# Summit Capital

> Summit Capital is a VC fund in Seattle backing Software and Health Care. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Apr 2023
- Lead investor: 19%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/summitcapital
- Website: http://www.summitcapital.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/merrimanllc

Summit Capital is a boutique financial services firm focused on providing clients with a common sense approach to active asset management. Founded in 1996, Summit Capital’s core investment philosophy is an opportunistic, value-oriented approach centered on preservation of capital, providing solid risk adjusted returns in all market environments.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 19% |
| Health Care | 3 | 19% |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 19% |
| CRM | 2 | 13% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 13% |

42 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 5 | 31% |
| Seed | 4 | 25% |
| Series A | 4 | 25% |
| Angel | 1 | 6% |
| Series C | 1 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 63% |
| China | 2 | 13% |
| Canada | 2 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alan Dernbach | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | — |
| Andrew Bloom | Investment Strategy Director - Public Markets | 0 | — |
| Benjamin Freeburg | Investment Strategy Director - Private Markets | 0 | — |
| Katie Lewis | Client Service Associate | 0 | — |
| Lisa Burke | Chief Compliance Officer and Client Services Director | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GTMx | Globally, over $11 trillion of revenue is won through competitive proposal processes (RFPs) every year. These proposal opportunities are over 5x more expensive to pursue than traditional sales opportunities and, as a result, losing them costs companies over $200 billion per year. Patri is fixing this problem by powering data-backed opportunityqualification, intelligent resource investments, and higher win rates. | $2.4M | Seed | Apr 11, 2023 |  |
| Zenshine Pharma | Zenshine Pharma is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with a focus on the development of small molecule drugs for cancer, viral infections, and autoimmune diseases. | $15M | Series A | Dec 01, 2020 |  |
| NanoXplore | NanoXplore is a graphene company, a manufacturer and supplier of high volume graphene powder for use in industrial markets. Their team brings together a deep understanding of carbon chemistry – from graphite to graphene – along with the industrial experience required to improve the performance of our customers’ products. Established in 2011,NanoXplore has its headquarters and graphene production facilities in Montréal, Quebec, and its plastic production facility in Delson, Quebec and Vallorbe, Switzerland. In 2013, they filed their first graphene production patent and began to scale from lab to full scale production.NanoXplore provides customers with a range of graphene-based solutions including GrapheneBlack™ powder, and heXo-G graphene-plastic masterbatch pellets and graphene-enhanced polymers. | $15.4M | Post-IPO Equity | Jan 11, 2019 |  |
| IMPACT Therapeutics | IMPACT Therapeutics is dedicated to the development of similar drugs to treat cancer have independent intellectual property rights and other diseases of the best (best-in-class) of new drugs and its commercialization. The company's senior management team of experienced and professional background complementary and have accumulated more thanfour decades of experience in drug development and management. General Manager and Chief Scientific Officer Field are an expert in pharmacology and biology. | $10M | Series B | Feb 22, 2016 |  |
| Lighter Capital | Lighter Capital is a fintech company that has created a new fundraising path for early-stage tech companies. Its transparent, data-driven process provides founders with up to $2 million of non-dilutive growth capital in a fraction of the time it takes to raise from traditional sources. | $9M | Series B | Nov 27, 2015 |  |
| AnswerDash | AnswerDash is a Q&A platform that serves business customers thereby reducing support costs and revealing customer needs. The tab integrated with a business’s live chat service so customers can connect with them for more personalized service. Its cloud-based platform offers point-and-click self-service help without cluttering web pages, whetheron websites, in native mobile applications, or through chatbots, enabling companies to get contextual answers right at their point-of-action and reduce support costs.AnswerDash was launched by Andy Ko and Jacob Wobbrock in January 2012 and is operated from Seattle, Washington. | $2.9M | Seed | Sep 14, 2015 |  |
| GoChime | GoChime allows brands to leverage their first-party data to run smarter and more unified advertising campaigns across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Google. Brands sync their ESP and CRM platforms to GoChime and can bridge the data that lives there to outside social advertising platforms. This approach allows brands to use several channelsto automatically move customers through a specified journey or conversion funnel, reach customers who do not open or otherwise engage in email marketing, and then easily create lookalike audiences of their best customers to find more great customers outside of their own lists. | $630K | Angel | Mar 01, 2014 |  |
| AnswerDash | AnswerDash is a Q&A platform that serves business customers thereby reducing support costs and revealing customer needs. The tab integrated with a business’s live chat service so customers can connect with them for more personalized service. Its cloud-based platform offers point-and-click self-service help without cluttering web pages, whetheron websites, in native mobile applications, or through chatbots, enabling companies to get contextual answers right at their point-of-action and reduce support costs.AnswerDash was launched by Andy Ko and Jacob Wobbrock in January 2012 and is operated from Seattle, Washington. | $2.5M | Series A | Dec 02, 2013 |  |
| Food.ee | Food.ee is a fun and simple service which delivers meals, snacks, cakes and alcohol to your office! All you need to do it 1. Pick a price point 2. Choose your food type 3. Build a menu. Its that easy. | $609K | Seed | Aug 23, 2012 |  |
| EnergySavvy | EnergySavvy is a cloud software company that helps utilities transform their customer experience and operations. EnergySavvy provides personalized customer insights, breakthrough customer engagement, and automated program delivery with the industry's only platform purpose-built to enhance the customer experience and increase operationalefficiency. Nearly 40 utilities and state programs rely on EnergySavvy to enable customer experience transformation in the modern, digital customer era.The company is led by alumni from Microsoft, Amazon, PG&E, and EnerNOC. EnergySavvy brings together expertise in software, user experience, and analytics to deliver cloud solutions that clients love. | $3.3M | Series B | Aug 02, 2012 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Voyager Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/voyager-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Washington Research Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/washington-research-foundation) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Founders' Co-op](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-co-op) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [W Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/w-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [WRF Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wrf-capital-282a) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- A.G. Edwards & Sons — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Summit Capital invest in?

Summit Capital invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Biotechnology startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 16 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 Summit Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Summit Capital?

The team at Summit Capital includes Alan Dernbach (Chief Financial Officer), Andrew Bloom (Investment Strategy Director - Public Markets) and Benjamin Freeburg (Investment Strategy Director - Private Markets), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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