Staenberg Venture Partners

Staenberg Venture Partners is a Seattle-based venture capital firm focused on the technology industry. With $100 million under management, they invest at all stages of company development from concept to maturity. By leveraging an extensive partner network in Silicon Valley and the Pacific Northwest, their firm provides a unique and important bridge between these two technology centers. Staenberg Venture Partners provides more than just financial contributions. They help their portfolio companies build winning management teams and obtain access to expert resources. All of their Limited Partners work in the high-tech industry, many playing influential roles. They add value through consulting to early-stage companies and co-invest in later-stage companies alongside other institutional funds.

Jon Staenberg

Managing Partner

26 past transactions

Care2

Series B in 2000
Care2 was founded with a simple mission: to help make the world a better place. Based in Silicon Valley, we are the world's largest social network for good - 45 million standing together, starting petitions and sharing stories that inspire action. For the past 19 years, Care2 has been a pioneer in online advocacy and we continue to focus on being on the forefront of creating technology that connects people to ways to make a difference in the world. Care2 is a fast-growing privately held company that combines cutting-edge Silicon Valley technology with good old-fashioned community to help power the new world of philanthropy. Care2 works with over 2,700 nonprofits and mission-based brands to grow their communities faster, and more efficiently, by connecting them to supporters who are passionate about the causes they support while creating world-changing impact locally, nationally and beyond. With over 700 million petition signatures to date, we have connected over 2,700 nonprofits and mission based brands to 90 million new donors and advocates.

Ezboard

Series D in 2002
Ezboard operates a social community platform. The company’s platform enables users to create their profiles and photo galleries, embed third-party content, and reorder photos via drag and drop as well as send hugs, bites, waves, and more. Its platform also provides chat rooms, polls, calendars, drag and drop profile layouts, designer profile skins, activity feeds, photo tagging and notes, blogging, photo editing tools, shoutbox comments, custom profile status, group private messages, alert boxes, text editors and smileys, inbox preview widgets, multiple profiles, and other video embedding features. Ezboard was founded in 1999 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Cafe Press

Series A in 2001
Based in Foster City, CA, Cafepress.com allows its users to independently create and sell a wide variety of products on the web. By allowing individual sellers to set up free "shops" within their domain, Cafepress makes it easy for artists and designers to sell their goods online. Over 2.5 million independent shops have been opened on Cafepress since its opening in 1999. Cafepress is a privately owned, profitable company.

The Brain

Series A in 2000
TheBrain Technology helps people make sense of the wide range of information they need to organize and assimilate on a daily basis. They believe that two Brains are better than one. And if you extend and capture your thinking about your projects and life you can get some amazing stuff done.

Serious Energy

Series D in 2010
Serious Materials develops and manufactures sustainable green building materials that dramatically reduce the impact of the 'built environment' on the climate. The company was voted #1 at Cleantech Venture Forum XII, won the first Aspen Institute award for innovation in Corporate Energy Conservation and Global Gypsum Product of the Year. It has also been recognized by TIME/CNN, Fortune, Business Week, AlwaysOn and more as one of the most promising green companies.

Corrigo

Series E in 2007
Corrigo Incorporated develops and delivers real-time, cloud-based facilities and service management solutions for multi-site facilities and service providers, facilities managers, Fortune 50 companies, mom and pops, and service professionals worldwide. It provides service management software, maintenance management software, service dispatch software, and employee time tracking software solutions that deliver real-time visibility into and control the quality and cost of building and field service operations. The company also offers a facilities management platform that offers real time vendor and technician scorecards and ongoing support; and WorkTrach, a service management solution that helps by eliminating double entry by communicating with users’ accounting package. It serves restaurants, retail, property management, hospitality, health care, homebuilding, manufacturing, distribution, and various service businesses. Corrigo Incorporated was founded in 1999 and is based in Tualatin, Oregon with workforce in the United States, Ukraine, and India. As of December 17, 2015, Corrigo Incorporated operates as a subsidiary of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated.

Motiva

Series D in 2002
Motiva, Inc. is the technology leader for global enterprise incentive management (EIM) software and services, enabling companies to create and manage flexible, highly targeted incentive programs that drive top-line and bottom-line results across the extended enterprise. The Motiva software solution allows businesses to rapidly align performance with strategic objectives for sales, services, channels, customers and suppliers. Founded in 1996, Motiva is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Prime Advantage

Venture Round in 1999
Prime Advantage Corporation operates as a manufacturer's buying consortium to help them to drive down costs, partner with endorsed suppliers, and benchmark industry best practices. It acts as a member and supplier services specialist; and provides members, including industrial manufacturing and food processing companies with access to a network of endorsed suppliers. The company negotiates programs with its endorsed suppliers in the areas of raw materials, components, services, and supplies for its members. It enables members to have access to its cost savings programs, and utilize the collective purchasing power of the group for their raw materials, components, services, and supplies; and endorsed suppliers to have access to final decision makers at member companies who purchase their product or service. Prime Advantage Corporation was founded in 1997 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. As of June 30, 2017, Prime Advantage Corporation operates as a subsidiary of OMNIA Partners.

