About PS27 Ventures
PS27 Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2013. It is primarily based out of Jacksonville, United States. As of Mar 2025, PS27 Ventures has invested in 37 companies. It primarily invests in Seed round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to Retail and Consumer. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series A round of Ottometric Overall, PS27 Ventures portfolio has seen 3 acquisitions, namely OnPay Solutions. A lot of funds co-invest with PS27 Ventures, with names like Andreessen Horowitz sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. PS27 Ventures has team of 6 people including 2 partners.Key Metrics
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PS27 Ventures' List of Top Investments
PS27 Ventures has a portfolio of 37 companies. Their most notable investments are in Hazlnut and RYZE.Their portfolio spans across and United States. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Retail, Consumer and 16 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A stages. Here is the list of top investments by PS27 Ventures:
1. Payall
Payall enables banks and other financial institutions, as well as regulated entities, to offer safe, transparent, low-cost, immediate, and inclusive cross-border payments. Payall has pioneered the first-ever multi-currency global single shared platform as a modular infrastructure that solves different problems facing originating institutions, correspondent banks, and new alternatives to correspondent banks, intermediate banks, central banks, regulators, domestic payment networks, and liquidity providers. Inspired by first-principles, Payall’s breakthrough capabilities digitize end-to-end counterparty risk management, multi-jurisdictional compliance, real-time event surveillance and intervention, dynamic transaction decisioning across multiple institutions and countries, as well as a global gateway that intelligently routes payments to last-mile partners, including domestic bank transfer networks, mobile money operators, digital wallets and cash networks reaching up to 95% of the world’s population. Payall’s technology seamlessly integrates with core bank systems and digital bank platforms or operates as “bank-in-a-box” for a complete digital presence. With Payall, banks and other financial institutions can offer cross-border product experiences their customers need, but no bank has ever offered. Payall is backed by Andreessen Horowitz Fund (A16Z), Ventura Capital, Thomson Reuters Ventures, Motivate Ventures, BAT-VC, Presidio Ventures / Sumitomo Corp, PS27 Ventures and other notable family offices and industry icons.
Key facts about Payall
- Founded Year: 2002
- Location: Miami Beach (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $27.2M
- Employee Count: 44 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Ventura Capital, RRE Ventures and 11 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Jun 05, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick

2. SkillCycle
Company provides learning development platform that supports employee lifecycle. It offer solutions for talent development, professional coaching, and performance management. It also allows users to provide feedback and insights on workforce.
Key facts about SkillCycle
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: New York City (United States)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $9.28M
- Employee Count: 60 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Gaingels, BIP Ventures and 9 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Feb 05, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
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3. Ottometric
Developer of verification software to automate autonomous driving validation and training process. The platform gathers, ingests, cleans, identify & visualizes sensor data by using machine learning and computer vision technology. It optimizes the manual review process in order to minimize the redundancy of data. These data can be used in ADAS, self-driving cars, and more.
Key facts about Ottometric
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: Boston (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $15.2M
- Employee Count: 45 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Goodyear Ventures, Rally Ventures and 10 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Mar 07, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
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4. RYZE
Key facts about RYZE
- Founded Year: 2019
- Location: Boston (United States)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $2.15M
- Employee Count: 387 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Reign Ventures, Northwood Ventures and 4 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Mar 01, 2022, $*****

5. COI Energy
Provider of digital energy management platform for building energy optimization. This platform detects and eliminates energy waste in buildings, enabling businesses to optimize their energy portfolios. The system offers real-time insights and control, allowing for proactive energy resource management. It also facilitates carbon emission tracking and management, supporting sustainability goals. Integration with existing building infrastructure is seamless, maximizing operational efficiency and providing customized reporting on cost savings and energy performance. The platform helps businesses monetize excess energy capacity while contributing to energy equity initiatives.
Key facts about COI Energy
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: Tampa (United States)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $2.5M
- Employee Count: 9 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Village Capital, MassChallenge and 6 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Conventional Debt, Oct 25, 2023, $*****
PS27 Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
PS27 Ventures has invested in 37 companies over the last 13 years, with an average of 2 new investments annually in the last 10 years. In 2025, it made 1 investment. Its most recent first time investment was in Ottometric and most recent follow-on round was in RYZE.Year | No. of Investments | ||
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1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2024 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2022 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
2021 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
2020 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
PS27 Ventures' Investments by Stage
PS27 Ventures has made 20 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $1.95M and 2 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $6.64M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 20 |
Series A | 2 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
PS27 Ventures' Investments by Sector
PS27 Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Consumer, Vertical SaaS, FinTech and Food and Agriculture Tech. Notably, it has invested in 24 Tech companies, 18 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 16 Consumer (B2C) companies and at least 14 companies focusing on Software.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 12 |
Consumer | 6 |
Vertical SaaS | 6 |
FinTech | 4 |
Food and Agriculture Tech | 4 |
Others | 24 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
PS27 Ventures' Investments by Geography
PS27 Ventures has made most investments in United States (21).PS27 Ventures' recent investments
PS27 Ventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by PS27 Ventures:
Date | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Mar 07, 2025 | United States | Series A | 4365 | [+3] | |
Dec 23, 2024 | United States | Seed | 2205 | - | |
May 07, 2024 | United States | Seed | 7529 | ||
Dec 13, 2022 | United States | Seed | 9650 | - | |
Dec 08, 2022 | United States | Seed | 9190 | - |
Acquired companies in PS27 Ventures' Portfolio
3 companies from PS27 Ventures' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was OnPay Solutions in Mar 2022 by Medius for $*****.Here are PS27 Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 29, 2022 | Mar 01, 2017 | Seed | 6298 | |
Oct 12, 2021 | Jan 05, 2021 | Seed | 6765 | |
Feb 02, 2015 | Dec 31, 2013 | Seed | 7268 |
Team profile of PS27 Ventures
PS27 Ventures has a team of 6 members including 2 Partners located in United States. PS27 Ventures' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of PS27 Ventures
Over the past 13 years, 32 investors have co-invested in PS27 Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before PS27 Ventures: Rally Ventures, Goodyear Ventures and 11 others have invested in rounds before PS27 Ventures. There is 1 company where Rally Ventures has invested before PS27 Ventures and 1 company where Goodyear Ventures has invested before PS27 Ventures.
- Top Co-investors of PS27 Ventures: 15 investors entered a company along with PS27 Ventures. These include investors like Andreessen Horowitz (1 company).
- Invested after PS27 Ventures: A total of 4 investors have invested in PS27 Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Ventura Capital (1 company), RiverBay Capital (1 company) and 11 Tribes Ventures (1 company).
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Payall lands $10M in a16z-led seed round to help banks facilitate more cross-border paymentsTechCrunch+•Sep 15, 2022•Payall, Andreessen Horowitz, Motivate Venture Capital, PS27 Ventures and 3 others
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£8.7m capital raise for Recognise BankAngel News•May 20, 2022•Recognise Bank, City of London Group, PS27 Ventures