# SWaN & Legend Venture Partners: portfolio, investments and team

> SWaN & Legend Venture Partners is a vc firm based in United States. 16 investments on record, latest Aug 2019. Portfolio, stages, co-investors and team.

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# SWaN & Legend Venture Partners

Last cheque observed Aug 2019. Silence since then is not evidence of inactivity: our sources miss unannounced rounds.

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Quiet New fund $110M, Feb 2019 VC firm

Seed Series A Series B Subscription Entertainment Learning Management System

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Cheques on record

**0%** of best year **0** **cheques in 12 months**, 16 on record

Since the last cheque **2635** days **00** hrs **00** min **00** sec

Median round **$8.5M** Cheque size, as they say **$4.0M – $15M** Rounds led **1 of 16** Sole investor **2 rounds** Mostly in **United States, 100%**

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## SWaN & Legend Venture Partners highlights

- 01 16 rounds on record
- 02 Mostly Series B and Venture: 75% of its rounds
- 03 Sole investor in 2 rounds, median $5.0M

## What they do

> SWaN is a US-based, venture capital fund manager focused on multi-stage opportunities in the consumer sector. From their own website

- **Type:** VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- **Cheque size:** $4.0M – $15M as they say
- **Stages:** Seed Series A Series B
- **Sectors:** Subscription Entertainment Learning Management System
- **Based in:** Leesburg, United States
- **Cold pitches:** Not stated

## The record

Every round we can evidence, newest first **16 appearances**

- **2019** 1 round
- **Aug** **[UrbanStems](https://millionrounds.com/company/urbanstems)** Series B · US · TechCrunch **$12M** *Led*
- **2018** 1 round
- **Jul** **[Veritronic](https://millionrounds.com/company/veritronic)** Seed · US · FinSMEs **$3.5M** With 3 others
- **2017** 2 rounds
- **Jul** **[Framebridge](https://millionrounds.com/company/framebridge)** Series B · US · FinSMEs **$17M** With 3 others
- **Jan** **[The Noodle Companies](https://millionrounds.com/company/the-noodle-companies)** Series A · US · FinSMEs **$5.0M** Sole investor
- **2015** 3 rounds
- **Sept** **[Cava Grill](https://millionrounds.com/company/cava-grill)** Series B · US **$45M** With 2 others
- **Aug** **[Quad Learning](https://millionrounds.com/company/quad-learning)** Debt · US **$4.8M** With 4 others
- **Jan** **[BigTeams](https://millionrounds.com/company/bigteams)** Series B · US **$5.0M** With 1 other
- **2014** 5 rounds
- **Dec** **[Optoro](https://millionrounds.com/company/optoro)** Series C · US **$50M** With 3 others
- **Nov** **[La Lumiere](https://millionrounds.com/company/la-lumiere)** Series B · US **$20M** With 1 other
- **Apr** **[BigTeams](https://millionrounds.com/company/bigteams)** Venture · US **Undisclosed** With 1 other
- **Apr** **[Quad Learning](https://millionrounds.com/company/quad-learning)** Series B · US **$10M** With 6 others
- **Apr** **[Tango Card](https://millionrounds.com/company/tango-card)** Series B · US **$3.3M** With 5 others
- **2013** 3 rounds
- **Nov** **[Optoro](https://millionrounds.com/company/optoro)** Series B · US · finsmes.com **Undisclosed** Sole investor
- **Jul** **[Optoro](https://millionrounds.com/company/optoro)** Series B · US · tech.co **$24M** With 2 others
- **Apr** **[Tango Card](https://millionrounds.com/company/tango-card)** Series B · US · techcrunch.com **$4.1M** With 5 others
- **2012** 1 round
- **Nov** **[OrderGroove](https://millionrounds.com/company/ordergroove)** Venture · US · techcrunch.com **$7.0M** With 8 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 **8 named**

AP **Anthony Peter Nader** Managing Director of General Partner i Filing they signed

DB **David Bosserman** Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of General Partner i Filing they signed

DS **David Scott Strasser** MANAGER OF THE GENERAL PARTNER i Filing they signed

FS **Fred Schaufeld** MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE MANAGER i Filing they signed

FS **Frederick Schaufeld** Managing Director of General Partner i Filing they signed

FD **Fredrick D Schaufeld** MANAGER OF THE GENERAL PARTNER i Filing they signed

GB **Greg Bibb** CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE MANAGER i Filing they signed

TK **Todd Klein** Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of General Partner i Filing they signed

We also hold **14** 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

**$93M** gross assets of its funds Oct 2026

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

- **Legal name:** SWAN & LEGEND ADVISORS, LLC
- **SEC number:** CRD 175323

## What they claim to have backed

From their own portfolio page (on their website)

