The Rise Fund
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
The Rise Fund is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Financial Services and FinTech. The Rise Fund is committed to achieving social and environmental impact alongside financial returns. We seek to partner with creative entrepreneurs and build successful businesses that drive meaningful, measurable positive change.The Rise Fund will focus on investments in seven sectors in which independent research has shown that impact is bothachievable and measurable in quantitative terms: education, energy, food and agriculture, financial services, healthcare, information, and communication technology, and industrials and infrastructure.
- Total investments:
- 94
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 66%
- Fund size:
- $3B
- Last fund:
Last updated:
For AI agents: llms.txt
Industries The Rise Fund invests in
Stages The Rise Fund invests in
Countries The Rise Fund invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series B
- $20M–$157M
- Series C
- $53M–$182M
- Private Equity
- $50M–$350M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 14 (15%)
- FinTech 8 (9%)
- Software 8 (9%)
- Health Care 8 (9%)
- Information Technology 7 (7%)
Stage
- Series B 14 (15%)
- Series C 13 (14%)
- Private Equity 10 (11%)
- Series A 9 (10%)
- Series D 9 (10%)
Country
- United States 35 (37%)
- India 5 (5%)
- United Kingdom 3 (3%)
- China 2 (2%)
- Argentina 2 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
John Rogers
Partner, Sector Lead
|
Partner, Sector Lead | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Stephen Ellis
Senior Partner of Business Building
|
Senior Partner of Business Building | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
Jim Coulter
Executive Chairman
|
Executive Chairman | Total investments: 9 | Find email | |
Michael R. Stone
CIO
|
CIO | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge Mobile Telematics develops DriveWell, a complete telematics and behavioral analytics solution to improve safety. | $350M / Private Equity / Mar 24, 2026 | ||
| The leading technology for connecting people to social care, findhelp seamlessly operates with existing systems. It includes thousands of up-to-date services available in every zip code, searchable at any time. | $250M / Private Equity / Mar 03, 2026 | ||
| Tide is a business finance platform supplying a range of tools to handle company financial operations. It provides business accounts, invoicing, expense management, accounting integrations, payroll, and tools for savings and payments. Tide enables business registration, offers plans suited to different business sizes, and facilitates access tobusiness loans and credit services. It allows users to make and receive payments, set up virtual or physical cards, issue invoices and connect with accounting systems. It also includes support services like fraud protection, help center resources, and business tips. | $120M / Private Equity / Sep 22, 2025 | ||
| Tide is a business finance platform supplying a range of tools to handle company financial operations. It provides business accounts, invoicing, expense management, accounting integrations, payroll, and tools for savings and payments. Tide enables business registration, offers plans suited to different business sizes, and facilitates access tobusiness loans and credit services. It allows users to make and receive payments, set up virtual or physical cards, issue invoices and connect with accounting systems. It also includes support services like fraud protection, help center resources, and business tips. | Secondary Market / Sep 22, 2025 | ||
| Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments. | $157M / Series B / Sep 15, 2025 | ||
| Eruditus collaborates with top universities to make executive education accessible globally. Eruditus has partnered with more than 30 universities to date, including MIT, Columbia, Harvard, Cambridge, INSEAD, Wharton, UC Berkeley, INCAE, IIT, IIM, NUS, and HKUST, launching more than 100 courses and serving students from more than 80 countries. Manycourses are offered and facilitated in multiple languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, and Mandarin.Eruditus was founded in 2010 and is based in Singapore with offices in six countries, 650+ employees, and more than 50,000 student enrolments. | $150M / Series F / Oct 18, 2024 | ||
| BillEase offers applications that splits customers' payments into interest-bearing installments. | Series C / Sep 03, 2024 | ||
| Hayden AI’s mission is to develop cutting-edge artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies that enable the automated enforcement of bus lanes and stops—accelerating public transit, improving street safety, and advancing a more sustainable urban future. | $90M / Series C / Jul 10, 2024 | ||
| Foodsmart is a digital nutrition platform that uses personalized dietary recommendations to improve health outcomes. The company supports those facing chronic disease and food insecurity by partnering with health plans and providers to give patients access to personalized and affordable healthy eating options. | $200M / Private Equity / Jun 26, 2024 | ||
| Sionna Therapeutics is developing novel small molecule therapies to treat cystic fibrosis (CF). | $182M / Series C / Mar 06, 2024 | ||
| See all 94 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!
Find investors for your startup
Search 48,091 investors by industry and country. Emails and phones included.
Similar Investors
Similar industry
Similar stage
Similar country
Featured in Investor Lists
Recommended lists
FAQ
What does The Rise Fund invest in?
The Rise Fund invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 94 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 The Rise Fund's check size?
The Rise Fund typically joins rounds of $20M–$157M at Series B, $53M–$182M at Series C and $50M–$350M at Private Equity. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds The Rise Fund participates in.
How do I contact The Rise Fund?
Public channels for The Rise Fund 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 The Rise Fund?
The team at The Rise Fund includes John Rogers (Partner, Sector Lead), Stephen Ellis (Senior Partner of Business Building) and Jim Coulter (Executive Chairman). 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
Contact your first 100 investors today
Find who invests in your industry, stage, and country. Download investor list with emails in 5 minutes.
Find investors — It's Free!
Continue with Google
Continue with LinkedIn
