Vulcan Capital
VC Fund
Seattle, United States
Vulcan Capital is a VC fund in Seattle focused on Software and SaaS. Vulcan Capital invests across all stages of corporate development through leveraged buyouts, growth capital, distressed/turnaround, and early-stage venture capital as well as public equity value investing. The firm's portfolio spans a range of industry sectors, including media and communications, energy and natural resources, financial and information services, technology, and life sciences. Vulcan Capital is the private investment group of Vulcan Inc., the organization founded by Paul G. Allen, co-founder of Microsoft.
- Total investments:
- 261
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 26%
Last updated:
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Industries Vulcan Capital invests in
Stages Vulcan Capital invests in
Countries Vulcan Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 10 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.3M–$6M
- Series A
- $5M–$16M
- Series B
- $9M–$78M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 53 (20%)
- SaaS 29 (11%)
- Health Care 20 (8%)
- Artificial Intelligence 19 (7%)
- Information Technology 18 (7%)
Stage
- Series A 49 (19%)
- Seed 45 (17%)
- Series B 44 (17%)
- Series C 24 (9%)
- Funding Round 16 (6%)
Country
- United States 124 (48%)
- Singapore 15 (6%)
- Brazil 4 (2%)
- India 3 (1%)
- Vietnam 2 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Adam Hetnarski
TMT Investing
|
TMT Investing | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Albert Hwang
Investment Professional
|
Investment Professional | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ben Kolpa
Managing Director, Fixed Income
|
Managing Director, Fixed Income | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Mike Silva
Partner - Growth Equity
|
Partner - Growth Equity | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Rick Roberts
Analyst & Portfolio Manager
|
Analyst & Portfolio Manager | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Are you ready to elevate your business efficiency and productivity? Say hello to Biz AI, your intelligent business assistant designed to streamline operations, boost productivity, and give you more time to focus on what matters most – growing your business. | $200K / Seed / Mar 01, 2026 | ||
| Comprehensive AI solutions can transform your business operations, customer service, and growth strategy. | $1M / Series A / Jan 01, 2025 | ||
| Emerge is a consumer technology company building a multi-sensory communication platform to bridge distance and time—through touch, sight, sound, and brain activity, powered by emotion AI, to allow users to digitize and transmit their emotions. With over 2 billion people worldwide feeling disconnected from others—one of the greatest life hazards ofour generation—it's time for a new communication platform that focuses on what really matters: our emotional connection with others.The first step is to introduce touch to virtual interactions—via TVs, AR, and VR displays. Emerge Wave-series is the anchor product line for the emotion AI. The patented consumer device emits precise ultrasonic forcefields that can be physically felt with bare hands—imagine a “virtual high five” or holding hands across the globe, with no gloves or controllers needed.We are proud of our impact-focused and diverse team—70% of us are immigrants and first-generation Americans. We are former entrepreneurs and industry veterans who have developed and launched products in the fields of consumer electronics, augmented reality, brain-computer interfaces, gaming, and space exploration.Founded in 2015 and based in Los Angeles, CA, Emerge is backed by venture capital firms including M13 and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital, and other notable investors such as former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and co-founders of Blizzard Entertainment, Twitch, and Riot Games. | Series A / Aug 28, 2024 | ||
| Vantient is a Web3 customer relationship management service provider that delivers on-chain and off-chain customer data collection and analysis services for organizations and Web3 projects to help businesses acquire, engage, and retain users. | $3.5M / Seed / Jun 20, 2023 | ||
| Genemod is a unified platform for life scientists to collaborate and streamline day-to-day operations in the research lab. The company's proprietary technology brings together both scientific and management tools onto a single, shared platform for the multitude of tools required by scientists. They host scientific tools on a user-friendlyadmin dashboard and utilize data processing algorithms to streamline workflow alongside project management. It is intuitive, scalable, user-centered, modern, and secure.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA. | $4.5M / Seed / May 01, 2023 | ||
| Education, K-12, Tutoring, Edtech, Streaming, and Testprep | Oct 06, 2022 | ||
| Education, K-12, Tutoring, Edtech, Streaming, and Testprep | $5.1M / Seed / Oct 06, 2022 | ||
| Esensi Solusi Buana is the first restaurant technology in Indonesia with the most complete solution under ONE integrated platform. | $28.9M / Series B / Aug 29, 2022 | ||
| ESB provides restaurant technology that makes it easy for customers to manage their F&B business and ecosystem focus on operating business. | $29M / Series B / Aug 29, 2022 | ||
| watchTowr is the Preemptive Exposure Management capability trusted by Fortune 500 companies and critical infrastructure providers. By combining proactive threat intelligence, real attacker telemetry, and automated red teaming, watchTowr continuously identifies and validates real exposure - so security teams can outrun real-world threats.Whenexploitation happens in hours, watchTowr delivers what no one else can: time to respond. | $8M / Seed / Jul 03, 2022 | ||
| See all 261 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Vulcan Capital invest in?
Vulcan Capital invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Health Care startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 261 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Vulcan Capital invest in?
Vulcan Capital typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$6M at Seed, $5M–$16M at Series A and $9M–$78M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Vulcan Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Vulcan Capital took part in.
How do I contact Vulcan Capital?
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Who are the partners at Vulcan Capital?
The team at Vulcan Capital includes Adam Hetnarski (TMT Investing), Albert Hwang (Investment Professional) and Ben Kolpa (Managing Director, Fixed Income), among 10 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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