The hard part starts after the sale.
Most AI companies fail in deployment, not product.
SuccessVP is the seed fund built by the operators who’ve scaled Customer Success at the fastest-growing AI companies — from first pilot to billions in ARR. We turn pilots into customers, customers into references, and references into category leaders.
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.
150+ Customer Success leaders from the companies defining modern AI. And every one of them is invested in you. Literally.
Experts who pick up the phone when you need.
The Chief Customer Officers behind the best AI companies in the world. A warm intro to a buyer, a reference call, a tactical read on a hard deployment — they answer.
See our expertsThe largest Customer Success community.
5,000+ operators. 100+ Chief Customer Officers and VPs. Monthly in-person meetups where the best CS leaders compare notes — so when your team hits a wall, someone in the room has already solved it.
Visit the communityFounder-Led Customer Success.
170K+ readers and counting. The modern post-sale playbook, written by operators who’ve run this motion at scale — not consultants who studied it.
Read the writingOur community becomes your community.
Your investor has already run this playbook.
I’m not a VC who read about deployment. I did it. Now I do it for you.
John Gleeson · General Partner
I’ve lived hypergrowth from the inside. At Motive, I helped take the company from $1M to $300M in ARR — owning Customer Success and operations end to end. I built the post-sale engine that onboarded, deployed, and retained 130,000 customers, from single-truck operators to some of the largest fleets in North America. The plays I’ll run for you — the onboarding sequences, the deployment motion, the retention and expansion systems — I built in the field, at scale, not on a slide.
I only wish I'd had SuccessVP in my first company.
Amanda Kahlow
Founder, 1Mind (prev. 6sense)
SuccessVP shows up the way you wish every investor would.
Mike Molinet
Founder, Vector AI (prev. Branch)
Among the most helpful investors we have.
Ryan Caldbeck
Founder, Waystation AI (prev. CircleUp)
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