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U.S. Venture Partners

Venture Capital · Founded 1981 · Menlo Park, United States

#342 Investor Ranking 2026 Top 2% of investors worldwide

U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) is a leading Silicon valley-based venture capital firm, helping entrepreneurs build world-class companies since 1981.

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209 Portfolio companies+16% in 5 years
21 Unicorns
4 Decacorns
366 Investments
Jun 2026 Last investment
01 · Knowledge graph
News Maneva raises $27M Series A for factory-floor AI Jun 10, 2026
02 · Biggest holdings

U.S. Venture Partners’ biggest current holdings.

The most valuable companies U.S. Venture Partners still holds, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead. Dealroom has no parsed shareholder register for U.S. Venture Partners, so the size of each stake isn’t shown.

#CompanyValuation
  1. 1 Cato NetworksUnicorn · Security · Israel $4.8B
  2. 2 InsideSalesUnicorn · Marketing · USA $1.5B
  3. 3 Human InterestUnicorn · Marketing · USA $1.3B

Unicorns and thoroughbreds U.S. Venture Partners has backed and still holds, at Dealroom’s latest valuation. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →

03 · Exits

U.S. Venture Partners’ biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from U.S. Venture Partners’ transaction record.

Guidewire Software
$636M IPO · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $14BFintech
Mellanox Technologies
IPO · 2007
Entered Series ANow $6.9BSemiconductors
Box
$1.7B IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $5.2BSecurity
Inari Medical
$1.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $4.9BHealth
Edgewise Therapeutics
$840M IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $4.3BHealth
Imperva
IPO · 2011
Entered Series B+Now $3.6BSecurity
ON24
$3.4B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $186MMarketing
GoPro
$3.0B IPO · 2014
Entered Series ANow $174MMedia
HeartFlow
$2.3B IPO · 2025
Entered SeedNow $2.4BHealth
LivingSocial
$1.5B acquisition · 2016
Entered Series B+Marketing
Castlight Health
$1.4B IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $370MHealth
Altus Pharmaceuticals
$315M IPO · 2006
Entered Series B+Now $1.3BHealth
04 · Portfolio analysis

Where U.S. Venture Partners’ portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 209 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA212
  2. Israel13
  3. Canada5
  4. China2
  5. Cuba2
  6. France2
  7. Pakistan2
  8. UK1
By sectorCount
  1. Health59
  2. Enterprise Software45
  3. Security31
  4. Marketing22
  5. Media22
  6. Fintech19
  7. Semiconductors18
  8. Telecom13
  9. Energy9
  10. Hosting7
  11. Transportation6
  12. Food5
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+105
  2. Series A97
  3. Seed6
By growth stageCount
  1. Breakout Stage128
  2. Late Growth68
  3. Early Growth39
  4. Mature5
05 · Portfolio market map

Inside U.S. Venture Partners’ portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 209 tracked.

Cato Networks
Security · Unicorn
$4.8B
HeartFlow
Health · Unicorn
$2.4B
LivingSocial
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.5B
Solyndra
Energy
Human Interest
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.3B
Box
Security · Unicorn
$5.2B
Nanosolar
Energy
Omada Health
Health · Unicorn
$1.2B
Cheetah Digital by Marigold
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.6B
Weyn
Fintech
$62M
Centerpoint Broadband Technologies
Real Estate
$525M
Quantifind
Security
$800M
GoPro
Media
$174M
Valeritas
Health
$180M
InsideSales
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.5B
XANT.ai
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.6B
Smartling
Enterprise Software
$100M
Silverback Therapeutics
Health
Effector Therapeutics
Health
Intuity Medical
Health
$105M
OncoMed Pharmaceuticals
Health
$89M
Route 92 Medical
Health
$200M
Ribon Therapeutics
Health
$325M
Castlight Health
Health
$370M
Nuvaira
Health
$60M
Zerto
Security
$374M
Edgewise Therapeutics
Health · Unicorn
$4.3B
Sparrow Pharmaceuticals
Sports
$380M
Luma Health
Health
$520M
Mobia Medical
Health
$400M
Shoulder Innovations
Health
$422M
Actelis Networks
Telecom
Proteolix
Health
Yammer
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.2B
Neuros Medical
Health
$224M
Quixey
Media
$490M
Altus Pharmaceuticals
Health · Unicorn
$1.3B
Percepto
Robotics
$225M
Hunters
Security
$272M
Xirrus
Telecom
$30M
Nfinite
Media
$400M
HotelTonight
Travel
$463M
Network Photonics
Semiconductors
$426M
Carrot Fertility
Health
$300M
Inspire Medical Systems
Health · Unicorn
$1.4B
HealthJoy
Health
$240M
CardioKinetix
USA
ShiraTronics
Health
$264M
Zero Networks
Security
$220M
Cleave Therapeutics
Health
$48M
Kenna Security
Security
$192M
Diablo Technologies
Semiconductors
$72M
Arkose Labs
Security
$280M
Dilithium Networks
Telecom
$44M
Carlsmed
Health
$309M
Cagent Vascular
Health
$164M
Iantrek
Health
$168M
Mellanox Technologies
Semiconductors · Unicorn
$6.9B
Intransa
Fintech
$31M
Teranetics
Telecom
$36M
06 · Portfolio founders

Where U.S. Venture Partners’ portfolio founders come from.

89 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount
  1. United States66
  2. Israel10
  3. Argentina2
  4. Canada2
  5. France1
  6. India1
  7. Pakistan1
UniversityCount
  1. Harvard University5
  2. Tel Aviv University4
  3. Stanford University3
  4. Technion Israel Institute of Technology3
  5. University of California, Berkeley3
  6. University of Michigan3
  7. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev2
  8. Case Western Reserve University2
  9. Columbia University2
  10. Duke University2
Previous companyCount
  1. Genentech4
  2. Stanford University4
  3. Intel Corporation3
  4. Microsoft3
  5. Abbott2
  6. Adobe Photoshop2
  7. Alphabet | Google2
  8. AVG2
  9. Guidant Corporation2
  10. Incapsula2
07 · Similar investors

Similar investors.

Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.

NEA
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#36 rank 1,186 companies $2.5T portfolio
Sequoia
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#3 rank 1,921 companies $23T portfolio
Intel Capital
Corporate · Santa Clara
#72 rank 984 companies $1.1T portfolio
Accel
Venture Capital · Palo Alto
#32 rank 1,156 companies $2.9T portfolio
Y Combinator
Accelerator · San Francisco
#62 rank 7,127 companies $1.9T portfolio
Khosla Ventures
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#53 rank 856 companies $1.9T portfolio
Kleiner Perkins
Private Equity · Menlo Park
#51 rank 778 companies $9.0T portfolio
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#10 rank 961 companies $2.5T portfolio
08 · Key people

Key people at U.S. Venture Partners.

Dafina Toncheva
Dafina Toncheva
General Partner
 Rick Lewis
Rick Lewis
General Partner
 Jacques Benkoski
Jacques Benkoski
General Partner
 Matt Garratt
Matt Garratt
General Partner
 Casey Tansey
Casey Tansey
General Partner
 Jon Root
Jon Root
General Partner
Source: Curated from official investor team pages and verified public profiles.