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    Parade Ventures

    Menlo Park, California, United StatesFounded 2018

    Parade Ventures is a seed-stage venture fund investing in enterprise-themed companies, leading or co-leading pre-seed and seed financings. The firm champions businesses with recurring revenue, big margins, high lifetime value, and repeatable sales models.

    Their most common stage is seed (50% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $10.6M (across 14 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    11

    Fund Size

    —

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    0

    Team

    SM

    Shawn Merani

    Founder & Managing Director

    JB

    Jeff Bonforte

    Venture Partner

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    14 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    Shakudo logoShakudoUnknown$7.2MJan 2026
    Flowpath logoFlowpathSeed$1.2MNov 2024
    FlowFi logoFlowFiSeed$9MFeb 2024
    Northstar logoNorthstarSeries B$24.4MOct 2022
    Zingtree logoZingtreeSeries A$15MJan 2022
    Northstar logoNorthstarUnknown$24.4MJan 2022
    Northstar logoNorthstarUnknown$24.4MJan 2022
    Flowpath logoFlowpathSeed$1.2MOct 2021
    Shakudo logoShakudoSeed$3.4MJan 2021
    MMonograph Inc.Series B$20MJan 2021
    Monograph logoMonographSeed$1.9MMar 2020
    Recruitbot logoRecruitbotSeed$8.2M—
    Simuhealth logoSimuhealthPre-Seed$2M—
    Knapsack logoKnapsackSeed$5.5M—

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    Last updated: 7 October 2026