Stage 2 Capital

About Stage 2 Capital

Stage 2 Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage B2B software companies and sits shoulder to shoulder with leadership teams to operationalize sustainable revenue growth and sales operations. Backed by top go-to-market professionals from leading tech companies, Stage 2 Capital leverages its deep sales expertise to help entrepreneurs scale their businesses in addition to providing capital. Stage 2 Capital writes checks of $200K to $5M. We invest from pre-seed through Series A and can lead, co-lead, or follow. Stage 2 Capital invests in early-stage B2B software and AI companies. We are not focused on a single sector or vertical. Our portfolio is made up of companies across fintech, enterprise software, vertical software, data infrastructure. Stage 2 Capital leads, co-leads, or follows, depending on what's right for the company and the round. Stage 2 Capital is the first venture fund led and backed by GTM operators. We work in a pod-model with a GTM Partner tied to every deal. Our LP base is a community of over 1,000+ go-to-market operators, the CROs, CMOs, and CCOs behind companies like Databricks, Snowflake, Salesforce, Anthropic, Ramp, LinkedIn, Notion, and OpenAI. Stage 2 Capital was built specifically to solve the go-to-market challenges that decide whether early-stage B2B companies scale.
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  • Jay Po, Co-Founder & Managing Partner