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What does U.S. Venture Partners invest in?
U.S. Venture Partners invests most often at Series B and Venture (46% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Cybersecurity, Enterprise Software and Consumer.
U.S. Venture Partners highlights
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41 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series B and Venture: 46% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 22 rounds, median $4.1M
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60 exits from the portfolio
What they do
U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) is a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm, partnering with entrepreneurs to transform their ideas into world-changing companies.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm
- Cheque size
- $5.0M – $10M as they say
- Stages
- SeedSeries A
- Sectors
- CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareConsumer
- Based in
- Menlo Park, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first534 appearances
- 2026
29 rounds
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- 2025
53 rounds
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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
CMCasey M TanseyManaging Member of the General PartneriFiling they signed
DTDafina TonchevaManaging Member of the General PartneriFiling they signed
DHDale H. HolladayChief Finanical OfficeriForm ADV
JDJonathan D RootManaging Member of the General PartneriFiling they signed
RWRichard W LewisManaging Member of the General PartneriFiling they signed
RMRick M LewisManaging Member of the General PartneriFiling they signed
SMSteven M KrauszManaging Member of the General PartneriFiling they signed
We also hold 17 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
$1.7Bgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
9+funds on filenumbered funds in its name
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- USVP Management Company LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 160112
Who backs their funds
1 LP on record in U.S. Venture Partners's funds
- Committed
- $119M
- Funds
- 4
- Vintages
- 1996 to 2001
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: the pension's own report, latest Mar 2026.
Washington State Investment Board4 funds$119MFund Vintage Committed U.S. Venture Partners VIII 2001 $54M U.S. Venture Partners VII 2000 $39M U.S. Venture Partners VI 1999 $16M U.S. Venture Partners V 1996 $10M
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed60 in all
DriveScaleBought by TwitterUndisclosedJan 2021
Akros SiliconBought by Kinetic TechnologiesUndisclosedSept 2015
BlekkoBought by IBM (International Business Machines)UndisclosedMar 2015
Total Beauty MediaBought by Evolve Media, LLCUndisclosedMar 2015
ReadyforceBought by LookSharp (powering InternMatch)UndisclosedDec 2014
Armor5Bought by Digital GuardianUndisclosedOct 2014
MegaPathBought by GC Pivotal LLC dba Global CapacityUndisclosedSept 2014
Trunk ClubBought by Nordstrom$350MJul 2014
AtheroMedBought by Volcano Corporation$117MMay 2014
KarmasphereBought by FICO (Fair Isaac Corporation)UndisclosedApr 2014
SynarcBought by BioClinicaUndisclosedMar 2014
AccumetricsBought by ITCUndisclosedAug 2013
TrusteerBought by IBM (International Business Machines)$800MAug 2013
OncoMed PharmaceuticalsListed$82MJul 2013
Redwood SystemsBought by CommScope$60MJul 2013
InstantisBought by Oracle CorporationUndisclosedNov 2012
SocialShieldBought by AviraUndisclosedMar 2012
The latest 20 here. An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.