# Telescope Partners

> Telescope Partners is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Software and SaaS. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 82%
- Fund size: $79M
- Last fund: Nov 2016
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/telescope-partners
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/telescopevc
- Website: http://www.telescopepartners.com/

Telescope Partners is an active growth equity firm partnering with best in class entrepreneurs across the technology landscape. We invest ourselves and our capital in companies building long-term, sustainable businesses.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Telescope Partners. Shizune tracks 7 team members at Telescope Partners. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/telescope-partners?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $8.6M–$25M |
| Series B | $43M–$70M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 24% |
| SaaS | 3 | 18% |
| B2B | 2 | 12% |
| Mobile | 2 | 12% |
| Analytics | 2 | 12% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 12 | 71% |
| Series B | 3 | 18% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 71% |
| India | 1 | 6% |
| Australia | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nicole Naidoo | Principal | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nicole-naidoo |
| Amit Parekh | Principal | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amit-parekh |
| Evan O'Brien | Associate/Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evan-o-brien-ff44 |
| Martha Teka | Associate/Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/martha-teka |
| Mickey Arabelovic | Founder and Managing Member | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mickey-arabelovic |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Canid | Candid simplifies pediatricians’ work by redesigning how the vaccination process works. The company's scanning system eliminates the need for manual data entry and uploads vaccine information into state registries. | $10M | Series A | Jun 03, 2025 |  |
| Fundraise Up | Fundraise Up is a rapidly growing financial technology company headquartered in Brooklyn, NY that provides online fundraising software to enterprise nonprofits. Fundraise Up's AI-powered platform is leveraged by trusted organizations like UNICEF USA to double annual digital donation revenue and triple recurring donor acquisition. | $70M | Series B | Jan 06, 2025 |  |
| Fathom | An audiovisual recording service that integrates with both Zoom and Google Calendar. | $17M | Series A | Sep 19, 2024 |  |
| Stay Ai | Stay Ai develops a retention operating system with resources to support boosting LTV. The platform is designed from the ground up to actively grow subscription revenue via a suite of AI-powered acquisition, retention, and churn reduction tools. | $15.1M | Series A | Jul 25, 2023 |  |
| Uniqode | MobStac's mission is to make it possible for people to consume the Internet on any mobile device on the planet by accelerating the availability of mobile Internet content and delivering it to the widest possible audience | $25M | Series A | Jan 17, 2023 |  |
| Uniqode | Uniqode (formerly known as Beaconstac) is a QR Code generator platform that is focused on enhancing operational efficiency, elevating customer engagement, assessing the ROI of physical marketing channels, and reducing marketing costs. Uniqode boasts a user base exceeding 50,000 businesses across various sectors, such as consumer goods, hospitality,retail, and real estate, from diverse global enterprises and small businesses relying on it for their QR Code requirements. | $25M | Series A | Jan 17, 2023 |  |
| Gipper | Gipper is a content creation platform for schools that makes graphic design quick and easy. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, United States. | $8.6M | Series A | Dec 15, 2022 |  |
| Measured | Measured helps brands grow by measuring incremental media contribution to desired performance results. Through a transparent experimentation approach that is always learning, Measured delivers ongoing actionable insights for marketers to increase efficiency and scale media for maximum growth. Experiments are powered by Measured’s privacy compliantMarketing Data Warehouse, which is purpose-built for analytics with data the customer owns. Since being founded in early 2017, Measured customers, including brands like Calvin Klein, Drizly, FabFitFun, and Johnny Was have experienced 30% efficiency gains on average. For more information, visit www.measured.com. | $21M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 04, 2022 |  |
| MedTrainer | MedTrainer operates as a healthcare-focused compliance management suite. It offers eLearning, policy and procedure management, safety plan authoring and management, incident management, credential management, safety data sheet (SDS), contract management, equipment lifecycle management, and much more. MedTrainer is a one-stop solution for healthcarecompliance with over 300,000 active users and growing.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Redlands, California. | $43M | Series B | Apr 13, 2022 |  |
| Cascade Strategy | Cascade Strategy is a seamlessly integrated suite of tools for running your entire business. From strategic planning to performance management, Cascade includes all the tools you need to build an empowered, cohesive and efficient organization with strategy at its heart.Innovation and agility is at the core of what we do. We firmly believe thatcorporations deserve access to the same exciting and intuitive technology experiences that consumers are enjoying.Our customers are redefining the world as we know it - from battling the AIDS epidemic and establishing a supply chain for COVID-19 vaccines, to building the world’s fastest Formula One car. | $40M | Series A | Mar 21, 2022 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [RiverPark Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/riverpark-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Begin Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/begin-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blackstone](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackstone) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Telescope Partners invest in?

Telescope Partners invests primarily in Software, SaaS and B2B startups, most often at Series A and Series B 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.

### What is Telescope Partners's check size?

Telescope Partners typically joins rounds of $8.6M–$25M at Series A and $43M–$70M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Telescope Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Telescope Partners?

Public channels for Telescope Partners 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 Telescope Partners?

The team at Telescope Partners includes Nicole Naidoo (Principal), Amit Parekh (Principal) and Evan O'Brien (Associate/Investor), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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