Vertical Venture Partners

Vertical Venture Partners ("VVP") is a venture capital firm investing in enterprise technology companies that target specific vertical markets. VVP focuses on companies with solutions for pain points that are C-suite priorities. Some vertical markets of interest include: Aerospace and Defense, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, Insurance, Real Estate, Retail, and Transportation. Some technology areas of interest include: Business Intelligence, Cloud Applications, CRM, Mobile, Security, Software Infrastructure, Instrumentation and Materials Science.

Brad Corona

Managing Director

Schwab, David C.

Founder and Managing Director

51 past transactions

Inbox Health

Series B in 2023
Inbox Health is a digital healthcare company that designs a tool to automate bills and give patients additional insights into their charges. Inbox Health's mission is to greatly reduce the administrative waste in healthcare, by streamlining the patient billing and payment experience. Their product is a patient billing and communication platform that uses patient data to tailor a billing process specific to the patient’s situation and behavior patterns.

Welby Health

Seed Round in 2023
Welby Health is a tech-enabled service provider offering case management services to physicians. Its products generate revenue for its clients by leveraging reimbursement for Remote Monitoring, Chronic Care Management, and virtual care codes made available through its tech platform. We use proprietary technology and a team of nurses trained in remote patient engagement to leverage billable codes on FFS business and improve clinical outcomes to maximize VBC bonus programs.

Roofr

Series A in 2022
Roofr is a marketplace for roofing and utilizes satellite imagery for instant roofing estimates. A technologically advanced roofing brokerage that uses revolutionary software to simplify roof replacement and repair. At Roofr, they aim to provide the highest quality workmanship and service in the roofing industry. By providing affordable pricing and revolutionary convenience, Roofr emphasizes the importance of customer experience over company profit.

Backflip

Seed Round in 2022
Backflip is a real estate financial technology company that supports entrepreneurs to acquire and renovate single family homes, thereby reinvigorating the housing supply and their local communities. The company offers purpose-built technology and capital products to source, analyze and finance residential real estate investments. Backflip is an all-in-one platform providing entrepreneurs with the technology, data, and financing strategies that allows them to scale their businesses.

Concert Health

Series B in 2022
Concert Health focuses on building an integrated behavioral health system. The company starts by helping medical groups integrate behavioral health services into their practices. It specializes in the fields of information technology, medical, and health care. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Diego, California.

Menlo Micro

Series C in 2022
Menlo Micro is the developer of the Ideal Switch, an electromechanical switch technology used to switch AC/DC and RF. The Ideal Switch can handle high temperatures and high-stress conditions and help in battery management, home automation, and instrumentation that enable clients to work with advanced products and deliver efficient outcomes using high power. Menlo Micro was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Gumball

Series A in 2022
Gumball connects advertisers with podcast hosts to make it happen in a few clicks.

1859

Series A in 2022
1859 is a biotechnology company focusing on the discovery and development of next-generation therapeutics. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

ONI

Series B in 2021
ONI is a pioneer of super-resolution microscopy, making this advanced technology accessible to new generations of researchers. The Nanoimager, the world's first benchtop sized super-resolution microscope, delivers a step change in usability and precision. This, together with our next-generation consumable products will empower academic researchers, clinicians and scientists to on a path to discovery. The microscope offers easy access to a range of super-resolution techniques including dSTORM and PALM, as well as smFRET, single-particle tracking and confocal. The company's achievements have been recognised by FastTrack100 who named ONI on their 2018 list of 10 Disruptors to Watch and ONI won Best Business Start-up at the 2018 IOP Awards. More and more life science researchers and pharma companies are taking an interest in ONI and it now has customers using its products in leading laboratories across the globe, including the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard. ONI has a restless enthusiasm to make the world a better place. Our ambition is to bring super-resolution fluorescence imaging to a new community of researchers and we are removing barriers to make science more effective, accessible and affordable. Our vision is to accelerate scientific discovery and fight disease by enabling everyone to visualize, understand and share the microscopic details of life.

