When was Rising Tide Fund founded?

Rising Tide Fund was founded in 1992.

Where is Rising Tide Fund's headquarters located?

Rising Tide Fund's headquarters is located in San Francisco (United States).

How big is Rising Tide Fund's investment team?

Rising Tide Fund has a team of 5, including 3 partners.

How many companies has Rising Tide Fund invested in?

Rising Tide Fund has invested in 109 companies, including Palantir & Cloudera.

Which companies has Rising Tide Fund invested in lately?

ParkBooker & Parade are the latest investments by Rising Tide Fund.

What sectors does Rising Tide Fund focus on for investments?

Top sectors in Rising Tide Fund's portfolio are Enterprise Applications (50 investments) and High Tech (34 investments).

What stages of companies does Rising Tide Fund typically invest in?

Rising Tide Fund primarily invests in Series A and Series B stages.

How many exits has Rising Tide Fund been involved in?

Rising Tide Fund's portfolio has seen 2 IPOs and 39 acquisitions.

How many unicorns are there in Rising Tide Fund's portfolio?

There are 5 unicorns in Rising Tide Fund's portfolio.

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Rising Tide Fund is a venture capital firm founded in 1992. It is primarily based out of San Francisco, United States. As of Feb 2025, Rising Tide Fund is an active investor, having invested in 109 companies, with 1 new investment in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Series B round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to High Tech and FinTech. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of ParkBooker Overall, Rising Tide Fund portfolio has seen 5 unicorns, 2 IPOs and 39 acquisitions including key companies like Palantir, Cloudera and CoinList. A lot of funds co-invest with Rising Tide Fund, with names like VenGrowth VG Partners sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Rising Tide Fund has team of 5 people including 3 partners.

Key Metrics

Team Members

Joseph Kell, Ossama Hassanein & 3 more

Portfolio Count

Palantir, Cloudera & 107 more

Portfolio Sectors

Enterprise Applications, High Tech & 26 more

Portfolio Locations

United States, Canada & 6 more

Rounds of Entry

Series A, Series B & 3 more

Portfolio IPOs

Palantir & Quanergy Com

Portfolio Acquisitions

Xtera, With Reach & 37 more

Portfolio Unicorns

Ayar Labs, Enable & 3 more

Portfolio Soonicorns

Twelve, Messari & 10 more

Deals in last 12 months

ParkBooker & Parade

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Rising Tide Fund has a portfolio of 109 companies, including 5 unicorns. Their most notable investments are in Andigilog and Quanergy Com.Their portfolio spans across United States, Canada, United Kingdom and 5 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, FinTech and 25 other sectors, across stages such as Series A, Series B and 3 more. Here is the list of top investments by Rising Tide Fund:

1. Palantir

Platform that provides data analysis and management solutions. It is a software company that specializes in big data analytics and provides software platforms for analyzing and integrating large amounts of data. Its software powers real-time, AI-driven decisions in critical government and commercial enterprise, from the factory floors to the front lines.

Key facts about Palantir

Founded Year: 2003
Location: Denver (United States)
Annual Revenue: $2.87B as on Dec 31, 2024
Stage: Public
Total Funding till date: $2.46B
Employee Count: 3,936 as on Dec 31, 2024
Investors: TrueBridge, Harmony Venture Partners and 163 Others
Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Aug 31, 2023, $*****
Highlight: Public

2. Cloudera

AI powered big data stack solutions. The platform automates and orchestrates data pipelines to streamline data engineering process. Its features include multi function analytics, hybrid, and multi cloud variation, data warehouses, data mesh, visualization, and more. It caters to industries such as healthcare, retail, education, manufacturing, and telecom.

Key facts about Cloudera

Founded Year: 2008
Location: Palo Alto (United States)
Annual Revenue: $869M as on Jan 31, 2021
Last Known Valuation: $*****
Stage: Acquired
Total Funding till date: $1.04B
Employee Count: 1,124 as on Dec 31, 2018
Investors: T. Rowe Price, Harmony Venture Partners and 38 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series F, 2015, $*****
Highlight: Acquired

3. CoinList

App-based trading platform for cryptocurrency. Its features include buying and selling crypto assets, depositing crypto, transferring crypto assets, and more. It also enables users to purchase crypto assets through token sales. The app is available on Android and iOS devices.

Key facts about CoinList

Founded Year: 2017
Location: San Francisco (United States)
Valuation: $*****
Stage: Series A
Total Funding till date: $119M
Investors: Rising Tide Fund, Hack VC and 31 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series A, Oct 26, 2021, $*****
Highlight: Editors' Pick

4. Dapper Labs

Blockchain-based games developer for PC and console. It has built Cryptokitties, a blockchain-based game that allows users to collect and breed digital cats. It has also developed KittyVerse, which allows users to build and play third-party games.

Key facts about Dapper Labs

Founded Year: 2018
Location: Vancouver (Canada)
Valuation: $*****
Stage: Series D
Total Funding till date: $666M
Employee Count: 511 as on Jul 01, 2024
Investors: Rising Tide Fund, SV Angel and 126 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series D, May 23, 2022, $*****
Highlight: Editors' Pick

5. Sandvine

Provider of network policy control products. Its products include business intelligence, revenue generation, traffic optimization, and network security. The companys network policy control solutions consist of a software platform and hardware modules that are bundled together to provide a system for broadband Internet service providers to identify, report on and take action on the data traversing their networks.

Key facts about Sandvine

Founded Year: 2001
Location: Waterloo (Canada)
Annual Revenue: $75.4M as on Dec 31, 2014
Stage: Acquired
Total Funding till date: $15M
Employee Count: 501 - 1,000 as on Jul 01, 2024
Investors: Rising Tide Fund, Canaccord Genuity Group and 7 Others
Latest Funding Round: Conventional Debt, 2018, $*****
Highlight: Acquired

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Rising Tide Fund has invested in 109 companies over the last 27 years, with an average of 3 new investments annually in the last 10 years. In 2025, it made 1 investment. Its most recent first time investment was in ParkBooker and most recent follow-on round was in With Reach.

