# TeleSoft Partners

> TeleSoft Partners is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Software and FinTech. See 123 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 123
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 14%
- Fund size: $160M
- Last fund: Feb 1997
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/telesoft-partners
- Website: http://www.telesoftvc.com

TeleSoft Partners is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and FinTech. TeleSoft Partners provides value-added capital for technology, communications and energy value chain companies. Our focus is to help entrepreneurs benefit from our knowledge, contacts and experience -- to help you Make-It-Happen. Over the last two decades, TeleSoft has helped build over 75 companies, of which over 50 companies have been acquiredor gone public.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $1.8M–$40M |
| Series B | $5M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 18 | 15% |
| FinTech | 15 | 12% |
| Financial Services | 13 | 11% |
| Telecommunications | 10 | 8% |
| Information Technology | 10 | 8% |

122 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 21 | 17% |
| Series B | 21 | 17% |
| Series C | 20 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 20 | 16% |
| Series D | 8 | 7% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 57 | 46% |
| China | 2 | 2% |
| Mexico | 2 | 2% |
| Germany | 2 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Arjun Gupta | Founder | 14 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arjun-gupta |
| Alan Foster | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alan-foster |
| Alan Howard | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/al-howard |
| Bruce Cohen | Consultant | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bruce-cohen-3 |
| Chris LeBlanc | Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-leblanc |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Workhelix | Workhelix is a developer of workforce management platform to assist with business management. | $15M | Series A | Feb 27, 2025 |  |
| Sound Health | Sound Health uses acoustic resonance to provide nasal relief. Its current product is an app that scans the face to map the bone structure and then a headband that plays music at personalized frequencies for 10 minutes. The headband is off the shelf and the sound levels are akin to wearing earpods. It envisions the headband to be over-the-counter(OTC) so it’s easily accessible to patients, whether prescribed by doctors or not. | $7M | Seed | Jul 24, 2024 |  |
| Anthropic | Anthropic conducts AI research and develops AI products, including the Claude AI model family. The company focuses on building AI for human well-being, emphasizing safety in its research, policy work, and product design. Anthropic offers various Claude models, such as Opus and Sonnet, for AI-powered applications and custom experiences, supportingcoding and AI agents. | $452.3M | Secondary Market | May 31, 2024 |  |
| Anthropic | Anthropic conducts AI research and develops AI products, including the Claude AI model family. The company focuses on building AI for human well-being, emphasizing safety in its research, policy work, and product design. Anthropic offers various Claude models, such as Opus and Sonnet, for AI-powered applications and custom experiences, supportingcoding and AI agents. | $884.1M | Secondary Market | Mar 22, 2024 |  |
| Anthropic | Anthropic conducts AI research and develops AI products, including the Claude AI model family. The company focuses on building AI for human well-being, emphasizing safety in its research, policy work, and product design. Anthropic offers various Claude models, such as Opus and Sonnet, for AI-powered applications and custom experiences, supportingcoding and AI agents. | $884.1M | Series E | Mar 22, 2024 |  |
| Figure | Figure provides consumer financial solutions intended for home improvement, debt consolidation, and retirement planning. Its financial services include provide home equity release services such as home equity lines of credit, home improvement loans, and home buy-lease back offerings for retirement leveraging through blockchain, artificialintelligence, and advanced analytics, enabling customers to access capital in as few as five days. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Sesame | Sesame is a healthcare superstore, with over 10,000 medical practices offering affordable prices on the full scope of health care. For anyone looking for affordable care options, save up to 60% on in-person and telehealth visits with top primary care doctors, specialists, dentists, therapists, dermatologists, labs, imagine centers, and more.Available today at affordable prices, even without health insurance.The company removes the complexities of the care chain to put power back in the hands of people, not systems. Sesame’s mission is to ensure quality care is accessible to all Americans who need it, regardless of their insurance status while benefiting clinicians who seek to meet the needs of their patients.Sesame was founded in 2018 and based in New York City, New York. | $27M | Series B | Jun 14, 2022 |  |
| Kapital | Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees | $8.6M | Seed | Apr 14, 2022 |  |
| Kapital | Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees | $8.6M | Series A | Apr 14, 2022 |  |
| Docker | Docker develops an open platform for building, shipping, and running distributed applications. Its platform allows developers and system administrators to create and run applications as a collection of containers that work across laptops, data center virtual machines, and public cloud instances. Docker also offers an application run-time andpackaging tool and a cloud service for sharing applications and automating workflows.Starting in 2008, dotCloud became Docker in October 2013, with its headquarters in San Francisco, California. | $105M | Series C | Mar 31, 2022 |  |

10 of 123 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
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- [Meritech Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/meritech-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Mohr Davidow Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mohr-davidow-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does TeleSoft Partners invest in?

TeleSoft Partners invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 123 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 TeleSoft Partners's check size?

TeleSoft Partners typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$40M at Series A and $5M–$50M 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 TeleSoft Partners participates in.

### How do I contact TeleSoft Partners?

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### Who are the partners at TeleSoft Partners?

The team at TeleSoft Partners includes Arjun Gupta (Founder), Alan Foster (Managing Director) and Alan Howard (Chief Financial Officer), among 9 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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