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 / Sweetwater Private Equity
Sweetwater Private Equity
Private equity with venture activity · probableEncinitas, CAsweetwaterpe.comSEC registered investment adviser
Sweetwater Private Equity is a boutique private equity manager that specializes in niche secondary opportunities – creating simple, streamlined investment opportunities.
registered adviser; venture funds are 9% of 6 private funds
Importance
42
elevated
Active deployment
30
moderate
Emerging
0
low
Completeness
63
high
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
15
moderate
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- Encinitas, CAadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- 662 ENCINITAS BLVD, STE 250, Encinitas, CA, 92024adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- 760-652-6353adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- HTTPS://WWW.SWEETWATERPE.COM
- SEC adviser type
- registered investment adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- unknown
- Latest Form ADV
- Jun 12, 2024
- Private funds reported
- 6 (0 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $972Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- Regulatory AUM
- $1.1Bthe adviser's RAUM, a regulatory measure, never a fund size
- Employees
- 14
- Owners on Schedule A
- Collabor8 Partners LLC (Member), C; Gamett Holdco LLC (Member), D; Mbsc Ventures LLC (Member), B
- business email
- info@sweetwaterpe.comsweetwaterpe.compublished by the subject
- business phone
- 760-652-6353adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
13 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: no observed deals yet
Stage at first entry: no observed deals yet
Sectors
unknown 85%Other 8%Other Technology 8%
lead rate n/afollow-on rate n/anew logos, 12 months 13
Funds and vehicles
0 reported, 1 no longer reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sweetwater II D LP | Fund | 2021 adv first reported | Wound down | $49,020 May 5, 2022 | 3 | 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
23 current, 0 departed
Amber Andrews
AnalystSenior Analyst
Sean Yukawa
AnalystAnalyst
Bijan Sagart
AssociateAssociate
Gabe Willes
AssociateAssociate
Griffin Garcia
AssociateAssociate
Jasmine Peng
AssociateAssociate
Natalie Arterburn
AssociateAssociate
Nicolas Forno
AssociateAssociate
Riley Stewart
AssociateAssociate
Brent Anthony Granado
Managing partnerManaging Member · since Feb 1, 2019
Gregory David Parise
Managing partnerManaging Member · since Dec 1, 2021
James Bunker Gamett
Managing partnerManaging Member · since Dec 1, 2021
Sweetwater Collective
OtherPortfolio
Brent Alvord
PartnerManaging Director
Brent Granado
PartnerPartner
James Gamett
PartnerFounder & Partner
Matt Kelsay
PartnerPartner
Matt Harris
Platform and operationsController
Travis Greenwood
Platform and operationsCFO & CCO
Travis P. Greenwood
Platform and operationsChief Compliance Officer · since Aug 1, 2019
Ali Pfitzenmaier
PrincipalPrincipal
Brianna Boretto
PrincipalPrincipal
Investments on record
13 edges, 13 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
31 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
Colosseum Management LLC 1 shared · one timeActivate Capital Partners 1 shared · one timeJMI Management, L.P. 1 shared · one timeCausation Ventures, L.L.C. 1 shared · one timeBling Capital LLC 1 shared · one timeThreshold 1 shared · one timeParadigm Operations LP 1 shared · one timeDenver Angels 1 shared · one timeHakluyt Capital Limited 1 shared · one timeValor Equity Partners 1 shared · one timeUpper90 1 shared · one timeDiversis Capital 1 shared · one timeInterplay Ventures Early Stage Management LLC 1 shared · one timeVenrex Investment Management LLP 1 shared · one timeFlux Capital 1 shared · one timeAIR Street Capital II LP 1 shared · one timeAlkeon Capital Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeFactorial Funds Management LLC 1 shared · one timeAlpha Partners Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeH.I.G. Capital, LLC 1 shared · one timeHOF Capital 1 shared · one timeHack Vc Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeG Squared Equity LLC 1 shared · one timeOtro Capital 1 shared · one timeRadical Ventures 1 shared · one timeAvenir Management Company, LLC 1 shared · one timeTech Council Ventures LLC 1 shared · one timeBedrock Fund Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeSnowpoint Ventures Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeAnsa Capital Management, LLC 1 shared · one timeB Capital 1 shared · one time · they led 1
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
- Mar 28, 2024Sweetwater II D LP no longer reported on Form ADV by Sweetwater Private EquityFund no longer reportedFundsInferenceSweetwater II D LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 30, 2021Sweetwater II D LP first reported on Form ADV by Sweetwater Private Equity (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $17,500,000Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactSweetwater II D LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Aug 1, 2019Travis P. Greenwood joined Schedule A of Sweetwater Investment Management LLC as Chief Compliance Officer
- Jul 17, 2018Sweetwater Capital Partners first filed Form ADV (ERA)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Jun 1, 2018Brent Anthony Granado joined Schedule A of Sweetwater Capital Partners as Managing Partner
Classification history
- Sep 12, 2026Private equity with venture activity (probable, 75%, cls-1)registered adviser; venture funds are 9% of 6 private funds
Evidence
37 observations from 2 sources