# SuRo Capital

> SuRo Capital is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Education and Software. See 43 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 43
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/surocapital
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/surocapital
- Website: https://surocap.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/surocapital/

SuRo Capital (Nasdaq: SSSS, formerly known as GSV Capital) is a publicly-traded fund that seeks to invest in high-growth, venture-backed private companies. The firm primarily seeks to invest in social mobile, sustainability, cloud computing, big data, marketplaces, and education sectors. It also seeks to create a portfolio of high-growth emergingprivate companies through a repeatable and disciplined investment approach, as well as to provide investors with access to such companies through its publicly traded common stock.SuRo Capital was established in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for SuRo Capital. Shizune tracks 3 team members at SuRo Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/suro-capital?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 14 | 33% |
| Software | 10 | 23% |
| EdTech | 9 | 21% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 12% |
| E-Learning | 5 | 12% |

96 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 7 | 16% |
| Series A | 6 | 14% |
| Series C | 6 | 14% |
| Seed | 5 | 12% |
| Series B | 5 | 12% |

10 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Allison Green | CFO, Treasurer and Corporate Secretary | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allison-green-cd82 |
| Keri Findley | Senior Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keri-findley |
| Mark Klein | Chairman, President and CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-klein |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| EDGE Markets | EDGE Markets provides financial infrastructure designed for trading, gaming, and other alternative financial markets, supporting both institutional and consumer participants. The company offers banking, payment, settlement, and capital movement solutions tailored for environments that require high-frequency, real-time transactions. Its platformincludes products such as EDGE Connect, a private payments and settlement network, and EDGE Pro, a banking platform for market makers and institutional investors operating in regulated markets. EDGE Markets also develops specialized debit and banking services intended to facilitate deposits, withdrawals, liquidity management, and transaction tracking while incorporating compliance and responsible-use controls. Through its integrated financial infrastructure, the company aims to improve the efficiency of payments, settlements, and capital flows across gaming, prediction, crypto, and trading ecosystems. | $17.2M | Seed | Mar 24, 2025 |  |
| Liquid Death | Liquid Death is the first bold, hilarious beverage focused on health and sustainability, and it is one of the fastest-growing non-alcoholic beverage brands of all time. They take the healthiest beverage available (water) and package it in infinitely recyclable tallboy cans that can compete with the fun marketing of unhealthy brands in energydrinks, beer, and junk food. In addition, Liquid Death donates 10% of its profits from each can sold to nonprofits that work to eliminate plastic pollution and provide clean drinking water to those in need. | $67M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 11, 2024 |  |
| Locus Robotics | Locus Robotics manufactures autonomous, mobile robots to support e-commerce for retailers and warehouse logistics providers. Its technology works collaboratively alongside workers to dramatically improve order productivity and increase fulfillment speed and throughput 2X-3X with near-perfect order accuracy, to ensure that consumers receive theirorders as quickly and accurately as possible.It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts. | $117M | Series F | Nov 29, 2022 |  |
| Xpoint | Geolocation Compliance Software |  | Seed | Sep 28, 2022 |  |
| Course Hero | Course Hero is an online learning platform with study resources that help students feel confident and prepared, from day one to graduation.The company provides a free and subscription online learning platform that empowers students and educators to succeed through unlocked study tools, documents, and resources. It also offers free andsubscription membership that includes access to practice problems, study guides, videos, class notes, and step-by-step explanations for every subject that students study, from economics to literature, biology to history, and accounting to psychology.In 2016, Andrew Grauer, Gregor Carrigan, and Jared Grauer established Course Hero in Redwood City, California. | $380M | Series C | Dec 14, 2021 |  |
| Learneo | Learneo brands and platforms are pioneering advances in a wide range of applications for emergent technologies, including the use of AI to improve people's writing, reading and math skills, in school, professional and daily life.The platform of businesses includes CliffsNotes, the original and iconic study guide company; Course Hero, anonline learning platform of academic resources; LitCharts, a creator of literature resources; QuillBot, an AI-powered writing companion helping anyone improve their writing skills; Scribbr, a multilingual academic proofreading service, and Symbolab, an AI-based mathematics resource.Learneo was established in Redwood City, California by Andrew Grauer and Gregor Carrigan. | $395M | Series C | Dec 14, 2021 |  |
| PickUp | Our mission is to quantify the sports fans' opinions wherever the conversation is happening — whether that's on a local sports blog, around a tv screen, or in a slack channel. Our conversational props are sourced from the discussions happening across the digital universe (Twitter, news media, subreddit channels, fan message boards,etc.) brought to life using our technology, and distributed via our API. Fans earn points whenever their pick is correct - points get redeemed for prizes in our marketplace from top brands they love. | $3M | Seed | Sep 15, 2021 |  |
| FanPower | FanPower transforms content into interactive experiences that enable continuous consumer engagement & data acquisition via verified user consent. | $3M | Seed | Sep 15, 2021 |  |
| Hearth | Shogun Enterprises is a financial technology platform for home improvement. | $23M | Series B | May 17, 2021 |  |
| NewLake Capital Partners | NewLake Capital is a trusted real estate partner. At NewLake, we build relationships to provide institutional real estate capital in an ever-changing and fast-paced environment. We work as quickly as our clients, with attention to detail, to provide solutions that allow you to focus on growing your business. | $500K | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 12, 2021 |  |

10 of 43 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [New Enterprise Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-enterprise-associates) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [GSV Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gsv-acceleration) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Bullpen Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bullpen-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Learn Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/learncapital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [NewSchools Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-schools-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does SuRo Capital invest in?

SuRo Capital invests primarily in Education, Software and EdTech startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 43 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 SuRo Capital?

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### Who are the partners at SuRo Capital?

The team at SuRo Capital includes Allison Green (CFO, Treasurer and Corporate Secretary), Keri Findley (Senior Managing Director) and Mark Klein (Chairman, President and CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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