Pivotal Ventures

Pivotal Ventures

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Investment Firm

Overview

Pivotal Ventures is an incubation and investment company to pursue projects, potentially, and ideas investments. The company also focuses on the military community, people with disabilities, communities of color, LGBTQ, and those in small towns and cities. Their strategies are guided by experts, data, and those with lived experience in their focus areas.

Pivotal Ventures use philanthropic and investment capital to people, fund transformational ideas, and organizations. They also encourage and identify the adoption of proven approaches to progress in their areas of interest. The company has three main priorities such as fast-tracking women in sectors like media, tech, and government, mobilizing shareholders into pressuring companies and removing barriers to women’s professional advancement to make reforms in support of gender equality.

Pivotal Venture was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA.

Highlights

Founded

2015

Industry

Social

Employees

11-50

Investment

20

Lead Investment

8

Exits

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Stages

Early Stage Venture, Seed

Investor Type

Incubator

Location

Seattle, Washington, United States, North America

Contact Information

Social

Profile Resume

Pivotal Ventures, established in 2015 and headquartered in United States, North America., specializes in Early Stage Venture, Seed investments across Health Care, Home Health Care, Financial Services, Venture Capital, Finance, Education, mHealth, FinTech, Impact Investing, Consumer. Their recent investments include Summer Health, Sequoia Capital, 7wire Ventures, BoxGroup, Lux Capital. The highest investment round they participated in was $32.1B. Among their most notable exits are Summer Health and Sequoia Capital. Explore their portfolio in detail, see who is connected to them, and find their contact information on our platform.

Employees

imagePlace Renee Wittemyer

Renee Wittemyer

Director of Program Strategy and Investment

imagePlace Sadie Kliner

Sadie Kliner

Program Strategy Lead

imagePlace John Sage

John Sage

Chief Executive Officer

imagePlace Mike van der Ven

Mike van der Ven

Director of Finance and Operations

imagePlace Erin Harkless Moore

Erin Harkless Moore

Investment Director

Investment portfolio

Pivotal Ventures has made 20 investments. Their most recent investment was on Apr 22, 2021, when Till Financial raised $5.0M.

Pivotal Ventures has made 16 diversity investments. Their most recent diversity investment was on Apr 23, 2024, when Summer Health raised $11.7M.

investments

20

Diversity investments

16

Lead investments

8

Number of exits

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Investments

20

Annouced DateOrganization NameIndustryMoney Raised
Dec 14, 2022
YR Media YR Media
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Mar 08, 2023
Recast Capital Recast Capital
Financial Services3.6M
Apr 03, 2023--null
Apr 23, 2024
Summer Health Summer Health
Health Care11.7M

Exits

0

Funding Timeline

Funding rounds

20

Investors

0

Funds

0

Funding Rounds

20

Pivotal Ventures has raised 20 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Apr 23, 2024 from a Series A - Summer Health round.

Annouced DateTransaction NameNumber of InvestorsMoney RaisedLead Investor
Dec 14, 2022
Grant - YR Media Grant - YR Media
-0-
Mar 08, 2023
Grant - Recast Capital Grant - Recast Capital
-3.6M-
Apr 03, 2023
Series B - Tia Health Series B - Tia Health
-0-
Apr 23, 2024
Series A - Summer Health Series A - Summer Health
-11.7M-

Investors

0

There is no funding round available on this profile

Fund raised

2

Susa Ventures has raised a total of $590M across 6 funds, their latest being Susa Ventures Opportunities II. This fund was announced on Aug 30, 2021 and raised a total of $250M.

Annouced DateFund NameMoney Raised
May 10, 2013
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1.0M
May 11, 2013
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1.0M

Invest in industries

Recent Activity

News

Jun 25, 2024

The Business Journals - Melinda French Gates establishes $1 billion fund to advance women’s power around the world

News

May 28, 2024

Forbes - Melinda French Gates Gives $1 Billion To Women – How The Money Will Impact Pay Equity And More

News

May 17, 2024

Bloomberg - Melinda French Gates’ $12.5 Billion Creates Path to Unrestricted Giving

Funding Round

Apr 23, 2024

Summer Health raised $11650000 on 2024-04-23 in Series A

News

Mar 25, 2024

Inside Philanthropy - Melinda French Gates Backs a Funding Challenge to Help Teens Navigate a Tech-Driven World

News

Nov 13, 2023

Fortune - Melinda French Gates: 'It's time to change the face of power in venture capital'