# University Growth Fund

> University Growth Fund is a VC fund backing FinTech. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Salt Lake City, United States
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 5%
- Fund size: $50M
- Last fund: Feb 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/15195666/
- Website: http://www.ugrowthfund.com

University Growth Fund is a VC fund in Salt Lake City focused on FinTech and Information Technology. University Growth Fund is the largest education-based private equity fund in the country, giving university students the opportunity to gain real-world experience as they invest alongside top tier investors in many of the best companies in the country.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $8.5M–$64M |
| Series B | $18M–$107M |
| Series C | $20M–$115M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 5 | 24% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 24% |
| Software | 4 | 19% |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 19% |
| SaaS | 3 | 14% |

60 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 8 | 38% |
| Series C | 5 | 24% |
| Series B | 3 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 10% |
| Seed | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 17 | 81% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mai Ho | Limited Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mai-ho |
| Peter Harris | Co-Founder and Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-harris |
| Tom Stringham | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-stringham |
| Yilan Shi | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yilan-shi |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zanskar | Zanskar develops a predictive platform informed by massive data for discovering previously unknown geothermal resources. Its platform includes subsurface characterization technology and massive data sets, enhancing and reducing risk in the exploration of geothermal resources. | $115M | Series C | Jan 21, 2026 |  |
| Nest Health | Nest Health offers medical services that aim to minimize the stress of arranging childcare, making travel arrangements, and leaving home. The company offers a wide range of services to newborns, babies, children, teens, and adults for medical, behavioral, nutrition, and more, enabling patients to get treated at home. | $10M | Series A | Nov 21, 2025 |  |
| Daylight | Daylight is the first and only digital banking platform in the U.S. specifically designed for and by the LGBT+ community. Daylight’s card, app and digital services prepare members for the future faster by helping them to navigate the finance system, generate smarter habits and connect with a community working together to build the life they deservewithout compromise.Daylight was founded in 2020 and is located at West Hollywood, California. | $15M | Series A | Nov 18, 2022 |  |
| Particl | Particl offers real-time market research, pricing optimization, and forecasting data solutions for e-commerce. By gaining access to the most precise and up-to-date data available in the market, consumers can keep track of the market and the competition. Particl users have complete access to all SKUs sold online around the world. Particl improvesmarket share and enables users to stay ahead of the trends using real-time, actionable data from over 70K+ e-commerce sites. | $8.5M | Series A | Nov 16, 2022 |  |
| IRALOGIX | iraLogix, an advanced, institutional IRA record-keeping and trading technology offering web-based institutional IRA record-keeping services. By providing the industry's only end-to-end, fully paperless system, they allow their clients to provide high-quality IRA products that offer seamless access to professional advice, education, andinstitutionally priced investments regardless of account size. iraLogix was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. | $22M | Series C | Jul 13, 2022 |  |
| Prime Trust | Prime Trust is a technology-driven trust company unlike anything else in existence. We are doing to the traditional trust industry what Paypal did to merchant processing; completely disrupting it by writing software that brings services to the masses and that business partners can build on top of. As a chartered, regulated financial institution weare overseen by the banking commissioner’s office at the Financial Institutions Division. As a trust company we hold cash and non-cash assets such as stocks, bonds, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, tokens, real estate, and private business ownership interests. We act as custodian and trustee for a wide variety of personal and corporate trusts, as well as a major part of the crowdfunding industry, and work with individuals, corporations, lawyers, brokers, investment advisers and others on holding and managing specialized custodial, escrow and trust services. | $107M | Series B | Jun 22, 2022 |  |
| Prime Trust | Prime Trust is a technology-driven trust company unlike anything else in existence. We are doing to the traditional trust industry what Paypal did to merchant processing; completely disrupting it by writing software that brings services to the masses and that business partners can build on top of. As a chartered, regulated financial institution weare overseen by the banking commissioner’s office at the Financial Institutions Division. As a trust company we hold cash and non-cash assets such as stocks, bonds, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, tokens, real estate, and private business ownership interests. We act as custodian and trustee for a wide variety of personal and corporate trusts, as well as a major part of the crowdfunding industry, and work with individuals, corporations, lawyers, brokers, investment advisers and others on holding and managing specialized custodial, escrow and trust services. | $107M | Series B | Jun 22, 2022 |  |
| Gametime | Gametime sells last-minute tickets to the most popular events in sports, music, and theater. It makes finding the perfect live experience remarkably fast and easy. They curate an epic list of the most amazing possibilities in the city has to offer. Once the client selects their event it will examine over 10,000 potential seats and present them withthe 50 best values to select.Each curated seat option includes a panoramic high-resolution photo so their client can experience the actual view from their section. Navigate to the seat map to see price versus the location comparisons with true-to-life, full-color venue maps. Gametime delivers the tickets directly to the client's phone. Now they are offering sports, concerts, and theater events across the United States and Canada. | $30M |  | May 26, 2022 |  |
| Gametime | Gametime sells last-minute tickets to the most popular events in sports, music, and theater. It makes finding the perfect live experience remarkably fast and easy. They curate an epic list of the most amazing possibilities in the city has to offer. Once the client selects their event it will examine over 10,000 potential seats and present them withthe 50 best values to select.Each curated seat option includes a panoramic high-resolution photo so their client can experience the actual view from their section. Navigate to the seat map to see price versus the location comparisons with true-to-life, full-color venue maps. Gametime delivers the tickets directly to the client's phone. Now they are offering sports, concerts, and theater events across the United States and Canada. | $30M | Series C | May 26, 2022 |  |
| Koji | Koji is the world’s most powerful Link in Bio platform. With hundreds of free apps created by Koji and its community of independent developers, the Koji Link in Bio gives leading Creators on TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and other social media platforms new ways to engage audiences, connect with supporters, and monetize. | $20M | Series B | Jan 25, 2022 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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- [Commerce Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/commerce-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does University Growth Fund invest in?

University Growth Fund invests primarily in FinTech, Information Technology and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series C stage. Most of the 21 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 University Growth Fund's check size?

University Growth Fund typically joins rounds of $8.5M–$64M at Series A, $18M–$107M at Series B and $20M–$115M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds University Growth Fund participates in.

### How do I contact University Growth Fund?

Public channels for University Growth Fund include LinkedIn 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 University Growth Fund?

The team at University Growth Fund includes Mai Ho (Limited Partner), Peter Harris (Co-Founder and Partner) and Tom Stringham (Managing Partner). 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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