David Schwab brings an unusual combination of aerospace engineering expertise from Stanford and Lockheed, hands-on founding experience building CRM pioneer Scopus Technology from startup to IPO, and deep enterprise software pattern recognition across roles as both engineer and salesperson. He created Vertical Venture Partners based on years of systematic conversations with Fortune 500 CIOs through Sierra Ventures' CIO Advisory Board, where he identified their frustration with horizontal platforms and budget shifts toward vertical solutions.
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Vertical Venture Partners
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SaaS, Biotech, Health, Enterprise, Proptech
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Pre-Seed - Series A
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$500K – $4M
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Vertical Venture Partners invests exclusively in specific industry verticals like roofing, trucking fuel, and medical billing, deliberately avoiding broad horizontal software deals to back founders with deep operator experience in narrowly defined industries. The fund prioritizes understanding over knowledge by focusing on domain expert founders who have spent years as operators inside particular verticals, rather than relying on generic market theses or pattern-matching.
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