# Watertower Ventures

> Watertower Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and E-Commerce. See 49 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 49
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 31%
- Fund size: $50M
- Last fund: Aug 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/watertowerventures/
- Website: http://www.watertowerventures.com/

Watertower Ventures is a VC fund in Los Angeles focused on Software and E-Commerce. We are a seed and early-stage venture capital fund actively investing in and supporting founders and their companies through a collaborative, partnership-driven approach. We want to be the first investor you speak with when you are raising your first venture round. We look to lead or play a meaningful role in your syndicate and reserve an equalamount of capital to support our founders as their companies evolve and grow.We invest in mission driven founders who are creating tomorrow's industry defining businesses that make people and work better. We focus on daily-use, vertical applications and platforms that facilitate commerce, collaboration, new forms of ownership, and authentic trusted communities across the Enterprise and Consumer.We are located in Los Angeles and invest in companies throughout Southern California, New York, the Bay Area, and Utah as well as other emerging U.S. Tech regions.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$6M |
| Pre-Seed | $300k–$4M |
| Series A | $5M–$8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 16% |
| E-Commerce | 7 | 14% |
| FinTech | 6 | 12% |
| Internet | 6 | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 6 | 12% |

88 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 25 | 51% |
| Pre-Seed | 14 | 29% |
| Series A | 2 | 4% |
| Series B | 1 | 2% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 2% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 37 | 76% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Sweden | 1 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Derek Norton | Managing General Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/derek-norton |
| Idan Levy | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/idan-levy |
| Jeremy Milken | General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeremy-milken |
| Ana Carolina Scalercio | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ana-carolina-scalercio |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Finofo | Finofo is a financial technology company that enables organisations to manage their foreign exchange requirements and exposure from a single integrated platform. Finofo’s technology empowers financial decision makers to measure and understand currency risk in their operations, perform stress tests on their businesses, and hedge currency risk withhyper-individualised strategy recommendations. The technology issues real-time alerts to inform financial decision makers of suitable adjustments to their hedging strategies based on their business’ unique risk objectives and live market movements. Finofo aims to make cross-border payments and foreign exchange risk management transparent, accessible and a real-time process. | $3.3M | Seed | Jun 10, 2025 |  |
| Glassbox | Glassbox is a SaaS financial modeling and analysis platform designed to streamline the creation and evaluation of complex M&A and financing transactions. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Feb 18, 2025 |  |
| DocJuris | DocJuris platform empowers legal, sales, and procurement teams to negotiate and close contracts with speed and precision. DocJuris empowers new procurement teams and with technology that streamlines indirect and direct purchasing contracts while maintaining open collaboration with stakeholders at all stages. | $8M | Series A | Oct 01, 2024 |  |
| ThreeV Technologies, Inc. | At ThreeV Technologies, Inc. we’re developing an Inspection Insight Automation Platform to revolutionize asset-heavy sectors like Power & Utilities, Renewables, Public Infrastructure, and Aviation. Our goal is to become the B2B Perplexity AI for the physical world. The ThreeV platform uses frontier AI techniques like customized Large LanguageModels as well as applying computer vision to drastically improve the end-to-end inspection process. This allows customers to cut Operations & Maintenance costs, streamline inspection decisions, and improve data accuracy to prevent asset failures. Global high-profile safety incidents over recent years underscore the urgent need for our platform, making it not just innovative but essential. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 24, 2024 |  |
| Stability AI | Stability AI is an artificial intelligence-driven visual art startup that designs and implements open AI tools. The company focuses on creating open models for various media types, including image, video, 3D, and audio, with applications also targeting enterprise-level needs. Stability AI fosters a vibrant community involving experts and partnersworldwide, enhancing collaboration in developing AI tools. | $80M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 25, 2024 |  |
| Source Medium | Source Medium is a software company that offers data analytics, machine learning, reporting, data automation and visualization services. |  | Seed | Apr 28, 2023 |  |
| Giadzy | Giadzy, founded by chef and television personality, Giada De Laurentiis, is an online retailer and media company offering specialty Italian ingredients, alongside premium Italian food and lifestyle content. With deep roots in Italian cuisine and culture, Giadzy is dedicated to sharing the effortless good taste and simplicity of Italian living. Thehand-picked products in the Giadzy marketplace are sourced from small family purveyors across the country, from the snowy Alps to sultry Sicily. You'll also find immersive content spanning recipes to videos highlighting the best uses for these ingredients, as well as tips from trusted chefs and locals. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 20, 2022 |  |
| Entrilia | Modern SaaS company, building apps for private capital managers to optimize their front to back operations.Founded on the belief that the best tech stack is the sum of its integrated parts. Today, teams are relied on to constantly deliver new, better and more actionable insights. Your data consumption needs to keep pace with data availability. Weare building scalable tools to assist non-technical and technical users to maximize their opportunities, to automate their services, and ultimately spend more time increasing value delivery for their firm. |  | Seed | Jul 01, 2022 |  |
| StartADAM | StartADAM brings internal and external teams together by creating cross-platform collaboration between tools |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2022 |  |
| Kodezi | Improve your coding skills instantaneously using AI. Kodezi is Grammarly for programmers. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | May 23, 2022 |  |

10 of 49 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Watertower Ventures invest in?

Watertower Ventures invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 49 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 Watertower Ventures's check size?

Watertower Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$6M at Seed, $300k–$4M at Pre-Seed and $5M–$8M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Watertower Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Watertower Ventures?

Public channels for Watertower Ventures include LinkedIn 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 Watertower Ventures?

The team at Watertower Ventures includes Derek Norton (Managing General Partner), Idan Levy (Principal) and Jeremy Milken (General Partner). 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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