Stephen DeBacco
Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Leaders Fund
Atlanta, United States
Stephen DeBacco is a Managing Partner with Leaders Fund. Headquartered in Atlanta and Toronto, Leaders Fund is an evergreen venture capital fund focused on investing in SaaS companies selling solutions to businesses.DeBacco has over 25 years of experience as an early-stage/founding executive team member at several extremely successfulcompanies including Ariba, Workbrain and Rypple. His demonstrated operating expertise building and optimizing global sales and business development organizations contributed to rapid growth and profitable liquidity events on five separate occasions including public offerings for Ariba and Workbrain and corporate acquisitions for Workbrain, Empathica, Rypple and APT.DeBacco, as part of the Leaders Fund team, is now combining his deep operating expertise with financial capital investment to help innovative companies realize their full potential.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 60%
Last updated:
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Industries Stephen DeBacco invests in
Stages Stephen DeBacco invests in
Countries Stephen DeBacco invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Business Intelligence 2 (40%)
- Security 1 (20%)
- Software 1 (20%)
- Analytics 1 (20%)
- Consulting 1 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (40%)
- Series B 1 (20%)
- Series C 1 (20%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (20%)
Investments
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| Toolpath is a distributed machining platform that creates CNC machined parts to accelerate innovation from prototype to production. The company is also developing intelligent CAM software that determines how to efficiently machine it on a CNC mill. It was founded in 2021 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. | $10M / Seed / Sep 09, 2024 | ||
| CereTax is here to show tax managers, tax directors, and CFO’s that someone has been listening. No longer are you limited to using antiquated technology and choosing between the same legacy platforms that have advanced slower than your own business. | $10M / Seed / Aug 10, 2022 | ||
| CallRail is a phone call tracking and analytics platform businesses use to understand which marketing campaigns drive leads and conversions. Its intuitive software helps data-driven marketers optimize the performance of their online and offline advertising campaigns, increase sales effectiveness, and improve customer retention. | $75M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 26, 2017 | ||
| Flashpoint is a privately held cybersecurity company founded in 2010 with headquarters in New York, NY. The company specializes in the collection, analytics, and automation of external threat intelligence. | $28M / Series C / Jul 12, 2017 | ||
| Flashpoint is a privately held cybersecurity company founded in 2010 with headquarters in New York, NY. The company specializes in the collection, analytics, and automation of external threat intelligence. | $10M / Series B / Jul 12, 2016 |
Co-Investors
About Leaders Fund
Leaders Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage companies taking advantage of the shift to cloud, mobile, and machine learning in the enterprise software sector. The firm was founded by an experienced team of operators who have founded and scaled multiple enterprise software companies, achieving successful public and private exits. It is based in Toronto, Ontario with an office in Atlanta, Georgia. Our fund’s evergreen, flexible structure enables us to partner creatively with other investors while ensuring deep alignment with our portfolio companies on deal structure, growth strategy and long-term goals.
Leaders Fund Contacts
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Bryan W. Kerdman
Venture Partner
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David MacDonald
Venture Partner
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David Stein
Founder & Managing Partner; Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Gideon Hayden
Co-Founder & Partner
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Stephen DeBacco
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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What does Stephen DeBacco invest in?
Stephen DeBacco invests primarily in Business Intelligence, Security and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 5 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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The most recent investment recorded for Stephen DeBacco closed in Sep 2024. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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