Commerce Ventures is a venture capital firm with a blend of entrepreneurs and senior executives from its focus sectors (mobile, retail, payments, digital marketing). In addition to providing capital, the firm is committed to helping portfolio companies succeed in scaling their commerce-related innovations. Commerce Ventures' strategy is typically not to lead investment rounds, but instead to participate alongside lead investors such as VC's, seed funds, and strategic corporations. Although it does not target a specific security or round, most of its investments will be in companies that have recruited a core team, developed a flagship product and demonstrated early product-market fit.
Founded in 2012 by Daniel Rosen, Commerce Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, early-stage and later stage investments based in San Francisco, California. It prefers investing in the mobile, retail, financial technology, payments, and digital marketing sectors. In addition to providing capital, the firm seeks to help portfolio companies succeed in scaling their commerce-related innovations.
Commerce Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in growth capital investments. The firm primarily invests in the commerce sector, with a focus on mobile, payments, retail Fintech and Insurance Technology.
Commerce Ventures has made 75 investments. One of their investments was on Apr 2, 2019, when they invested $30M in Vestwell. Commerce Ventures has $7.1M in estimated revenue annually and competes with Alliance Consumer Growth, Relay Ventures, and Early Stage Partners.
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$30M.
Funded Companies
BetterDoctor, a technology company, delivers provider directory data and has a database that can be accessed through a responsive API.
Kasisto is a company that develops conversational AI.
Vestwell is a Manhattan-based digital retirement platform providing turnkey solutions for financial advisors.
A software company offering a blockchain and cloud technology platform for business to business payments.
OwnerListens provides real-time private messaging between businesses and customers.
Forter is a company founded in 2013 by Michael Reitblat, Liron Damri and Alon Shemesh.
blooom is a London-based online investment advisor that manages employer sponsored retirement accounts.
MX is a data company that serves financial institutions and fintech companies.
Trove is a Brisbane, California-based company building and operating resale programs for brands.
Socure is a New York City-based developer of an identity verification and fraud risk solution.
Moov Financial, Inc. is a Cedar Falls, Iowa-based company.
Covr Financial Technologies is a Boise, Idaho-based company.
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Alfred 'Chip' Kahn IV
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Andrea Fitzhenry
Employee
Brian McLoughlin
Investor
Dan Raveh
Employee
Dan Rosen
Employee
Sandeep Bhanote
Investor
Sean Harper
Investor
Tammy Camp
Investor
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