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 / SYN Ventures Management LLC
SYN Ventures Management LLC
Institutional venture firmUSsynventures.comSEC venture capital fund adviserone firm, 2 filing advisers
This firm files as 2 advisers on synventures.com: SYN Ventures Seed Management 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.
Venture Capital for Cybersecurity Companies. SYN Ventures invests in disruptive, transformational solutions that reduce technology risk.
venture manager, reported GAV $592M across 4 vehicles
Importance
42
elevated
Active deployment
55
elevated
Emerging
0
low
Completeness
75
high
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
19
moderate
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- unknown
- Office address
- unknown
- Business phone
- 917-514-5201adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- https://www.synventures.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 6, 2026
- Private funds reported
- 5 (5 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $959Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- business phone
- 917-514-5201adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
35 observed deals
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- enterprise software, defense, cybersecurity, industrial
- Stages
- early
- Geography
- not stated
- 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 82%Other Technology 15%Other 3%
lead rate n/afollow-on rate n/anew logos, 12 months 34
Funds and vehicles
4 reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SYN Ventures Fund H, LLC | Fund | 2023 form d first sale | Active deployment | $41.8M Mar 27, 2024 | 16 | $20.0M of $20.0M | Apr 21, 2023 |
| SYN Ventures Fund II LP | Fund | 2022 form d first sale | Active deployment | $297M Mar 27, 2024 | 177 | $295M of $300M | May 24, 2022 |
| SYN Ventures Fund Ii-A LP | Feeder or parallel | 2022 form d first sale | Active deployment | $6.1M Mar 27, 2024 | 28 | $4.8M of $300M | May 24, 2022 |
| SYN Ventures Fund LP | Fund | 2021 form d first sale | Mature | $247M Mar 27, 2024 | 95 | $166M of $200M | Jun 30, 2021 |
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
17 current, 2 departed
Dan Burns
Founder or executiveIC Chairman for Seed Funds
Art Coviello
Managing partnerManaging Partner & IC Chairman for Flagship Funds
JAY Alan Leek
Managing partnerManaging Partner · since May 1, 2021
Jay Leek
Managing partnerManaging Partner & Founder
Adam Cecil
Operating partnerChief Operating Officer & Operating Partner
Glenn Chisholm
Operating partnerOperating Partner
Marcio Lempert
Operating partnerOperating Partner
Ryan Permeh
Operating partnerOperating Partner
Robert Edward Enslein
Platform and operationsChief Operating Officer, Chief Compliance Officer · since May 1, 2021
Amal Kothari
PrincipalPrincipal
Alex Tosheff
Venture partnerVenture Partner
Jessvin Thomas
Venture partnerVenture Partner
John Watters
Venture partnerVenture Partner
Rob Potter
Venture partnerVenture Partner
Robert Rodriguez
Venture partnerVenture Partner
Tim McKnight
Venture partnerVenture Partner
Dylan Posner
Vice presidentSenior Associate
2 departed (kept with end dates)
- Patrick Heim · Managing Partner · May 1, 2021 to Mar 27, 2024 Inference
- Ryan Permeh · Operating Partner · ? to Sep 16, 2026 Inference
Investments on record
35 edges, 34 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
17 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
Rally Ventures Management, LLC 3 shared · recurringClearsky Advisors LLC 2 shared · recurringArtisanal Ventures, LLC 1 shared · one timeHyde Park Angels, Inc. 1 shared · one timeFirstmark Capital, LLC 1 shared · one timeAdverb Ventures Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeSYN Ventures 1 shared · one timeDataTribe 1 shared · one timeTQ Ventures LLC 1 shared · one timeAnkona Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeCanaan Partners 1 shared · one timeHemi Ventures, LLC 1 shared · one timeFika Ventures 1 shared · one timeNotation Capital Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeCrane Venture Partners LLP 1 shared · one timeFactorial Funds Management LLC 1 shared · one timeDecibel Partners, 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
8 dated events
- Sep 16, 2026Query.ai no longer listed on SYN Ventures Management LLC's portfolio pageRemoved from portfolio pagePortfolioInferenceQuery.aiVenture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages)
- Sep 16, 2026Ryan Permeh (Operating Partner) no longer on the team page of SYN Ventures Management LLCPerson leftPeopleInferenceRyan PermehVenture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages)
- Mar 27, 2024SYN Ventures Fund H, LLC first reported on Form ADV by SYN Ventures Management LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $41,786,951Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactSYN Ventures Fund H, LLCSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 27, 2024Patrick Heim (Managing Partner) no longer on Schedule A of SYN Ventures Management LLC
- Mar 16, 2023SYN Ventures Fund II LP first reported on Form ADV by SYN Ventures Management LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $294,000,000Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactSYN Ventures Fund II LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 16, 2023SYN Ventures Fund Ii-A LP first reported on Form ADV by SYN Ventures Management LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $6,000,000Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactSYN Ventures Fund Ii-A LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Jul 27, 2021SYN Ventures 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)
- Jul 27, 2021SYN Ventures Fund LP first reported on Form ADV by SYN Ventures Management LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $200,000,000Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactSYN Ventures 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, 2026Institutional venture firm (confirmed, 95%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $592M across 4 vehicles
Evidence
43 observations from 3 sources