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BuildGroup — Seed & Series A VC Firm ($5.0M–$20.0M Checks)

VC
Austin, United StatesWebsite

BuildGroup is a Seed, Series A venture capital firm based in Austin, United States investing in SaaS, Enterprise, Other. The firm typically writes $5.0M–$20.0M checks and has 14 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$5.0M–$20.0M
Portfolio
14 companies on record
Partners
8 listed
AUM
$537M
Stage
Seed, Series A
Sectors
SaaS, Enterprise, Other
HQ
Austin, United States

Last verified: 2026-09-30

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Seed, Series A

Check Size

$5.0M – $20.0M

AUM

$537M

Portfolio

14+ companies

Team

8 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

BuildGroup invests in early-growth SaaS companies automating workflows with AI and proprietary data, typically at $3–$20 million in ARR. It favors companies moving from initial product-market fit to scaling up.

How BuildGroup invests

BuildGroup is a vc firm based in Austin, United States. The firm invests at the Seed, Series A stages, with a focus on SaaS, Enterprise, Other.

BuildGroup typically writes checks of $5.0M–$20.0M per investment, backed by approximately $537M in assets under management.

BuildGroup has backed 14 companies in our records, including ActiveCampaign, OutboundEngine, Conversational AI Platform.

Partners & Team

CF

Christina Fok

Chief Financial Officer

JC

Jim Curry

CEO

JC

Jim Curry

Cofounder

Scaling SaaS
AI-enabled workflows
Operating teams
OC

Olivia Cannell

Associate

EL

Eric Levine

Vice President

MP

Miguel Perez

Senior Associate

KK

Klee Kleber

Co-Founder

Marketing
Brand building
Go-to-market
Scaling
LN

Lanham Napier

Co-Founder

SaaS
AI
Workflows
Proprietary Data

Industry Focus

Invests In

SaaS
Enterprise
Other

Portfolio Companies (14)

Other

AC

ActiveCampaign

Marketing Automation
OU

OutboundEngine

CRM & Productivity
CO

Conversational AI Platform

A leading conversational AI platform across auto, restaurants, financial services, travel, and health care.

CY

Cybrary

Cybrary's accessible, affordable cybersecurity courses & training platform provides curated career paths, threat-informed training, and certification preparation for professionals at all levels.

BE

Benefits Management Platform

Offers a cloud-based benefits management platform for consumers, employers, insurance carriers and brokers to more efficiently shop, enroll, manage, and exchange benefits information.

FL

Flowspace

Flowspace aggregates two sides of a market, direct-to-consumer (“DTC”) merchants and warehouses, & provides workflow software to both sides to enable modern e-commerce.

DI

DigniFi

DigniFi’s SaaS and marketplace platform connects consumers with auto lenders, dealers, and service centers for car repairs, tires, accessories, and other auto-related needs.

AM

Amelia

Amelia is a conversational AI with built-in process orchestration across service-oriented use cases and industries.

SQ

Squirro

Squirro is a leading generative AI-enabled semantic search and insights cloud company for searching, analyzing, and interpreting unstructured data.

JA

Jake Heller's Legal Research Platform

An AI-enabled legal research and brief writing platform.

How to pitch BuildGroup
  • •Raising at Seed, Series A? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • •Lead with your fit in SaaS, Enterprise, Other — the sectors they actively back.
  • •Size your ask to their typical $5.0M – $20.0M check.
  • •warm intro preferred
  • •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Christina Fok, Chief Financial Officer.
  • •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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