Vertical Venture Partners
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Vertical Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2014, investing in vertical industries with a focus on AI. It operates from Palo Alto and San Diego, and has made over 70 investments across four funds.
Vertical Venture Partners is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto, United States, founded in 2014. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series A, in healthcare, financial Services, home Services and education. Its stated cheque size is $500K to $2.5M at seed, $3M to $4M at Series A. 70 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We back founders who understand their industries from the inside.”
— Vertical Venture Partners, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, United States
- Invests in
- US
- Sectors
- Healthcare, Financial Services, Home Services, Education, Logistics
- Cheque size
- $500K to $2.5M at seed, $3M to $4M at Series A
- Founded
- 2014
- Portfolio
- 70 companies
Team, as Vertical Venture Partners publishes it
- David C. Schwab Founding Managing Director
- Brad Corona Managing Director
- Paul Conley, PhD Venture Partner
- Matt Schwab Senior Associate
Names and roles exactly as listed on vvp.vc. 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. 5 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Commerce Ventures 1 shared company: mudflapinc.com
- Corazon Capital 1 shared company: mudflapinc.com
- Matrix Partners 1 shared company: mudflapinc.com
- Authentic Ventures Investment Manager, LLC 1 shared company: amiralearning.com
- Owl Ventures 1 shared company: amiralearning.com
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Vertical Venture Partners publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://vvp.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, status, confidence
- https://vvp.vc/how-we-investstage_min, stage_max, cheque_size
- https://vvp.vc/portfolioportfolio_count
- https://vvp.vc/teampeople
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Record 3561 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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