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 private equity 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
- Private equity
- 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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 47 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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