Swell Partners
VC Fund
New York, United States
Swell Partners is a VC fund in New York focused on FinTech and Hospitality. Swell Partners their category agnostic investment strategy, invests in seed and series A stage companies.
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
- Fund size:
- $3.3M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Swell Partners invests in
Stages Swell Partners invests in
Countries Swell Partners invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Jay Patil
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Rusty Ralston
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Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 2 (12%)
- Hospitality 2 (12%)
- Retail Technology 2 (12%)
- Financial Services 2 (12%)
- SaaS 1 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (65%)
- Series A 4 (24%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (6%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Jay Patil
Co-Founder and General Partner
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Co-Founder and General Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Rusty Ralston
Co-Founder & General Partner
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Co-Founder & General Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Askari Defense
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Askari Defense creates affordable intelligent kinetic defenses for the era of robotic warfare. | $9M / Seed / Jun 25, 2026 | |
Rybodyn
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Rybodyn is a biotechnology research company that develops therapeutics to train the immune system to detect and eradicate cancer internally. | $10M / Seed / Mar 24, 2026 | |
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Rybodyn
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Rybodyn is a biotechnology research company that develops therapeutics to train the immune system to detect and eradicate cancer internally. | $4M / Pre-Seed / Jan 09, 2025 | |
ScienceIO
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The data science company for healthcare | $8M / Seed / Oct 13, 2021 | |
Fiveable
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Fiveable is a social network platform for education that offers students learning through content, community, and courses. Fiveable is on a mission to create educational equity through social learning. The student-centered platform includes a robust content library, engaging community spaces on Hours, and interactive experiences that connectstudents who are learning the same thing at the same time. | Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 20, 2021 | |
Northstar
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At Northstar, we believe financial wellness starts with a single paycheck. We work with leading companies to provide 1-on-1 financial advisors and personal finance tools as an employee benefit. Northstar’s financial wellness program helps employees make the most of their total compensation, and helps companies support their teams at scale. Ouremployer customers include Zoom, Snap, NerdWallet, Superhuman, Virgin Orbit, and more. | $7.3M / Series A / Nov 17, 2020 | |
Crisp
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Crisp leverages the power of the cloud to connect and analyze disparate retail data sources, providing the supply chain with real-time insights and trends. Food suppliers, retailers, distributors and brokers use Crisp's open-data platform to manage supply more efficiently, reduce waste and skyrocket profitability. | $12M / Series A / Jul 15, 2020 | |
Spring in Africa
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Wallets Africa helps Africans and African-owned businesses send money, receive money, make card payments, and access overdrafts. | $1.3M / Seed / Jun 24, 2020 | |
Loft Orbital
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Loft Orbital operates microsatellites and flies customer payloads as a service.Loft Orbital offers an end-to-end service that delivers missions to orbit on a standard microsatellite bus. The company handles all elements of a satellite campaign from end to end - booking, launching, and operating a satellite, as well as securing the necessarylicenses, insurance, and financing. | $13M / Series A / Nov 13, 2019 | |
Atomic Returns
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Atomic is the first solution for retailers that focuses on the ROI of returns. | $100K / Seed / Jun 17, 2019 | |
| See all 17 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Swell Partners invest in?
Swell Partners invests primarily in FinTech, Hospitality and Retail Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 17 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 Swell Partners?
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Who are the partners at Swell Partners?
The team at Swell Partners includes Jay Patil (Co-Founder and General Partner) and Rusty Ralston (Co-Founder & General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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