# TEC Ventures

> TEC Ventures is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Software and Communities. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tecvc
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/advornikova
- Website: http://www.tec.vc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tecvc

TEC Ventures is a boutique seed fund in the Silicon Valley that invests in global entrepreneurs that think outside of the box . Our focus: Internet and software startups with specific interest in social, e-commerce, media, mobile, education, enterprise, security, and consumer internet/mobile apps.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $800k–$3.4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| Communities | 2 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 25% |
| iOS | 1 | 13% |
| SaaS | 1 | 13% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Angel | 1 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 75% |
| Austria | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alla Koltun | Interim CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alla-koltun |
| Anna Dvornikova | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anna-dvornikova |
| Stas Khirman | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stas-khirman |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| TriLite Technologies | TriLite Technologies is a developing world display tech for AR/VR applications. | $22M | Series A | Sep 11, 2024 |  |
| TriLite Technologies | TriLite Technologies is a developing world display tech for AR/VR applications. | $9.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 19, 2021 |  |
| PastureMap | PastureMap helps ranchers and farmers make profits building healthy grasslands. The company builds a global regenerative agriculture movement that is restores soil health, sequestering carbon, and provides clean water while feeding local communities. | $800K | Seed | Jan 31, 2016 |  |
| Espresa | Espresa is the world’s first Culture Benefits® platform that includes a suite of integrated tools with a modern digital experience that people love. Supporting HR and people teams, Espresa drives workplace culture through employee experience and engagement programs such as rewards and recognition, employee resource groups, wellbeing and fitness,challenges and achievements, reimbursements and allowances, and meetups and event scheduling. Discover how Espresa makes heroes out of HR teams while engaging people, wherever they are.Espresa is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Learn more at Espresa.comThe company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | $3.4M | Seed | Dec 01, 2015 |  |
| Silo | Silo is a platform for professional helpful communities. Silo allows professionals to connect, share unpublished opportunities and help others with intros, advice and more. On Silo professionals can meet their peers, discover insider opportunities, benefit from trusted networks and help others to help themselves. Silo was launched in 2013 and isbased in San Jose, California. |  | Seed | Apr 09, 2014 |  |
| OwnerListens | OwnerListens provides real time, location aware, private messaging between businesses & customers.1. Text messaging (SMS/IM) is people's preferred form of communications, esp Millenials2. Businesses & customers can't effectively engage in two way messaging because businesses don't have tools to handle real timetext messaging effectively, particularly when the best first responder is an on site employee such as at hotel or store3. OwnerListens builds to tools capture, route and effectively respond to customer texts4. OwnerListens also provides analytics & reporting that uncover performance improving insights about employees & customersBusinesses love OwnerListens because responding to text messages:1. Is cheaper than phone calls2. Reaches customers while on site, responding and salvaging revenues/relationships at first point of contact3. Delights customers & increases NPS and LTR (likely to recommend)4. Holds employees accountable with time, date & location stamped reports | $1.3M | Seed | May 13, 2013 |  |
| TranscribeMe | TranscribeMe develops an audio search and transcription platform designed to make audio content searchable and shareable, by converting speech to text. The platform utilizes it's proprietary micro-tasking technology to produce a speaker identified transcription from complex audio that involves multiple speakers and overlapping conversations,by processing pieces of audio in parallel, enabling medical professionals, corporations, conferences, writers, podcasters, and academics to monetize their audio content by transcribing it to word-for-word text.The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $940K | Angel | Nov 05, 2012 |  |
| GetGoing | GetGoing is a venture-backed San Francisco startup changing the way people travel by making it more fun and affordable. Our goal is to help leisure travelers discover new getaways, save big (up to 40%) and travel more. We are working with major airlines and hotels to revolutionize the travel industry while delivering the best experience and pricesto our users. Currently, we fly to over 2000 destinations worldwide.Our proprietary pricing method helps airlines fill unsold seats (up to 20% of available seats) by selling to discretionary, price-sensitive leisure travelers. To purchase a ticket on our website, customers need to select two destinations and commit to a non-refundable purchase. During the flight selection process, customers can choose arrival and departure times, flight duration, and the number of stops. GetGoing selects one of the destinations, revealing it to the customer after processing the booking and payment. Since our model requires destination flexibility, we ensure that our sales exclude business travelers, those visiting friends and family, and non-flexible leisure customers.We have eight U.S. and international patents and keep expanding our intellectual property portfolio with innovative pricing, search and customer segmentation methods. | $2.5M | Seed | Jan 01, 2012 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does TEC Ventures invest in?

TEC Ventures invests primarily in Software, Communities and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is TEC Ventures's check size?

TEC Ventures typically joins rounds of $800k–$3.4M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds TEC Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact TEC Ventures?

Public channels for TEC Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at TEC Ventures?

The team at TEC Ventures includes Alla Koltun (Interim CFO), Anna Dvornikova (Managing Partner) and Stas Khirman (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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