The Perkins Fund
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
The Perkins Fund is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Internet. Founded in 2016 by industry veteran Sonja Perkins, the fund focuses on high technology companies that fill an unmet market need that can only be solved through a combination of technology, marketing savvy and hard work. The fund typically invests in less than 10% of a round and selectively considers board seats. While typically not a board member,the Perkins Fund provides incredible value in fund raising, market positioning and general business strategy.The Perkins Fund has invested in over 35 companies with entrepreneurs of high character and capability. While the Perkins Fund does not only invest in women, over 50% of the Perkins Fund founders are women compared to a venture capital industry average of less than 5%. The fund's focus is on long term, lasting relationships with entrepreneurs. Over 30% of the founders have been backed by founder Sonja Hoel Perkins in the past. The Perkins Fund invests in all stages, including seed, startup and late stage deals. Over 70% of the portfolio has raised venture capital.
- Total investments:
- 65
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 6%
- Fund size:
- $16M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries The Perkins Fund invests in
Stages The Perkins Fund invests in
Countries The Perkins Fund invests in
Contacts
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Sarah Koch-Schiller
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Sonja Perkins
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 11 (17%)
- Internet 9 (14%)
- Mobile 7 (11%)
- Fashion 6 (9%)
- Security 5 (8%)
Stage
- Funding Round 20 (31%)
- Series A 15 (23%)
- Seed 12 (18%)
- Series B 4 (6%)
- Series D 3 (5%)
Country
- United States 44 (68%)
- The Netherlands 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Sarah Koch-Schiller
Executive Coordinator
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Executive Coordinator | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Sonja Perkins
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 33 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Mercy BioAnalytics
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Mercy BioAnalytics is a biotechnology company that aims to improve and save the lives of people through the early detection of cancer.It has developed a process that uses nano-particles that are extraordinarily abundant in blood and carry information about their parent cell – known as extracellular vesicles, or EVs – to detect stage I cancer.Paul Blavin and Joseph Sedlak founded the Natick, Massachusetts-based company in 2018. | $27.3M / Jan 29, 2021 | |
Mistro
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Mistro offers a platform that provides unique benefits plan to each remote employee. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $150K / Seed / Mar 16, 2020 | |
RadSwan
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RadSwan is a consumer goods company that specializes in providing hair fashion design for black women. The company features a is a socially conscious brand targeting the hair care and protective styling needs of black women with natural hair. | $2M / Seed / Nov 15, 2019 | |
128 Technology
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128 Technology provides software-based routing solutions that enable enterprises and service providers to build networks. Their professional-grade software teaches routers the language of applications and services, letting them understand the requirements of individual services and segments, and adapt the network dynamically to deliver what thebusiness needs, when and where it needs it. They make routers Session Smart, enabling enterprise customers and service providers to create a service-centric fabric that's more simple, agile, and secure, delivering better performance at a lower cost. | $30M / Series D / Sep 18, 2019 | |
Argent
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Argent is an online retailer of women's clothing and apparel. | $4M / Feb 14, 2019 | |
Chronicled
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Chronicled builds trust and automation in the life science industry, powered by blockchain. Based in San Francisco, Chronicled is the custodian of MediLedger, the primary blockchain-based network in the healthcare and life science industry that powers solutions to facilitate trust and automation between companies. Chronicled develops solutions forrevenue management and supply chain on the MediLedger Network. | $16M / Series A / Jan 15, 2019 | |
Qordoba
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Qordoba’s AI helps everyone at a company write with the same style, terminology, and brand voice. With Qordoba’s dynamic content guidelines, organizations can achieve consistency and clarity across all types of content — including communications and marketing, technical documentation, product, customer knowledge bases, HR and legal policies, andmore. Companies such as Intuit, Twitter, Braintree, Visa, and Marriott use Qordoba to empower their writers to create better content. We were named a CNBC Upstart 100 company in 2019 and one of Forbes’ Cloud 100 Rising Stars in 2018.Visit qordoba.com to learn more. | $11.5M / Series B / Oct 11, 2018 | |
Vorstella
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Vorstella is an A.I. agent that stabilizes and optimizes the users' data platforms. Vorstella’s AI agent can forecast future problems, identify an outage root cause, and walk engineers through complex remediation procedures. Vorstella works with the user's existing teams to keep its systems available and performant, so the user can saygoodbye to stress and instead focus on system design, innovation and strategy. | $3.3M / Seed / Dec 06, 2017 | |
ScribbleChat
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ScribbleChat is a mobile messaging application. | $2.8M / Oct 10, 2017 | |
Ellevest
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Ellevest provides an engaging investing experience to help women meet their financial goals in life.Ellevest offers a modern, engaging user experience. The same care, thoughtfulness, and attention to detail that is reflected in its beautiful, easy-to-use interface are applied to the construction of its portfolios, its selection of investments,and the development of the algorithms that drive its forecasts and recommendations. | $34.6M / Series A / Sep 18, 2017 | |
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FAQ
What does The Perkins Fund invest in?
The Perkins Fund invests primarily in Software, Internet and Mobile startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 65 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at The Perkins Fund?
The team at The Perkins Fund includes Sarah Koch-Schiller (Executive Coordinator) and Sonja Perkins (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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