# West Quad Ventures

> West Quad Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Financial Services. See 51 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 51
- Last investment: Apr 2023
- Lead investor: 4%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/westquad/
- Website: https://westquad.vc/

West Quad Ventures is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and Financial Services. West Quad Ventures invest in startups that aspire to be leaders in their respective category, teams we believe in with an emphasis on what’s good for the world!

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $400k–$8.6M |
| Series A | $5M–$34M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 18% |
| Financial Services | 7 | 14% |
| FinTech | 6 | 12% |
| Food and Beverage | 6 | 12% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 12% |

85 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 25 | 49% |
| Series A | 10 | 20% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 4% |
| Angel | 1 | 2% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 30 | 59% |
| Brazil | 5 | 10% |
| India | 2 | 4% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Sweden | 1 | 2% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andreas Penna | Co-Founder & General Partner | 36 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreas-penna |
| Sumit Javeri | Co-Founder & General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sumit-javeri |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| StayTuned | StayTuned is building a suite of tools to help high growth e-commerce brands grow even faster. Our focus is on Shopify, the go-to platform for e-commerce brands. We are backed by top tier institutional VCs and well known angel investors. | $9M | Seed | Apr 06, 2023 |  |
| katch | katch is an anti-calendar product that gives users more time to do whatever is important at the time. katch was founded by Paul Murphy, Edwin Akrong, and Alessandra Knight. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Ding Dong | Ding Dong is an online supermarket. They offer products ranging from fresh fruits and veggies to drinks, and all come in only 10 minutes to your door. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| StayTuned | StayTuned is building a suite of tools to help high growth e-commerce brands grow even faster. Our focus is on Shopify, the go-to platform for e-commerce brands. We are backed by top tier institutional VCs and well known angel investors. |  | Seed | Nov 21, 2022 |  |
| Pencil Spaces | Pencil Spaces is a technology company that makes online learning simple and fun for both teachers and students. |  | Seed | Jul 15, 2022 |  |
| Actual Veggies | Actual Veggies mission is to provide vegans, flexitarians, and carnivores alike, healthy, satisfying, environmentally friendly and delicious meal options. They do not use unnatural scientific methods to taste like substitute meat. Instead, they offer consumers a unique option to skip the frozen section of thin, mostly unappetizing veggie burgers,and processed plant-based offerings. Their first product line is an always fresh, large 5oz vegetarian burger made with only real vegetables, natural binding units, no preservatives, and no additives. Our first four burgers are vibrantly color based, and showcase their farm fresh veggies by looking, and tasting like works of art. | $2M | Seed | Jul 01, 2022 |  |
| FlowFi | Accounting for what's next. |  | Seed | May 06, 2022 |  |
| Revea | Revea is a us-based one-of-its-kind precision skincare company. | $6M | Seed | Apr 21, 2022 |  |
| AIO Educacao | Learning made easy with artificial intelligence working to create individualized journeys for each student. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| Bond Sports | Bond Sports is an all-in-one facility and recreation management software platform built for sports and activity businesses - from single-sheet ice rinks and turf fields to large multi-sport complexes. Bond unifies everything operators need to run and grow their facilities: online, mobile-friendly registration for camps, leagues, classes, andprograms; membership management; strategic rental and event scheduling, including short-term online court and ice bookings; point-of-sale for merchandise and concessions; an embedded payments platform; and sophisticated financial reporting and analytics.With specialized solutions for hockey, soccer, baseball/softball, basketball, volleyball, dance, swim, and multi-sport venues, Bond gives consumers an easy way to register and book on any device, staff a single intuitive system to run their business, and owners a real-time view of the key metrics and growth drivers behind it. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 51 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [MONASHEES](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/monashees-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AfterWork Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/afterwork-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does West Quad Ventures invest in?

West Quad Ventures invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 51 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 West Quad Ventures's check size?

West Quad Ventures typically joins rounds of $400k–$8.6M at Seed and $5M–$34M 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 West Quad Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact West Quad Ventures?

Public channels for West Quad 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 West Quad Ventures?

The team at West Quad Ventures includes Andreas Penna (Co-Founder & General Partner) and Sumit Javeri (Co-Founder & 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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