Access Venture Partners

Access Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. It describes itself as hands-on, saying it commits time and its network to founders as well as funding.

What Access Venture Partners offers

• Seed and Series A investment — it comes in as an early institutional investor and holds back reserves for follow-on rounds.
• Sector focus — software as a service, cybersecurity and new marketplace models, with a narrower interest in subsectors where the team has domain knowledge.
• Operating help — the partners say they bring more than a hundred combined years of operating and investing experience.
• Network access — introductions through the team's contacts.

Who it works with

Founders of early-stage enterprise, cybersecurity and marketplace companies. Its portfolio examples include a cybersecurity operations business, a security team for small firms, video-based recruiting, peer-to-peer employee recognition and workplace wellness.

Key facts

• Stage: Seed and Series A
• Sectors: SaaS, cybersecurity, marketplaces
• Pitches: Founders can send a deck through the site