About SV Frontier
SV Frontier is a venture capital firm founded in 2013. It is primarily based out of San Francisco, United States. As of Jan 2019, SV Frontier has invested in 12 companies. It primarily invests in Series A round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to Retail and Enterprise Infrastructure. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of MassGenie Overall, SV Frontier portfolio has seen 1 unicorn and 4 acquisitions including key companies like Headspin, Aarki and Neumob. A lot of funds co-invest with SV Frontier, with names like Eniac Ventures sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. SV Frontier has team of 1 people including 1 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Series A & Seed
Portfolio Unicorns
SV Frontier's List of Top Investments
SV Frontier has a portfolio of 12 companies, one of which is a Unicorn. Their most notable investments are in DashBid and Shakr.Their portfolio spans across United States and South Korea. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Retail, Enterprise Infrastructure and 3 other sectors, across stages such as Series A, Seed stages. Here is the list of top investments by SV Frontier:
1. Headspin
Provider of automated and manual testing platform for mobile and web. The platform offers end-to-end automation of the quality assurance process. It allows comparative analysis of application performance against peers. The platform facilitates continuous monitoring of application performance using synthetic data. It provides tools for issue resolution and user experience enhancement.
Key facts about Headspin
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: Palo Alto (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series C
- Total Funding till date: $117M
- Employee Count: 228 as on Mar 31, 2026
- Investors: Alpha Square Group, Amino Capital and 61 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Apr 02, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. Aarki
Provides a platform for both creative optimization and programmatic media buying. It enables trafficking and optimization of programmatic campaigns. It offers multivariate testing to determine the performing creative which would be identified using dynamic creative optimization.
Key facts about Aarki
- Founded Year: 2010
- Location: Mountain View (United States)
- Last Known Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $10M
- Employee Count: 153 as on Sep 03, 2025
- Investors: SV Frontier, Walden Venture Capital and 3 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Dec 20, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
3. Neumob
Neumob provides VPN for mobile internet use. Its VPN was used in markets where phone plans are expensive and prohibitive for mobile internet use. However, company got shutdown in early 2017 as the business became unsustainable as many new customers started using the product. Company was then acquired by Cloudflare in Nov 2017 to enter into VPN market. Cloudflare plans to relaunch the VPN product to consumers for free.
Key facts about Neumob
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: Sunnyvale (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $15M
- Employee Count: 19 as on Dec 31, 2022
- Investors: TriplePoint Capital, Eniac Ventures and 8 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Sep 30, 2015, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
4. OvationCXM
Offering customer journey management solutions. It is purposely designed to guide and fix customer experiences at the moment instead of waiting until the end of a journey to improve the next one. Offers solutions for abandoned activations, low NPS scores, high support costs, high attrition, dissatisfied employees and stagnant growth.
Key facts about OvationCXM
- Founded Year: 2013
- Location: Tiburon (United States)
- Stage: Series C
- Total Funding till date: $52.1M
- Employee Count: 78 as on Dec 31, 2024
- Investors: Savano Capital Partners, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and 15 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Sep 13, 2022, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
5. Virool
Platform offering native advertising solution. It is a self-serve social video advertising platform that allows anyone with a video to reach their desired target audience on Facebook, mobile phones, and niche sites. It offers a DMP solution that provides access to user data that supports audience targeting.
Key facts about Virool
- Founded Year: 2011
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $20.2M
- Employee Count: 68 as on Dec 31, 2022
- Investors: Menlo Ventures, Yahoo Japan and 37 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Apr 05, 2016, $*****
SV Frontier's Year-on-Year Investment Trends
SV Frontier has invested in 12 companies over the last 11 years, with an average of 0 new investment annually in the last 10 years. Its most recent first time investment was in MassGenie.SV Frontier's Investments by Stage
SV Frontier has made 3 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $7.21M and 1 investment in Seed stage.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Series A | 3 |
Seed | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
SV Frontier's Investments by Sector
SV Frontier has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Consumer, Enterprise Infrastructure and Retail. Notably, it has invested in 12 Tech companies, 11 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 10 Software companies and at least 6 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 3 |
Consumer | 1 |
Enterprise Infrastructure | 1 |
Retail | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
SV Frontier's Investments by Geography
SV Frontier has made most investments in United States (4), followed by South Korea where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 4 |
South Korea | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
SV Frontier's recent investments
SV Frontier has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by SV Frontier:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 04, 2019 | United States | Seed | 4999 | - | |
Oct 09, 2015 | United States | Series A | 3959 | ||
Sep 30, 2015 | United States | Series A | 9885 | [+8] | |
Jan 22, 2015 | South Korea | Series A | 5744 | - |
Unicorns in SV Frontier's Portfolio
SV Frontier has 1 unicorn in its portfolio - Headspin. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is Headspin which became a unicorn in 2020, 6 years before SV Frontier first invested in it.Here is a list of unicorns in SV Frontier's portfolio:
Tracxn Score | Company | Short Description | Founded year | Sector | Location | Company Stage | First Investment/ Acquisition Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
69 | Provider of automated and manual testing platform for mobile and web | 2014 | Palo Alto | Series C | gmcpcpu |
Acquired companies in SV Frontier's Portfolio
4 companies from SV Frontier's portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Aarki in Jun 2021 by Skillz for $*****.Here are SV Frontier's portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 02, 2021 | - | - | 4863 | |
May 18, 2021 | - | - | 5569 | |
Nov 14, 2017 | Sep 30, 2015 | Series A | 2600 | |
Jun 25, 2014 | - | - | 5966 |
Team profile of SV Frontier
SV Frontier has a team of 1 member located in United States. SV Frontier's team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of SV Frontier
Over the past 11 years, 13 investors have co-invested in SV Frontier's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before SV Frontier: Accel, Menlo Ventures and 5 others have invested in rounds before SV Frontier. There is 1 company where Accel has invested before SV Frontier and 1 company where Menlo Ventures has invested before SV Frontier.
- Top Co-investors of SV Frontier: 6 investors entered a company along with SV Frontier. These include investors like Eniac Ventures (1 company).
Recent News related to SV Frontier
•
Cloudflare expands into mobile performance with Neumob acquisitionTechCrunch+•Nov 14, 2017•CloudFlare, Neumob, Accel, Plug and Play Tech Center and 8 others
•
DashBid Secures Venture FinancingPRWeb•Oct 14, 2015•DashBid, SV Frontier, Centripetal Capital Partners
•
Mobile App Accelerator Neumob Raises $8.5M Series A Led By Accel PartnersTechCrunch+•Oct 02, 2015•Neumob, Accel, Plug and Play Tech Center, Shasta Ventures and 7 others
•
