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Vertical Venture Partners

Vertical Venture Partners backs early-stage and high-growth companies, typically pre-profit, from Palo Alto, United States. It states a focus on software & internet, healthcare & life sciences, financial services and education.

Capital raised$243macross 6 SEC-filed vehicles
Most recent fund2024filing since 2013
HeadquartersPalo Alto, United States
Largest single fund$90m

Stated investment criteria

What Vertical Venture Partners says it buys

Read from Vertical Venture Partners’s own website in August 2026. This is what the firm says it buys, not what anyone has recorded it buying, and figures are shown in the currency the firm itself used - nothing here is converted. Every line links to the page it was read from.

Founded20142
OfficesPalo Alto2
People listed on its team page31

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SEC filings

What Vertical Venture Partners has raised

From this firm's own Form D filings. A fund files one within fifteen days of its first sale, under penalty of perjury, which makes these the hardest numbers on the page.

Vehicles filed6
Total capital raised$243m
Largest single vehicle$90m
Filing history2013 to 2024
Smallest accepted commitmentNone stated
Filed fromCALIFORNIA

Form D covers US-domiciled vehicles raised from accredited investors. It will not capture a fund raised outside the United States, separately managed accounts, or capital deployed off balance sheet, so treat these as a floor rather than a total.

Regulatory record

How Vertical Venture Partners is registered

From this firm's Form ADV, the annual filing every registered and exempt investment adviser makes to the SEC.

Adviser statusExempt reporting adviser
Regulatory assets under managementNot reported by an ERA
Private funds advised16 · $468m gross
SEC adviser numberCRD 288845

An exempt reporting adviser is not required to report regulatory assets under management, so the blank above means the question was not asked rather than that the answer is unknown. Where a figure exists it is the gross asset value of the private funds the firm advises, which is a different and usually larger measure.

Portfolio

Disclosed holdings

Companies Vertical Venture Partners lists on its own website. No investment years are published.

CompanyInvestedYears heldRecorded transaction
Alida Biosciences
Amira Learning
Autolab
Backflip
Barti
BeyondTrucks
Concert Health
Continuum Powders
Delix Therapeutics
Domos
Edifice Health
Embroker
Headgum
Implentio
Inbox Health
Menlo Micro
Mongoose
Mudflap
ONI
OnsiteIQ
Partillion
Passio
Roofr
SOCi
Scout
Tactile
Tasso
Upwell
Welby
Won.ai
Zuub

Compiled from Vertical Venture Partners’s published portfolio page. Where a recorded transaction is shown, that company was the target of a reported deal and has most likely already been realised. Nothing here is represented as being for sale.

Valuation context

Transaction values in Software & Internet

What companies have actually sold for in software & internet, across 2,672 recorded transactions.

Median consideration$80m
Middle 50%$20m-$250m
Revenue multiple2.2×
EBITDA multiple10.9×

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