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RosePaul Ventures
Family office
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RosePaul Ventures is the proprietary investment fund of Tom Wisniewski and the RosePaul Investments family office, focused on seed-stage, software-enabled businesses based in the US. The firm targets ventures that leverage software to solve business problems or enable new consumer businesses, where software is a key driver of differentiation — typically B2B SaaS platforms and disruptive consumer marketplaces disrupting large, often underserved markets. RosePaul invests $25K–$250K at the seed stage alongside angel investors and early-stage VC funds, in companies with a functioning MVP, initial market validation, a small full-time team, and pre-money valuations of $5M or less. The firm explicitly avoids hardware, healthcare, biotech, cleantech, and non-US-focused ventures, and also acts as a Limited Partner in select VC, PE, and hedge funds.
Notable quotes
“How often you're going to be wrong and how much that's going to hurt. People say that you invest in 10 companies, and 3 or 4 are going to go bust, 2 or 3 are going sideways, not make very much money. There is a lot of failure in venture capital, and you're not going to see success early on — the first major exit that I had seen took 8 years.”
“We are opportunistic in the sense of if we see something we like anywhere within the B2B world software, see an advantage, and like the team, we will go after it. We are mining a few different themes, one of which is HealthTech.”
“I was directly investing $25–30K in seed-stage software companies, did about 30 of them individually over a period of 5–7 years. I invested also in about 12 venture capital funds, run by people I knew, built a network by investing in companies that had similarities to what I'm doing.”
Team
Barbara Lewnowski
Partner
Recent investments
| Company | Round | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jackpocket | Seed | — | — |
| Pond5 | Seed | — | 2007 |
| Flywheel | Seed | $4m | 2014-04-25 |
| Dealflicks | Seed | $2m | 2014-07-21 |
| Wanderu | Seed | — | — |
| SeamlessDocs | Seed | — | — |
| Pathgather | Seed | $2m | — |
| Quaero | Seed | — | 2015-08-24 |
| Eventable | Seed | — | — |
| SureDone | Seed | — | — |
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| 500 Global (500 Startups) | 2 |
| Siemer Ventures (Wavemaker Partners) | 1 |
| Rubicon VC | 1 |
| Archer Gray | 1 |
| Linseed Capital | 1 |
| AlphaPrime Ventures | 1 |
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