# Windcrest Partners

> Windcrest Partners is a VC fund in New York backing Software and SaaS. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Dec 2015
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/windcrest-partners/about/
- Website: http://www.windcrestpartners.com

Windcrest Partners is a venture capital firm that offers private equity investment services to firms in the energy, network, games, healthcare administration, and internet technology industries. It was founded in 1967 and is based in New York.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $680k–$2.3M |
| Series A | $3M–$6.5M |
| Series B | $2.5M–$5.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 33% |
| SaaS | 4 | 27% |
| Enterprise Software | 4 | 27% |
| Apps | 2 | 13% |
| Analytics | 2 | 13% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 27% |
| Seed | 3 | 20% |
| Series B | 2 | 13% |
| Series C | 2 | 13% |
| Series D | 1 | 7% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 60% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| James Gellert | Partner | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-gellert |
| Michael Gellert | Partner & Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-gellert |
| William Fitzgerald | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/william-fitzgerald |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wyng | Wyng is a privacy-first personalization platform for brands powered by a zero-party data API and privacy by design principles. Wyng makes it easy for marketers to deliver customer experiences that are always welcome, relevant, and compliant. More than 250 brands and enterprises use Wyng to build direct, trusted relationships with their customers. | $7M | Series C | Dec 17, 2015 |  |
| Festicket | Festicket empowers music fans with a seamless service to discover and book tickets and travel packages for music festivals worldwide. The platform offers an end-to-end experience for music travelers, an efficient two-sided marketplace for 1,000+ music festivals across 40 different countries, and a network of 2,000 suppliers for accommodation andtravel packages. | $3M | Series A | Sep 11, 2014 |  |
| GoodData.AI | GoodData provides the platform and expertise for enterprises to create Smart Business Applications that harness your existing data to help you automate, recommend and take better business actions faster and with more reliability. They drive competitive value, performance, and profit by significantly enhancing the data-driven business processesacross the enterprise and its business ecosystem by bringing analytics to the point-of-work.Their clients include enterprises like Penton that need to deliver revenue-generating data products to their clients and software companies like Zendesk that market their own Smart Business Applications using GoodData.It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $25.7M | Series E | Sep 10, 2014 |  |
| Wyng | Wyng is a privacy-first personalization platform for brands powered by a zero-party data API and privacy by design principles. Wyng makes it easy for marketers to deliver customer experiences that are always welcome, relevant, and compliant. More than 250 brands and enterprises use Wyng to build direct, trusted relationships with their customers. | $15M | Series C | Jun 02, 2014 |  |
| Festicket | Festicket empowers music fans with a seamless service to discover and book tickets and travel packages for music festivals worldwide. The platform offers an end-to-end experience for music travelers, an efficient two-sided marketplace for 1,000+ music festivals across 40 different countries, and a network of 2,000 suppliers for accommodation andtravel packages. | $680K | Seed | Mar 11, 2013 |  |
| Wyng | Wyng is a privacy-first personalization platform for brands powered by a zero-party data API and privacy by design principles. Wyng makes it easy for marketers to deliver customer experiences that are always welcome, relevant, and compliant. More than 250 brands and enterprises use Wyng to build direct, trusted relationships with their customers. | $5.7M | Series B | Dec 17, 2012 |  |
| GoodData.AI | GoodData provides the platform and expertise for enterprises to create Smart Business Applications that harness your existing data to help you automate, recommend and take better business actions faster and with more reliability. They drive competitive value, performance, and profit by significantly enhancing the data-driven business processesacross the enterprise and its business ecosystem by bringing analytics to the point-of-work.Their clients include enterprises like Penton that need to deliver revenue-generating data products to their clients and software companies like Zendesk that market their own Smart Business Applications using GoodData.It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $25M | Series C | Jul 25, 2012 |  |
| Axial Networks | Axial is a provider of technology-enabled applications and services used to discreetly connect the participants in the private capital markets to discover and execute financial transactions. The company's mission is to connect every private company with the capital necessary to finance or exit its company. The network allows providers ofcapital to private companies, including lenders, equity investors, and strategic buyers, to find and be found by the right opportunities from the right entrepreneurs and the right bankers at the right time. Advisors and entrepreneurs use Axial to create and manage their company's professional profile, explore and execute financial transactions, and win new business. | $6.5M | Series A | May 17, 2012 |  |
| Voxer | Voxer is a powerful push-to-talk service that works worldwide on any iOS or Android device. You can instantly send voice, text and photos to individuals and groups in real time. | $30M |  | Apr 11, 2012 |  |
| VIOLIN systems | Violin, the disruptive innovator in Extreme Performance Storage, is revolutionizing how businesses operate by enabling storage technology to be Instrumental to their company by changing the SLAs and capabilities of information and application storage infrastructure. Violin extreme storage platforms, powered by Concerto OS™, a fully integratedstorage operating system, is the industry leader in the combination of every significant category measured in all-flash arrays: low latency, reliability, affordability, density, scalability, and of course extreme performance. With tightly integrated data services, Violin storage platforms provide a unique and leading combination of data protection, business continuity, and data reduction services in a flexible, delivering significant CAPEX and OPEX savings.Violin Systems is headquartered in San Jose, California. Violin Memory, founded in 2005 was acquired in 2017 by Quantum Partners LP, a private investment fund managed by Soros Fund Management LLC, fueling the emergence of new Violin Systems. | $50M | Series D | Mar 30, 2012 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CVP Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/commonangels) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Eight Roads Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eight-roads-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hearst Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hearst-interactive-media) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Windcrest Partners invest in?

Windcrest Partners invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 15 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 Windcrest Partners's check size?

Windcrest Partners typically joins rounds of $680k–$2.3M at Seed, $3M–$6.5M at Series A and $2.5M–$5.7M 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 Windcrest Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Windcrest Partners?

Public channels for Windcrest Partners 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 Windcrest Partners?

The team at Windcrest Partners includes James Gellert (Partner), Michael Gellert (Partner & Co-Founder) and William Fitzgerald (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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