# Walden Venture Capital

> Walden Venture Capital is a VC fund backing Software and Mobile. See 87 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 87
- Last investment: Oct 2021
- Lead investor: 36%
- Fund size: $107M
- Last fund: Feb 2015
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/walden-venture-capital
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/waldenvc
- Website: http://www.waldenvc.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WaldenVC

Walden Venture Capital is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Mobile. Based in San Francisco, Walden Venture Capital targets Sprout Stage:tm: investments. We seek products or services with mass-market potential and powerful underlying technologies taking active supporting roles typically as first institutional investors. Our target sectors are digital media and cloud services for consumers and enterprise. We caredeeply about Founders and Management and work diligently to help manifest their vision. Our portfolio includes leaders in music, mobile, internet media and breakthrough cloud services.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $2M–$8M |
| Series B | $5M–$12M |
| Series C | $6.5M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 15 | 17% |
| Mobile | 12 | 14% |
| Internet | 12 | 14% |
| Advertising | 8 | 9% |
| Enterprise Software | 7 | 8% |

122 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 19 | 22% |
| Series A | 17 | 20% |
| Series C | 15 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 14 | 16% |
| Seed | 7 | 8% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 54 | 62% |
| Israel | 3 | 3% |
| Sweden | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bill McDonagh | Venture Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-mcdonagh |
| Bob Raynard | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-rennard |
| Elaine Ou | Executive Assistant | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elaine-ou |
| Matt Miller | Managing Director | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-miller-2 |
| Robert Raynard | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-raynard |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bespoke Post | Goods and guidance for the modern customer, delivered monthly. We aim to upgrade your day-to-day life through our themed boxes full of enviable gear – shaving sets, shoe shine kits, home bar essentials, and lots more – plus a full shop of uniquely cool standalone products. Here's how it works: at the beginning of each month, you'll getan email with a full look inside the box we've selected for you based on what we think you'll enjoy. You're free to tweak colors and sizes, add on extra goods, or skip it at no cost – whatever you want. And there's always free shipping, easy returns, and no hassles, ever.See you on the inside. | $40M | Series B | Oct 26, 2021 |  |
| PathSpot | PathSpot is a system that protects food service companies and their customers from the threat of food-borne illness. PathSpot scans employee's hands to detect pathogens that cause foodborne illness - all in under 2 seconds. We protect your patrons, your employees, and your bottom line with our trusted technology and reliable support. | $6.5M | Series A | May 21, 2020 |  |
| Hatch | At Hatch, we're dreaming up ways to help people sleep better. Our sleep products and services have helped over a million people get a good night's rest. We're on a mission to make sleep easier for everyone with innovative, all-in-one solutions for newborns through adults. | $9.8M | Series B | May 04, 2020 |  |
| PathSpot | PathSpot is a system that protects food service companies and their customers from the threat of food-borne illness. PathSpot scans employee's hands to detect pathogens that cause foodborne illness - all in under 2 seconds. We protect your patrons, your employees, and your bottom line with our trusted technology and reliable support. | $2M | Seed | Aug 15, 2019 |  |
| goTenna | goTenna is the world's leading mobile mesh networking company and provider of off-grid connectivity solutions for smartphones and other devices. goTenna's mesh networking protocol, Aspen Grove™, is embedded into lightweight, low-cost devices and paired with easy-to-use mobile apps enabling mobile, long-range connectivity even withoutcell, wifi, or satellite. goTenna’s mesh technology enables decentralized, programmable mobile infrastructure on a global scale in markets ranging from public sector to enterprise and IoT.The goTenna vision to create a resilient communications system was ignited during Hurricane Sandy in 2012, when approximately a third of cell towers and power stations were knocked out. Based in Brooklyn, goTenna is backed by investors including Founders Fund, Union Square Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Collaborative Fund, and Bloomberg Beta. | $16.5M | Series C | Jun 18, 2019 |  |
| CNEX Labs | CNEX provides revolutionary solid-state storage semiconductor and software solutions for cloud, hyper-scale, and enterprise data centers. The company delivers innovative storage semiconductor and software solutions, partnering with solid-state storage manufacturers, data center and systems customers to develop revolutionary NVMe and Open-ChannelSSD controller ASICs that deliver high-performance with low and predictable latency, scalability and flexibility for software-defined-storage. CNEX controller products are key to accelerating the capabilities of big data compute and analytics for the next generation of cloud, hyperscale and enterprise data centers. The customers use CNEX SSD controllers to deliver differentiated SSD solutions for low-power and high-performance in M.2, U.2, U.3, HHHL, EDSFF, and other form-factors.CNEX Labs was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Jose, California, United States. |  | Series D | Oct 10, 2018 |  |
| Hatch | At Hatch, we're dreaming up ways to help people sleep better. Our sleep products and services have helped over a million people get a good night's rest. We're on a mission to make sleep easier for everyone with innovative, all-in-one solutions for newborns through adults. | $6.5M | Series A | Sep 19, 2018 |  |
| SquareTwo | SquareTwo is a mobile games publisher that creates simple yet compelling games where points have real value, leveraging their own Media and Rewards platform. Their initial title verydice has a simple game loop that compels users to share, engage and redeem points for actual goods.Founded in 2016, the team experimented with retention andmonetization around simple game play dynamics. By mid 2017, they had launched their first title on iOS, verydice, and were able to generate monthly profit. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $2M | Seed | Dec 01, 2017 |  |
| Bespoke Post | Goods and guidance for the modern customer, delivered monthly. We aim to upgrade your day-to-day life through our themed boxes full of enviable gear – shaving sets, shoe shine kits, home bar essentials, and lots more – plus a full shop of uniquely cool standalone products. Here's how it works: at the beginning of each month, you'll getan email with a full look inside the box we've selected for you based on what we think you'll enjoy. You're free to tweak colors and sizes, add on extra goods, or skip it at no cost – whatever you want. And there's always free shipping, easy returns, and no hassles, ever.See you on the inside. | $8M | Series A | Oct 18, 2017 |  |
| SquareTwo | SquareTwo is a mobile games publisher that creates simple yet compelling games where points have real value, leveraging their own Media and Rewards platform. Their initial title verydice has a simple game loop that compels users to share, engage and redeem points for actual goods.Founded in 2016, the team experimented with retention andmonetization around simple game play dynamics. By mid 2017, they had launched their first title on iOS, verydice, and were able to generate monthly profit. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $2.3M | Seed | Aug 31, 2017 |  |

10 of 87 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Walden Venture Capital invest in?

Walden Venture Capital invests primarily in Software, Mobile and Internet startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 87 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 Walden Venture Capital's check size?

Walden Venture Capital typically joins rounds of $2M–$8M at Series A, $5M–$12M at Series B and $6.5M–$25M 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 Walden Venture Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Walden Venture Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Walden Venture Capital?

The team at Walden Venture Capital includes Bill McDonagh (Venture Partner), Bob Raynard (CFO) and Elaine Ou (Executive Assistant), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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