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 / Upslope Venture Fund I, LLC
Upslope Venture Fund I, LLC
venture manager, reported GAV $12.2M across 1 vehicles
Importance
13
low
Active deployment
30
moderate
Emerging
0
low
Completeness
63
high
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
10
low
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- unknown
- Office address
- unknown
- Business phone
- 860-306-2990adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- HTTP://WWW.UPSLOPE.VC
- SEC adviser type
- exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- unknown
- Latest Form ADV
- Mar 28, 2024
- Private funds reported
- 1 (1 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $12.2Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- Owners on Schedule A
- Mandes, Lawrence (Managing Member), D; Galvanize LLC (Member), B; JRC Capital Partners, LLC (Member), C
- business email
- contact@upslope.vcupslope.vcpublished by the subject
- business phone
- 860-306-2990adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
14 observed deals
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- ai, enterprise software, fintech, consumer, hardware, robotics, space
- Stages
- early
- Geography
- boston, colorado, los angeles, new york, seattle, texas
- 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 93%Other Technology 7%
lead rate n/afollow-on rate n/anew logos, 12 months 14
Funds and vehicles
1 reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Galvanize Venture Fund I, LP | Fund | 2013 form d first sale | Harvest | $12.2M Mar 28, 2024 | 49 | $9.7M of $10.0M | Jul 3, 2014 |
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
4 current, 0 departed
Christopher Carl Onan
PartnerMember · since Dec 1, 2013
James a. Deters
PartnerManaging Director · since Dec 1, 2013
Kate Shillo Beardsely
PartnerManaging Director · since Feb 1, 2018
Lawrence Mandes
PartnerManaging Director · since Dec 1, 2013
Investments on record
14 edges, 14 companies, 0 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
29 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
Silverton Management, L.L.C. 2 shared · recurringShrug, LLC 2 shared · recurringMadrona Venture Group, LLC 1 shared · one timeBullpen Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeK50 Ventures 1 shared · one timeEudemian Ventures, LLC 1 shared · one timemark vc 1 shared · one timeMoneta Ventures, LLC 1 shared · one timeBase Venture Management, Inc. 1 shared · one timeLevel One Fund 1 shared · one timeLakehouse Ventures, LLC 1 shared · one timeStartup Capital Ventures Management Co III, LLC 1 shared · one timeEastside Partners 1 shared · one timeKickstart Capital, LLC 1 shared · one timeHaymaker Ventures LLC 1 shared · one timePositive Sum Advisors LLC 1 shared · one timeSeraphim Space Manager LLP 1 shared · one timeTrinity Ventures 1 shared · one timeArborview Capital 1 shared · one timeAccion 1 shared · one timeWestern Technology Investment (wti) 1 shared · one timeMaywic Select Investments 1 shared · one timeGreat Oaks Management Company LLC 1 shared · one timeIgnition Partners 1 shared · one timeOpen Opportunity Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeMac Venture Capital 1 shared · one timeCollab+currency Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeA.capital Ventures 1 shared · one timeKhosla Ventures, 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
3 dated events
- Feb 1, 2018Kate Shillo Beardsely joined Schedule A of Galvanize Venture Fund I, LLC as Managing Director
- Jul 1, 2014Galvanize Ventures I, 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 1, 2014Galvanize Venture Fund I, LP first reported on Form ADV by Galvanize Ventures I, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $10,000,000Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactGalvanize Venture Fund I, 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 (probable, 80%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $12.2M across 1 vehicles
Evidence
35 observations from 2 sources