Vector Capital
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Vector Capital is a private equity firm specializing in transformational investments in established technology businesses.It works in partnership with management to navigate companies through transitions in their business. As private investors, the firm spin out non-core businesses from corporations, buy founder-owned companies, and fix balancesheets through recapitalizations. As a public investor, it takes strategic stakes in undervalued companies. It bridges both worlds by taking public companies private, when appropriate.Vector Capital is highly selective, choosing to invest in only a handful of opportunities each year. Its approach is rigorous and deeply analytical, with an emphasis on business fundamentals, such as financial performance, competitive positioning, and product strategy.Vector Capital was founded in 1997 and is based in San Francisco. It currently manage over $2 billion in equity capital.
- Total investments:
- 33
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 52%
- Fund size:
- $1.4B
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Vector Capital invests in
Stages Vector Capital invests in
Countries Vector Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.6M–$10M
- Debt Financing
- $28M–$420M
- Private Equity
- $50M–$139M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (21%)
- Information Technology 6 (18%)
- SaaS 5 (15%)
- Finance 4 (12%)
- Analytics 4 (12%)
Stage
- Debt Financing 7 (21%)
- Private Equity 7 (21%)
- Seed 5 (15%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (12%)
- Series A 2 (6%)
Country
- United States 17 (52%)
- United Kingdom 2 (6%)
- India 1 (3%)
- Japan 1 (3%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
David Baylor
Chief Operating Officer
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Chief Operating Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
David Fishman
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
David Ramazetti
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Jim Murray
CFO
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CFO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Nick Ghoussaini
Portfolio Manager
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Portfolio Manager | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Outside Online
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Outside Online is the premier destination for active lifestyle enthusiasts and home to leading brands in the endurance sports. | $50M / Debt Financing / Aug 03, 2026 | |
Outside
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Pocket Outdoor Media brands influence and engage more athletes than any other through a combined print, online, and social audience of millions of runners, cyclists, triathletes, and swimmers. It features bike racing media brand triathlete and Women’s Running focusing on resource for women runners; | $50M / Debt Financing / Aug 03, 2026 | |
Unacast
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Unacast is the leading transparent and contextualized location data platform. We empower companies to make smarter decisions and build better products by providing the most accurate understanding of human activity in the physical world through the Real World Graph®.We believe that democratizing access to data is the currency of innovation, andwe're on a mission to fix inaccurate and unverified location data to deliver unparalleled transparency and accuracy to our partners.Unacast is based out of NYC. Co-founders Thomas Walle and Kjartan Slette were also part of the founding team behind TIDAL, the music streaming company acquired by Jay-Z. Unacast has been awarded multiple awards for its platform, campaigns and company growth and culture. | $28M / Debt Financing / Dec 03, 2025 | |
Sylvan Group
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Sylvan Group is one of North America’s providers of industrial pipe installation and fabrication, millwright and rigging, electrical, boiler and turbine contracting services. The Company provides full industrial project support, including design, planning, installation, maintenance and repair services to a diversified portfolio of customers. | $50M / Debt Financing / Nov 20, 2025 | |
MoxiWorks
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MoxiWorks is a comprehensive open platform system for large residential real estate brokerages that serves over 110,00 agents and 55 brokerages nationwide. MoxiWorks’ integrated tools are centered on sphere methodology that drastically increases agents’ repeat and referral business by 40%, lowering overall technology, training, and support costsfor the brokerage. Named one of the 10 Best Cloud Solution Providers of 2018 by the Industry Era, the open platform known as the Moxi Cloud has tools from more than 40 partners that plug and play to create unique brokerage solutions. | Private Equity / Jan 17, 2025 | |
IntelePeer
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We enable companies to communicate better – driving more revenue, improving their customer experience, and making better business decisions – leveraging omni-channel Automation & Self-Service, AI, and Analytics, all delivered through a single easy-to-use cloud platform that works seamlessly with your existing business solutions. | Debt Financing / Jul 25, 2024 | |
Robinfi
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Robin Open Social Fi was created with the intention of enhancing and encouraging players' social and interactive behaviors as well as activating and meeting the social demands of casual gaming players. | Seed / Jun 11, 2024 | |
NxLite
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3E Nano has developed and is commercializing a low cost, thermally and optically smart, Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) coating. This nano thin film applied to glass and other transparent media is targeted toward windows, windshields, greenhouses, and solar module manufacturers. | $4M / Seed / Mar 28, 2023 | |
Malwarebytes
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Malwarebytes Protects home and business PCs, Macs, iOS, and Android devices from malware, viruses, and cyber threats with cyber security solutions. They provide consumers and organizations with device protection, privacy, and prevention through cybersecurity solutions in the home, at work, and on campus. | $100M / Private Equity / Sep 21, 2022 | |
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Malwarebytes
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Malwarebytes Protects home and business PCs, Macs, iOS, and Android devices from malware, viruses, and cyber threats with cyber security solutions. They provide consumers and organizations with device protection, privacy, and prevention through cybersecurity solutions in the home, at work, and on campus. | $100M / Private Equity / Sep 21, 2022 | |
| See all 33 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Vector Capital invest in?
Vector Capital invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Debt Financing and Private Equity stage. Most of the 33 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 Vector Capital's check size?
Vector Capital typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$10M at Seed, $28M–$420M at Debt Financing and $50M–$139M 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 Vector Capital participates in.
How do I contact Vector Capital?
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Who are the partners at Vector Capital?
The team at Vector Capital includes David Baylor (Chief Operating Officer), David Fishman (Managing Director) and David Ramazetti (Managing Director), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. 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 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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