Eric Ver Ploeg
Founding Partner at Tunitas Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
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.