# Parade Ventures: portfolio, investments and team

> Parade Ventures is a vc firm based in United States. 2 investments on record, latest Feb 2024. Portfolio, stages, co-investors and team.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/fund/parade-ventures (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

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# Parade Ventures

Filed with the SEC to raise a fund in Nov 2023, closing $20M. Last cheque observed Feb 2024.

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Quiet New fund $20M, Nov 2023 VC firm

Pre-seed Seed Series A Agnostic Industry Agnostic No Sector

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Cheques on record

**0%** of best year **0** **cheques in 12 months**, 2 on record

Since the last cheque **1003** days **00** hrs **00** min **00** sec

Median round **$8.0M** Cheque size, as they say **$1.0M – $1.0M** Rounds led **0 of 2**

Pitch Parade Ventures

## Parade Ventures highlights

- 01 2 rounds on record
- 02 Mostly Seed: 100% of its rounds

## What they do

> Parade Ventures is a seed stage venture fund investing in enterprise-themed companies From their own website

- **Type:** VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- **Cheque size:** $1.0M – $1.0M as they say
- **Stages:** Pre-seed Seed Series A Series B
- **Sectors:** Agnostic Industry Agnostic No Sector
- **Based in:** Menlo Park, United States
- **Cold pitches:** Not stated

## The record

Every round we can evidence, newest first **2 appearances**

- **2024** 1 round
- **Feb** **[FlowFi](https://millionrounds.com/company/flowfi)** Seed · US · Firms' own news pages **$9.0M** With 6 others
- **2019** 1 round
- **May** **[InCountry](https://millionrounds.com/company/incountry)** Seed · US · FinSMEs **$7.0M** With 7 others

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 registration **1 named**

SC **Shawn Chander Merani** Managing Member of the General Partner i Filing they signed

We also hold **2** 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

**$76M** gross assets of its funds Oct 2026

**Exempt** reporting adviser venture or small private funds

- **Legal name:** Parade Ventures Management, LLC
- **SEC number:** CRD 297532

Who backs their funds

## 1 LP on record in Parade Ventures's funds

- **Funds:** 1

The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies. Source: an LP list.

- [**Id4 Ventures** 1 fund](https://millionrounds.com/fund/id4-ventures) Fund Vintage Committed Parade Ventures - -

## What they claim to have backed

From their own portfolio page (on their website)

**3** of 3 we have independently watched raise

[Jump Cloud Resize Request](https://millionrounds.com/company/jumpcloud)[Resize Image Request (2)](https://millionrounds.com/company/side)[Resize Image Request Moveworks](https://millionrounds.com/company/moveworks)

Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.

New fund on file

**$20M**

raised in Nov 2023

From its SEC filing, not a journalist: a firm that has just raised has money to deploy.

## The cheque

Pre-seed Seed Series A

Median round joined **$8.0M** the round, not its cheque

Led 0 of 2 rounds **0%**

- **Said size:** $1.0M – $1.0M
- **Sole investor:** Never alone
- **Last cheque:** Feb 2024

Rounds by stage said on their site

- Seed said *2*
- Pre-seed said *-*
- Series A said *-*
- Series B said *-*

Cheques by month Led Joined

Nov 2023 Oct 2026

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## Recently backed

The latest companies Parade Ventures put money into.

[**FlowFi** $9.0M · Feb 2024](https://millionrounds.com/company/flowfi)[**InCountry** $7.0M · May 2019](https://millionrounds.com/company/incountry)

## Quick answers about Parade Ventures

### What does Parade Ventures invest in?

Parade Ventures invests most often at Seed (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Agnostic, Industry Agnostic and No Sector.

### How active is Parade Ventures?

2 investments on record, 0 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Feb 2024.

### What has Parade Ventures invested in recently?

Its most recent investments on record: FlowFi (Seed, Feb 2024) and InCountry (Seed, May 2019).

### How big are Parade Ventures's cheques?

The median round it joins is $8.0M. It says it writes cheques of $1.0M to $1.0M.

### Is Parade Ventures investing now?

No investments in the last 12 months; the latest was in Feb 2024.

### What kind of investor is Parade Ventures?

Parade Ventures is a VC firm based in Menlo Park, United States.

### How much does Parade Ventures manage?

About $76M, as gross assets of its private funds (Oct 2026).

### Has Parade Ventures raised a new fund?

Its latest fund filing with the SEC was in Nov 2023, reporting $20M raised.

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