Prime Advantage

Series C in 2000
Prime Advantage Corporation operates as a manufacturer's buying consortium to help them to drive down costs, partner with endorsed suppliers, and benchmark industry best practices. It acts as a member and supplier services specialist; and provides members, including industrial manufacturing and food processing companies with access to a network of endorsed suppliers. The company negotiates programs with its endorsed suppliers in the areas of raw materials, components, services, and supplies for its members. It enables members to have access to its cost savings programs, and utilize the collective purchasing power of the group for their raw materials, components, services, and supplies; and endorsed suppliers to have access to final decision makers at member companies who purchase their product or service. Prime Advantage Corporation was founded in 1997 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. As of June 30, 2017, Prime Advantage Corporation operates as a subsidiary of OMNIA Partners.

eCustomers.com

Series B in 2000
eCustomers, Inc. is revolutionizing the way consumers interact with businesses online. To empower consumers, eCustomers, Inc. was created to be a pioneer and leading Internet-based infomediary that delivers valuable personalized content to eBusiness systems.

SquareTrade

Series B in 2000
[SquareTrade](http://www.squaretrade.com) is an independent warranty provider for consumer electronics and appliances. It doesn't matter where you purchased your item, online auction or brick and mortar, the item is eligible for a SquareTrade warranty.

Motiva

Series B in 2000
Motiva, Inc. is the technology leader for global enterprise incentive management (EIM) software and services, enabling companies to create and manage flexible, highly targeted incentive programs that drive top-line and bottom-line results across the extended enterprise. The Motiva software solution allows businesses to rapidly align performance with strategic objectives for sales, services, channels, customers and suppliers. Founded in 1996, Motiva is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Prime Advantage

Series B in 2000
Prime Advantage Corporation operates as a manufacturer's buying consortium to help them to drive down costs, partner with endorsed suppliers, and benchmark industry best practices. It acts as a member and supplier services specialist; and provides members, including industrial manufacturing and food processing companies with access to a network of endorsed suppliers. The company negotiates programs with its endorsed suppliers in the areas of raw materials, components, services, and supplies for its members. It enables members to have access to its cost savings programs, and utilize the collective purchasing power of the group for their raw materials, components, services, and supplies; and endorsed suppliers to have access to final decision makers at member companies who purchase their product or service. Prime Advantage Corporation was founded in 1997 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. As of June 30, 2017, Prime Advantage Corporation operates as a subsidiary of OMNIA Partners.

Bigstep

Seed Round in 2016
Bigstep.com is a cloud provider dedicated to making professional analytics solutions accessible to companies of all sizes. It enables businesses, large and small, to get started with a production-ready big data environment in just a few clicks, all in the Full Metal Cloud, purpose built for big data. Bigstep.com was founded in 2013 by Lucas Roh, serial entrepreneur, and founder of Hostway Corporation and Affinity Global. It is headquartered in London and operates infrastructure in the U.K. and Germany.

Motiva

Series C in 2001
Motiva, Inc. is the technology leader for global enterprise incentive management (EIM) software and services, enabling companies to create and manage flexible, highly targeted incentive programs that drive top-line and bottom-line results across the extended enterprise. The Motiva software solution allows businesses to rapidly align performance with strategic objectives for sales, services, channels, customers and suppliers. Founded in 1996, Motiva is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Cafe Press

Series A in 2000
Based in Foster City, CA, Cafepress.com allows its users to independently create and sell a wide variety of products on the web. By allowing individual sellers to set up free "shops" within their domain, Cafepress makes it easy for artists and designers to sell their goods online. Over 2.5 million independent shops have been opened on Cafepress since its opening in 1999. Cafepress is a privately owned, profitable company.

Corrigo

Series B in 2000
Corrigo Incorporated develops and delivers real-time, cloud-based facilities and service management solutions for multi-site facilities and service providers, facilities managers, Fortune 50 companies, mom and pops, and service professionals worldwide. It provides service management software, maintenance management software, service dispatch software, and employee time tracking software solutions that deliver real-time visibility into and control the quality and cost of building and field service operations. The company also offers a facilities management platform that offers real time vendor and technician scorecards and ongoing support; and WorkTrach, a service management solution that helps by eliminating double entry by communicating with users’ accounting package. It serves restaurants, retail, property management, hospitality, health care, homebuilding, manufacturing, distribution, and various service businesses. Corrigo Incorporated was founded in 1999 and is based in Tualatin, Oregon with workforce in the United States, Ukraine, and India. As of December 17, 2015, Corrigo Incorporated operates as a subsidiary of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated.

