Spring Ventures is the investment platform for Sunil Paul, a successful serial entrepreneur and investor. He typically invests early in the company's lifecycle. He likes to help companies spring up, spring forward, spring with renewal, and spring with life.
Perspective of an Entrepreneur and Innovator -- not just an Investor
Sunil started and ran multiple startup companies. He started the first anti-spam and email security company, Brightmail, sold to Symantec for $370M. His first company was FreeLoader, an early internet company which was sold to a public company for $38M. He has extensive experience with mobility. He started the first ridesharing company, Sidecar, which sold assets to General Motors in 2016. He incubated Getaround, the p2p carsharing company. Most recently, he started a fintech company with the goal to have gigaton scale impact by making EVs affordable and accessible. Details at https://springfreeev.com
Investments
Spring Ventures and Sunil have made many successful investments including IPOs like Linkedin, Procore (acquired Honest Buildings), Supportsoft, Solazyme, and others.
Some of the current portfolio companies include (alphabetically):
- Anno.co (aka Hypothes.is)
- Centaur Diagnostics
- Cognixion
- Diamond Foundry
- Eco
- Firemaps
- Flat
- Future Family
- Getaround
- GoPowerEV
- Gray
- Grid
- Hitch
- IRL
- JCK
- Journey Buildings (aka Core)
- Kitchen United
- LIFT
- Matice Bioscience
- Modality.ai
- Open Door Holdings
- Open Water
- Outside
- Phylagen
- Serve
- Solar Mosaic
- Stable
- Talyn
- WorkPatterns
- Zoomo