WhizAI

Series A in 2021
WhizAI is the first and only AI-powered analytics platform purpose-built for life sciences and healthcare. It puts insights directly into the hands of business users empowering decision-makers to drive more informed and faster business decisions at lower cost. With its deep understanding of the life sciences and healthcare domains and user intent, the platform delivers insights without the delays of traditional BI dashboards. Fast, easy, and scalable, WhizAI is transforming analytics with artificial intelligence optimized for life sciences and healthcare making WhizAI the trusted partner of choice at top global companies. Simply ask a question about sales, market access, patient services, or clinical trials -- and WhizAI answers it instantly. WhizAI's conversational interface allows users to simply talk to the enterprise data giving them complete autonomy to drill into every level of detail along with real-time updates. WhizAI’s advanced machine learning algorithms scan entire data sets to deliver proactive alerts and automatically surface anomalies, easily pinpointing stagnating sales, market share changes, patient drop-offs and much more. WhizAI enjoys nearly 100% adoption by business users, contributes to a 60% reduction in calls to IT and a 50% reduction in operational overhead within the first few months of implementation.

Delix Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
Delix Therapeutics is a neuroscience company focused on harnessing the power of psychoplastogens—novel neuroplasticity-promoting therapeutics—to better treat mental health disorders at scale. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

NanoCellect Biomedical

Series D in 2021
NanoCellect Biomedical develops and delivers microfluidic-based solutions that are affordable, compact, and easy to use. Its expanding portfolio of instruments and consumables enables biomedical scientists to analyze and sort cells required for drug discovery, single cell-omics, cloning, antibody discovery, and basic research.

Inveterate, Inc

Seed Round in 2021
Inveterate is a turnkey solution to deploy paid membership loyalty programs for eCommerce merchants, primarily on the Shopify platform.

Retina AI

Series A in 2021
Retina uses next-gen algorithms and the data you already collect to pinpoint your highest-value customers — and deliver the insights you need to reach more just like them.

Amira Learning

Series B in 2021
Amira Learning offers an intelligent reading assistant that listens, assesses, and tutors. Amira recommends appropriately challenging stories, listens as a student reads aloud, and intervenes when helpful. The company assesses oral reading fluency and analyzes errors to pinpoint strengths and weaknesses. Every time a student and Amira read together, Amira generates diagnostic reports that empower teachers and parents. It gives teachers more time to teach and gives students a more effective way to practice.

Inbox Health

Series A in 2021
Inbox Health is a digital healthcare company that designs a tool to automate bills and give patients additional insights into their charges. Inbox Health's mission is to greatly reduce the administrative waste in healthcare, by streamlining the patient billing and payment experience. Their product is a patient billing and communication platform that uses patient data to tailor a billing process specific to the patient’s situation and behavior patterns.

NanoCellect Biomedical

Series C in 2021
NanoCellect Biomedical develops and delivers microfluidic-based solutions that are affordable, compact, and easy to use. Its expanding portfolio of instruments and consumables enables biomedical scientists to analyze and sort cells required for drug discovery, single cell-omics, cloning, antibody discovery, and basic research.

Concert Health

Series A in 2021
Concert Health focuses on building an integrated behavioral health system. The company starts by helping medical groups integrate behavioral health services into their practices. It specializes in the fields of information technology, medical, and health care. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Diego, California.

Ladorian

Series A in 2020
Ladorian is a technology partner for businesses that believe that leadership in the new retail era requires intelligent digital communication in their stores. The organization connects with the customer profile to send the appropriate message to the appropriate individual at the appropriate time.

Menlo Micro

Series B in 2020
Menlo Micro is the developer of the Ideal Switch, an electromechanical switch technology used to switch AC/DC and RF. The Ideal Switch can handle high temperatures and high-stress conditions and help in battery management, home automation, and instrumentation that enable clients to work with advanced products and deliver efficient outcomes using high power. Menlo Micro was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Ionpath

Series B in 2020
Ionpath is a developer of an ion beam imaging technology used to provide analysis of tissue biopsies. Its imaging technology surpasses light microscopy to analyze whether the tissues are fresh, frozen, or FFPE that enable healthcare providers to provide a diagnosis of cancer for improving human health.

