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Bridgescale, LLC

Venture Capital

Menlo Park, CA

Bridgescale invests in high potential private technology companies. Our investment and high value extended network help these young companies reach their true potential.

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Data as of Sep 17, 2026 (this record's last observation) from federal regulator filings, firm and issuer disclosures. Page built Sep 20, 2026, 12:10 PM UTC and rebuilt at most every 15 minutes.

Relationships: 15
Dated events: 7
On other graphs: 2
Observed: Sep 12, 2026 to Sep 17, 2026
47 observations

Across DFX

same identity by shared identifier, citation, or a bridge measured by hand

RIA / Wealth Managementidentity

BRIDGESCALE, LLC

Registered adviser · cited, shared crd

Allocatorsidentity

Bridgescale, LLC

Manager with allocator commitments · cited, shared crd

Facts

fact = as filed or announced; derived = computed by DFX; estimate = a band, never a point

Funds: 12
Vintages: 2017 to 2026
Funds with fundraising evidence: 1derived
Investments: 0
Portfolio companies: 0
Investments, 12m: 0
Partner-attributed: 0
People: 2
Investment professionals: 2derived
Co-investors: 0derived
LP relationships: 2
Latest Form D: Apr 13, 2026
Latest ADV filing: Feb 12, 2026
Website: bridgescale.com

Funds

Fund	Vintage	Lifecycle	Form D sold	GAV	LPs
Vocation Capital Fund I, LP	2026	Fundraising	$7.0M	n/a	0
Bridgescale Opportunities II, L.P.	2018	Wound down	n/a	$0	0
Bridgescale Opportunities III, L.P.	2017	Harvest	$4.1M	$4.0M	0
Essential Innovation Partners LP	n/a	Fundraising	$0	n/a	1
Bridgescale Partners LP	n/a	Unknown	n/a	$59.3M	0
Bridgescale Opportunities I LP	n/a	Unknown	n/a	$0	0
HV Acceleration Feeder Fund II LP	n/a	Fundraising	$0	n/a	0
HV Early Stage Feeder Fund II LP	n/a	Fundraising	$0	n/a	0
HV Acceleration Fund II LP	n/a	Fundraising	$0	n/a	0
Essential Innovation Partners (Opportunities) LP	n/a	Fundraising	$0	n/a	1
HV Early Stage Fund II LP	n/a	Fundraising	$0	n/a	0
HV Erebor (spv) LP	n/a	Fundraising	$0	n/a	0

Relationships

Manages (12)

→ Bridgescale Opportunities III, L.P.FundVenture Capital Fund
Feb 15, 2018 to presentfactForm ADV
→ Bridgescale Opportunities I LPFundVenture Capital Fund
Mar 27, 2012 to presentfactForm ADV
→ Bridgescale Opportunities II, L.P.FundVenture Capital Fund
Feb 15, 2018 to presentfactForm ADV
→ Bridgescale Partners LPFundVenture Capital Fund
Mar 27, 2012 to presentfactForm ADV
→ HV Early Stage Fund II LPFundInferred from address
inferenceForm D
→ HV Erebor (spv) LPFundInferred from address
inferenceForm D
→ HV Early Stage Feeder Fund II LPFundInferred from address
inferenceForm D
→ HV Acceleration Fund II LPFundInferred from address
inferenceForm D
→ Essential Innovation Partners LPFundInferred from address
inferenceForm D
→ Vocation Capital Fund I, LPFundInferred from address
inferenceForm D
→ HV Acceleration Feeder Fund II LPFundInferred from address
inferenceForm D
→ Essential Innovation Partners (Opportunities) LPFundInferred from address
inferenceForm D

Lp of (1)

← California Public Employees' Retirement SystemLimited partnerprimary
factPlan disclosure

Employs (2)

→ Robert Christopher ChaplinskyPersonManaging Partner
Nov 1, 2005 to presentfactForm ADV
→ Matthew T CowanPersonManaging Partner
Nov 1, 2005 to presentfactForm ADV

Dated events

6 bookkeeping events (roster, classification and holdings changes) folded below

Occurred
Mar 27, 2012
Adviser's first ADV filing
Bridgescale, LLC first filed Form ADV (ERA, venture capital fund adviser exemption)
Form ADVobserved 8 days ago

Show 6 bookkeeping events

First seen by DFX
Sep 15, 2026
date not stated
Bridgescale, LLC: INSTITUTIONAL_VC -> MULTI_STAGE_VC (both early and growth/opportunity families, reported GAV $63M)
Occurred
Feb 2, 2024
Bridgescale Opportunities II, L.P. no longer reported on Form ADV by Bridgescale, LLC
Occurred
Feb 15, 2018
Bridgescale Opportunities II, L.P. first reported on Form ADV by Bridgescale, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $2,070,311
Occurred
Feb 15, 2018
Bridgescale Opportunities III, L.P. first reported on Form ADV by Bridgescale, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $4,099,955
Occurred
Mar 27, 2012
Bridgescale Partners LP first reported on Form ADV by Bridgescale, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $138,916,124
Occurred
Mar 27, 2012
Bridgescale Opportunities I LP first reported on Form ADV by Bridgescale, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $675,000

Who to call

the organisation, the role and the published line, with the filing or website that published it; revealed to signed-in accounts

The firm's published line

Revealable: 1 business phone (Form ADV), 1 website (Form ADV) · as of 2026-09-12

Also named here, with no published line of their own (reach them through the firm): Robert Christopher Chaplinsky (Managing Partner), Matthew T Cowan (Managing Partner).

Who to call is the organisation, the person's role and the line they published themselves: a business phone, office address, website or profile link from Form ADV, Form 13F or their own website, with that source named on every value. The counts above are what a reveal returns; a personal email is rarely published, so most reveals are the firm's line. Never data bought from a provider, never anything personal. Reveals by plan

Provenance

Graph: Venture Capital
Canonical id: dfx:vc:e5714e8b-5ac2-4886-8030-4fd6a2614cb6
First observed: Sep 12, 2026
Last observed: Sep 17, 2026 3 days ago
Source families: Federal regulator filings, Firm and issuer disclosures
3 registered feeds stand behind this record; each fact above carries its own dates and, where the publisher serves one, its document.
Resolution: Identity across graphs by shared identifier (CRD, CIK, EIN, ADV fund id, individual CRD) or citation; a name match is shown as a candidate and never merged.

Bridgescale, LLC

Venture Capital

Menlo Park, CA

Bridgescale invests in high potential private technology companies. Our investment and high value extended network help these young companies reach their true potential.

This is the graph view. The full profile, with its team, deals and sources, is on Venture Capital.Open the full profile →

Search this name across graphsid dfx:vc:e5714e8b-5ac2-4886-8030-4fd6a2614cb6

Data as of Sep 17, 2026 (this record's last observation) from federal regulator filings, firm and issuer disclosures. Page built Sep 20, 2026, 12:10 PM UTC and rebuilt at most every 15 minutes.