Investor Type | Firm |
Industries | Other • IT (& TMT) |
Stages | Early,Seed |
Investing | United States |
Imagen Capital Partners, based in Seattle, Washington, is a venture capital firm that invests primarily in early-stage technology companies, with a focus on seed-round funding across the technology spectrum. They aim to partner with bright people who are crafting real solutions to practical problems. As former entrepreneurs and C-level operators with experience in navigating successful exits, economic downturns such as the dot-com bubble and the Great Recession of 2008, the Imagen team possesses a thorough understanding of market dynamics and successful business model creation. Their investment thesis revolves around software and SaaS, with particular attention to business intelligence and analytics, application and infrastructure integration, and business process automation technologies. Additionally, they focus on digital media and mobile, including content creation and analysis tools for web data, social and professional network improvements, and the distribution and monetization of user-generated content. Imagen also invests in next-generation infrastructure technologies that support cloud computing and enhance storage, data movement, and classification/management techniques—especially in sectors that are slow to adopt new technologies. They seek out 'pioneers'—ventures and revolutionary technologies considered outside the traditional venture capital markets, often representing non-obvious, yet impactful technology advances serving enterprise markets. Imagen Capital Partners prides itself on being a patient, long-term investor, fully aware of the fluctuations that emerging technology companies face throughout their lifecycle. They encourage entrepreneurs to join them to innovate, challenge, and fundamentally alter the dynamics of new and existing markets. The firm's managing directors bring decades of experience and success in steering startups toward significant profitability.