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Synapse Partners

Venture capital

Menlo Park · Seed–Series A · 7 people tracked

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Investment thesis

Synapse Partners operates as a cross-industry AI practice spanning three connected activities: investing, advisory, and in-house IP development. It focuses exclusively on artificial intelligence and has done so for over a decade. On the investing side, the firm partners with entrepreneurs building horizontal or vertical AI applications that address complex, strategic enterprise problems. Its broader goal is to help forward-thinking enterprises transform into intelligent corporations through effective application of AI.

Source: firm website, verified Oct 2, 2026.

Stage
Seed–Series A
HQ
Menlo Park, California, US
Instruments
Equity
Founded
2016
Tracked investments
15
Unicorns
1
Acquisitions
1

Team · 7 people

from the firm's website & public directories
Jim Eberlin· Founder and CEOin

Advisory board member who is a founder and CEO.

Ashok Shrivastava· SVP, Chief Data Officerin

Advisory board member serving as an SVP and Chief Data Officer.

Bill Mark· President Information and Computing Sciencesin

Advisory board member who is a president of information and computing sciences.

Matthew Shortal· Principal Deputy Director and Chief Commercial Officer, DIUin

Advisory board member and Principal Deputy Director and Chief Commercial Officer at DIU.

Stefan Happ· EVP Paymentsin

Advisory board member serving as an EVP of payments.

Founder mafia

2 people who came through Synapse Partners went on to found or lead other companies.

What they invest in

from 9 of 15 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×8Enterprise Software ×6Data & Infrastructure ×5SaaS ×3Mobility & Transportation ×2Advanced Manufacturing ×1Consumer ×1Deep Tech ×1

HQs:United States×4Germany×1India×1

Investments · 15 tracked

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Awake Mobilityawakemobility.deinSep 2022

AWAKE Mobility uses IoT and machine learning to provide predictive maintenance and remote vehicle analytics that improve fleet availability and uptime for mobility providers operating buses, trucks, and special vehicles such as garbage collection cars.

AI & Machine LearningIoTMobility & Transportation

Daniel TyoschitzinHoussem BrahaminDaniel Sattelin

Co-investorsB&C Innovation InvestmentsTechFoundersVireo Ventures

DataRobotdatarobot.comin𝕏

DataRobot develops an AI and machine learning platform that automates model development and deployment for enterprises.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareBoston, US

Jeremy Achin(Founder)inTom de Godoy(Co-Founder and Former Chief Technology Officer)inDebanjan Saha(CEO)Thomas DeGodoy(Founder)Thomas de Godoy(Founder)

BoardHarry Weller(Director)

Co-investors515 VenturesAliya Capital PartnersAMK Investment OfficeB Capital GroupB4 CapitalBallistic Ventures+46 more

Datatrondatatron.comin𝕏

Datatron provides machine learning model governance and management software for enterprises, enabling faster deployments, early problem detection, and improved operational efficiency when managing multiple models at scale.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software

Co-investorsPlug and Play VenturesStartX500 GlobalAUTHENTIC VENTURES

Foretellixforetellix.comin𝕏Acquired

Verification and validation platform for automotive safety.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechMobility & Transportation

Ziv Binyamini(Founder)Gil Amid(Founder)inYoav Hollander(Founder)in

Co-investors83NorthNext Gear VenturesOurCrowdReshapeV1 VCVolvo Group Venture Capital AB+6 more

Gainsight, Inc.gainsight.comin𝕏

Gainsight provides a customer intelligence platform for revenue and sales teams that helps identify and prevent revenue leakage, optimize renewal processes, and identify expansion opportunities within existing customer bases.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechMountain View, US

Nick Mehta(Founder)inJames Eberlin(Director)Theodore Stann(Chief Financial Officer)Allison Pickens(Founder)Jim Eberlin(Founder)Sreedhar Peddineni(Founder)

Co-investorsBain Capital VenturesBattery VenturesBessemer Venture PartnersCapital InnovatorsCisco InvestmentsFounders Circle Capital+8 more

IKASIikasi.aiin𝕏

IKASI develops causal AI software that helps enterprises make data-driven decisions and improve business outcomes.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Sean Shillo(Founder)in

Co-investorsGreat Oaks Venture Capital

Milesgetmiles.com

Redwood City, US

Jigar Shah(Founder)in

Co-investorsSony Ventures CorporationTransLink CapitalThird Sphere

Milestrymiles.ai𝕏

Miles is a mobile app for iOS and Android that collects content users save from various apps into one organized space, then turns it into recommendations, daily threads, and word games drawn from their own material.

AI & Machine LearningConsumerMarketing TechMedia & EntertainmentBangalore, IN

Nishant Chahar(CEO)inDeepak .(CTO)in

Co-investorsEntrepreneur FirstScrum VenturesTechNexus Venture CollaborativeTransLink Capital

Safe graphsafegraph.comin𝕏

SafeGraph builds and maintains a global dataset of information about physical places, updated monthly, for application developers and analytics teams.

Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareRetail TechSaaSDenver, US

Auren Hoffman(Founder)inBrent Perez(Founder)inJason Richmanin

BoardCharles Songhurst(Director)Alexander Rosen(Director)in

Co-investorsAkkadian VenturesClocktower VenturesCorazon CapitalDnx VenturesFJ LabsFlex Capital Partners+8 more

Viridiumviridium.ai

Viridium provides a "Material Intelligence" layer for manufacturers, connecting material evidence from specifications, drawings, supplier documents and expert judgment to identify substances across products and parts.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software

Other

Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.

Kite ScoutingNamogooRenovoStippleUnknown

Portfolio news

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Frequently asked questions

How many investments has Synapse Partners made?
Synapse Partners has 15 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited.
What stage does Synapse Partners invest at?
Synapse Partners invests at the Seed, Series A stages.
What sectors does Synapse Partners focus on?
Synapse Partners focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Consumer, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, Mobility & Transportation, SaaS, Sales Tech.
Where is Synapse Partners located?
Synapse Partners is headquartered in Menlo Park, US.
Who does Synapse Partners co-invest with?
Synapse Partners most often shares deals with Cisco Investments, Sapphire Ventures, 83North, among 74 tracked co-investors.

From the blog

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Recent posts focus on governing enterprise AI investments, proposing a CFO-owned four-graph "AI GPS" dashboard and a two-part "Enterprise Capital Gate" framework that applies venture-portfolio discipline to funding corporate AI projects by risk, horizon, and stage. AI summary

Media · Podcasts & interviews

featuring the team

Data Exchange Podcast (Episode 245): Evangelos Simoudis of Synapse Partners

Gradient Flow · Evangelos Simoudis

Evangelos Simoudis, best-selling author and Managing Director at Synapse Partners, discusses the ...

PeopleReign · Evangelos Simoudis

Evangelos Simoudis (Managing Director, Synapse Partners) | Newchip's Online Demo Week July 2021

Newchip · Evangelos Simoudis

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