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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 / Riverwood Capital Management L.P.
Riverwood Capital Management L.P.
Private equity with venture activity · probableMenlo Park, CAriverwoodcapital.comSEC registered investment adviser
Riverwood Capital is a private equity firm focused on high growth technology and related companies in need of capital and expertise to scale on a global basis.
registered adviser; venture funds are 5% of 14 private funds
Importance
53
elevated
Active deployment
40
elevated
Emerging
0
low
Completeness
81
high
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
15
moderate
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- Menlo Park, CAadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- 70 WILLOW ROAD, SUITE 100, Menlo Park, CA, 94025adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- 650-618-7300adviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC adviser type
- registered investment adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- unknown
- Latest Form ADV
- Mar 29, 2024
- Private funds reported
- 14 (0 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $6.0Badviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- Regulatory AUM
- $6.0Bthe adviser's RAUM, a regulatory measure, never a fund size
- Employees
- 51
- Owners on Schedule A
- Riverwood IV GP Holdings Feeder L.P. (Limited Partner), E; Riverwood IV GP Holdings Parent, LLC (General Partner), F; Riverwood IV GP Holdings 2 L.P. (Special Partner), A; Riverwood GP Financing Feeder L.P. (Limited Partner), E; Riverwood GP Financing Parent, LLC (General Partner), F; Riverwood GP Financing 2 L.P. (Special Partner), A; Riverwood Capital Management, Ltd. (General Partner), NA
- business phone
- 650-618-7300adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
4 observed deals
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- logistics
- Stages
- not stated or not yet read
- Geography
- emerging markets, global, latin america, miami, new york, north america
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation
growth 100%
Stage at first entry
growth 100%
Sectors
unknown 100%
lead rate 75%follow-on rate 0%new logos, 12 months 4
Funds and vehicles
2 reported, 1 no longer reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riverwood Capital Partners IV | Fund | 2023 lp reported | Active deployment | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown |
| Riverwood Capital Partners III | Fund | 2020 lp reported | Mature | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown |
| Riverwood Capital Ventures L.P. | Fund | 2015 adv first reported | Wound down | $23.5M Mar 29, 2016 | 27 | 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
43 current, 3 departed
Ignacio Ortiz
AnalystAnalyst Consultant
Mariana Strficek
AnalystAnalyst Consultant
Mateo Busnelli
AnalystAnalyst Consultant
Alex Chetkowski
AssociateAssociate
Romulo Padilla
AssociateAssociate
Shriya Parepally
AssociateAssociate
Keith Janosky
Investor relationsChief Financial Officer; Managing Director, Investor Relations
Mac Hofeditz
Investor relationsManaging Director, Capital Formation
Chris Varelas
Managing partnerCo-founding Partner
Francisco Alvarez Demalde
Managing partnerCo-Founder, Managing Partner
Jeff Parks
Managing partnerCo-Founder and Managing Partner
Jeff Parks
Managing partnerCo-Founder, Managing Partner
Tom Smach
Managing partnerCo-founding Partner
New York
OtherBy Investment
Shant Sood
OtherCo-Head of Riverwood Growth Credit
Alex Porto
PartnerPartner
Francisco Alvarez Demalde
PartnerLimited Partner · since Dec 1, 2021
Harish Belur
PartnerPartner
Jeffery Thomas Parks
PartnerLimited Partner · since Dec 1, 2021
Joaquim Lima
PartnerPartner
Joe De Pinho
PartnerPartner
Ramesh Venugopal
PartnerPartner
Scott Ransenberg
PartnerCo-Head of Riverwood Growth Credit, Partner
Eric Sutton
Platform and operationsVice President of Finance
Keith L Janosky
Platform and operationsChief Financial Officer · since Aug 1, 2023
Leonardo Ungaro
Platform and operationsData Science Manager Consultant
Lisa L Wong
Platform and operationsChief Compliance Officer · since Jan 1, 2015
Lisa Wong
Platform and operationsChief Compliance Officer, General Counsel
Caitlin Mitchell
PrincipalSenior Director
Eric Ma
PrincipalPrincipal
Federico Storani
PrincipalExecutive Director
Gustavo Pinheiro
PrincipalPrincipal
Vizay Kotikalapudi
PrincipalPrincipal
Anant Goel
Vice presidentVice President
Emily Rohrbach
Vice presidentSenior Associate
Fabio Oliveira
Vice presidentVice President
Felipe Fagundes
Vice presidentVice President
John Yang
Vice presidentVice President
Joseline Avendano
Vice presidentVice President
Lara Phillips
Vice presidentVice President
Lucas Vassalo
Vice presidentSenior Associate
Matt Harper
Vice presidentVice President
Rob Needham
Vice presidentSenior Associate
3 departed (kept with end dates)
- Christopher Peter Varelas · Shareholder, Managing Partner, Director · Aug 1, 2008 to Oct 8, 2021 Inference
- Michael E Marks · Managing Member · Dec 1, 2004 to Jan 24, 2018 Inference
- Thomas J Smach · Limited Partner · Jun 1, 2010 to Oct 8, 2021 Inference
Investments on record
4 edges, 4 companies, 1 partner-attributed
| Company | Round | Role | Partner | Round size | This investor | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LeapXpert | Funding round | lead | Jeff Parks (confirmed) | $180M | unknown | Jun 30, 2026 | Fact Press release wires (Business Wire, PR Newswire, GlobeNewswire public RSS) |
| DealHub | Funding round | lead | unknown | $100M | unknown | Jan 22, 2026 | Fact Press release wires (Business Wire, PR Newswire, GlobeNewswire public RSS) |
| Sensor Tower | Strategic investment | participant | unknown | unknown | unknown | Oct 24, 2025 | Fact Press release wires (Business Wire, PR Newswire, GlobeNewswire public RSS) |
| AppZen | Growth Round · Growth | lead | unknown | $180M | unknown | Sep 22, 2025 | Fact Press release wires (Business Wire, PR Newswire, GlobeNewswire public RSS) |
“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
2 disclosed
Timeline
10 dated events
- Mar 29, 2024Riverwood Capital Ventures L.P. no longer reported on Form ADV by Riverwood Capital Management L.P.Fund no longer reportedFundsInferenceRiverwood Capital Ventures L.P.SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Aug 1, 2023Keith Lawrence Janosky joined Schedule A of Riverwood Capital Management L.P. as Chief Financial Officer
- Oct 8, 2021Christopher Peter Varelas (Shareholder, Managing Partner, Director) no longer on Schedule A of Riverwood Capital Management L.P.
- Oct 8, 2021Thomas J Smach (Limited Partner) no longer on Schedule A of Riverwood Capital Management L.P.
- Jan 24, 2018Michael E Mi Only Marks (Managing Member) no longer on Schedule A of Riverwood Capital Management L.P.
- Dec 1, 2017Jeffery Thomas Parks joined Schedule A of Riverwood Capital Management L.P. as Shareholder
- Dec 1, 2017Francisco Alvarez Demalde joined Schedule A of Riverwood Capital Management L.P. as Shareholder
- Mar 30, 2015Riverwood Capital Ventures L.P. first reported on Form ADV by Riverwood Capital Management L.P. (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $23,862,293Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactRiverwood Capital Ventures L.P.SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Jan 1, 2015Lisa L Wong joined Schedule A of Riverwood Capital Management L.P. as Chief Compliance Officer
- Feb 14, 2012Riverwood Capital Management L.P. first filed Form ADV (IA)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC 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 5% of 14 private funds
Evidence
46 observations from 2 sources