# Tensility Venture Partners

> Tensility Venture Partners is a VC fund backing Software. See 34 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, United States
- Total investments: 34
- Last investment: Dec 2024
- Lead investor: 9%
- Last fund: Nov 2017
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tensility-venture-partners/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/TensilityVC
- Website: http://www.tensilityvc.com/

Tensility Venture Partners is a seed-stage firm that partners with mission-driven founders of early-stage enterprise AI startups in security, digital health, and novel, vertical-applications. The firm seeds and grows companies that will revolutionize business by delivering the promise of AI to the enterprise. It invests in cybersecurity, digitalhealth, and vertical industry applications.Founded in 2016, Tensility Venture Partners is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 24% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 18% |
| Machine Learning | 5 | 15% |
| SaaS | 3 | 9% |
| Data Integration | 3 | 9% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 44% |
| Series A | 7 | 21% |
| Series B | 2 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 6% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 38% |
| Canada | 2 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Armando Pauker | Co-Founder & Managing Director | 17 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/armando-pauker |
| Jeffrey Rodek | Executive Network Advisor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mr-jeffrey-rodek |
| Nancy Corrie | Consulting CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nancy-corrie |
| Wayne Boulais | Co-Founder and Managing Director | 26 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wayne-boulais |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Culina Health | Culina Health is a personalized nutrition platform powered by registered dietitians to help you prioritize the way you want to live. We make insurance-covered nutrition care accessible and easier to understand so that you can fuel a satisfying and well balanced life. | $7.9M | Series A | Dec 19, 2024 |  |
| Actuate | Actuate employs computer vision to automatically identify guns in existing security camera feeds to notify police and provide early warning. Our solution dramatically reduces response times, and provides bystanders with the critical information needed to make life saving decisions. | $11.7M | Series B | Aug 14, 2024 |  |
| Pepper Bio | Transomics drug discovery platform | $6.5M | Seed | Nov 30, 2023 |  |
| Leverage | Leverage enables automatic end-to-end supply chain insight across purchase orders, shipments, and inventory. Stop wasting time on manual calls and emails to suppliers and logistics partners, and instead respond to essential supply chain questions in real-time. Leverage tracks and manages supplier performance across your supply chain, driving costsavings through continuous improvement. | $3M |  | Jul 14, 2023 |  |
| Leverage | Leverage enables automatic end-to-end supply chain insight across purchase orders, shipments, and inventory. Stop wasting time on manual calls and emails to suppliers and logistics partners, and instead respond to essential supply chain questions in real-time. Leverage tracks and manages supplier performance across your supply chain, driving costsavings through continuous improvement. | $3M | Series A | Jul 14, 2023 |  |
| Agnostiq | Agnostiq is a quantum and high performance computing company | $9.1M | Seed | Apr 05, 2023 |  |
| Data Robot (Formerly Agnostiq) | Agnostiq is the company behind Covalent, a cloud agnostic, entirely pythonic, and infinitely scalable computing platform providing on-demand, serverless access to AI infrastructure such as Nvidia H100s and A100s. With Covalent, users can scale to any arbitrary number of compute resources with a single line of code. Covalent is available Open Sourceor as a Cloud-hosted / Enterprise offering. Learn more at www.covalent.xyz. | $9.1M | Seed | Apr 05, 2023 |  |
| Culina Health | Culina Health is a personalized nutrition platform powered by registered dietitians to help you prioritize the way you want to live. We make insurance-covered nutrition care accessible and easier to understand so that you can fuel a satisfying and well balanced life. | $4.8M | Seed | May 31, 2022 |  |
| CharmVerse | Join discord for early access https://discord.gg/ACYCzBGC2M | $3.8M | Seed | Mar 26, 2022 |  |
| Agolo | Agolo does one thing exceptionally well: we turn messy, freeform unstructured product data into a clean entity graph-based data store that, in turn, powers many enterprise use cases. Use cases range from GenAI Apps to LLMs and RAG Pipelines to Business Intelligence Dashboards and Reports to Support Site Augmentation to Enterprise and ApplicationSearch.Taken together, the business impact is clear line of sight to your customers' product experience, leading to improved product quality, lower support costs, and faster detection of emerging issues. |  | Series A | Mar 16, 2022 |  |

10 of 34 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Green Egg Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greeneggventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [S3 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/s3-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Differential Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/differential-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Las Olas Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/las-olas-vc-a-k-a-lovc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Scout Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scout-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [2048 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2048-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Tensility Venture Partners invest in?

Tensility Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 34 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 Tensility Venture Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Tensility Venture Partners?

The team at Tensility Venture Partners includes Armando Pauker (Co-Founder & Managing Director), Jeffrey Rodek (Executive Network Advisor) and Nancy Corrie (Consulting CFO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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