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Venture Capital Intelligence
Firms, funds, partners, companies and rounds from sworn filings, firm sites and announcements, kept as a graph with a date and a source on every edge. Facts, inferences and estimates are labelled as such. A fund target is never a close, GAV is never dry powder, and a round size is never an investor’s check.
Firms / Surface Venture Management, LLC
Surface Venture Management, LLC
venture manager, reported GAV $119M across 4 vehicles
Importance
21
moderate
Active deployment
33
moderate
Emerging
0
low
Completeness
63
high
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
12
low
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- New York, NYadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- 104 FIFTH AVENUE, 17TH FLOOR, New York, NY, 10011adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- 6467170144adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- https://surface.vc
- SEC adviser type
- exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- venture capital fund adviseradviserinfo.sec.govItem 2.B(1): advises solely venture capital funds
- Latest Form ADV
- Mar 26, 2026
- Private funds reported
- 5 (5 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $175Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- business phone
- 646-717-0144adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
- business phone
- 6467170144adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
3 observed deals
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- not stated or not yet read
- Stages
- not stated or not yet read
- Geography
- not stated
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation: no observed deals yet
Stage at first entry: no observed deals yet
Sectors
Other Technology 100%
lead rate 100%follow-on rate 0%new logos, 12 months 2
Funds and vehicles
4 reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Ventures III, L.P. | Fund | 2023 adv first reported | Active deployment | $49.1M Mar 29, 2024 | 1 | unknown | unknown |
| Surface Ventures Breakout Fund I, L.P. | Fund | 2023 adv first reported | Active deployment | $30.0M Mar 29, 2024 | 1 | unknown | unknown |
| RTP Seed Ventures II, LP | Seed fund | unknown | Unknown | $29.6M Mar 29, 2024 | 1 | unknown | unknown |
| RTP Seed Ventures, LP | Seed fund | unknown | Unknown | $10.6M Mar 29, 2024 | 1 | unknown | unknown |
GAV is the gross asset value the adviser reported on Form ADV for the vehicle, never the fund’s committed size and never dry powder. Form D sold is the amount sold as of the latest filing, never a final close.
Investment team
2 current, 0 departed
Dimitri Boguslavsky
Managing partnerManaging Member · since Sep 1, 2020
Gyan Kapur
Managing partnerManaging Member · since Sep 1, 2020
Investments on record
3 edges, 3 companies, 2 partner-attributed
| Company | Round | Role | Partner | Round size | This investor | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Focal Point Procurement Solutions, Inc. | board seat | unknown · board | Gyan Kapur (strongly supported) | unknown | unknown | Jun 30, 2026 | Inference SEC EDGAR Form D data sets (quarterly) |
| BotGauge AI INC. | Funding round | lead | unknown | $2.0M | unknown | Feb 10, 2026 | Fact Press release wires (Business Wire, PR Newswire, GlobeNewswire public RSS) |
| Phidata Inc. | board seat | unknown · board | Gyan Kapur (strongly supported) | unknown | unknown | Aug 29, 2024 | Inference SEC EDGAR Form D data sets (quarterly) |
“This investor” is the amount disclosed for this investor alone; it is unknown unless a source said it. The round size is the whole round.
Co-investors
4 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
Limited partners
0 disclosed
No LP commitment on record. An LP edge needs a public disclosure with a quote: a pension report (see Limited partners for the plans read), a fund announcement naming the LP, or a Form ADV owner. The fund page carries the LP’s reported performance.
Timeline
5 dated events
- Mar 22, 2023Surface Ventures III, L.P. first reported on Form ADV by RTP Seed Management, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $48,004,500Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactSurface Ventures III, L.P.SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 22, 2023Surface Ventures Breakout Fund I, L.P. first reported on Form ADV by RTP Seed Management, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $32,398,145Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactSurface Ventures Breakout Fund I, L.P.SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Dec 4, 2020RTP Seed Management, LLC first filed Form ADV (ERA, venture capital fund adviser exemption)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Dec 4, 2020RTP Seed Ventures II, LP first reported on Form ADV by RTP Seed Management, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $29,143,125Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactRTP Seed Ventures II, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Dec 4, 2020RTP Seed Ventures, LP first reported on Form ADV by RTP Seed Management, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $4,308,281Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactRTP Seed Ventures, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
Classification history
- Sep 12, 2026Institutional venture firm (confirmed, 95%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $119M across 4 vehicles
Evidence
39 observations from 3 sources