SWaN & Legend Venture Partners
VC Fund
Leesburg, United States
SWaN & Legend Venture Partners is a consumer-focused venture capital firm that invests in customer service-based companies. SWaN & Legend Venture Partners was formed in 2012 through the combination of SWaN Investors, a firm created by the management team who founded and scaled N.E.W. Customer Service Companies (a unit of NEWAsurion) and Legend Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm.
- Total investments:
- 40
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
- Fund size:
- $5.4M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries SWaN & Legend Venture Partners invests in
Stages SWaN & Legend Venture Partners invests in
Countries SWaN & Legend Venture Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 7 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $5M–$51M
- Series B
- $3.7M–$45M
- Series C
- $5M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 7 (18%)
- Retail 4 (10%)
- Software 4 (10%)
- Education 4 (10%)
- Information Technology 4 (10%)
Stage
- Series B 10 (25%)
- Series A 9 (23%)
- Series C 7 (18%)
- Seed 4 (10%)
- Series D 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaron Pollock
Associate
|
Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Anthony Nader
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
David Strasser
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
Fred Schaufeld
Founder & Managing Director
|
Founder & Managing Director | Total investments: 13 | Find email | |
Mark Mason
Director
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Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proxy Foods is the first of its kind AI platform and toolkit for the R&D Food Scientist and Food Product Developer to create and optimize recipes better, faster, cheaper. Proxy Foods’ platform brings together AI and Machine Learning with a rich ingredient database to help users better understand their recipes in terms of flavor, sensory,nutrition, and cost attributes, and create or optimize recipes to meet their targets. Proxy Foods delivers enterprise-grade analytics, workflow management, security, and highly trained LLMs to innovate with speed, precision and accuracy. | $6M / Seed / Aug 05, 2026 | ||
| UrbanStems is an online gifting company that provides on-demand flower delivery services. It offers fresh flowers and seasonal stems for various occasions; floral arrangements for businesses. The company's service offers hand-crafted bouquets that are delivered within minutes to desired locations, offers fresh, seasonal bouquets withthoughtful touches like a personalized note from the sender and specific care instructions depending on the gift, enabling people to take flower subscription delivery and have a perfect gifting experience at a reasonable price that includes free shipping and delivery.UrbanStems was established in 2014 and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. | $5M / Series C / Jan 04, 2024 | ||
| Class provides Class for Zoom, which integrates the Class software on the Zoom Meetings platform to help teachers take attendance, hand out assignments, give a quiz or test, grade work, proctor exams, or talk one-on-one with a student. | $105M / Series B / Jul 28, 2021 | ||
| UrbanStems is an online gifting company that provides on-demand flower delivery services. It offers fresh flowers and seasonal stems for various occasions; floral arrangements for businesses. The company's service offers hand-crafted bouquets that are delivered within minutes to desired locations, offers fresh, seasonal bouquets withthoughtful touches like a personalized note from the sender and specific care instructions depending on the gift, enabling people to take flower subscription delivery and have a perfect gifting experience at a reasonable price that includes free shipping and delivery.UrbanStems was established in 2014 and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. | $20M / Series C / May 05, 2021 | ||
| Cava Group is a Mediterranean culinary brand that offers chef-crafted dips and spreads.It operates a restaurant chain aimed at offering the flavors of Mediterranean cooking. The company's restaurants provide modern, authentic, and vibrant Mediterranean food through their fast-casual restaurants and digital platform that enables customers toexperience and order Mediterranean food through both physical and digital environments.The company was founded in 2006 and based in Washington, District of Columbia. | $190M / Series F / Apr 27, 2021 | ||
| Visionary VR is a technology and content development studio, and the home of Visionary focus the revolutionary tool for virtual reality content creators that employs our proprietary system for storytelling, attention management and information delivery in VR. | $10M / Apr 08, 2021 | ||
| Mindshow's virtual production platform transforms animation creation by streamlining complex pipeline steps into a real-time process. Our enterprise software solution enables entertainment brands to create studio-quality animation with unprecedented speed, cutting production time while maintaining creative control.Our unified platformintegrates advanced voice technology, virtual studio cameras, motion capture, and asset management tools that have proven transformative for major entertainment brands including Mattel, ESPN, Netflix, and Pepsi. Led by a team of 40+ experts that span technology, gaming, VFX, animation, and media, Mindshow partners with leading entertainment companies to deliver premium animated content that scales with creative ambition.Based in Los Angeles, we're committed to empowering entertainment brands through technology that brings stories to life with unmatched efficiency. | $10M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 08, 2021 | ||
| Class provides Class for Zoom, which integrates the Class software on the Zoom Meetings platform to help teachers take attendance, hand out assignments, give a quiz or test, grade work, proctor exams, or talk one-on-one with a student. | $30.8M / Series A / Feb 04, 2021 | ||
| Professional Fighters League is a mixed martial arts league. | $50M / Series C / Jan 17, 2020 | ||
| UrbanStems is an online gifting company that provides on-demand flower delivery services. It offers fresh flowers and seasonal stems for various occasions; floral arrangements for businesses. The company's service offers hand-crafted bouquets that are delivered within minutes to desired locations, offers fresh, seasonal bouquets withthoughtful touches like a personalized note from the sender and specific care instructions depending on the gift, enabling people to take flower subscription delivery and have a perfect gifting experience at a reasonable price that includes free shipping and delivery.UrbanStems was established in 2014 and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. | $12M / Series B / Aug 15, 2019 | ||
| See all 40 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does SWaN & Legend Venture Partners invest in?
SWaN & Legend Venture Partners invests primarily in E-Commerce, Retail and Software startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 40 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does SWaN & Legend Venture Partners invest in?
SWaN & Legend Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $5M–$51M at Series A, $3.7M–$45M at Series B and $5M–$50M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not SWaN & Legend Venture Partners's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds SWaN & Legend Venture Partners took part in.
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Who are the partners at SWaN & Legend Venture Partners?
The team at SWaN & Legend Venture Partners includes Aaron Pollock (Associate), Anthony Nader (Managing Director) and David Strasser (Managing Director), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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