Inspect the work, not the claim.

The seed fund designed for founders in AI. We lead investments at the earliest stages of innovation.

The fund specializes in AI infrastructure and software startups that have had the technology at their core since inception. On the infrastructure front, Awrabi said startups working to reduce AI costs — from inference chips to cooling technology — have a massive opportunity.

AI Fund is a venture studio. We collaborate with entrepreneurs, venture funds, and corporate partners to create great companies that move humanity forward.

Engineering Capital **$3M typical pre-seed (larger than typical). ** Cloud infra, data infra, AI, enterprise cybersecurity. Technical founders only.

We invest in hilariously early startups. We are software generalists...

Zero Shot Fund is a $100M venture fund anchored by OpenAI alumni. We back founders building across robotics, energy, automation, infrastructure, security, and observability.

Fuel Capital (San Francisco) Typical check: $300K to $600K Recent closes: Inference optimizer, RLHF platform

Scribble Ventures Fund III — $80M, vintage 2025 (May 2025), Bay Area. Pre-seed and seed; $750K–$1.5M initial checks. AI applications and infrastructure, dev tools...

Conviction Capital **AI-native fund. ** Embed program $150K pre-seed. Portfolio includes Harvey ($3B), Mistral ($6B), Sierra ($4.5B), Baseten ($825M).

Aaref Hilaly is a partner at Bain Capital Ventures, investing in early-stage AI companies.

We back bold ideas that transcend boundaries.

Miles Grimshaw is a partner at Thrive Capital, focused on backing founders at the earliest stages of company building.

At the most recent Y Combinator Demo Day held in March , everyone was talking about how high the companies were priced, said Ashley Smith, a general partner at the early-stage fund Vermilion.

the leading artificial intelligence (AI) observability platform that enables enterprises to monitor, troubleshoot, and explain AI systems across their lifecycle

YC has been going all in on AI agents. During its first-ever Spring cohort, AI agent startups made up nearly half of the entire group.

Freehand: $75 million Series B (July 29) The month's largest vertical-agent round... The San Francisco company runs autonomous agents over enterprise supply-chain spend.

Natural: $30M Series A Forerunner

Their vision of an agentic future promises to transform how we interact with software in our daily lives.

2021 AI Enterprise Labor Agents Backed AI agents for the enterprise before it was a category. invested in Limbic, Vinci, Nabla, Regie, and Astrus.

Betaworks Fund 3.0 builds on the momentum of Fund 1.0 (48M, 2016) and Fund 2.0 (46M, 2020) and continues our legacy of backing creative technologists who are shaping the future with ML/AI.

Act Security: $60M Seed + Series A Notable Capital, Team8, Bessemer

Arrakis: $38M Series A + seed Blossom Capital, Accel

Autonomous agents’ traction is undeniable. On the other hand, it’s unclear how useful these AI applications are today for real tasks.

Work-Bench is New York’s B2B software seed fund, backing the founders building the next generation of applied AI and infrastructure software.

We invest in bold technical founders building the autonomous enterprise. From AI-native infrastructure, security, apps, and models , we back the builders reimagining how businesses operate – the passionate technical founders intensely committed to building a solution to a problem they’ve experienced themselves.

Our investment areas currently include AI infrastructure/developer platforms, agentic business applications, and AI for human leverage. We write $50k checks and the Next Wave NYC team aim is to be your very first commitment, supporter, and champion, before you ever go out to raise a dollar of capital.

Our goal at BoxGroup is to invest at the earliest stage. Early stage fundraising has taken on many names— friends & family round, pre-seed, seed, etc. and we're open to all of them.

We focus where AI creates the deepest structural advantages and the highest-velocity markets ### AI Infrastructure and Tooling The picks-and-shovels of the AI revolution. We back teams building developer platforms, model serving infrastructure, training data pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and the technical primitives that every AI application company will depend on.

Charge focuses on pre-seed and seed stage investments. We frequently invest alongside angels, often the first institutional check a company receives. ### Sectors We have a bias toward data-driven software companies with a strong product sense and bottoms-up growth, often investing in low code tools, AI/ML, the creator economy, marketplaces, D2C healthcare and the future of work.

Focus AI Infra/DevTools Fintech Vertical SaaS

We invest $500K–$3.5M in SaaS and AI companies at pre-seed and seed. We focus on $400K–$2M ARR, where early product-market fit is evident, but occasionally back standout teams earlier.

Digital Trust is the defining challenge of the post-AI information era. ... We back the most advanced entrepreneurs building trusted, scalable, Native AI technology securing media, government, enterprise, and education.

