Wildcat Venture Partners

Wildcat Venture Partners is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Mateo, California. Wildcat was co-founded by Bill Ericson, Bruce Cleveland, Bryan Stolle and Katherine Barr, with go-to-market thought leader Geoffrey Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm, serving as a Venture Partner, and an extended investment team including Nathaniel Krasnoff, Phyllis Whiteley, Brett Teele, Derrick Lee, Jennifer Trzepacz and Bill Davidow. The firm's investment thesis casts modern data-rich SaaS entrepreneurs as the 'wildcatters of the 21st century' who prospect, refine and monetize 'digital oil,' data, to become category-defining market leaders. Wildcat invests at early stage into B2B and B2B2C software companies applying machine learning and AI, IoT and cloud-and-mobility platforms in four core markets: Digital Health, EdTech, Enterprise SaaS and FinTech, and it is willing to lead. Fund I closed at $56.5M against an initial target of $100M, with Fund II targeting $120M, and Wildcat has a stated discipline of never raising a fund larger than $250M to preserve early-stage focus and ownership. Across 55 portfolio companies the firm has produced one unicorn, seven IPOs and 19 acquisitions, with named outcomes including Workday, Coupa, Doximity, Clover Health and Ritual, its latest exit in January 2025. The most recent reported investment was ZipLines Education's $6.4M Series A in February 2024. By framing data-rich SaaS founders as modern wildcatters and pairing capital with go-to-market expertise, Wildcat Venture Partners backs early-stage B2B software companies across health, education, enterprise and fintech.