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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 / Savano Direct Capital Partners, LLC
Savano Direct Capital Partners, LLC
Private equity with venture activity · probableBaltimore, MDbrownsavano.comSEC registered investment adviser
secondary liquidity individual liquidity, secondaries, secondary share purchase, private stock
registered adviser; venture funds are 0% of 5 private funds
Importance
36
elevated
Active deployment
30
moderate
Emerging
0
low
Completeness
69
high
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
13
low
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- Baltimore, MDadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- 2850 QUARRY LAKE DRIVE, SUITE 304, Baltimore, MD, 21209adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- 443-873-3561adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- HTTP://WWW.BROWNSAVANO.COM
- SEC adviser type
- registered investment adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- unknown
- Latest Form ADV
- Mar 28, 2024
- Private funds reported
- 5 (0 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $341Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- Regulatory AUM
- $341Mthe adviser's RAUM, a regulatory measure, never a fund size
- Employees
- 9
- business email
- info@savanocapital.comsavanocapital.compublished by the subject
- business phone
- 443-873-3561adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
53 observed deals
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- not stated or not yet read
- Stages
- not stated or not yet read
- Geography
- united states
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation
series c 100%
Stage at first entry
series c 100%
Sectors
unknown 96%Other 2%Other Technology 2%
lead rate 100%follow-on rate 0%new logos, 12 months 53
Funds and vehicles
2 reported, 1 no longer reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Savano Capital Partners III, LP | Fund · ADV: Private Equity Fund | 2020 form d first sale | Mature | $261M Mar 28, 2024 | 103 | $40.7M | Apr 7, 2021 |
| Savano Capital Partners II, L.P. | Fund · ADV: Private Equity Fund | 2014 form d first sale | Harvest | $63.4M Mar 28, 2024 | 58 | $81.8M | Jun 15, 2016 |
| Savano-Everquote, LLC | Fund · ADV: Private Equity Fund | 2017 adv first reported | Wound down | $3.5M Apr 14, 2020 | 7 | 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
12 current, 1 departed
Ashwin Reddy
AssociateAssociate
Sebastian Enriquez
AssociateAssociate
Gustav Herman Koven
Founder or executiveMember, Co-President · since Mar 1, 2010
Thomas Alan Smith
Founder or executiveMember And Co-President · since Mar 1, 2010
John Frank Tower
PartnerPartner · since Jul 1, 2020
Mark Joseph Deangelis
Platform and operationsChief Compliance Officer · since Nov 1, 2023
Matt Good
Platform and operationsPartner, Chief Operating Officer
Matthew Douglas Good
Platform and operationsChief Operating Officer · since Jan 1, 2019
Patrick Smith
Platform and operationsAccounting Manager
Andrew Seter
PrincipalPrincipal
Max Swicegood
PrincipalPrincipal
Pierce Dunn
Venture partnerVenture Partner
1 departed (kept with end dates)
- Bion Knauer Ludwig · Managing Member Of Savano-Spv Manager Llc · Oct 1, 2016 to Mar 31, 2021 Inference
Investments on record
53 edges, 52 companies, 1 partner-attributed
“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
38 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
Sapphire Ventures, LLC 3 shared · recurringDAG Ventures 3 shared · recurringActivate Capital Partners 2 shared · recurringTTV Capital 2 shared · recurringAmplify Partners 2 shared · recurringRethink Capital Partners, LLC 1 shared · one timeMana Ventures 1 shared · one timeEnergy Transition Ventures, LLC 1 shared · one timeG Squared Equity LLC 1 shared · one timeCamber Partners Management LLC 1 shared · one timeSigma Partners 1 shared · one timeAlpha Partners Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeSaltoun Capital Partners Management LLC 1 shared · one timeGrdnt LLC 1 shared · one timeFlybridge Capital Partners 1 shared · one time83North 1 shared · one timeAIR Street Capital II LP 1 shared · one timeVolition Capital LLC 1 shared · one timeDCVC 1 shared · one timeValor Equity Partners 1 shared · one timeOpus Capital Group LLC 1 shared · one timeFirstmark Capital, LLC 1 shared · one timeNEW Leaf Venture Partners 1 shared · one timeMV Advisers LLP 1 shared · one timeAlumni Ventures 1 shared · one timeMutual Capital Partners Funds 1 shared · one timeAudacity Venture Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeScout Vc, LLC 1 shared · one timeCauseway 1 shared · one timeCenter15 Capital LLC 1 shared · one timeFour Rivers Group 1 shared · one timeTeamworthy Group LLC 1 shared · one timeMastry 1 shared · one timeGreat Oaks Management Company LLC 1 shared · one timeCanaan Partners 1 shared · one timeService Provider Capital 1 shared · one timeSection Partners 1 shared · one timeCincytech, LLC 1 shared · one time
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
12 dated events
- Sep 16, 2026red canary no longer listed on Savano Direct Capital Partners, LLC's portfolio pageRemoved from portfolio pagePortfolioInferencered canaryVenture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages)
- Sep 16, 2026Elastic no longer listed on Savano Direct Capital Partners, LLC's portfolio pageRemoved from portfolio pagePortfolioInferenceElasticVenture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages)
- Sep 16, 2026Cart no longer listed on Savano Direct Capital Partners, LLC's portfolio pageRemoved from portfolio pagePortfolioInferenceCartVenture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages)
- Nov 1, 2023Mark Joseph Deangelis joined Schedule A of Savano Direct Capital Partners, LLC as Chief Compliance Officer
- Mar 31, 2021Savano Capital Partners III, LP first reported on Form ADV by Savano Direct Capital Partners, LLC (Private Equity Fund), GAV $55,507,004Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactSavano Capital Partners III, LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 31, 2021Savano-Everquote, LLC no longer reported on Form ADV by Savano Direct Capital Partners, LLCFund no longer reportedFundsInferenceSavano-Everquote, LLCSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 31, 2021Bion Knauer Ludwig (Managing Member Of Savano-Spv Manager Llc) no longer on Schedule A of Savano Direct Capital Partners, LLC
- Jul 1, 2020John Frank Tower joined Schedule A of Savano Direct Capital Partners, LLC as Partner
- Jan 1, 2019Matthew Douglas Good joined Schedule A of Savano Direct Capital Partners, LLC as Chief Operating Officer
- Mar 27, 2017Savano-Everquote, LLC first reported on Form ADV by Savano Direct Capital Partners, LLC (Private Equity Fund), GAV $1,363,527Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactSavano-Everquote, LLCSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 27, 2015Savano Direct Capital Partners, LLC first filed Form ADV (ERA)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 27, 2015Savano Capital Partners II, L.P. first reported on Form ADV by Savano Direct Capital Partners, LLC (Private Equity Fund), GAV $46,500,000Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactSavano Capital Partners II, L.P.SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
Classification history
- Sep 12, 2026Private equity with venture activity (probable, 75%, cls-1)registered adviser; venture funds are 0% of 5 private funds
Evidence
44 observations from 2 sources