Here are Rising Tide Fund's Year-on-Year Investment Trends:

Year	No. of Investments
Year	1^st Round	Follow-on	Total
2026 (YTD)	0	0	0
2025	1	0	1
2024	0	0	0
2023	1	0	1
2022	1	2	3
2021	3	1	4
2020	4	2	6
2019	5	0	5
2018	5	2	7

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Rising Tide Fund has made 23 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $14.2M, 13 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $19.2M, 11 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $2.52M, 5 investments in Series C stage with an average round size of $72.3M and 1 investment in Conventional Debt stage.

Here are Rising Tide Fund's investments by stage:

Stage of entry	No. of Investments
Series A	23
Series B	13
Seed	11
Series C	5
Conventional Debt	1

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

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Rising Tide Fund has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, FinTech, High Tech, Life Sciences and Blockchain Technology. Notably, it has invested in 94 Tech companies, 81 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 63 Software companies and at least 26 companies focusing on Saas.

Here are Rising Tide Fund's investments by sector:

Sector	No. of Investments
Enterprise Applications	24
FinTech	11
High Tech	10
Life Sciences	7
Blockchain Technology	6
Others	56

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

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Rising Tide Fund has made most investments in United States (33), followed by Canada where it has made 14 investments.

Here are Rising Tide Fund's investments by geography:

Country	No. of Investments
United States	33
Canada	14
United Kingdom	2
Australia	1
France	1
Others	2

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

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Rising Tide Fund has not made any investment in 2026 so far.

Here are the most recent investments by Rising Tide Fund:

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Date	Company	Location	Round Details	Round Amount	Co-Investors
Feb 19, 2025	ParkBooker	Australia	Seed	3535	[+1]
Sep 14, 2023	Parade	United States	Series B	6497	I Squared Capital [+12]
Mar 21, 2022	With Reach	Canada	Conventional Debt	4607	Vistara Growth [+4]
Mar 21, 2022	With Reach	Canada	Series B	2206	Vistara Growth [+4]
Feb 03, 2022	Tribal Credit	United States	Series B	3983	SoftBank Latin America Fund [+3]

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Rising Tide Fund has 5 unicorns in its portfolio - AyarUwin Labs, Enable, CoinList and others. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is Ayar Labs. It became a unicorn in 2024, 4 years after Rising Tide Fund first invested in it.

Here is a list of unicorns in Rising Tide Fund's portfolio:

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Tracxn Score	Company	Short Description	Founded year	Sector	Location	Company Stage	First Investment/ Acquisition Details
68	Ayar Labs	Developer of optical interconnect solutions for artificial intelligence infrastructure applications	2015	Semiconductors [+1]	San Francisco	Series D	eqgcxhb
66	Enable	SaaS Platform for B2B Rebate Management	2016	FinTech	Stratford upon avon	Series D	drqzoxg
79	CoinList	App-based trading platform for cryptocurrency	2017	FinTech [+1]	San Francisco	Series A	ixaftoe
69	Astranis	Developer of satellite-based communication services	2015	Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Tech [+1]	San Francisco	Series D	yndqmtv
77	Dapper Labs	Blockchain-based games developer for PC and console	2018	High Tech [+3]	Vancouver	Series D	wzbsrbx

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2 of Rising Tide Fund's portfolio companies have become public. Palantir got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ), in Oct 2020 at marketcap of undefined and Quanergy Com got listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at marketcap of undefined.

Here are Rising Tide Fund's portfolio companies that went public:

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Company	IPO Date	First Invested on	First Round of Investment	Round Size
Palantir	Oct 02, 2020	-	-	Sports
Quanergy Com	Apr 24, 2020	Nov 17, 2014	Series A	5826

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39 companies from Rising Tide Fund's portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition were Xtera in Dec 2025 by Prysmian.

Here are Rising Tide Fund's portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:

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Company	Acquisition Date	First Invested on	First Round of Investment	Round Size
Xtera	Dec 29, 2025	-	-	7075
With Reach	Feb 20, 2025	Mar 21, 2022	Conventional Debt	9766
Teampay	Apr 25, 2024	-	-	9540
Flipp	Aug 16, 2023	-	-	9107
Loop Genomics	Feb 08, 2022	-	-	6170

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Rising Tide Fund has a team of 5 members including 3 Partners, 1 Venture Partner and 1 Principal located in United States. Rising Tide Fund's team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.

Here is a list of all team members in Rising Tide Fund:

Name	Designation	Location	Board Memberships	Contact details
Joseph Kell	Partner	San Francisco	-	-
Ossama Hassanein	Partner	San Francisco	-	1 Email
Tamer Hassanein	Partner	Austin	-	-
Rodrigo Guaraq	Venture Partner	New York City	-	1 Email
Brent MacDonald	Principal	San Francisco	-	-

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Over the past 27 years, 538 investors have co-invested in Rising Tide Fund's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.

Invested before Rising Tide Fund: Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz and 94 others have invested in rounds before Rising Tide Fund. There are 4 companies where Y Combinator has invested before Rising Tide Fund and 2 companies where Andreessen Horowitz has invested before Rising Tide Fund.
Top Co-investors of Rising Tide Fund: 231 investors entered a company along with Rising Tide Fund. These include investors like VenGrowth VG Partners (5 companies).
Invested after Rising Tide Fund: A total of 211 investors have invested in Rising Tide Fund's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Coinbase (3 companies), Samsung NEXT (2 companies) and SV Angel (2 companies).