Vertical Venture Partners
vvp.vc Direct investor
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.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 5 co-investors found.
- 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 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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