# UpVentures Capital

> UpVentures Capital is a VC fund in Little Falls backing Software and SaaS. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Little Falls, United States
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Apr 2021
- Lead investor: 4%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.upventures.com/

UpVentures Capital is an early-stage investor that makes minority investments in seed-stage, early-stage, and later-stage companies. It prefers to invest in companies from the software and technology sectors. The firm invests in early-stage technology companies, primarily in Upstate NY but also NY metro, Silicon Valley, and other locations whereits relationships extend to help entrepreneurs start and grow companies.UpVentures Capital was established in 2014 and is headquartered in Little Falls, New York.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 30% |
| SaaS | 7 | 26% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 19% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 19% |
| Machine Learning | 4 | 15% |

60 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 33% |
| Series A | 7 | 26% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 15% |
| Series D | 2 | 7% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 7% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 24 | 89% |
| Israel | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Martin Babinec | Managing Director | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/martin-babinec |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| UCM Digital Health | UCM Digital Health is a provider of virtual care and emergency telemedicine tools for insurers, employers, patients, and providers. The company's digital front door platform enables the creation of lower-cost, high-quality offerings through a single point of digital engagement with intelligent network routing, backed by 24/7/365emergency medicine provider treatment, triage, and navigation when needed.UCM Digital Health was founded in 2014 and is based in Troy, New York. | $5.5M | Series A | Apr 28, 2021 |  |
| SpaceX | Space Exploration Technologies is a space-transportation startup company founded by Elon Musk. SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. SpaceX develops crew and cargo capsules, engines, cryogenic tank structures, avionics, equipment, guidance, and control software. The company is developing the partially reusablelaunch vehicles Falcon 1 and Falcon 9.Founded in 2002, Space Exploration Technologies is headquartered in Hawthorne, California. | $314M | Private Equity | Apr 14, 2021 |  |
| Fluent Forever | Fluent Forever is a mobile application that builds the most powerful language learning platform. This revolutionary app help to learn any language fast and retain it forever. | $4.9M | Seed | Dec 24, 2020 |  |
| DocAuthority | DocAuthority is developing a revolutionary document control solution. DocAuthority solves this by automatically discovering and accurately identifying unprotected sensitive documents, thus enabling a broad yet business-friendly security policy. The company introduces a unique approach that enables IT professionals as well as business users todefine business aligned security policies to control documents'​ usage throughout the organization. | $3.3M | Series A | Dec 02, 2020 |  |
| Leena AI | Leena AI is an autonomous conversational AI-backed platform that helps enterprises better employee experience. The platform is powerful, flexible, and made to meets the needs of any enterprise. With Leena AI, companies can eliminate the need for HR staff to work on tasks such as answering policy-related questions, knowledge management,generating employee documents on demand, and managing employee tickets so they can focus on high-value activities.Leena AI plays well with 20 plus platforms, including SAP SuccessFactors, ADP, Oracle, Workday, and Microsoft Office 365. It is trusted by 1M employees across companies like Nestle, Puma, AirAsia, Coca-cola, Lafarge Holcim, and Abbott.The platform is capable of handling every aspect of employee experience across the employee lifecycle. From FAQ automation and employee engagement right up to employee onboarding, the platform aims to help organizations streamline all HR workflows. | $8M | Series A | Nov 02, 2020 |  |
| Blueboard | Blueboard is the experiential rewards and recognition platform for the modern workplace. Its rewards platform allows companies to reward their employees to curated experiences and activities with the click of a button – things like skydiving, wine tasting, massage, and mixology. Its clients love the fact that it has made memorable and meaningfulrecognition as easy as sending a gift card.It was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $9.3M | Series A | Sep 24, 2020 |  |
| RealEats | RealEats is a food tech company that offers a premium meal prep delivery service. Its first product innovation is a line of healthy hyper-convenient meals that reduce food waste. RealEats meals are delivered directly to consumers. Its products are chef-designed, nutritionally rich, and made from whole, unprocessed, responsibly sourced, junk-freeingredients, many of which are from local farms in the Finger Lakes agricultural region of New York State where the company's kitchen is located. | $2.8M | Seed | Jul 06, 2020 |  |
| App Academy | App Academy is a software development school that seeks to change what people expect from education. App Academy offers a variety of training programs, including a 12-week immersive coding and job placement program, where 98% of graduates have been placed in software development roles at an average salary of $105,000 in San Francisco and $89,000 inNew York City. |  | Seed | May 13, 2020 |  |
| StorySlab | StorySlab is a tablet selling system that makes it easy to share a better sales story, extend marketing’s reach, and satisfy IT requirements.The platform features enable frictionless selling. Each project is a custom-configured app, web CMS and secure cloud storage for a unique user and prospect experience with full offline functionality.StorySlab was founded in 2012 and is based in Syracuse, New York. | $2.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 03, 2020 |  |
| Drafted | Drafted is a company that helps laid-off people connect to hiring companies. Its mission is to connect people through their networks which is an asset to a company or to an individual. Its network recruiting platform is used by companies that are hiring to aggregate their employee networks for referrals and sourcing. By creating a graph database ofthe entire company network, the platform goes beyond just 1st-degree employee connections to increase quality referrals and help companies make better hires.Drafted was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. | $1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 25, 2020 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does UpVentures Capital invest in?

UpVentures Capital invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 27 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 UpVentures Capital?

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### Who are the partners at UpVentures Capital?

The team at UpVentures Capital includes Martin Babinec (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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