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StageDotO

110 W Main St, Boise, Idaho, 83702, United States

Overview

StageDotO is an early stage investment fund actively identifying pre-Series A companies with energetic entrepreneurs driven by world-changing ideas. We add ten companies to our portfolio every two years. StageDotO is a well-rounded, highly successful partnership team led by experienced and proven entrepreneurs and investors. We’ve celebrated multiple successful tech startup exits and managed a successful small-cap hedge fund, generating top quartile returns for over 10 years. We’re lead by a philosophy that company building is the most critical element to achieving startup success. We believe it’s generally missing from today’s early-stage venture investing environment. StageDotO delivers this through day to day involvement that leverages a combined 40+ years of startup and investing experience. Co-investment and pro-rata rights for limited partners allow continued investing in the best-performing companies.

Total investments
16
Lead investments
7
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
5

Sector focus

  • Cyber Security
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • OurPetPolicy

    Participated · Series A · Jan 2026

    OurPetPolicy offers a cloud-based animal management system that centralizes pet and ESA profiles, automates vaccination tracking, and verifies ESA requests through direct healthcare-provider authentication and Fair Housing-compliant protocols. The platform is designed for multifamily, single-family rental, and manufactured housing operators and currently manages compliance for roughly 45 million rental units across the United States. By identifying fraudulent ESA documentation, the software helps property managers recover lost revenue and maintain regulatory compliance. Co-founders Logan Miller and Cody Miller position the product as an enterprise solution that integrates with existing property-management systems. With the newly secured capital, the team plans to deepen those integrations, enhance fraud-detection capabilities, expand workflow automation, and scale its go-to-market organization. These initiatives aim to widen market penetration and solidify the company’s standing as the leading pet and ESA compliance platform for the housing industry.

  • Capital Markets Gateway

    Led · Series C · Mar 2025

    Capital Markets Gateway (CMG) provides an end-to-end platform for equity capital markets (ECM) workflows. Its flagship products include CMG XC™, an end-to-end real-time bookbuilding platform, and CMG DataLab™, a data intelligence solution offering real-time offering information and historical data. Launched in 2017 by a team of ECM practitioners, CMG's platform is relied on by more than 21 investment banks and 135 asset managers representing over $40 trillion in AUM. In March 2025 CMG closed a strategic $30 million Series C to support growth. The company plans a 2025 expansion focused on enhanced global data capabilities, support for new asset classes, and advancement of straight-through processing (STP) solutions. CMG positions its centralized, real-time platform as an alternative to distributed, asynchronous processes to improve operational efficiency across buy-side and sell-side firms. Capital Markets Gateway (CMG) is a fintech firm that modernizes the equity capital markets by connecting investors and underwriters via a neutral, connected ECM platform. CMG launched XC™, described as the first connected ECM platform in the U.S., and offers DataLab™, which provides actionable market intelligence and data analytics. The CMG XC network comprises more than 100 buy-side investment firms representing $20 trillion in AUM and connects with 10 leading investment banks. The strategic capital raise is being used to support CMG’s launch of XC and the company’s planned global expansion in 2022. CMG’s investors include major banks and asset managers who are also clients, reinforcing product-market fit and driving platform adoption. The company was launched in 2017 and is based in New York. CMG offers a neutral ECM platform that connects buy-side firms and underwriters, providing integrated data, analytics, transparency, and workflow efficiencies. Launched in 2017 and led by CEO and co-founder Greg Ingram, the platform is relied upon by nearly 100 buy-side firms representing $12 trillion in AUM and 15 investment banks. The company is based in New York City. The platform’s current focus is expanding digital connectivity between the buy-side and sell-side in the U.S. capital markets. CMG plans to use new funding to support growth and broaden its solution to be the first U.S. ECM platform to provide that digital connectivity. CMG provides a workflow management and real-time data analytics solution for practitioners across the capital markets trading life cycle, including banks, asset managers and broker‑dealers. The platform is designed to improve transparency and connectivity between investors, issuers and underwriters and to replace inefficient tools like email and telephone. More than 80 leading asset managers, representing over $10 trillion in assets under management, rely on CMG’s platform to streamline transactions. The company was founded in 2015 and maintains offices in Chicago, New York and Seattle. CMG has appointed experienced industry executives to senior roles and is hiring across engineering, product development and sales to broaden platform functionality. The firm says it will use new funding to scale its technology and accelerate product initiatives.

  • Plotify

    Participated · Series A · Apr 2023

    Plotify operates a full-stack, end-to-end asset management platform that enables accredited investors to buy wholly owned single-family rental (SFR) properties with integrated point-of-purchase financing. The platform compresses SFR transactions from months to minutes and includes pre-leased tenants, property management, insurance, tax and accounting integrations. Plotify uses proprietary data-driven algorithms for location and asset selection and risk scoring, and recently launched Plotify Insights to help members decode the U.S. housing market. With the new capital the company will roll the platform out to a larger pool of accredited investors on its waitlist and increase its inventory of properties in the U.S. and U.K. The startup says it is in growth mode and is rapidly onboarding new users globally while securitizing assets to reduce transaction friction.

  • Teal

    Participated · Series A · Mar 2022

    Teal Communications sells a networking service used by Internet of Things device operators and other customers. The company operates an eSIM platform that lets companies connect their IoT devices to thousands of carriers by installing a standard or physically embedded SIM card. Teal raised $10.8 million as part of a Series A financing and is now valued at more than $100 million. Backers named in the round include StageDotO Ventures, Stormbreaker Ventures, and Capital Eleven. The company is based in the Seattle area. CEO and co-founder Robert Hamblet previously worked as an engineer at Globetouch; co-founder and chief business officer Michael Johnston was a management consultant for Microsoft and co-founded Rallysong. Teal Communications is a Bellevue, WA-based provider of an intelligent eSIM platform that enables global IoT and private network services. The company was founded by Robert Hamblet and Michael Johnston and aims to bring intelligent connectivity and networking solutions to the IoT industry. Teal raised $9.1M in funding to accelerate its intelligent eSIM platform for IoT and private networks and to expand services into new verticals. The round was led by StageDotO Ventures with participation from Stormbreaker Ventures, Capital Eleven, Accellius Capital, the Alliance of Angels (AoA), principals of Steelhead Partners, and investor Sunit Patel. The company also announced the addition of telecommunications veteran Glenn Lurie to its board. Teal announced participation in the 5G Open Innovation Lab, whose founding partners include Intel, T-Mobile, Microsoft, and Dell.

  • TEAL

    Led · Series A · Mar 2022

    TEAL offers a programmable IoT networking platform and an intelligent credentialing service that lets customers reprogram connected devices dynamically onto the appropriate public or private networks. The platform provides access to multiple native 5G networks and other networking technologies within a single solution, and can connect to public cellular, private cellular, satellite, LoRaWAN and future network technologies. TEAL serves hundreds of enterprise customers across fast-growing IoT verticals including Mobility, Healthcare, Industry 4.0, Agriculture, Defense, Robotics, and Private LTE/5G. The company says it enables real-time control over which data networks devices access and plans to expand global network access through value-added partnerships with network operators. Financially, TEAL announced $10.8M in new funding as a Series A-1 extension, bringing total funding to $20.0M and valuing the company above $100M. Since closing its April 2021 Series A, TEAL reported 1,032% recurring revenue growth and 1,815% growth in active monthly users over a 10-month period.

Team

  • Devin Wade

    Founding Partner

  • Mike Self

    General Partner

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  • Matthew Puopolo

    General Partner

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  • Andy Scoggin

    Operating Partner

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