Tasso

Series A in 2020
Tasso is revolutionizing blood-based diagnostics by placing the user at the center of the diagnostics process. Patients are able to sample their own blood in the comfort of their home with a device that is safe, simple, and convenient.

Intabio

Series B in 2020
Intabio is a Silicon Valley-based company developing analytical solutions to transform biotherapeutic development and manufacturing with products that provide early product quality characterization and profound efficiency gains across all stages of biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing. Intabio was founded in 2015 by Erik Gentalen and Lena Wu and is based in Fremont, California, United States.

Zipari

Series B in 2020
Zipari is a customer experience platform developed specifically for health insurance. The customer experience platform provides deep analytics and real-time recommendations to optimize the consumer experience and improve customer satisfaction in the healthcare industry. Zipari's breakthrough technology enables the type of member relationship that insurers want and consumers seek. Its InsureCX integrates with major CRM solutions providing industry-specific workflow management for healthcare companies to improve customer acquisition and retention. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

SOCi

Series C in 2019
SOCi is the leading CoMarketing Cloud for multi-location enterprises. We empower businesses like Ace Hardware, Jersey Mike's, Kumon, and Ford to automate and scale their marketing efforts across all locations and digital channels in a way that is brand directed, locally perfected, and data connected. Through the use of best-in-class generative AI and machine learning, the SOCi Genius platform provides multi-location enterprises actionable insights and recommendations while automating their most important workflows at scale. With SOCi, businesses can strengthen their digital presence across local search and social pages while protecting their online reputation driving improved customer engagement and market leading results.

Nextbite

Series B in 2019
Nextbite operates as a pioneer in the virtual restaurant sector, focusing on generating additional orders for under-utilized kitchen spaces. As part of Ordermark, it leverages an online ordering management platform that consolidates orders from various delivery services into a single dashboard and printer. This streamlining of operations allows restaurants to efficiently manage multiple online ordering services, reducing the complexity and costs associated with integrating new platforms. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Los Angeles, Nextbite offers a portfolio of virtual-only restaurant brands, helping restaurants boost their sales and profits by maximizing their ordering volume through innovative technology solutions.

Amitree

Series B in 2019
Amitree Folio transforms the chaos of business email into an AI-powered deal organizer, project manager, and virtual assistant. It is driven by a mission to transform the way people work, allowing them to focus on the human parts of their job while letting the machine take care of all the tedious administrative work they otherwise do manually. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Tasso

Series A in 2019
Tasso is revolutionizing blood-based diagnostics by placing the user at the center of the diagnostics process. Patients are able to sample their own blood in the comfort of their home with a device that is safe, simple, and convenient.

Amira Learning

Seed Round in 2018
Amira Learning offers an intelligent reading assistant that listens, assesses, and tutors. Amira recommends appropriately challenging stories, listens as a student reads aloud, and intervenes when helpful. The company assesses oral reading fluency and analyzes errors to pinpoint strengths and weaknesses. Every time a student and Amira read together, Amira generates diagnostic reports that empower teachers and parents. It gives teachers more time to teach and gives students a more effective way to practice.

Nextbite

Series A in 2018
Nextbite operates as a pioneer in the virtual restaurant sector, focusing on generating additional orders for under-utilized kitchen spaces. As part of Ordermark, it leverages an online ordering management platform that consolidates orders from various delivery services into a single dashboard and printer. This streamlining of operations allows restaurants to efficiently manage multiple online ordering services, reducing the complexity and costs associated with integrating new platforms. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Los Angeles, Nextbite offers a portfolio of virtual-only restaurant brands, helping restaurants boost their sales and profits by maximizing their ordering volume through innovative technology solutions.

SOCi

Series B in 2018
SOCi is the leading CoMarketing Cloud for multi-location enterprises. We empower businesses like Ace Hardware, Jersey Mike's, Kumon, and Ford to automate and scale their marketing efforts across all locations and digital channels in a way that is brand directed, locally perfected, and data connected. Through the use of best-in-class generative AI and machine learning, the SOCi Genius platform provides multi-location enterprises actionable insights and recommendations while automating their most important workflows at scale. With SOCi, businesses can strengthen their digital presence across local search and social pages while protecting their online reputation driving improved customer engagement and market leading results.