**17** of 36 we have independently watched raise

[Airbnb](https://millionrounds.com/company/airbnb)[Andpizza](https://millionrounds.com/company/and-pizza)[Bigteams](https://millionrounds.com/company/bigteams)[Customink](https://millionrounds.com/company/customink)[Echo360](https://millionrounds.com/company/echo360)[Framebridge](https://millionrounds.com/company/framebridge)[Myownmed](https://millionrounds.com/company/my-own-med)[Noodle](https://millionrounds.com/company/noodle)[Onenight](https://millionrounds.com/company/one-night)[Optoro](https://millionrounds.com/company/optoro)[Ordergroove](https://millionrounds.com/company/ordergroove)[Quadlearning](https://millionrounds.com/company/quad-learning)[Soapboxsoaps](https://millionrounds.com/company/soapbox-soaps)[Tangocard](https://millionrounds.com/company/tango-card)[Urbanstems](https://millionrounds.com/company/urbanstems)[Veritonic](https://millionrounds.com/company/veritonic)[Wthn](https://millionrounds.com/company/wthn) About Anonymouscontent Caastle Capitalsportsventures Cava Classedu Evergreentrans Fyrfly Glidr Kindsnacks Mindshow Musicapital Shinola Spectrio Squareup Sugar23 Svangel Thinkfoodgroup Wellspringhighereducation

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

**$110M**

raised in Feb 2019

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

## The cheque

Seed Series A Series B

Median round joined **$8.5M** the round, not its cheque Alone, median **$5.0M**

Led 1 of 16 rounds **6%**

- **Said size:** $4.0M – $15M
- **Sole investor:** 2 rounds
- **Last cheque:** Aug 2019

Rounds by stage said on their site

- Series B said *10*
- Venture *2*
- Debt *1*
- Seed said *1*
- Series A said *1*
- Series C *1*

Cheques by year Led Joined

2012 2019

Often in the room with

- [Allegro Venture Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/allegro-venture-pa) 3
- [New Enterprise Associates](https://millionrounds.com/fund/new-enterprise-associates) 3
- [Comcast Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/comcast-ventures) 2
- [ECMC](https://millionrounds.com/fund/ecmc) 2
- [Floodgate](https://millionrounds.com/fund/floodgate) 2
- [Grotech Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/grotech-ventures) 2

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## Who they invest alongside

The investors most often in the same rounds as SWaN & Legend Venture Partners. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.

[**Allegro Venture Partners** VC firm **3** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/allegro-venture-pa)[**New Enterprise Associates** VC firm **3** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/new-enterprise-associates)[**Comcast Ventures** Corporate VC **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/comcast-ventures)[**ECMC** VC firm **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/ecmc)[**Floodgate** VC firm **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/floodgate)[**Grotech Ventures** VC firm **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/grotech-ventures)[**Innovation Endeavors** VC firm **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/innovation-endeavors)[**Revolution** VC firm **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/revolution)[**TDF Ventures** VC firm **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/tdf-ventures)[**Western Technology Investment** VC firm **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/wti)

## Recently backed

The latest companies SWaN & Legend Venture Partners put money into.

[**UrbanStems** $12M · Aug 2019](https://millionrounds.com/company/urbanstems)[**Framebridge** $17M · Jul 2017](https://millionrounds.com/company/framebridge)

## Quick answers about SWaN & Legend Venture Partners

### What does SWaN & Legend Venture Partners invest in?

SWaN & Legend Venture Partners invests most often at Series B and Venture (75% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Subscription, Entertainment and Learning Management System.

### How active is SWaN & Legend Venture Partners?

16 investments on record, 0 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 1. The most recent was in Aug 2019.

### What has SWaN & Legend Venture Partners invested in recently?

Its most recent investments on record: UrbanStems (Series B, Aug 2019), Veritronic (Seed, Jul 2018) and Framebridge (Series B, Jul 2017).

### How big are SWaN & Legend Venture Partners's cheques?

The median round it joins is $8.5M. It says it writes cheques of $4.0M to $15M.

### Does SWaN & Legend Venture Partners lead rounds?

Sometimes: it led 1 of its 16 investments on record (6%).

### Where does SWaN & Legend Venture Partners invest?

Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (100%).

### Is SWaN & Legend Venture Partners investing now?

No investments in the last 12 months; the latest was in Aug 2019.

### Who does SWaN & Legend Venture Partners invest alongside?

Most often Allegro Venture Partners (3 rounds together), New Enterprise Associates (3 rounds together) and Comcast Ventures (2 rounds together).

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