Springtime Ventures

Founding and Managing Partner Matt Blomstedt shares decision-making authority with Managing Partners Rich Maloy and Allyson Plosko. The firm's public materials describe a partner-led process with no delegation of investment decisions or founder relationships to junior staff. Operating partners Jeff Gardner, Mike Ramseier, and Rick Jones provide operational support but are not listed as members of the investment committee.

Springtime does not disclose a formal sourcing engine, but its website and founder testimonials emphasize speed after first meeting and direct partner engagement from initial contact. The firm's May 2024 publication on the 'Seed Crust' suggests thesis-driven, market-structure-aware sourcing rather than a volume-scattershot approach. Several portfolio company founders describe Springtime partners personally making introductions and building syndicates on their behalf.

Springtime is a venture firm, not a family office. It manages pooled third-party capital across multiple funds and is currently deploying from Fund III. The firm operates as an SEC-registered investment adviser with a sector-focused, seed-stage mandate in fintech, healthcare, and logistics.

Springtime makes direct equity investments into seed-stage operating companies. There is no public evidence that the firm commits capital as a limited partner to other venture funds. Its focus is on lead and co-lead seed rounds with initial checks of $500,000 to $1 million.

The firm invests at the seed stage, occasionally participating in follow-on rounds as companies move toward Series A and beyond. Springtime's own materials confirm its focus on being the first institutional capital into a company, with the initial check sized between $500,000 and $1 million. The firm's recent research on the 'Seed Crust' indicates it follows its companies through the seed-to-Series-A transition.

Springtime does not publish an explicit negative list, but its stated focus is limited to fintech, insurtech, healthcare, and logistics/supply chain. The firm does not advertise investments in consumer internet, enterprise SaaS outside supply-chain verticals, deep tech, or climate hardware. This narrow mandate means broad swaths of venture — including edtech, defense tech, and bio-pharma — fall outside its scope by omission.

Springtime does not disclose its limited partners or the origin of its fund capital. As a venture firm investing from Fund III, the capital base is third-party institutional and individual LPs distinct from any single-family wealth source. The firm has not publicly identified anchor LPs or a parent entity.