DFX Intelligence
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 / Activate Venture Partners
Activate Venture Partners
Micro VCBethlehem, PAactivatevp.comSEC venture capital fund adviseremerging managerone firm, 2 filing advisers
This firm files as 2 advisers on activatevp.com: Milestone Managers LLC. Each keeps its own CRD, funds and filings; the grouping is the website each swore to on Form ADV and is recomputed every pass.
A leader in digital health and applied technology investment.
venture manager, reported GAV $46.8M across 3 vehicles
Importance
16
moderate
Active deployment
29
moderate
Emerging
78
high
Completeness
75
high
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
29
moderate
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- Bethlehem, PAadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- 116 RESEARCH AVE, Bethlehem, PA, 18015adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- 610 849 1990adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- https://activatevp.com
- 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
- 3 (3 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $55.7Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- business email
- info@activatevp.comactivatevp.compublished by the subject
- business phone
- 610 849 1990adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
1 observed deals
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- ai, enterprise software, fintech, healthcare, biotech, medtech, industrial
- Stages
- seed, early
- Geography
- new york
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
- Self-described
- venture capital
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation: no observed deals yet
Stage at first entry: no observed deals yet
Sectors
unknown 100%
lead rate n/afollow-on rate n/anew logos, 12 months 1
Funds and vehicles
3 reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Activate Ventures III LP | Fund | 2024 form d first sale | Early deployment | $1.8M Dec 24, 2024 | 40 | $29.9M of $150M | Feb 21, 2024 |
| Activate Ventures II Annex Fund LP | Continuation vehicle | 2020 form d first sale | Mature | $6.6M Dec 24, 2024 | 25 | $11.4M of $25.0M | Feb 6, 2020 |
| Activate Ventures II LP | Fund | unknown | Unknown | $38.4M Dec 24, 2024 | 93 | 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
11 current, 1 departed
Glen Bressner
Managing partnerCo-Founder and Managing Partner
Glen R. Bressner
Managing partnerManaging Partner · since Mar 1, 2017
Todd Pietri
Managing partnerCo-Founder and Managing Partner
Todd Tindall Pietri
Managing partnerManaging Partner · since Mar 1, 2017
Edwin Goodman
PartnerMember · since Mar 1, 2017
Donald C. Yount
Platform and operationsChief Financial Officer · since Mar 1, 2017
Platform and operations
Avlyn Ashterman-Reece
PrincipalAdministrative Director
Jarred Bressner
PrincipalPrincipal
Ed Goodman
Venture partnerVenture Partner
Jeff Davison
Venture partnerVenture Partner
1 departed (kept with end dates)
- Venture Scout · Administrative Director · ? to Sep 16, 2026 Inference
Investments on record
1 edges, 1 companies, 0 partner-attributed
| Company | Round | Role | Partner | Round size | This investor | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Website Design | portfolio listing | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact Venture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages) |
“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
2 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
- Sep 16, 2026Venture Scout (Administrative Director) no longer on the team page of Activate Venture PartnersPerson leftPeopleInferenceVenture ScoutVenture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages)
- Dec 24, 2024Activate Venture Partners 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 24, 2024Activate Ventures II LP first reported on Form ADV by Activate Venture Partners (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $38,357,037Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactActivate Ventures II LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Dec 24, 2024Activate Ventures III LP first reported on Form ADV by Activate Venture Partners (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $1,806,803Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactActivate Ventures III LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Dec 24, 2024Activate Ventures II Annex Fund LP first reported on Form ADV by Activate Venture Partners (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $6,624,692Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactActivate Ventures II Annex Fund LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
Classification history
- Sep 12, 2026Micro VC (confirmed, 95%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $46.8M across 3 vehicles
Evidence
45 observations from 3 sources