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Eric Ver Ploeg

Founding Partner at Tunitas Ventures

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Eric Ver Ploeg is a Founding Partner at Tunitas Ventures, specializing in seed stage investments and helping companies raise successful Series A rounds. With a strong background in venture capital and entrepreneurship, he has invested in a diverse range of companies like ScaleIP, Rexera, and UrbanSitter, showcasing a keen eye for successful early-stage ventures. Eric's notable career highlights include serving as a Seed Investor for companies like Zūm, PayJoy, and Numerai, as well as being a Board Member for YouMail, Inc. His expertise in strategic partnerships, business development, and alternative investments has contributed to his success in fostering growth and innovation within the start-up ecosystem.

Work Experience 

  • Founding Partner

    2022 - Current

Seed Stage Venture Firm. Primary value add is helping raise future Series A from best possible investor.

  • Seed Investor

    2016

Zūm provides child transportation for school districts and busy families.

Raised $399,579,482.00 from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

  • Seed Investor

    2016

PayJoy provides credit to customers in emerging markets.

Raised $436,150,000.00 from Citi and Lendable.

  • Seed Investor

    2016

Numerai transforms and regularizes financial data into machine learning problems for global network of data scientists.

Raised $31,500,000.00 from FJ Labs, Union Square Ventures, Richard Craib and Shine Capital.

  • Seed Investor

    2017

Namecoach is a platform that provides mispronunciation, gender pronoun communication, and audio name pronunciation solutions.

Raised $11,000,000.00 from 640 Oxford, Harbor Street Ventures, Engage, Network.VC, Forefront Venture Partners, Transcend Network, Authentic Ventures, Bisk Ventures, GTMfund and Tech Square Ventures.

  • Seed Investor

    2021

A Fintech Enabled Marketplace for B2B SaaS

Raised $3,000,000.00 from Eric Ver Ploeg, AltaIR Capital, Karman Ventures (fka Moving Capital), Andrew Izyumov, Penske Media Corporation, s16vc and Flyer One Ventures.

  • Board Member

    2007

YouMail has developed a feature-rich, easy to use visual voicemail app, for your phone, tablet, or computer.

Raised $19,925,000.00 from Tech Coast Angels, Tech Coast Angels, Tuesday Capital and Wavemaker Partners.

  • Venture focused SPAC Sponsor

    2020 - 2022

LightJump Capital is a private equity firm focused on technology companies.

  • Investor

    2018 - 2020

    May 2019 IPO. Edge compute platform.

Fastly helps digital businesses keep pace with their customer expectations by delivering secure and online experiences.

Raised $369,000,000.00 from Stereo Capital, Sozo Ventures, DTCP and Swisscom Ventures.

  • Investor

    2018 - 2020

    Anomali is the leading enterprise threat intelligence platform.

Anomali delivers the leading AI-Powered Security and IT Operations Platform.

Raised $96,300,000.00 from Paladin Capital Group, Sozo Ventures, IVP, Google Ventures, General Catalyst, Lumia Capital, DTCP and Titanium Ventures.

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