Success Venture Partners

About Success Venture Partners

SuccessVP is a value-add fund that earns the right to invest in the most competitive seed and pre-seed opportunities. Our investor base includes over 60 LPs, many of whom are Chief Customer Officers from industry giants like Toast, Slack, GitHub, Braze, MuleSoft, Notion, Aurora Solar, and more. In most software businesses, the CCO owns the Net Dollar Retention number, one of the largest drivers of enterprise value. What sets SuccessVP apart is our unmatched expertise in guiding founders on a journey to world-class NDR, a process that starts the moment they get their first customer. Four ways we move you from a signed contract to a customer who can’t live without you. Most funds wire the money and wish you luck. We deploy alongside you. ▪ We land first customers. Our LPs run Customer Success at the fastest-growing AI companies — and they open the doors to your first real buyers. ▪ We get you live. We build the motion that takes a customer from pilot to can't-live-without-you: who to hire first, what they own, how to keep them. ▪ We staff the gaps. When you need the person who makes deployments work, our network surfaces them before you've written the job post. ▪ We make you known. You ship, and your launch reaches the entire Customer Success industry overnight — the operators and leaders who decide whether AI gets adopted.
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  • John Gleeson, Founder & General Partner