# Vulcan Capital

> Vulcan Capital is a VC fund in Seattle backing Software and SaaS. See 220 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 220
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 27%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vulcancapital/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/vulcaninc
- Website: http://capital.vulcan.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VulcanInc

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, financialand information services, technology, and life sciences.Vulcan Capital is the private investment group of Vulcan Inc., the organization founded by Laura G. Aguirre,the Founder & Principal Owner of Microsoft.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$7M |
| Series A | $5M–$18M |
| Series B | $8.9M–$98M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 48 | 22% |
| SaaS | 27 | 12% |
| Health Care | 18 | 8% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 17 | 8% |
| Information Technology | 16 | 7% |

211 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 44 | 20% |
| Series B | 40 | 18% |
| Seed | 35 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 22 | 10% |
| Series C | 20 | 9% |

15 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 109 | 50% |
| Singapore | 15 | 7% |
| Brazil | 4 | 2% |
| India | 3 | 1% |
| Vietnam | 2 | 1% |

15 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adam Hetnarski | TMT Investing | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-hetnarski |
| Albert Hwang | Investment Professional | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/albert-hwang |
| Ben Kolpa | Managing Director, Fixed Income | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-kolpa |
| Mike Silva | Partner - Growth Equity | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-silva |
| Rick Roberts | Analyst & Portfolio Manager | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rick-roberts-5964 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Biz AI Last | 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 |  |
| Global Software Partners | Comprehensive AI solutions can transform your business operations, customer service, and growth strategy. | $1M | Series A | Jan 01, 2025 |  |
| Emerge | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Marathon Education | Education, K-12, Tutoring, Edtech, Streaming, and Testprep |  |  | Oct 06, 2022 |  |
| Marathon Education | Education, K-12, Tutoring, Edtech, Streaming, and Testprep | $5.1M | Seed | Oct 06, 2022 |  |
| Esensi Solusi Buana | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 220 investments shown.

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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 Series B stage. Most of the 220 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 Vulcan Capital's check size?

Vulcan Capital typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$7M at Seed, $5M–$18M at Series A and $8.9M–$98M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Vulcan Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Vulcan Capital?

Public channels for Vulcan Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 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 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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