# Pivotal Capital: portfolio, investments and team

> Pivotal Capital is a vc firm based in United States. 1 investment on record, latest Nov 2016. Portfolio, stages, co-investors and team.

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

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# Pivotal Capital

Last cheque observed Nov 2016. Silence since then is not evidence of inactivity: our sources miss unannounced rounds.

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VC firm Quiet Last fund $16M, Feb 2022

Seed Series A Series B Technology Life Sciences Sustainable Energy

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Cheques on record

**0%** of best year **0** **cheques in 12 months**, 1 on record

Since the last cheque **3657** days **00** hrs **00** min **00** sec

Median round **$11M** Rounds led **0 of 1**

Pitch Pivotal Capital

## Pivotal Capital highlights

- 01 1 rounds on record
- 02 Mostly Debt: 100% of its rounds

## What they do

> Our team of former entrepreneurs, investors and operators has been providing debt financing for over 30 years. From their own website

- **Type:** VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- **Cheque size:** Not stated
- **Stages:** Seed Series A Series B
- **Sectors:** Technology Life Sciences Sustainable Energy
- **Based in:** Menlo Park, United States
- **Cold pitches:** Not stated

## The record

Every round we can evidence, newest first **1 appearances**

- **2016** 1 round
- **Nov** **[Spongecell](https://millionrounds.com/company/spongecell)** Debt · US · FinSMEs **$11M** With 1 other

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 **2 named**

RB **Renee Baker** Managing Member of the General Partner i Filing they signed

TE **Thomas E. Niehaus** 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 they claim to have backed

From their own portfolio page (on their website)

**16** of 16 we have independently watched raise

[Achates Power](https://millionrounds.com/company/achates-power)[Amyris](https://millionrounds.com/company/amyris)[Blue Pillar](https://millionrounds.com/company/blue-pillar)[Brightline](https://millionrounds.com/company/brightline)[Burrow](https://millionrounds.com/company/burrow)[Credit Sesame](https://millionrounds.com/company/credit-sesame)[Facebook](https://millionrounds.com/company/facebook)[Fooda](https://millionrounds.com/company/fooda)[GigSky](https://millionrounds.com/company/gigsky)[Metromile](https://millionrounds.com/company/metromile)[OpenSesame](https://millionrounds.com/company/opensesame)[PhysIQ](https://millionrounds.com/company/physiq)[Provivi](https://millionrounds.com/company/provivi)[Rocket Lawyer](https://millionrounds.com/company/rocket-lawyer)[Sagimet](https://millionrounds.com/company/sagimet-biosciences)[Styleseat](https://millionrounds.com/company/styleseat)

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.

Latest fund on file

**$16M**

raised in Feb 2022

From its SEC filing. Nothing newer is on file yet.

## The cheque

Seed Series A Series B

Median round joined **$11M** the round, not its cheque

Led 0 of 1 rounds **0%**

- **Sole investor:** Never alone
- **Last cheque:** Nov 2016

Rounds by stage said on their site

- Debt *1*
- Seed said *-*
- Series A said *-*
- Series B said *-*

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## Recently backed

The latest companies Pivotal Capital put money into.

[**Spongecell** $11M · Nov 2016](https://millionrounds.com/company/spongecell)

## Quick answers about Pivotal Capital

### What does Pivotal Capital invest in?

Pivotal Capital invests most often at Debt (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Technology, Life Sciences and Sustainable Energy.

### How active is Pivotal Capital?

1 investments on record, 0 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Nov 2016.

### What has Pivotal Capital invested in recently?

Its most recent investments on record: Spongecell (Debt, Nov 2016).

### How big are Pivotal Capital's cheques?

The median round it joins is $11M.

### Is Pivotal Capital investing now?

No investments in the last 12 months; the latest was in Nov 2016.

### What kind of investor is Pivotal Capital?

Pivotal Capital is a VC firm based in Menlo Park, United States.

### Has Pivotal Capital raised a new fund?

Its latest fund filing with the SEC was in Feb 2022, reporting $16M raised.

### Where does this information on Pivotal Capital come from?

From 1 articles and filings naming it in a round, public registers and its own website, checked and rebuilt every night.

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