What stage does Spider Capital invest at?

Spider Capital invests at the Seed, Series A stages.

What is Spider Capital's typical check size?

Spider Capital typically writes checks of $500K.

Where is Spider Capital located?

Spider Capital is headquartered in San Francisco, US.

Does Spider Capital lead rounds?

Yes, Spider Capital leads investment rounds.

Spider Capital

Venture capital

San Francisco · Seed–Series A · 16 people tracked

Also known as Spider Capital Partners · SPIDER CAPITAL PARTNERS MANAGEMENT, LLC

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Investment thesis

Spider Capital focuses on the next generation of enterprise cloud and applied AI founders. It backs entrepreneurs applying AI to modernize the world's most complex industries, including construction, financial services, energy, government, healthcare, insurance, mining, manufacturing, supply chain, and transportation. The firm is supported by seasoned enterprise operating executives who helped build leading enterprise cloud and applied AI software companies, and emphasizes early-stage investing with strong seed-to-Series A graduation rates. It seeks founders who share a healthy disregard for the impossible.

Invests inAdvanced Manufacturing AI & Machine Learning Cloud Computing Construction Tech Energy Enterprise Software Fintech GovTech Healthtech InsurTech Logistics & Supply Chain Mobility & Transportation Robotics SaaSIsraelSan FranciscoUnited States

Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.

Stage

Seed–Series A

Check

$500K

San Francisco, California, US

Leads rounds

Leads

Instruments

Equity

Founded

2015

Private fund assets

$238.7M

VC funds

Tracked investments

106

Team · 16 people

from the firm's website & public directories

Ingrid Flores· CEO· Cambridge, MA

CEO of Hosta AI, a portfolio company; a first-time entrepreneur who credits Spider Capital's support in the earliest stages.

Michael Neril· Managing Partner· San Francisco Bay Areain

Michael Neril founded Spider Capital in 2015 to back founders building enterprise cloud software companies. He previously co-founded and led investment activities at Webb Investment Network, ran business development at LiveOps, and began his career as a technology investment banker at ING Barings.

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Minsoo Chi· Partner· San Francisco, Californiain

Minsoo Chi joined Spider Capital in May 2018 as its first investment professional, working across sourcing, due diligence, portfolio support, and investor relations. He previously was an associate at NGP Capital focused on growth-stage digital health and SaaS, and earlier a senior associate consultant at Bain & Company.

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Philippe Suchet· Partner· Tel Aviv, Israelin

Philippe Suchet is a partner at Spider Capital investing in seed and seed+ stage enterprise cloud software companies across Israel, the US, and Europe. He is a serial entrepreneur who previously co-founded and led Zappli, a mobile commerce platform acquired by Shopzilla/Taboola, and Kefta, a marketing SaaS company acquired by Acxiom/RAMP. As an angel investor, Suchet has backed approximately 70 startups, including 7 that reached unicorn status, and holds degrees from Harvard Business School, HEC Paris, and ENSAE.

Matt Fisher· Venture Partner· San Francisco, Californiain

Matt Fisher is President and Chief Operating Officer of Tristar Products, Inc. He has over 15 years of senior-level experience in sales and operations at multinational companies, including LiveOps, Lycos, and Netscape. He holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Alan Priest· Venture Advisor· United Statesin

Charles Carmel· Venture Advisor

Courtney Broadus· Venture Advisor· San Francisco, California, United Statesin

Courtney Broadus is an angel investor and member of Broadway Angels with a portfolio spanning over 60 startups and funds, including BlueSky, AppLovin, Kandji, FlutterWave, PinDrop, Binti, and Operator Collective. She has held executive leadership positions in technology for over fifteen years, including a decade at Salesforce where she scaled her organization from 2 to 300+ employees and contributed to building the company's SaaS platform. She also co-invests through WIN (Webb Investment Network) and Spider.

David Berman· Operating Partner· San Francisco Bay Areain

David Berman is an operating partner at Spider Capital with over 25 years of experience in software technology sales, marketing, and team building. He contributed to go-to-market strategies at Zoom and WebEx prior to their IPOs and subsequent significant revenue growth, and participated in RingCentral's IPO while the company achieved 37% year-over-year revenue growth in its first public year. He currently serves as an investor, board member, and advisor to technology companies.

