Pete Solvik
Founder of Jackson Square Ventures
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & Managing Director
2011 - Current
We are an all-partner VC firm focused on Series A financings for SaaS & marketplace startups from our offices in the heart of the startup ecosystem in San Francisco @Jackson Square
Jackson Square Ventures is an an early stage venture capital firm that invests in software businesses.
Board Member & venture investor since 2006
2006
largest shareholder at IPO. Chair of Nom/Gov Committee. DocuSign accelerates the process of doing business for companies, and simplifies life for their customers and employees. We accomplish this by transforming the foundational element of business: the agreement. DocuSign’s IPO (NASDAQ: DOCU) in 2018 was the third most valuable business software IPO in over 15 years.
DocuSign Seattle Area is a software industry.
Board Member, Series A lead investor
2013
Sole Series A outside investor and board member. Seismic, led by co founder and CEO Doug Winter, is the leading sales enablement solution that allows sales teams to deliver the right content at the right time on any device. Seismic's mobile-first, cloud-based platform enables field and inside sales reps to quickly create customized, compliant materials that dramatically increase time spent selling, improve win rates, reduce sales cycles and increase customer satisfaction. Founded in 2010, Seismic is privately held by its three-time serial entrepreneur executive team, global private equity firm Primera Capital, & Jackson Square Ventures, along with growth investors JMI Equity & Lightspeed Venture Partners. Seismic’s Series G financing valued the company at over $3 billion.
Seismic is the global leader in enablement, helping organizations engage customers, enable teams, and ignite revenue growth.
Raised $446,500,000.00 from PNC Bank.
Early venture investor, Board Member
2021
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Spiceology offers a custom blending, private label, food service, industrial, and modernist ingredients.
Raised $10,337,702.00 from Jackson Square Ventures.
Board member, Lead Series A Investor
2024
Tens of thousands of notaries and customers trust OneNotary to sign, seal, and deliver their most important documents securely and remotely. OneNotary transforms the notarization process for businesses and individuals alike by offering fast, easy, and affordable service online for all key moments in life. People can use OneNotary anytime and anywhere with an on-demand team available 24/7. Pleased to join the board and lead the Series A financing of OneNotary, joined by DocuSign Ventures and DocuSign Founder Tom Gonser. In parallel, DocuSign and OneNotary have entered into a formal partnership to integrate OneNotary into DocuSign’s range of notary solutions. The integration, when launched early this summer, will expand DocuSign Notary into third-party notaries, providing more opportunity for best-in-class, multi-state certified notary platform options for DocuSign customers. “Our customers have been asking for a full suite of identity solutions to choose from, including access to a third-party notary network. Our partnership with OneNotary adds an exciting best-in-class option for our customers needing notary services.” said Janine Grasso, Group Vice President of Partnerships at DocuSign.
OneNotary builds an online notary infrastructure that enables Remote Online Notarization, in any SaaS solution within hours.
Raised $7,105,000.00 from GoodPaper Ventures, Jackson Square Ventures, DocuSign Ventures, u.ventures, Digital Future, Tom Gonser and The LegalTech Fund.
Board Member, seed investor
2024
Cloverleaf AI is a SaaS solution that provides vendors with early insights into RFPs through analysis of government meetings.
Raised $2,920,000.00 from FirstMile Ventures, The LegalTech Fund, Techstars and Jackson Square Ventures.
Series A investor in Mynd, merged with Roofstock
2017
Roofstock is an online marketplace for investing in leased single-family rental homes.
Raised $365,250,000.00 from Newton Investment Management, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Masco Ventures, JLL Spark, SVB Capital, Citi Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Empede Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund and Expanding Capital.
Board Member and Series A investor
2015
Cloud software for bid and tender management founded by 3 time entrepreneur Aaron Sasson (Scopus, GT Nexus, Winmore).
AI-Driven Price and Process Optimization Solutions for the Logistics Industry
Board Member
2008
Managing Director
2003
Sigma Partners is a venture capital firm, founded in 1984, that has invested in over a hundred early stage companies and has over $2