LearningBrands

Series A in 2000
Provides curriculum expertise and technology platforms to build customized web-based courses for leading brand and service organizations

Intrepid Learning, Inc.

Venture Round in 2004
Learner-First Technology for Business Results Intrepid’s corporate learning platform delivers business impact by empowering learners with a deeply engaging SaaS experience that can scale to as many people as you need it to. (1,000? Yes. 100,000? Also yes). Welcome to modern corporate learning. The kind you’ve been searching for. With integrated social and collaborative features and capabilities specifically designed to meet corporate L&D goals in the modern world, Intrepid has proven that scale and engagement are not mutually exclusive. Nor are online learning and meaningful collaboration. What’s your critical business goal? Onboarding, sales enablement, leadership, strategic transformation, partner and customer education…? How do you want to get your learners there…? A continuous learning journey, a blended approach, a time-bound cohort-driven collaborative experience (aka corporate MOOC), self-directed? Whatever your learning goal & business goal combination, Intrepid’s elegant and intuitive technology can help you deliver the results you need.

Corrigo

Series A in 1999
Corrigo Incorporated develops and delivers real-time, cloud-based facilities and service management solutions for multi-site facilities and service providers, facilities managers, Fortune 50 companies, mom and pops, and service professionals worldwide. It provides service management software, maintenance management software, service dispatch software, and employee time tracking software solutions that deliver real-time visibility into and control the quality and cost of building and field service operations. The company also offers a facilities management platform that offers real time vendor and technician scorecards and ongoing support; and WorkTrach, a service management solution that helps by eliminating double entry by communicating with users’ accounting package. It serves restaurants, retail, property management, hospitality, health care, homebuilding, manufacturing, distribution, and various service businesses. Corrigo Incorporated was founded in 1999 and is based in Tualatin, Oregon with workforce in the United States, Ukraine, and India. As of December 17, 2015, Corrigo Incorporated operates as a subsidiary of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated.

Appvance.ai

Series A in 2014
Appvance.ai is the leader in AI-driven test generation, which is revolutionizing how software testing is performed. The company’s premier product is Appvance IQ, the world’s first AI-driven, unified test automation system. It helps enterprises improve the quality, performance and security of their applications, while transforming the efficiency and output of testing teams. Appvance.ai is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in Costa Rica and India. Investors in the company include Javelin Ventures, Staenberg Ventures, Social Internet Fund, FundersClub, Three Bridges Ventures and HB Asset Management.

eCustomers.com

Seed Round in 1999
eCustomers, Inc. is revolutionizing the way consumers interact with businesses online. To empower consumers, eCustomers, Inc. was created to be a pioneer and leading Internet-based infomediary that delivers valuable personalized content to eBusiness systems.

VetCentric

Venture Round in 2002
VetCentric, Inc., a privately-held company headquartered near Baltimore, MD, is the only national veterinary-focused pharmacy offering home delivery of FDA- and EPA-approved pharmaceuticals, compounded medications, and therapeutic and wellness diets to pet owners on behalf of veterinary practices. Its comprehensive suite of services provides practices with a customized online store, home delivery and client communications. VetCentric is Vet-VIPPS accredited and firmly supports the Veterinarian-Client-Patient relationship in all its business practices, allowing veterinarians to stay at the center of their patients' care while improving service, encouraging compliance and decreasing practice operating costs.

Allegis Corporation

Venture Round in 2000
Allegis Corporation is a leading Partner Relationship Management firm that develops e-business solutions.

mInfo

Series A in 2006
mInfo launched its mobile phone search engine in 2005, to provide mobile search services to China's 1 billion wireless users. It also provided advanced mobile advertising solutions to advertisers in China, brand enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises. mInfo's mobile search services use natural language processing and personalized technology to make the search experience intuitive for users and yield highly correlated search results. mInfo received praise and attention from many operators in the mobile search field.

Atesto Technologies

Series B in 2001
Atesto is an automated Web testing service that enables organizations to develop, deploy and monitor Web applications without needing to license, install and manage software and hardware systems and infrastructure. The company’s software suite, Atesto Functional Test, tests and validates complex, static and dynamic Web applications. The company also offers load testing and monitoring services, to address performance and application maintenance needs. The Automated Load Test services simulate complex real-life application scenarios using live Internet traffic from a globally distributed network and the Response Watch service features periodic transaction and Web application monitoring capability from global locations. Both services include detailed, real-time, online reports on application performance and analysis.