# Vertical Venture Partners: portfolio, investments and team

> Vertical Venture Partners is a vc firm based in United States. 49 investments on record, 7 in the last 12 months, latest Sept 2026.

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# Vertical Venture Partners

Last cheque observed Sep 2026; 49 cheques on record.

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Deploying now New fund $60M, May 2026 VC firm

Seed Series A Series B Enterprise

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**70%** of best year **7** **cheques in 12 months**, 49 on record

Since the last cheque **60** days **00** hrs **00** min **00** sec

Median round **$7.8M** Cheque size, as they say **$100K – $10M** Rounds led **1 of 49** Sole investor **7 rounds** Mostly in **United States, 94%**

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## Vertical Venture Partners highlights

- 01 7 cheques in the last 12 months
- 02 Mostly Seed and Series A: 56% of its rounds
- 03 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:** Seed Series A Series B Growth
- **Sectors:** Enterprise
- **Based in:** Menlo Park, United States
- **Cold pitches:** Accepted

## The record

Every round we can evidence, newest first **49 appearances**

- **2026** 3 rounds
- **Sept** **[Partillion Bioscience](https://millionrounds.com/company/partillion-bioscience)** Grant · US **$2.1M** With 3 others
- **May** **[Upwell](https://millionrounds.com/company/upwell)** Venture · US **Undisclosed** With 4 others
- **Mar** **[Surf Therapeutics](https://millionrounds.com/company/surf-therapeutics)** Seed · US **$6.0M** With 2 others
- **2025** 10 rounds
- **Nov** **[Hermes Biosciences](https://millionrounds.com/company/hermes-biosciences)** Seed · US **$6.0M** With 1 other
- **Nov** **[Backflip](https://millionrounds.com/company/backflip)** Venture · US **$10M** With 3 others
- **Nov** **[Planet Smart](https://millionrounds.com/company/planet-smart)** Pre-seed · GB **$1.0M** With 1 other
- **Nov** **[Alida Biosciences](https://millionrounds.com/company/alida-biosciences)** Grant · US **$1.0M** Sole investor
- **Oct** **[Scout](https://millionrounds.com/company/scout)** Seed · US **$644K** Sole investor
- **Sept** **[Inbox Health](https://millionrounds.com/company/inbox-health)** Venture · US **$20M** With 3 others
- **Sept** **[OnsiteIQ](https://millionrounds.com/company/onsiteiq)** Venture · US **$5.2M** With 4 others
- **Apr** **[Domos](https://millionrounds.com/company/domos)** Seed · US · AlleyWatch **$3.3M** With 3 others
- **Apr** **[Replify](https://millionrounds.com/company/replify)** Seed · US **$4.5M** With 1 other
- **Feb** **[Upwell](https://millionrounds.com/company/upwell)** Seed · US **$6.5M** With 4 others
- **2024** 4 rounds
- **Aug** **[Opkey](https://millionrounds.com/company/opkey)** Series B · US **$47M** With 1 other
- **Aug** **[Inveterate, Inc](https://millionrounds.com/company/inveterate-inc)** Venture · US **Undisclosed** With 2 others
- **Jun** **[Zuub](https://millionrounds.com/company/zuub)** Series A · US **$9.0M** With 1 other
- **Jun** **[Alida Biosciences](https://millionrounds.com/company/alida-biosciences)** Series A · US **$7.5M** Sole investor
- **2023** 5 rounds
- **Sept** **[Partillion Bioscience](https://millionrounds.com/company/partillion-bioscience)** Seed · US **$5.0M** With 3 others
- **Aug** **[Autolab](https://millionrounds.com/company/autolab)** Venture · CO **$4.1M** With 1 other
- **Apr** **[Welby Health](https://millionrounds.com/company/welby-health)** Seed · US **$3.0M** With 1 other
- **Mar** **[SOCi](https://millionrounds.com/company/soci)** Venture · US **$120M** With 1 other
- **Jan** **[Redeam](https://millionrounds.com/company/redeam)** Venture · US **Undisclosed** Sole investor
- **2022** 9 rounds
- **Oct** **[WhizAI](https://millionrounds.com/company/whizai)** Series A · US **$6.0M** With 2 others
- **Aug** **[Mudflap](https://millionrounds.com/company/mudflap)** Series B · US **$50M** With 3 others
- **Aug** **[Lanetix](https://millionrounds.com/company/lanetix)** Venture · US **$3.4M** With 1 other
- **May** **[Ionpath](https://millionrounds.com/company/ionpath)** Venture · US **Undisclosed** With 2 others
- **Apr** **[Concert Health](https://millionrounds.com/company/concert-health)** Series B · US **$42M** With 1 other
- **Apr** **[Amira Learning](https://millionrounds.com/company/amira-learning)** Venture · US **$20M** With 2 others
- **Mar** **[Gumball](https://millionrounds.com/company/gumball)** Series A · US **$10M** With 3 others
- **Mar** **[Menlo Micro](https://millionrounds.com/company/menlo-micro)** Series C · US · Firms' own news pages **$150M** With 7 others
- **Feb** **[1859](https://millionrounds.com/company/1859)** Series A · US **$40M** With 1 other
- **2021** 4 rounds
- **Aug** **[Grolltex, Inc.](https://millionrounds.com/company/grolltex-inc)** US **$1.8M** With 2 others
- **Jul** **[Inveterate, Inc](https://millionrounds.com/company/inveterate-inc)** Seed · US **$8.4M** With 2 others
- **Jun** **[Retina AI](https://millionrounds.com/company/retina-ai)** Series A **$8.0M** With 1 other
- **Apr** **[Edifice Health](https://millionrounds.com/company/edifice-health)** Series A **$12M** With 2 others
- **2020** 2 rounds
- **Oct** **[Menlo Micro](https://millionrounds.com/company/menlo-micro)** Series B · US · Firms' own news pages **$44M** With 4 others
- **Oct** **[Ordermark](https://millionrounds.com/company/ordermark)** Series C **$120M** With 5 others
- **2019** 1 round
- **Dec** **[Soci](https://millionrounds.com/company/soci)** Series C · TechCrunch **$12M** *Led*
- **2018** 1 round
- **Jun** **[Jask](https://millionrounds.com/company/jask)** Series B · US · FinSMEs **$25M** With 9 others
- **2017** 1 round
- **Apr** **[SOCi](https://millionrounds.com/company/soci)** Series A · US · FinSMEs **$8.5M** With 3 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 **1 named**

