Five Elms Capital
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Five Elms Capital is a software-focused investment firm that partners with B2B software companies, particularly those with AI-powered solutions for vertical markets. The firm manages over $3 billion in assets and has a team of over 80 professionals.
Five Elms Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Kansas City, United States, founded in 2007. It invests directly in companies, at growth, in B2B software, AI-powered software and vertical market software. Over $3 billion under management and 47 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We partner with B2B software founders delivering innovative, AI-powered solutions to vertical end markets.”
— Five Elms Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Stage
- Growth
- Headquarters
- Kansas City, United States
- Invests in
- global
- Sectors
- B2B software, AI-powered software, vertical market software
- Founded
- 2007
- Assets under management
- over $3 billion
- Portfolio
- 47 companies
Team, as Five Elms Capital publishes it
- Fred Coulson Founder & CEO
- Thomas Kershisnik Partner
- Ryan Mandl Partner
- Joe Onofrio Partner
- Stephanie Schneider Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on fiveelms.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 47 co-investors found.
- Blackbird Ventures 2 shared companies: asknicely.com, karbonhq.com
- 8VC 2 shared companies: flywheel.io, ritten.io
- Beringea 2 shared companies: flywheel.io, lumar.io
- JMI Equity 2 shared companies: apptegy.com, onboardmeetings.com
- SaaS Capital 2 shared companies: memberclicks.com, gofmx.com
- Tidemark Management Company LP 1 shared company: karbonhq.com
- Toba Capital 1 shared company: karbonhq.com
- BADideas.fund 1 shared company: roompricegenie.com
- SICTIC 1 shared company: roompricegenie.com
- Angel Invest 1 shared company: spacelift.io
and 37 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Five Elms Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.fiveelms.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, aum, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://www.fiveelms.com/team/people
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Record 4622 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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