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SoftTech VC

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SoftTech VC is an early stage venture capital firm managing seed stage funds, SoftTech VC II and SoftTech VC III. SoftTech VC funds are backed by a mix of institutional and private investors. SoftTech has consistently invested in 20+ new opportunities a year in consumer Internet companies, including next gen commerce, mobile and SaaS.

Founder and managing partner Jeff Clavier launched SoftTech VC in 2004, making the original 20+ investments (our non-traditional ‘Fund I’) as a business angel, investing his own capital, time and experience. As one of the original ‘super angels’ in the valley, Jeff developed SoftTech VC’s implementation of the micro-vc concept which has become so popular.

In 2007, the firm launched SoftTech VC II, a $15M seed fund focusing on the consumer Internet space, aiming at investing in 60+ companies over 3 years. In 2011, $55M SoftTech VC III successor fund made its debut. Firm principals have been involved in over 100 startups as investors, advisors or founders. SoftTech VC has seen 20+ exits, and our companies have raised over $800M in follow-on financing. Today, SoftTech VC is among the most active investors in early stage consumer Internet and mobile startups.

Milestones

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  SoftTech VC invested in Fitbit. (1/24/12)
  Posted 1/24/12 at 5:02am via techcrunch.com
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  SoftTech VC invested in Postmates. (5/1/11)
  Posted 9/12/11 at 11:26am
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  SoftTech VC invested in isocket. (9/28/11)
  Posted 9/28/11 at 6:35pm via techcrunch.com
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  SoftTech VC invested in Bionic Panda Games. (1/17/12)
  Posted 1/18/12 at 8:00pm via venturebeat.com
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  SoftTech VC invested in SendGrid. (1/17/12)
  Posted 1/17/12 at 6:44pm via techcrunch.com
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  SoftTech VC invested in Vidyard. (11/17/11)
  Posted 11/17/11 at 7:41pm via techcrunch.com
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  SoftTech VC invested in Fitbit. (9/10/10)
  Posted 9/10/10 at 7:46pm via techcrunch.com
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  SoftTech VC invested in RJMetrics. (1/3/12)
  Posted 1/3/12 at 7:58pm via businessinsider.com
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  SoftTech VC invested in Giftly. (3/1/11)
  Posted 12/9/11 at 4:09pm via techcrunch.com
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  SoftTech VC invested in Fab. (12/7/11)
  Posted 12/7/11 at 6:06pm via techcrunch.com
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  SoftTech VC invested in Visual.ly. (10/20/11)
  Posted 10/20/11 at 12:21am via techcrunch.com
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  SoftTech VC invested in DNAnexus. (10/12/11)
  Posted 10/12/11 at 5:18pm via techcrunch.com
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  SoftTech VC invested in Rapleaf. (9/6/11)
  Posted 9/7/11 at 3:34am via venturebeat.com
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  SoftTech VC invested in TakeLessons. (8/3/11)
  Posted 8/3/11 at 7:48pm via venturebeat.com
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  SoftTech VC invested in MOVIECLIPS. (7/9/11)
  Posted 6/9/11 at 6:49pm via techcrunch.com
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  SoftTech VC invested in InboxQ. (7/1/10)
  Posted 8/7/11 at 6:06pm via inboxq.com

