Tugboat Ventures
tugboatventures.com Direct investor
Tugboat Ventures is an investment firm founded in 2006 that invests in very early stage software and technology companies. It also supports Evergreen entrepreneurs and maintains a portfolio of venture-backed companies.
Tugboat Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Ketchum, United States, founded in 2006. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in software and technology.
“We have always been dedicated to the entrepreneur who, driven by passion and inspiration, lays everything on the line—self-esteem, reputation, finances, time—to build a business that will improve the world.”
— Tugboat Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Ketchum, United States
- Sectors
- software, technology
- Founded
- 2006
Team, as Tugboat Ventures publishes it
- Dave Whorton Founder
- Dan Benetz Team Member
- Michelle Bitler Team Member
Names and roles exactly as listed on tugboatventures.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. 67 co-investors found.
- Aspenwood 2 shared companies: arkpes.com, ariasystems.com
- Lightspeed Venture Partners 1 shared company: bluenile.com
- Lobby Capital 1 shared company: bluenile.com
- Global Brain 1 shared company: tapjoy.com
- Abstraction Capital Management LLC 1 shared company: arkpes.com
- Acies Investments Management, LLC 1 shared company: arkpes.com
- AI Ventures Management, LLC 1 shared company: arkpes.com
- Aif Management LLC 1 shared company: arkpes.com
- Alta Partners 1 shared company: arkpes.com
- Arthur Ventures 1 shared company: arkpes.com
and 57 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Tugboat Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://tugboatventures.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, stage_max, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status
- https://tugboatventures.com/the-team/stage_min, sectors, founded, people
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Record 4045 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence medium
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