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What does Five Elms Capital invest in?
Five Elms Capital invests most often at Venture and Series A (61% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Recurring, B2b2c and Collaboration Tools.
Five Elms Capital highlights
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7 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Venture and Series A: 61% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 29 rounds, median $10M
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2 exits from the portfolio
What they do
We are active and experienced software investors investing in B2B software foundersFrom their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $5.0M – $50M as they say
- Stages
- Series ASeries BGrowth
- Sectors
- RecurringB2b2cCollaboration Tools
- Based in
- Kansas City, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first55 appearances
- 2026
4 rounds
- Oct
- Sept
- Jan
- Jan
- 2025
10 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Nov
- Oct
- Aug
- Jul
- Jul
- Mar
- Feb
- Feb
- 2024
7 rounds
- Nov
- Nov
- Oct
- Oct
- Sept
- Jul
- Jan
- 2023
4 rounds
- Nov
- Sept
- Jun
- Jan
- 2022
6 rounds
- Aug
- Jun
- Mar
- Jan
- Jan
- Jan
- 2021
4 rounds
- Nov
- Sept
- Mar
- Jan
- 2020
2 rounds
- Aug
- Feb
- 2019
3 rounds
- Oct
- Mar
- Feb
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration7 named
FCFred CoulsonSole Member of the GP of the GPiFiling they signed
FNFrederick Nathan CoulsonFounder and CEOiForm ADV
JAJennifer Ann Timmons WittGeneral CounseliForm ADV
KRKalie Renee MccollaughChief Compliance OfficeriForm ADV
LMLisa MurrayDirectoriFiling they signed
NSNeal SharmaDirectoriFiling they signed
TKThomas KershisnikDirectoriFiling they signed
We also hold 18 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$3.1Bassets it managesOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- FIVE ELMS Capital Management, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 163548
Funds on its Form ADV
19 private funds, $2.4B in gross assets · filed Mar 2024
- Five Elms V B, L.P.Private equity97 investors$463M
- Five Elms V Q, L.P.Private equity135 investors$339M
- Five Elms IV Q, L.P.Private equity97 investors$314M
- Five Elms VI B, L.P.Private equity80 investors$302M
- Five Elms VI Q, L.P.Private equity109 investors$245M
- Five Elms III Apptegy CV, L.P.Private equity66 investors$188M
- Five Elms IV B, L.P.Private equity41 investors$176M
- Five Elms III B, L.P.Private equity39 investors$108M
- Five Elms V A, L.P.Private equity58 investors$67M
- Five Elms III Q, L.P.Private equity72 investors$65M
And 9 more on the filing.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed2 in all
Catapult InternationalBought by MercatorUndisclosedJun 2015
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.