NanoCellect Biomedical

Venture Round in 2018
NanoCellect Biomedical develops and delivers microfluidic-based solutions that are affordable, compact, and easy to use. Its expanding portfolio of instruments and consumables enables biomedical scientists to analyze and sort cells required for drug discovery, single cell-omics, cloning, antibody discovery, and basic research.

NanoCellect Biomedical

Series B in 2017
NanoCellect Biomedical develops and delivers microfluidic-based solutions that are affordable, compact, and easy to use. Its expanding portfolio of instruments and consumables enables biomedical scientists to analyze and sort cells required for drug discovery, single cell-omics, cloning, antibody discovery, and basic research.

Grolltex, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Grolltex, for 'graphene-rolling-technology', is an advanced materials and biosensor company with patent protected processes enabling 1) The mass production of high quality, CVD generated 'sheet' graphene at scalable, manufacturing friendly prices, and 2) The design and production of single atomic layer biosensors capable of advanced life science applications in genomics, antigen and molecular detection, glucose and allergen sensing and many other areas. . The company's novel concept of 'metal assisted exfoliation' significantly lowers costs for the type of large area, mono-layer graphene needed for electronics manufacturing, finally taking graphene out of the lab and moving it into practical application. This process solves the CVD generated graphene 'transfer issue' by removing graphene from the previously sacrificial copper substrate without destroying the copper, putting that same copper right back into the production line. Additionally, this methodology uses conventional thin film tools and processes that exist in industry today.

Amitree

Series A in 2017
Amitree Folio transforms the chaos of business email into an AI-powered deal organizer, project manager, and virtual assistant. It is driven by a mission to transform the way people work, allowing them to focus on the human parts of their job while letting the machine take care of all the tedious administrative work they otherwise do manually. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

JASK

Series A in 2017
JASK is modernizing security operations by delivering an advanced SIEM platform that provides better visibility, better automation and a better architecture. Built on cloud-native technologies, the JASK ASOC platform streamlines security analyst workflows by automating many of the repetitive tasks that restrict productivity, freeing them for higher-value roles like threat hunting and vulnerability management, while addressing the escalating talent shortage.

SOCi

Series A in 2017
SOCi is the leading CoMarketing Cloud for multi-location enterprises. We empower businesses like Ace Hardware, Jersey Mike's, Kumon, and Ford to automate and scale their marketing efforts across all locations and digital channels in a way that is brand directed, locally perfected, and data connected. Through the use of best-in-class generative AI and machine learning, the SOCi Genius platform provides multi-location enterprises actionable insights and recommendations while automating their most important workflows at scale. With SOCi, businesses can strengthen their digital presence across local search and social pages while protecting their online reputation driving improved customer engagement and market leading results.

Zipari

Series A in 2016
Zipari is a customer experience platform developed specifically for health insurance. The customer experience platform provides deep analytics and real-time recommendations to optimize the consumer experience and improve customer satisfaction in the healthcare industry. Zipari's breakthrough technology enables the type of member relationship that insurers want and consumers seek. Its InsureCX integrates with major CRM solutions providing industry-specific workflow management for healthcare companies to improve customer acquisition and retention. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Menlo Micro

Series A in 2016
Menlo Micro is the developer of the Ideal Switch, an electromechanical switch technology used to switch AC/DC and RF. The Ideal Switch can handle high temperatures and high-stress conditions and help in battery management, home automation, and instrumentation that enable clients to work with advanced products and deliver efficient outcomes using high power. Menlo Micro was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Cayke

Seed Round in 2016
Cayke is advancing the creation and distribution of media by making media modular, instant and automatic. Our first product is an instant internet video editor that lets people go from idea to sharing an edited video 10 times faster than any other video editing solution by leveraging the user’s browser. Traditional video editing requires expensive hardware to render the media and is painfully slow. Cloud video editing is faster, but even more expensive because it just distributes the load across many servers. Cayke is instant, modular, platform-independent, and significantly cheaper than current solutions. A software solution to a hardware problem.

