CrunchFund

Investor- Venture Capital

Overview

Crunchfund invests in and works with information technology companies at any stage but is primarily focused on seed and early stage investments.

Country: United States

Founded: 2011

Headquarters: San Francisco, California

Investment Strategy

Geography

  • North America
  • Europe

Sector Focus

  • Marketplace Lending
  • WealthTech
  • Payments and Remittances
  • Infrastructure and Enterprise Software
  • Data and Analytics

Investment Stage

  • Seed
  • Early Stage Venture
  • Later Stage Venture
  • Series A
  • Series B

Summary

CrunchFund is an early stage venture capital firm founded by Patrick Gallagher and Michael Arrington. The fund invests in and works with information technology companies at any stage but is primarily focused on seed and early stage investments. The firm raised its inaugural $20 million fund in September of 2011.

Investors in CrunchFund include AOL, Accel Partners, Austin Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Greylock Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, the founding partners of Andreessen Horowitz, each of the general partners of Benchmark Capital, Ron Conway, Yuri Milner, Brad Garlinghouse & Kevin Rose.

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Investments

Date

Name

Size

Round

Co-Investors

Sector

Country

May 2016

Forward

Undisclosed

Seed

Healthcare

United States

April 2016

Kueski

$10m

Series A

Patrick Gallagher

Lending

Mexico

April 2016

Onfido

$25m

Series B

Security Technology

United Kingdom

February 2016

Captain401

$3.5m

Seed

Enterprise Software

United States

October 2015

One Concern

Undisclosed

Undisclosed

Security Technology

United States

October 2015

Seed

$5m

Venture

Banking Software

United States

September 2015

Datos IO

$12.5m

Series A

Enterprise Software

United States

June 2015

Pachyderm

$2m

Seed

Data Analytics

United States

April 2015

Onfleet

$2m

Seed

Enterprise Software

United States

February 2015

Onfido

$4.5m

Series A

Security Technology

United States

December 2014

Lend Street Financial Inc

Undisclosed

Seed

Personal Finance

United States

November 2014

DSTLD

$4.4m

Series A

E-Commerce

United States

October 2014

Abacus Labs

$3.5m

Seed

Payments

United States

October 2014

BloomNation

$5.55

Series A

E-Commerce

United States

October 2014

Socotra

Undisclosed

Seed

InsureTech

United States

September 2014

Silvercar

$14m

Series B

E-Commerce

United States

September 2014

Kinnek

$10m

Series A

E-Commerce

United States

September 2014

Kueski

$1.3m

Seed

Patrick Gallagher

Lending

Mexico

September 2014

Authy

$2.3m

Seed

Cybersecurity

United States

August 2014

Quettra

$2.9m

Seed

Data Analytics

United States

Funds Raised

Vintage

Fund Name

Amount

2016

Crunch Fund III

Undisclosed

Crunch Fund II

$32m

2011

Crunch Fund I

$27m

Key Employees

Michael Arrington
General Partner

Patrick Gallagher
General Partner