With KERI, the provenance and integrity of anything digital can be securely verified by anyone, no matter where it originated or how it arrived at its destination.

Trail secures €1.45M pre-seed to build the go-to AI governance copilot ... Trail is building the AI governance copilot—a developer-first solution designed to streamline governance workflows, automate compliance, and enable scalable, responsible AI development.

J12 incorporates the AI Act into its investment evaluation process and portfolio support by, Excluding investment in systems classified as “unacceptable risk” under Article 5 of the Act Assessing and evaluating the risk tier of applicable AI systems during the due diligence process in in accordance with the tiered structure of the AI Act Supporting portfolio companies in complying with applicable documentation, relevant registration, and audit requirements

We invest in mission driven founders whose products advance the Mozilla Manifesto. ... Trustworthy AI has been a key focus for Mozilla Foundation since 2020. ... We have invested in AI governance leaders such as Credo AI , Fiddler AI , and Holistic AI

That’s why we’re excited to be leading a $30M round in Protege, the platform building the real-world data infrastructure for AI. Protege connects the world’s leading AI builders with massive, multimodal datasets across healthcare, video, audio, motion capture, and more, unlocking data that has historically been fragmented, inaccessible, or prohibitively slow to use at scale.

The Safe Artificial Intelligence Fund is an early-stage venture fund dedicated to supporting startups developing tools to enhance AI safety, security, and responsible deployment. ... 3 Governance and Compliance Infrastructure Products that regulators from industry or government can use to detect and ensure compliance.

We often discuss the concept of data provenance—the frameworks and records that establish the origin of data and track/validate its entire history.

Schematic Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund located in San Francisco. We invest in technology companies within supply chain, manufacturing, and software infrastructure.

ALSTIN GOES ALL-IN Because our founders go All-in, so do we for them – our capital, know-how, and network belong to our founders.

We invest early, no need for product or customers, simply backing outstanding founders across AI, FinTech & Risk with a compelling vision.

Khosla Ventures led the round, with participation from Y Combinator , e14 , SAIF , Halcyon , and angel investors

Veridise , a startup that uses formal methods to improve blockchain security, has raised $4.7 million in a seed round led by Polychain Capital.

Jump Crypto is excited to lead Series B for Certora . Certora is a leader in smart contract security that leverages formal verification to verify smart contract code at the bytecode level.

Khosla Ventures led the round, with participation from Y Combinator , e14 , SAIF , Halcyon , and angel investors

We're excited to invest in their $27M round with friends at Khosla Ventures, Accel, Nexus, Boldcap and Unbound.

We’re thrilled today to be leading Code Metal’s $125M Series B at a $1.25B post-money valuation alongside Accel, B Capital, as well as Shield Capital, Smith Point Capital, RTX Ventures, and others

Khosla Ventures led the round, with participation from Y Combinator , e14 , SAIF , Halcyon , and angel investors

We invested in Math Inc. because we think the answer to that question becomes core infrastructure for an increasingly AI-driven world - and because Math is the team to build it.

ForAllSecure , the world’s most advanced application security testing technology, today announced it has raised $21 million in a series B funding round co-led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) and existing investor New Enterprise Associates (NEA).

We're excited to invest in their $27M round with friends at Khosla Ventures, Accel, Nexus, Boldcap and Unbound.

We're excited to invest in their $27M round with friends at Khosla Ventures, Accel, Nexus, Boldcap and Unbound.

The investment came from notable VC firms including Polychain Capital , Hack VC , dao5 , as well as angel investors

H a l c y o n b a c k s e x c e p t i o n a l f o u n d e r s b u i l d i n g i n A I s a f e t y , b i o s e c u r i t y a n d A I s e c u r i t y . W e m a k e g r a n t s , i n c u b a t e n e w p r o j e c t s , i n v e s t i n c o m p a n i e s , a n d s u p p o r t h i g h - i m p a c t c a r e e r t r a n s i t i o n s .

Evolution Equity Partners backed Noma Security and NewCore, two large rounds focused on agent security and identity infrastructure.

Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ, Lightspeed, GV, Khosla Ventures, Redpoint, Balderton, General Catalyst, Index Ventures, Evolution Equity Partners, Samsung Next, Accenture Ventures, and other major names appear in 2026 rounds.

Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ, Lightspeed, GV, Khosla Ventures, Redpoint, Balderton, General Catalyst, Index Ventures, Evolution Equity Partners, Samsung Next, Accenture Ventures, and other major names appear in 2026 rounds.