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1. TechCrunch40: Jeff Clavier Launches $12 Million Venture Fund (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Fitness Tracker Fitbit Raises $12M To Market New Wi-Fi Enabled Smart Scale, Aria (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Bionic Panda raises seed funding for Android mobile games (venturebeat.com) [edit]
5. Bessemer Leads $21M Round In Cloud-Based Email Delivery And Management Service SendGrid (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. After Three Years Of Bootstrapping, RJMetrics Raises $1.2 Million From Fab's CEO And SoftTech (businessinsider.com) [edit]
7. Design-Focused Flash Sales Site Fab.com Raises $40M From Andreessen Horowitz, Ashton Kutcher (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel Put $1.7M In The YouTube For Businesses, Vidyard (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. Visual.ly Raises $2 Million To Make Even More Infographics (techcrunch.com) [edit]
10. DNAnexus Raises $15 Million, Teams With Google To Host Massive DNA Database (techcrunch.com) [edit]
11. Self-Service Ad Platform isocket Grabs More Funding; Partners With Google; Steals Rubicon Exec (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. RapLeaf announces $1M fund for data personalization apps (venturebeat.com) [edit]
13. Ashton Kutcher-Backed Fab.com Closes $7.7 Million (businessinsider.com) [edit]
14. A pretty tune for local music site TakeLessons: $6M from Crosslink Capital (venturebeat.com) [edit]
15. Fab.com Claims To Be Profitable On $1.3M In Revenue After 30 Days, Raises $1M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
16. Armed With $7M In New Funding, Movieclips Lands Deal With YouTube To Be The Vevo Of Film Clips (techcrunch.com) [edit]
17. Gigwalk Launches the First On-Demand Mobile Workforce; Receives $1.7M in Seed Funding From Harrison Metal, SoftTech VC and Greylock Discovery Fund (gigwalk.com) [edit]
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19. Breezy Gets $750K From Accel And Others, To Advance Its Mobile Printing Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
20. Giftly Now Lets You Give The Gift Of Discovery (And Some Money, Too) (techcrunch.com) [edit]
21. Card.io’s SDK Makes Entering Credit Card Information As Easy As Taking A Snapshot (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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23. Inside Facebook (insidefacebook.com) [edit]
24. Social Network For Gay Men Fabulis Rebrands To Fab.com, Raises $1.75 Milli (techcrunch.com) [edit]
25. Delicious Founder Raises Funding For Tasty Labs’ Take On Social Software (techcrunch.com) [edit]
26. MOVIECLIPS.com Raises $3M in Series A Funding Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
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29. Fitness Tracker Fitbit Gains Another $8 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
30. OneTrueFan Is The Foursquare For Websites (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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32. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
33. VigLink Grabs Wheel at DrivingRevenue (xconomy.com) [edit]
34. PayPal-Backed BillFloat Launches, Secures $4.5 Million Series A Round (Exclusive) (techcrunch.com) [edit]
35. About Us - InboxQ (blog.inboxq.com) [edit]
36. SendGrid Raises $5 Million, Sends A Bajillion E-mails (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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39. Rixty, Online Payments For The Unbanked, Scores $1.24 Million In Venture Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
40. Curse Raises $6 Million For MMOG Portal (paidcontent.org) [edit]
41. RelTel captures $1M to analyze surveillance video (green.venturebeat.com) [edit]
42. SendGrid Raises $750K For Email Delivery Software. (techcrunch.com) [edit]
43. TechCrunch Staff [edit]
44. SEC (sec.gov) [edit]
45. Milo, a Site to Help People Shop Offline, Attracts Investors (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
46. Outright raises $5.5M to help small businesses with their finances (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
47. Cap Funding Report [edit]
48. Draper via TC [edit]
49. DNAnexus raises $1.55M for DNA sequencing (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
50. Animoto Is Already Cash-Flow Positive, Raises Another Round To Go To 11 (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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52. TinyURL Rival Bit.ly Raises $2 Million (businessinsider.com) []
53. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
54. Get Satisfaction gets new CEO and funding amid growth (venturebeat.com) [edit]
55. Foodzie Raises $1 Million For Its Specialty Food Marketplace (techcrunch.com) [edit]
56. Site Promotion's Permuto Raises A $6M First Round (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
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59. Fitbit Raises Healthy $2 Million From True Ventures And SoftTech VC (techcrunch.com) [edit]
60. Bleacher Report Hunkers Down With $3.5 Million More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
61. Tapulous Wants To Be The RockYou Of Apple’s App Store (techcrunch.com) [edit]
62. Space Pencil Raises $2.8 Million For Web Analytics (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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66. WeGame, stealthy online gaming site, raises $500k (venturebeat.com) [edit]
67. Discussion Organizer Grouply Raises $1.3 Million First Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
68. Cap Funding Report [edit]
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