investors including Zeev Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Group 11, Crosslink Capital, Bullpen Capital, Montage Ventures, Citi Ventures, Google Ventures, and others.For additional information and images: homelight.com/press | $20M | Series D | Aug 26, 2024 |  |
| HomeLight | HomeLight is building the future of real estate — today. Our vision is a world where every real estate transaction is simple, certain, and satisfying for all.The best real estate agents rely on HomeLight’s platform to deliver better outcomes to homebuyers and sellers during every step of the real estate journey, whether that's enabling anall-cash offer, unlocking liquidity of their existing home to buy a new one, or creating certainty through a modern closing process. Each year, HomeLight facilitates billions of dollars of residential real estate business on its platform for thousands of agents.Founded in 2012, HomeLight is a privately held company with offices in Scottsdale, San Francisco, New York, and Seattle, with backing from prominent investors including Zeev Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Group 11, Crosslink Capital, Bullpen Capital, Montage Ventures, Citi Ventures, Google Ventures, and others.For additional information and images: homelight.com/press | $100M | Series D | Sep 02, 2021 |  |
| Prime Trust | Prime Trust is a technology-driven trust company unlike anything else in existence. We are doing to the traditional trust industry what Paypal did to merchant processing; completely disrupting it by writing software that brings services to the masses and that business partners can build on top of. As a chartered, regulated financial institution weare overseen by the banking commissioner’s office at the Financial Institutions Division. As a trust company we hold cash and non-cash assets such as stocks, bonds, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, tokens, real estate, and private business ownership interests. We act as custodian and trustee for a wide variety of personal and corporate trusts, as well as a major part of the crowdfunding industry, and work with individuals, corporations, lawyers, brokers, investment advisers and others on holding and managing specialized custodial, escrow and trust services. | $64M | Series A | Jul 28, 2021 |  |
| Nylas | Nylas provides an API platform that enables developers to quickly and securely access and process user data from any email, calendar, and contacts provider in the world. The solution allows developers to integrate complex, unstructured communications data into their applications in days, providing secure pre-built integrations that are SOC 2certified, GDPR compliant, Privacy Shield certified, and HIPAA and FINRA-ready. | $120M | Series C | Jun 17, 2021 |  |
| Trulioo | Trulioo operates a Digital Identity Network that provides instant access to hundreds of procured, vetted, and trusted data sources around the world — all through a single integration. Deploying stringent security and privacy standards combined with the latest innovations in AI, biometrics, and cloud computing, Trulioo’s GlobalGateway solution hasaccess to information on more than 5 billion people and 250 million companies, enabling organizations to run identity verification checks with accuracy, reliability, speed, and scale. | $394M | Series D | Jun 07, 2021 |  |
| Webscale | Webscale is an integrated web application delivery solution that provides infinite proactive scalability, high performance, security, and control in a single, powerful platform.Created on the foundation of seven years of PhD research into predictive analytics and its application to the challenge of infrastructure auto-scaling in the cloud,Webscale’s dynamic resource allocation IP is unlike any other scaling or load balancing solution available today, due to its unique ability to look ahead of demand, and scale-out both the ADC and web application layers to deliver a smooth, frictionless user experience for website visitors. | $26M | Series C | Mar 04, 2021 |  |
| PerimeterX | PerimeterX is a provider of scalable, behavior-based threat protection technology for the web, cloud, and mobile. By analyzing the behavior of humans, applications, and networks, PerimeterX catches in real-time automated attacks with unparalleled accuracy. Its security service PerimeterX Bot Defender accurately protects commerce, media, andenterprise websites from all types of automated or non-human attacks, at any scale.The company was listed in the Top 5 Cybersecurity Startups Of 2019 by Business Computing World and was ranked in the 100 most promising private artificial intelligence companies in the world by CBInsights.PerimeterX was founded in 2014 and is based in San Mateo, California. | $57M | Series D | Feb 23, 2021 |  |
| Scalefast | Scalefast is a digital commerce solution that simplifies and streamlines e-Commerce for inspirational brands. The company uses a powerful combination of Artificial Intelligence and e-Commerce expertise. It provides the infrastructure and full-service business operations necessary to scale quickly and increase revenue, with everything needed underone roof. Scalefast takes the complexity out of digital commerce for brands in the entertainment, consumer goods, and fashion industries. It is based in Los Angeles, with offices in Paris and Madrid, and was founded in 2014. | $22M | Series B | Jun 30, 2020 |  |
| Nylas | Nylas provides an API platform that enables developers to quickly and securely access and process user data from any email, calendar, and contacts provider in the world. The solution allows developers to integrate complex, unstructured communications data into their applications in days, providing secure pre-built integrations that are SOC 2certified, GDPR compliant, Privacy Shield certified, and HIPAA and FINRA-ready. | $25M | Series B | Jun 23, 2020 |  |
| Arctic Wolf | Arctic Wolf offers a security operations center as a concierge service that helps companies end cyber risk. Arctic Wolf solutions include Managed Detection and Response (MDR), Managed Risk, and Managed Cloud Monitoring, each delivered through the industry’s original concierge security team. Its concierge security engineers act as an extension ofa company's internal team, providing tailored threat detection and response, as well as ongoing risk management to keep your valuable business data safe.The company was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota | $60M | Series D | Mar 11, 2020 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Blue Cloud Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blue-cloud-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Menlo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/menlo-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Blumberg Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blumberg-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scale-asia-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Citi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citi-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Zeev Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zeev-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Stereo Capital invest in?

Stereo Capital invests primarily in SaaS, FinTech and Security startups, most often at Series D and Series C stage. Most of the 19 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 Stereo Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Stereo Capital?

The team at Stereo Capital includes Dmitry Dakhnovsky (Managing Partner) and Jim Smith (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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