Top Shelf Ventures

CandidateNo Form ADV

Candidate, with 2 portfolio companies on record.

Composed from this organization's classification, location and filed figures.

New companies, 12 mo
2
Investment team
1
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As of · the latest observation of this organization; filed figures are as of its latest Form ADV

1 additional co-investor or affiliate

Every relationship, signal and contact on this record, with the source on each.

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What matters now

  1. 2 companies
    new in 12 months

    2 new companies in the last 12 months. Latest round OuterSignal Series A ($22M round) on 30 Sep 2026.

    A firm writing cheques this quarter is one a founder can pitch now.

    Factfunding announcements, Form D, the firm's portfolio pageFor Founders, co-investorsInvestments →
  2. 1 round
    led by Jason Sherman

    Jason Sherman leads the most rounds on record: 1 round, latest Eileen pre-seed (16 Mar 2026).

    The partner who leads is the one to reach; the rest of the team follows a lead partner's call.

    Factfunding announcements naming the partnerFor Founders, co-investorsTeam →

People to know

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  • Jason Sherman
    Managing Partner
    Why: Managing partner: runs the firm
    No route on file yet

Relationship network

8 connected entities3 observed rounds1 repeat counterpartyrounds 2026

From financing rounds and every investor named in them, Form ADV and Form D filings, the firm's funds and team, and disclosed LP commitments in the venture capital graph. A round's amount is the size of the round, not money that moved between two investors.

Some relationships on this record are counted rather than named here. They open with the full profile.

Click any name or line for the rounds and sources behind it. Line weight is rounds together; dashed lines are inferred.

Reading the network
  • Sponsor
  • Company
  • Fund or vehicle
  • Person

Co-investors are read from the rounds: three or more shared rounds is a strong observed relationship, two a repeat co-investor, one a single round. Funds and people are structural. Nothing is scored that a reader cannot check.

Darker lines were active in the last 24 months or are current; lighter lines are older or undated.

How am I connected?

Name your firm, a company or a person, and DFX finds the published routes to Top Shelf Ventures: a shared portfolio company or board, a prior employer, a co-investor, a shared LP or service provider. Every step is a filed or published record with its source; none is a guess about who knows whom.

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Investing

2 companies on record, 2 new in 12 months
Investments on record
2 companies, 1 partner-attributed
CompanyRoundRolePartnerRound sizeThis investorDateSource
OuterSignal, Inc.Series A · Series Aparticipantunknown$22.0MunknownSep 30, 2026Fact Press release
EileenStrategic InvestmentleadunknownunknownunknownJun 16, 2026Fact Press release
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
pre seed 50%series a 50%
Stage at first entry
pre seed 50%series a 50%
Industries, each company once
Hardware and deep tech, Software or Tech-enabled and IT services (1)
lead rate 67%follow-on rate 50%new companies, 12 months 2

Team

1 current, 0 departed
Decision makers
who to call first, and why; then everyone else by function
  • Jason Sherman · Managing Partner
    Why this person: Managing partner: runs the firm; Named with investment responsibility; Led 1 round on record

Ranked by the role the firm or its filing states, a route on file and deals led. Every reason is read from the record, never inferred. Routes are published by the person or the firm (their bio, the team page or a filing) and are revealed on a plan; data bought from a provider is never shown, and a route printed at a firm the person has since left is held back.

Investment team
1 current, 0 departed
Contacts
none published
No published business contact on record for the firm or its current team. Nothing is guessed from an email pattern.

Funds and LPs

1 vehicle, 0 LPs disclosed
Funds and vehicles
1 reported
VehicleTypeVintageLifecycleReported GAVOwnersForm D soldLatest Form D
Top Shelf Ventures II, LPFundunknownUnknownunknownunknown$0Oct 23, 2024
Limited partners
0 LPs, 0 disclosed commitments
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.
Known LPs and allocators
0 relationships across the firm's funds, from public pensions and the allocator graph
No allocator names this firm or its funds in a public disclosure DFX holds.

Relationships across DFX

4 co-investors
Co-investors
4 counted from shared deals, for the whole firm

Evidence and history

0 dated events, 0 observations from 0 sources
Timeline
0 dated events
No dated event yet.
Identity and regulatory footprint
Address, phone, Form ADV filing and ownersno Form ADV on recordShow
Headquarters
unknown
Office address
unknown
Business phone
unknown
Website
unknown
SEC adviser type
unknown
SEC exemption claimed
unknown
Latest Form ADV
unknown
Private funds reported
unknown
Private fund gross assets, adviser total
unknownreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
Classification history
Every classification this record has carried2 on recordShow
  1. Sep 14, 2026
    Candidate (candidate, 50%)
    No sworn venture fact yet (name or round mention only)
  2. Sep 13, 2026
    Candidate (candidate, 50%)
    Named as an investor in a financing announcement
Evidence
0 observations from 0 sources
Every observation behind this profile, with its source, date and class
FactValueEffectiveClassSource
How this is scored
Scores, classification basis and filing advisersCandidate, candidateShow
Importance
9
low
Active deployment
11
low
Emerging
0
low
Freshness
91
high
Candidate

No sworn venture fact yet (name or round mention only)

The inputs behind each score
importance
gav: $0 · funds: 0.08 · people: 0.04 · investments: 0.18 · scale basis: Venture-typed funds only (Candidate): 1 fund, $0M of $0M reported · co investors: 0.24
active deployment
investments 12m: 0.38 · fund raising 18m: 0 · people joined 12m: 0 · vintage within 3y: 0 · latest investment at: 2026-09-30
emerging manager
fund count: 1 · reported gav: $0 · first adv filing: not scored · years since first filing: not scored

Fits, record history and connections

scored matches for this investor, every identity change, every edge

Record history

1 identity change on the change ledger, latest event first
  • Reclassified
    2026-09-13

The ledger records every merge, rename and reclassification this record went through and the dated filings observed on it, so the identity on this page can be traced to the records it was built from. The ledger's own sentences name other records, so they show with the names.

Not yet on record: latest vintage.