DC **David C. Schwab** Manager of the General Partner i Filing 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

**$468M** gross assets of its funds Oct 2026

**Exempt** reporting adviser venture 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 California** 3 funds *$9.5M*](https://millionrounds.com/fund/regents-of-the-university-of-california) Fund 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 AI](https://millionrounds.com/company/amira-learning) Realized Vertical AI Vertical 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.

New fund on file

**$60M**

raised in May 2026

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 **$7.8M** the round, not its cheque Alone, median **$3.0M**

Led 1 of 49 rounds **2%**

- **Said size:** $100K – $10M
- **Sole investor:** 7 rounds
- **Last cheque:** Sept 2026

Rounds by stage said on their site

- Seed said *12*
- Series A said *12*
- Venture *11*
- Series B said *5*
- Series C *3*
- Growth said *-*

Cheques by month Led Joined

Nov 2023 Oct 2026

Often in the room with

- [Paladin Capital Group](https://millionrounds.com/fund/paladin-capital-group) 6
- [Alpaca VC](https://millionrounds.com/fund/alpaca-vc) 2
- [Bonfire Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/bonfire-ventures) 2
- [Bullpen Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/bullpen-capital) 2
- [Commerce Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/commerce-ventures) 2
- [EvoNexus](https://millionrounds.com/fund/evonexus) 2

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## Who they invest alongside

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

[**Paladin Capital Group** VC firm **6** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/paladin-capital-group)[**Alpaca VC** VC firm **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/alpaca-vc)[**Bonfire Ventures** VC firm **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/bonfire-ventures)[**Bullpen Capital** VC firm **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/bullpen-capital)[**Commerce Ventures** VC firm **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/commerce-ventures)[**EvoNexus** Accelerator **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/evonexus)[**Future Shape** VC firm **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/future-shape-2)[**IT Farm** VC firm **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/it-farm-corporation)[**Kumar Malavalli** Angel **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/kumar-malavalli)[**National Institutes of Health** Government **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/national-institutes-of-health)[**National Science Foundation** Government **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/nsf-small-business-innovation-research-small-business-techno)[**Nvp Capital** VC firm **2** rounds together](https://millionrounds.com/fund/nvp-capital)

## Recently backed

The latest companies Vertical Venture Partners put money into.

[**Partillion Bioscience** $2.1M · Sept 2026](https://millionrounds.com/company/partillion-bioscience)[**Upwell** May 2026](https://millionrounds.com/company/upwell)[**Surf Therapeutics** $6.0M · Mar 2026](https://millionrounds.com/company/surf-therapeutics)[**Hermes Biosciences** $6.0M · Nov 2025](https://millionrounds.com/company/hermes-biosciences)[**Backflip** $10M · Nov 2025](https://millionrounds.com/company/backflip)[**Planet Smart** $1.0M · Nov 2025](https://millionrounds.com/company/planet-smart)

## Quick answers about Vertical Venture Partners

### 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.

### How active is Vertical Venture Partners?

49 investments on record, 7 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 1. The most recent was in Sept 2026.

### What has Vertical Venture Partners invested in recently?

Its most recent investments on record: Partillion Bioscience (Grant, Sept 2026), Upwell (Venture, May 2026) and Surf Therapeutics (Seed, Mar 2026).

### How big are Vertical Venture Partners's cheques?

The median round it joins is $7.8M. It says it writes cheques of $100K to $10M.

### Does Vertical Venture Partners lead rounds?

Sometimes: it led 1 of its 49 investments on record (2%).

### Where does Vertical Venture Partners invest?

Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (94%).

### Is Vertical Venture Partners investing now?

Yes: it is actively investing, with 7 investments in the last 12 months.

### Who does Vertical Venture Partners invest alongside?

Most often Paladin Capital Group (6 rounds together), Alpaca VC (2 rounds together) and Bonfire Ventures (2 rounds together).

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