Embroker

Series A in 2016
Embroker is the easiest way to intelligently ensure any business. By pairing technology and broker expertise, Embroker helps growing businesses save time and find the best value on the right coverage. As the leading digital insurance brokerage, Embroker is working to massively improve the $800 billion property and casualty (P&C) insurance market. Headquartered in San Francisco, we have offices in Chicago and Boston and customers in all 50 states.

PowWow Mobile

Seed Round in 2016
PowWow Mobile is redefining the mobile enterprise. Their rapid mobile app solution, SmartUX, enables organizations to simplify and extend business apps to mobile by modernizing and streamlining existing processes to deliver new and intelligent enterprise-to-edge experiences. The company's SmartUX Platform simplifies and extends business apps to mobile, delivering modern omnichannel experiences that empower an anytime, anywhere workforce. The SmartUX enables organizations to simplify and extend business apps to mobile by modernizing and streamlining existing processes to deliver new and intelligent “enterprise to edge” experiences. It also provides a low-code, drag-and-drop environment for rapidly creating and deploying secure cross-platform mobile apps. With unmatched accessibility and ease-of-use, our solution facilitates collaboration between IT and the business, significantly reducing backlogs and accelerating time to value.

JASK

Seed Round in 2016
JASK is modernizing security operations by delivering an advanced SIEM platform that provides better visibility, better automation and a better architecture. Built on cloud-native technologies, the JASK ASOC platform streamlines security analyst workflows by automating many of the repetitive tasks that restrict productivity, freeing them for higher-value roles like threat hunting and vulnerability management, while addressing the escalating talent shortage.

Portfolium

Series A in 2015
Portfolium partners with colleges and universities to help students connect learning with opportunity. The ePortfolio network helps connect 3.75M+ students from over 190 partner institutions with 50,000+ employers based on their proven skills and competencies. Portfolium's cloud-based platform empowers students with lifelong opportunities to capture, curate, and convert skills into job offers while giving learning institutions and employers the tools they need to assess competencies and recruit talent. The platform is used by over 3600 institutions to help assess the effectiveness of their programs and courses, certify students’ competencies, and empower students to showcase their achievements and skills with evidence. It was founded in 2014 by Aerospace Engineer, Adam Markowitz and is based in San Diego, California.

Embroker

Seed Round in 2015
Embroker is the easiest way to intelligently ensure any business. By pairing technology and broker expertise, Embroker helps growing businesses save time and find the best value on the right coverage. As the leading digital insurance brokerage, Embroker is working to massively improve the $800 billion property and casualty (P&C) insurance market. Headquartered in San Francisco, we have offices in Chicago and Boston and customers in all 50 states.

PowWow Mobile

Seed Round in 2015
PowWow Mobile is redefining the mobile enterprise. Their rapid mobile app solution, SmartUX, enables organizations to simplify and extend business apps to mobile by modernizing and streamlining existing processes to deliver new and intelligent enterprise-to-edge experiences. The company's SmartUX Platform simplifies and extends business apps to mobile, delivering modern omnichannel experiences that empower an anytime, anywhere workforce. The SmartUX enables organizations to simplify and extend business apps to mobile by modernizing and streamlining existing processes to deliver new and intelligent “enterprise to edge” experiences. It also provides a low-code, drag-and-drop environment for rapidly creating and deploying secure cross-platform mobile apps. With unmatched accessibility and ease-of-use, our solution facilitates collaboration between IT and the business, significantly reducing backlogs and accelerating time to value.

Zipari

Seed Round in 2014
Zipari is a customer experience platform developed specifically for health insurance. The customer experience platform provides deep analytics and real-time recommendations to optimize the consumer experience and improve customer satisfaction in the healthcare industry. Zipari's breakthrough technology enables the type of member relationship that insurers want and consumers seek. Its InsureCX integrates with major CRM solutions providing industry-specific workflow management for healthcare companies to improve customer acquisition and retention. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Lanetix

Series A in 2014
Lanetix is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of CRM and logistics. It features CRM software exclusively for the global logistics and transportation industry. The company provides cloud-based collaboration, customer lifecycle, and digital process automation (DPA) platform for the companies. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

LMIC

Venture Round in 2004
LMIC Inc. provides design, manufacturing, and post-production services to innovative companies.
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