U.S. Venture Partners
VC Fund
Menlo Park, United States
U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) is a venture capital partnership, helping entrepreneurs transform their ideas and efforts into world-changing companies. The firm focuses on early-stage ventures in information technology and health care, where innovation is unbridled and has led to the creation of economic wealth and millions of jobs over the pastthirty-plus years of the firm's existence. Areas of particular interest to our investment professionals include enterprise software, IT security, consumer internet, mobile, and e-commerce, healthcare, and IT-enabled healthcare services. The USVP team consists of former entrepreneurs, technologists, corporate executives, financial professionals, and industry domain experts.
- Total investments:
- 460
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
- Fund size:
- $400M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries U.S. Venture Partners invests in
Stages U.S. Venture Partners invests in
Countries U.S. Venture Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 9 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $5M–$40M
- Series B
- $6.8M–$50M
- Series C
- $7.8M–$68M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 61 (13%)
- Health Care 51 (11%)
- Information Technology 32 (7%)
- Medical 28 (6%)
- Manufacturing 27 (6%)
Stage
- Series B 100 (22%)
- Series C 80 (17%)
- Series A 71 (15%)
- Funding Round 52 (11%)
- Series D 35 (8%)
Country
- United States 197 (43%)
- Israel 13 (3%)
- Canada 3 (1%)
- France 2 (0%)
- China 1 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Phil Young
Senior Advisor
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Senior Advisor | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
Casey Tansey
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 28 | Find email | |
Dafina Toncheva
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 39 | Find email | |
Dale Holladay
CPA/CFO
|
CPA/CFO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jacques Benkoski
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 25 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maneva develops video-to-action artificial intelligence systems for manufacturing environments, using computer vision and deep learning to analyze production processes and support operational decision-making in real time. Its platform helps manufacturers address quality assurance, downtime reduction, productivity monitoring, and workplace safety byconverting visual data from factory-floor cameras into actionable insights and automated responses. The company offers solutions such as VITA for defect detection, product verification, and equipment monitoring, as well as ALIS, an AI-powered line supervision system that tracks production efficiency and safety compliance. Maneva's technology is designed to work with existing camera infrastructure and can be applied across industries, including food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, electronics, automotive, steel, and distribution operations. The company focuses on helping manufacturers improve production consistency, identify operational issues, and monitor factory processes through AI-driven visual analysis. | $27M / Series A / Jun 10, 2026 | ||
| Cagent Vascular is a medical device company developing minimally invasive technologies to treat cardiovascular disease. | $41M / Series D / May 19, 2026 | ||
| Nervonik is a medical device company developing an opioid-free peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) system. Nervonik is focused on advancing clinical research and achieving regulatory milestones to bring its innovative therapies to market. | $52.5M / Series B / Apr 27, 2026 | ||
| Route 92 Medical is a developer of a stealthy catheter for stroke treatment. The company was founded in 2015 and based in San Mateo, California. | $50M / Private Equity / Apr 07, 2026 | ||
| Slang.ai is a digital phone concierge that answers questions, takes reservations, and satisfies callers. | $28M / Series B / Feb 24, 2026 | ||
| Adaptive6 is a Cloud Cost Governance platform that addresses both cloud and code, providing a comprehensive approach to managing costs effectively. The platform empowers engineers to take immediate action on cloud costs and prevents waste at the code level, enhancing efficiency in cloud management. | $28M / Series A / Jan 28, 2026 | ||
| Okami Medical develops and commercializes new devices for the treatment of heart disease. It was formed to address the evolving needs of patients and physicians through the development of innovative, versatile, and intuitive medical devices for the occlusion of peripheral vessels. Okami believes that vessel occlusion should be rapid and reliableregardless of tortuosity and flow conditions. The LOBO Vascular Occlusion System was developed for this reason.It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California. | $45M / Series F / Nov 19, 2025 | ||
| Apono helps companies become secure and compliant while maintaining their productivity and agility. The company aims to simplify how teams manage access to critical systems by automating the provisioning and deprovisioning of permissions based on real-time needs, ensuring only the right people have access at the right time. | $34M / Series B / Nov 18, 2025 | ||
| Weave provides an artificial intelligence collaboration platform for biomedicine. The company is headquartered in the United States. | $20M / Series A / Oct 16, 2025 | ||
| Sparrow Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company addressing metabolic dysfunction from excess cortisol. Leveraging underappreciated scientific insights into corticosteroid biology, the company is working to deliver improved outcomes for patients who struggle to control diabetes and related metabolic conditions with currentoptions. Its lead product, clofutriben, is an oral, small molecule, designed to target the source of active intracellular cortisol in key tissues.The company was founded in 2013 by David A. Katz and is based in Portland, Oregon, United States. | $95M / Series B / Sep 24, 2025 | ||
| See all 460 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does U.S. Venture Partners invest in?
U.S. Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Information Technology startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 460 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 U.S. Venture Partners's check size?
U.S. Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $5M–$40M at Series A, $6.8M–$50M at Series B and $7.8M–$68M 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 U.S. Venture Partners participates in.
How do I contact U.S. Venture Partners?
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Who are the partners at U.S. Venture Partners?
The team at U.S. Venture Partners includes Phil Young (Senior Advisor), Casey Tansey (General Partner) and Dafina Toncheva (General Partner), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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