
Investments
40Portfolio Exits
12Funds
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Latest Upslope Ventures News
Feb 28, 2019
Cloud Elements , a Denver, CO-based provider of an API integration platform for software providers, raised $25m in Series C funding. The round, which brought total capital raised to date to $46.2m, was led by Mercato Partners, with participation from existing investors Access Ventures, American Express Ventures, Grotech Ventures, Harbert Growth Partners, Rally Ventures, and Upslope Ventures. In conjunction with the funding, Josh Christensen, principal investor at Mercato Partners, joined the Cloud Elements board. The company intends to use the funds to add new capabilities to its platform, while extending its sales, marketing and customer success capabilities in the U.S. and Europe to drive broad market adoption. Founded in 2012 by Mark Geene, CEO, Cloud Elements is an emerging leader in API integration platforms – allowing hundreds of software companies and large enterprises to innovate faster and integrate their digital ecosystems. The company’s one-to-many “virtualized” integration approach enables developers to unify thousands of APIs, build common data models for core business functions, and reduce the cost and complexity of application and data integration. Its “embedded integration” model focuses on software providers, systems integrators and enterprise customers, allowing them to tap into an established platform with 170+ pre-built integrations, common data models and normalized capabilities for authentication, discovery, search, workflows, error handling and API maintenance. Customers include large software platform companies like SAP and IBM; independent software vendors like Axway, DoubleDutch, FinancialForce, Microstrategy and Sage; financial technology providers such as Danske Bank, FIS, PaySimple and Western Union; and digital business units of large enterprises like Dun & Bradstreet and Xerox. FinSMEs 28/02/2019
Upslope Ventures Investments
40 Investments
Upslope Ventures has made 40 investments. Their latest investment was in Vinyl Me, Please as part of their Unattributed VC on July 7, 2023.

Upslope Ventures Investments Activity

Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
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7/14/2023 | Unattributed VC | Vinyl Me, Please | $1.63M | Yes | 2 | |
2/28/2019 | Series C - II | Cloud Elements | $25M | Yes | 5 | |
8/8/2017 | Seed VC - II | Stream | $3M | No | 4 | |
6/6/2017 | Series B | |||||
3/9/2017 | Series A - II |
Date | 7/14/2023 | 2/28/2019 | 8/8/2017 | 6/6/2017 | 3/9/2017 |
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Round | Unattributed VC | Series C - II | Seed VC - II | Series B | Series A - II |
Company | Vinyl Me, Please | Cloud Elements | Stream | ||
Amount | $1.63M | $25M | $3M | ||
New? | Yes | Yes | No | ||
Co-Investors | |||||
Sources | 2 | 5 | 4 |
Upslope Ventures Portfolio Exits
12 Portfolio Exits
Upslope Ventures has 12 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Notion on December 21, 2022.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
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12/21/2022 | Merger | 3 | |||
12/1/2021 | Acquired | 2 | |||
3/23/2021 | Acquired | 16 | |||
Date | 12/21/2022 | 12/1/2021 | 3/23/2021 | ||
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Exit | Merger | Acquired | Acquired | ||
Companies | |||||
Valuation | |||||
Acquirer | |||||
Sources | 3 | 2 | 16 |
Upslope Ventures Acquisitions
2 Acquisitions
Upslope Ventures acquired 2 companies. Their latest acquisition was Hack Reactor on July 19, 2018.
Date | Investment Stage | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Total Funding | Note | Sources |
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7/19/2018 | Seed / Angel | $0.95M | Acq - Fin | 1 | ||
11/18/2014 |
Date | 7/19/2018 | 11/18/2014 |
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Investment Stage | Seed / Angel | |
Companies | ||
Valuation | ||
Total Funding | $0.95M | |
Note | Acq - Fin | |
Sources | 1 |
Upslope Ventures Fund History
1 Fund History
Upslope Ventures has 1 fund, including Galvanize Venture Fund I.
Closing Date | Fund | Fund Type | Status | Amount | Sources |
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7/14/2014 | Galvanize Venture Fund I | $10M | 3 |
Closing Date | 7/14/2014 |
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Fund | Galvanize Venture Fund I |
Fund Type | |
Status | |
Amount | $10M |
Sources | 3 |
Upslope Ventures Team
4 Team Members
Upslope Ventures has 4 team members, including current Founder, General Partner, Jim Deters.
Name | Work History | Title | Status |
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Jim Deters | Founder, General Partner | Current | |
Name | Jim Deters | |||
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Work History | ||||
Title | Founder, General Partner | |||
Status | Current |