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What does Vertical Venture Partners invest in?
Vertical Venture Partners invests most often at Seed and Series A (56% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Enterprise.
Vertical Venture Partners highlights
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7 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Series A: 56% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 7 rounds, median $3.0M
What they do
Vertical Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm investing exclusively in vertical industries since 2014.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $100K – $10M as they say
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
- Sectors
- Enterprise
- Based in
- Menlo Park, United States
- Cold pitches
- Accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first49 appearances
- 2026
3 rounds
- Sept
- May
- Mar
- 2025
10 rounds
- Nov
- Nov
- Nov
- Nov
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
- Apr
- Apr
- Feb
- 2024
4 rounds
- Aug
- Aug
- Jun
- Jun
- 2023
5 rounds
- Sept
- Aug
- Apr
- Mar
- Jan
- 2022
9 rounds
- Oct
- Aug
- Aug
- May
- Apr
- Apr
- Mar
- Mar
- Feb
- 2021
4 rounds
- Aug
- Jul
- Jun
- Apr
- 2020
2 rounds
- Oct
- Oct
- 2019
1 round
- Dec
- 2018
1 round
- Jun
- 2017
1 round
- Apr
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 registration1 named
DCDavid C. SchwabManager of the General PartneriFiling they signed
We also hold 5 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
$468Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Vertical Venture Partners, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 288845
Who backs their funds
1 LP on record in Vertical Venture Partners's funds
- Committed
- $9.5M
- Funds
- 3
- Vintages
- 2015 to 2021
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: the pension's own report, latest Jun 2025.
Regents of the University of California3 funds$9.5MFund Vintage Committed Vertical Venture Partners III 2021 $2.5M Vertical Venture Partners II 2018 $2.0M Vertical Venture Partners 2015 $5.0M
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
1 of 3 we have independently watched raise
Vertical AIRealized Vertical AIVertical TaaS
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.