Fundraising FoxSage Venture Partners
Venture capitalSeed–Series A · 5 people tracked
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Investment thesis
Sage Venture Partners backs world-class founders building leading, enduring technology companies. Its first check is typically at the Seed or Series A stage, ranging from $250K to $5M, with opportunistic investments outside those stages, and it continues to support companies as they grow through later stages. The firm invests flexibly across asset classes, including early-stage venture and other unique opportunities. Its capital comes from family offices and high net worth individuals who contribute their networks and expertise to portfolio companies. Sage leverages the firm's and its partners' operating experience to help founders achieve strong outcomes rather than simply writing a check.
Source: firm website, verified Oct 2, 2026.
Team · 5 people
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Fred Warren began his venture/private equity career leading Westland Capital Corporation and General Television before co-founding Brentwood Associates in 1972, and later formed Sage Venture Partners in 2000. He has led financings of companies including Liftoff, RootMetrics, Ooyala and the Series A of Apple Computer, and was a founding board member of the NVCA.
Matt Weber joined Sage in 2016 and has worked across the investment portfolio for over a decade, involved in exits such as Alastin Skincare, Kavak and Liftoff. He frequently serves portfolio companies as a board member, observer or advisor and previously worked at Sage portfolio company Defense Mobile.
Mark Ellis is the former co-founder and CEO of Liftoff, a mobile advertising technology company and Sage's most successful investment. He has held leadership roles at Ooyala, Google and The Walt Disney Company and brings operating experience to sourcing and supporting Sage investments.
Mark Ozur was a Partner Architect at Microsoft leading Azure engineering and previously CEO/CTO of PulsePoint Communications, co-founder/CEO of PredictableIT and CTO at edge2net. He applies his technical and operating background to evaluating opportunities and supporting Sage portfolio companies, and sits on the board of Telescent.
Investor and operator with 20+ years across tech, media, and telecom, with four exits including Liftoff Mobile's sale to Blackstone in 2020. Serves as Chairman of College Golf Fellowship and sits on the board of Dream Machine.
What they invest in
from 3 of 4 portfolio companiesSaaS ×3Enterprise Software ×2Fintech ×2Digital Health ×1Future of Work ×1Healthtech ×1HR Tech ×1
HQs:United States×4
Investments · 4 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2022 · 12021 · 12014 · 13 dated
Quill (operated by Flowlie Technologies) provides a managed back-office function that unifies finance, HR, compliance, capital planning, and board preparation for startup founders.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechFuture of WorkHR TechSaaS
Kaben Clauson(Co-Founder & CEO)Ian Cohen(Co-Founder & CEO)Rick Gordon(Co-Founder & CEO)Adam Stepanovic(Co-Founder & CEO)Philip Odelfelt(Co-Founder & CEO)inVlad Cazacu(Founder)in
Co-investorsBaseLayer VenturesBright Pixel CapitalEPIC VENTURESGeek VenturesGlasswing VenturesSQUADRA VENTURES+4 more
FinTron (operating under Apex) provides Ascend Investor, a white-label and API-first digital wealth management platform that lets banks, retirement platforms, and financial institutions add self-directed brokerage, robo investing, and hybrid advisory services without building from scratch.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSStamford, US
Wilder Rumpf(Founder)in
Co-investorsConnecticut InnovationsAUA Capital ManagementWebster Bank
Recuro is a virtual-first digital health platform that provides primary care, behavioral health, urgent care, and supplemental benefits (pharmacy, care management, advocacy) to patients, employers, health plans, and providers.
Digital HealthHealthtechSaaSRichardson, US
Michael Brombach(Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder)inMichael Gorton(Chief Executive Officer)inDr. Kate Sowerwine(Chief Medical Officer)John Halsey(Director)Kris Engskov(Director)inWilliam Paiva(Director)
Co-investors1843 Capital4D CapitalARCH Venture PartnersCortado VenturesCure VenturesGlobal Insurance Accelerator+5 more
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Sage Venture Partners invest at?
- Sage Venture Partners invests at the Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Sage Venture Partners's typical check size?
- Sage Venture Partners typically writes checks of $250K – $5M.
- What sectors does Sage Venture Partners focus on?
- Sage Venture Partners focuses on Crypto & Web3, Enterprise Software.
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