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What does Practical Venture Capital invest in?
Practical Venture Capital invests most often at Seed and Series A (91% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Financial Services.
Practical Venture Capital highlights
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1 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Series A: 91% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 5 rounds, median $100K
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14 exits from the portfolio
What they do
- Type
- Private equity (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $10K – $5.0M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- Financial Services
- Based in
- Palo Alto, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
A website was listed for this organisation, but we could not confirm it belongs to the firm that wrote these cheques. Either the site never mentions them, or it turned out to be a different company sharing the name. We show neither it nor anything read from it. Tell us the right one.
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first94 appearances
- 2026
1 round
- Jun
- 2024
1 round
- Oct
- 2015
3 rounds
- Nov
- Aug
- Apr
- 2014
18 rounds
- Dec
- Nov
- Oct
- Aug
- Aug
- Aug
- Aug
- Jul
- Jul
- May
- Apr
- Apr
- Apr
- Jan
- Jan
- Jan
- Jan
- Jan
- 2013
18 rounds
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Jul
- Jul
- Jul
- Jun
- Jun
- Jun
- May
- Apr
- Feb
- Jan
- Jan
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 registration2 named
AVAman VerjeeManaging MemberiFiling they signed
DPDavid Paul McclureGeneral PartneriForm ADV
We also hold 4 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
$123Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Practical VC Investment Advisor, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 316351
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed14 in all
IMRSVBought by Kairos AR$2.7MApr 2015
GraphiclyBought by BlurbUndisclosedMay 2014
ZappliBought by ShopzillaUndisclosedJul 2013
ecomomBought by GreenCupboardsUndisclosedApr 2013
SimpleHoneyBought by RippleUndisclosedApr 2013
BehanceBought by Adobe Systems$150MDec 2012
PostlingBought by LocalVox MediaUndisclosedNov 2012
MoonfruitBought by YellUndisclosedMay 2012
TeachStreetBought by AmazonUndisclosedJan 2012
onefortyBought by HubSpotUndisclosedAug 2011
Mill River LabsBought by VentureBeatUndisclosedSept 2009
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.