Jeff Ma· Venture Advisor· San Francisco, California, United Statesin

Jeff Ma is Chief Digital Officer and Head of Troon Digital at Troon. Previously, he held executive positions at Microsoft for Startups and Twitter as VP of Data Science and Analytics. Ma has founded four companies—GolfSpan, CircleLending, Citizen Sports, and tenXer—all of which were acquired, and has consulted with professional sports organizations and media companies on data analytics and decision-making strategies.

John Gengarella· Venture Advisor· San Jose, California, United Statesin

John Gengarella is Chief Executive Officer of Teamcast. He has served as an angel investor and advisor to numerous companies across technology, logistics, and consumer sectors, including investments in companies acquired by Oracle, Hubspot, Infor, Docker, and Amadeus, among others.

Judy Loehr· Operating Partner· United Statesin

Judy Loehr is Chief Product Officer at PartnerTap and brings 25 years of enterprise SaaS product development experience. Early in her career, she served as employee #51 at Salesforce where she led product for Service Cloud and oversaw development of the AppExchange platform, launched in 2005. She has held CMO and board positions at companies including Zuora, ServiceMax, Conga, and PropelPLM, and serves as an Operating Partner with Spider Capital.

Neal Goldman· Operating Partner· Barcelona, Catalonia, Spainin

Neal Goldman is a CEO coach and investor who works with venture-backed founders on leadership development. He founded several companies including Capital IQ and Relationship Science, and serves as a board chair and director for VC-backed companies across sectors including AI, fintech, and SaaS. In 2026, he published The Venture-Backed CEO's Guide to Mastery, Influence & Endurance, a guide addressing leadership development from funding through exit.

Ofir Bar Levav· Venture Advisor· Israelin

Ron Frankel· Senior Advisor· Los Angeles Metropolitan Areain

Yuri Sagalov· Venture Advisor

What they invest in

from 22 of 106 portfolio companies

Enterprise Software ×15SaaS ×12AI & Machine Learning ×10Developer Tools ×7Data & Infrastructure ×4Cloud Computing ×2Cybersecurity ×2Fintech ×2

HQs:United States×15Canada×2

Investments · 106 tracked

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ApplovinNASDAQ: APP

OktaNASDAQ: OKTA

Pager Dutypagerduty.comin 𝕏NYSE: PD

PagerDuty provides a platform for incident response and operations management that enables teams across technical and business functions to respond to critical events in real time.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

Alex Solomon(Founder/CTO)inJennifer Tejada(Executive Officer, Director)John O'Farrell(Director)Steven Gatoff(Executive Officer)Ethan Kurzweil(Director)Dan Alexandru Solomon(Director)

CO6SEC filingmedium confidence

Boulder, US

Jon Carroll(Executive Officer, Promoter)Jim Booth(Founder)Michael Neril(Director)Paul Berberian(Founder)

Board seatMichael Neril· per SEC Form D · $4.6M raise · filed Jul 2020

FraudscopeSEC filingmedium confidence

Atlanta, US

Allen Nance(Director)Ahamad Mustaque(Executive Officer)Michael Neril(Director)I. Sigmund Mosley, Jr.(Director)Musheer Ahmed(Executive Officer, Director)

Board seatMichael Neril· per SEC Form D · $1.5M raise · filed May 2017

Struction

Construction TechDenver, US

Joseph Rainey(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Samuel Tang(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)

Board seatMichael Neril· per SEC Form D

TaplyticsSEC filingmedium confidence

W Toronto

JONATHAN NORRIS(CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER)Michael Norris(CHAIRMAN)JACOB DRUXERMAN(CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER)MICHAEL NERIL(Director)AARON GLAZER(CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)ANDREW NORRIS(CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER)

Board seatMichael Neril· per SEC Form D · $3.5M raise · filed Jun 2017

Vecticevectice.comin 𝕏

Vectice provides auto-documentation software that automatically catalogs datasets, model metrics, and limitations during AI/ML model development.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Carlos, US

Gregory Haardt(Executive Officer, Director)Cyril Brignone(Executive Officer, Director)Michael Neril(Director)

Board seatMichael Neril· per SEC Form D

Aerofsaerofs.comin 𝕏

AeroFS provides on-premises file synchronization and sharing software that allows organizations to manage document collaboration while maintaining control over data security through their own infrastructure.

Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Yuri Sagalov(Founder/CEO)inWeihan Wang(Founder/CTO)in

Apollo Graphql

Applifier

Appurify

Arintraarintra.comin 𝕏

Arintra provides an AI-native autonomous coding platform for healthcare systems that automatically generates medical codes from patient charts to improve revenue capture and reduce denials.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechSaaSSan Francisco, US

Nitesh Shroff, PhD(Founder)inPreeti Bhargava, PhD(Founder)in

Atspokeatspoke.com

Backbone

Bitnet

Bityota

Boltx

Bonfire

Boomtown

C981

Cardspringcardspring.com

Carebrain

Castellum AIcastellum.aiin

Castellum provides AI-powered AML/KYC compliance automation for banks, credit unions, fintechs, and digital asset firms to identify financial crime risk and reduce false positives.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintech

Peter Piatetsky(Founder & CEO)Lee Roggenkamp(Chief Technology Officer)Marissa Venuto(Chief Operating Officer)

Cedar

Celential

Chewse

Cimba Ai

Citian

Civia

Codoxo Ai

CoLabcolabsoftware.comin 𝕏

CoLab provides AI-powered design review and collaboration software for engineering teams, automating design quality checks and organizing engineering knowledge within PLM and CAD systems.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareHardwareSaaSSt. John's, CA

Jeremy Andrews(Founder)inAdam Keating(Founder)in

Colab Agzba

Compose

Copperegg

Cyblecyble.comin 𝕏

Cyble provides threat intelligence and security solutions for organizations to protect against cyber threats across their attack surface.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

Beenu Arora(Founder)inManish Chachada(Founder)in

Darwin

Definitive Intelligence

Devcycledevcycle.comin 𝕏

DevCycle is a feature management and flagging platform that helps software development teams control feature releases, run experiments, and deploy faster with reduced risk.

Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSToronto, CA

Andrew Norris(Founder/COO)inJonathan Norris(Founder/CTO)inCobi Druxerman(Founder/CPO)in

Digital Geniusdigitalgenius.comin 𝕏

DigitalGenius provides an AI agent built for ecommerce customer service that resolves queries such as order status, returns, subscriptions, warranty claims, and order changes by integrating with a brand's tech stack.

AI & Machine LearningE-commerceSaaS

Epic

Feedback Loop

Forter

Fundbox

Optimizing cash flow for small businesses

Geospatios

Goat

Groq

Hellosignhellosign.comin 𝕏acquired by Dropbox

Dropbox Sign is an electronic signature platform that enables businesses to prepare, send, sign, and track legally-binding contracts and documents from anywhere.

Enterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkLegalTechSaaSSan Francisco, US

Neal O'Mara(Founder/CTO)in

Hero

Hosta Ai

Applied AI company serving the insurance industry, based in Cambridge, MA.

Hyrohyro.ai

Plug-and-play conversational AI platform enabling voice and chat interactions with information across digital channels.

Israel Krush(Founder & CEO)

Implentio

Imubit

Ionic Securityionicsecurity.com

Adam Ghetti(Founder)

Kefta

Kentikkentik.comin 𝕏

This page is a case study featuring Booking.com's use of Kentik's Network Observability Platform.

Cloud ComputingCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software

Klir Data

Koality

Koan

Liveloop

Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.

Frequently asked questions

What stage does Spider Capital invest at?: Spider Capital invests at the Seed, Series A stages.
What is Spider Capital's typical check size?: Spider Capital typically writes checks of $500K.
What sectors does Spider Capital focus on?: Spider Capital focuses on Advanced Manufacturing, AI & Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Construction Tech, Energy, Enterprise Software, Fintech, GovTech, Healthtech, InsurTech, Logistics & Supply Chain, Mobility & Transportation, Robotics, SaaS.
Where is Spider Capital located?: Spider Capital is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
Does Spider Capital lead rounds?: Yes, Spider Capital leads investment rounds.

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Eniac Ventures

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Vungle

$50K – $300K

SignalFire

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Testim

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TSVC

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Both backed · 1

Testim

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Entree Capital

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Fundbox

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