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    Aspenwood Ventures

    San Francisco, California, United StatesFounded 1989

    Aspenwood Ventures (formerly Hummer Winblad Venture Partners) is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 1989 that invests exclusively in early-stage enterprise software companies. The firm pioneered the concept of a VC firm dedicated solely to software investing.

    Their most common stage is series-a (56% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $18.1M (across 9 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    8

    Fund Size

    $70M

    Top Stage

    Series A

    Last 12 Mo

    0

    Team

    Lars Leckie

    Lars Leckie

    Managing Director

    Steve Kishi

    Steve Kishi

    Managing Director

    Mitchell Kertzman

    Mitchell Kertzman

    Partner Emeritus

    Barry Zwarenstein

    Barry Zwarenstein

    Five9 CFO

    Gregg Schott

    Gregg Schott

    Mulesoft CEO

    Haley Etter

    Haley Etter

    Executive Assistant

    Jeff Lunsford

    Jeff Lunsford

    CEO, Tealium

    Maria Mulcahy

    Maria Mulcahy

    CFO

    Stacey Epstein

    Stacey Epstein

    CMO, Freshworks

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    9 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    DefectDojo logoDefectDojoSeries A$7MJan 2024
    Kloudfuse logoKloudfuseSeries A$17MNov 2023
    Kloudfuse logoKloudfuseSeries A$17MJan 2023
    Vendia logoVendiaSeries B$30MMay 2022
    Vendia logoVendiaSeries B$30MMay 2022
    Amberdata logoAmberdataSeries B$30MMay 2022
    Smart Access logoSmart AccessSeries A$12MJan 2022
    AAce MetrixSeries C$8MMay 2012
    Smart Access logoSmart AccessSeries A$12M—

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    Last updated: 7 October 2026