# Sumeru Equity Partners

> Sumeru Equity Partners is a VC fund in Foster City backing Software and SaaS. See 44 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Foster City, United States
- Total investments: 44
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 75%
- Last fund: Nov 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sumeru-equity-partners
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/sumeruep
- Website: http://www.sumeruequity.com/

Sumeru Equity Partners is a technology-focused private equity firm, Consistent with the strategy of its predecessor firm,Sumeru Equity Partners invests in building leaders in software, technology enabled services, and hardware. SEP partners with management teams and adds value through deep sector expertise and the application of strategic andoperating services.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 17 | 39% |
| SaaS | 8 | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 6 | 14% |
| Mobile | 5 | 11% |
| Internet | 4 | 9% |

66 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 17 | 39% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 14% |
| Series E | 2 | 5% |
| Series A | 1 | 2% |
| Series C | 1 | 2% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 19 | 43% |
| Canada | 2 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 5% |
| India | 1 | 2% |
| Sweden | 1 | 2% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| George Kadifa | Managing Director & Co-Founder | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/george-kadifa |
| Jamol Williams | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jamol-williams |
| Jason Babcoke | Managing Director & Co-Founder | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-babcoke |
| John Brennan | Founder & General Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-brennan |
| Mark Haller | Principal | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-haller |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cents | Cents helps laundromats and garment care businesses manage operations, payments, and customer interactions. Its system includes point-of-sale tools, digital payment processing, and business management features that support order tracking and reporting. The platform also offers customer-facing applications for scheduling services, placing orders,and making payments. Cents integrates hardware and software components to support both self-service and full-service laundry operations. It enables business owners to monitor performance, manage workflows, and handle transactions within a single system. | $140M | Series C | Mar 26, 2026 |  |
| Cents | Cents helps laundromats and garment care businesses manage operations, payments, and customer interactions. Its system includes point-of-sale tools, digital payment processing, and business management features that support order tracking and reporting. The platform also offers customer-facing applications for scheduling services, placing orders,and making payments. Cents integrates hardware and software components to support both self-service and full-service laundry operations. It enables business owners to monitor performance, manage workflows, and handle transactions within a single system. | $140M | Series C | Mar 26, 2026 |  |
| Cents | Cents helps laundromats and garment care businesses manage operations, payments, and customer interactions. Its system includes point-of-sale tools, digital payment processing, and business management features that support order tracking and reporting. The platform also offers customer-facing applications for scheduling services, placing orders,and making payments. Cents integrates hardware and software components to support both self-service and full-service laundry operations. It enables business owners to monitor performance, manage workflows, and handle transactions within a single system. | $140M | Series C | Mar 26, 2026 |  |
| JobNimbus | JobNimbus is the leading all-in-one growth platform built for roofing and contracting businesses. By combining CRM, project management, payments, and automation in one system, JobNimbus helps contractors streamline operations, improve profitability, and deliver world-class customer experiences. Thousands of roofers trust JobNimbus to organize theirteams, accelerate growth, and make contractors heroes. | $330M | Private Equity | Nov 13, 2024 |  |
| JobNimbus | JobNimbus is the leading all-in-one growth platform built for roofing and contracting businesses. By combining CRM, project management, payments, and automation in one system, JobNimbus helps contractors streamline operations, improve profitability, and deliver world-class customer experiences. Thousands of roofers trust JobNimbus to organize theirteams, accelerate growth, and make contractors heroes. | $330M | Private Equity | Nov 13, 2024 |  |
| JobNimbus | JobNimbus is the leading all-in-one growth platform built for roofing and contracting businesses. By combining CRM, project management, payments, and automation in one system, JobNimbus helps contractors streamline operations, improve profitability, and deliver world-class customer experiences. Thousands of roofers trust JobNimbus to organize theirteams, accelerate growth, and make contractors heroes. | $330M | Private Equity | Nov 13, 2024 |  |
| JobNimbus | JobNimbus is the leading all-in-one growth platform built for roofing and contracting businesses. By combining CRM, project management, payments, and automation in one system, JobNimbus helps contractors streamline operations, improve profitability, and deliver world-class customer experiences. Thousands of roofers trust JobNimbus to organize theirteams, accelerate growth, and make contractors heroes. | $330M | Private Equity | Nov 13, 2024 |  |
| JobNimbus | JobNimbus is the leading all-in-one growth platform built for roofing and contracting businesses. By combining CRM, project management, payments, and automation in one system, JobNimbus helps contractors streamline operations, improve profitability, and deliver world-class customer experiences. Thousands of roofers trust JobNimbus to organize theirteams, accelerate growth, and make contractors heroes. | $330M | Private Equity | Nov 13, 2024 |  |
| Aerospike | Aerospike is an information technology company that specializes in real-time NoSQL data solutions for any scale. Aerospike enterprises overcome seemingly impossible data bottlenecks to compete and win with a fraction of the infrastructure complexity and cost of legacy NoSQL databases. It was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Mountain View,California. | $109M | Series E | Apr 04, 2024 |  |
| Consensus | Consensus is Software as a Service (SaaS) that automates custom product demos to accelerate sales. Their interactive demo platform personalizes video and documents so each prospect automatically learns about your solution in the most relevant way. This cuts sales cycles and increases close rates. Their Demolytics™ dashboard helps you discover andengage the entire buying committee by gathering analytics and tracking who’s involved, what’s important to them, what they watched, and who they shared it with. This drives consensus and gets to a purchase decision much faster than traditional sales methods. Clients have cut their sales cycles by 68% and jumped close rates by 27%. | $110M | Private Equity | Mar 08, 2023 |  |

10 of 44 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Camber Creek](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/camber-creek) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Frazier VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fraziervc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Goldman Sachs Growth Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gs-growth) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Austin Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/austin-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AVX Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avx-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bpifrance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bpifrance) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Sumeru Equity Partners invest in?

Sumeru Equity Partners invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Private Equity and Funding Round stage. Most of the 44 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 Sumeru Equity Partners?

The team at Sumeru Equity Partners includes George Kadifa (Managing Director & Co-Founder), Jamol Williams (Associate) and Jason Babcoke (Managing Director & Co-Founder), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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