Alice, the Israeli firm that red-teams models for Anthropic, Google and Cohere, has raised $140mn led by Apax Digital.

Juniper supports founders making AI secure and beneficial for humanity. We’re into assurance infra like energy, hardware, physical networking (hard), compute, security, audits (cloud), data, evals, interpretability (model), inference, guardrails, observability (runtime), authentication, agents, integrations (distribution), compliance, insurance, policy (governance).

Samsung-affiliated investment entities participated in WitnessAI, AIM Intelligence, and Gray Swan, showing a strong interest in enterprise AI security and model testing.

Mirae Asset Venture Investment backed AIM Intelligence and Tynapse, giving the investor exposure to South Korean AI red teaming and runtime guardrails.

At Lightspeed we’ve actively invested in and want to help drive the entire AI security and reliability ecosystem, with partners like Goodfire for mechanistic interpretability, Virtue AI for monitoring and red teaming, Cyera for frontier level AI cyber defense, and Anthropic for integrating safety into frontier models from the outset.

AISTOF is a pooled multi-donor charitable fund seeking to reduce the probability and severity of catastrophic risks associated with the development of advanced AI systems.

From Blockchain Pioneers to Authenticity Innovators: SureMark Digital joins the TSF portfolio... SureMark’s approach accounts for a future where GenAI can be used to make verifiable content... end-to-end authenticity that verifies that the content has genuine authorship through trusted attestation.

PTB Ventures is a thesis driven venture capital firm investing in early-stage companies in the digital identity ecosystem.

Our sweet spot is a preseed or seed round for a company building something to free up a developer to focus on value-add activities

OSS Capital is the first and only early-stage VC exclusively dedicated to backing leading COSS (commercial open source) startup founders on a global basis since 2018.

We turn open source projects into durable, venture-scale opportunities.

Merlin Ventures is U.S.-based, Israeli-focused early-stage cybersecurity fund shaped by decades of hands-on experience in the market it invests in.

Holly Ventures invests exclusively in seed stage founders tackling the cybersecurity industry’s biggest challenges.

Fuse, an early-stage venture capital firm based in the Pacific Northwest, primarily invests in Seed and Series A software and AI-enabled startups in the Seattle and broader Pacific Northwest regions.

Runtime Ventures is dedicated to supporting and nurturing innovative pre-seed and seed stage cybersecurity startups.

Ciphero Ventures backs seed-stage companies building the next generation of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.

Investing in the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

MACH37 Cyber Accelerator ® is the premier accelerator for information security entrepreneurs and cyber startups.

An early-stage venture fund that invests in the Pacific Northwest’s best entrepreneurs. Investing in market-defining companies at Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A.

As a boutique seed-stage venture capital firm, SLC invests in early stage companies where cybersecurity will be a critical enabler for success.

With a focus on investing in the modern economy through AI-driven business solutions, software-driven hardware, sustainable agriculture, and supply chain in the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada.

We focus on: AI Apps, Security for AI, AI Cloud Infrastructure, AI Data Ops & Models, Deep Tech & Systems.

We invest in the infrastructure that powers the next generation of AI-native enterprise.

We are a leading early-stage global investment platform. Founded in 2010 by Microsoft senior executive, Hank Vigil, we have invested in more than 350 technology companies.

Seattle pre-seed fund backing AI infrastructure and B2B SaaS startups.

DataTribe zeroes in on the seed stage, seeking more fundamental, ground-breaking shifts in cybersecurity and data science.

Backing founding teams in seed, early, and acceleration stages in Seattle, the Bay Area, and beyond.

Joule is a U.S.-based partner-only seed fund investing in Israel's most compelling enterprise-focused entrepreneurs.

Osney Capital is a Seed and Series A venture capital fund investing in entrepreneurs shaping the future of cyber security.

Essence VC is a newer fund with a specific devtools thesis. They look for API-first, developer-facing products with clear usage-based revenue models.

At GGV Capital, we are focused on finding the most promising developer-first software companies commercializing APIs, having already backed Agora, Authing, Pinwheel, Mindee and Stream.

CRV : Invested in Steampipe's $12M Series A (Mar 2024), Aiven $210M Series D (Nov 2021), PlanetScale $30M Series B (Jun 2021)

developers.vc is a small fund focused on supporting founders of developer-focused companies.

For AI infrastructure founders, Gradient’s portfolio evidence is strongest at the MLOps, inference, data infrastructure, and developer tools layers.

Tiger Global Management : Participated in Stripe rounds and backed multiple API platforms

We invest in companies that make it easier to build things on the internet. Think APIs, protocols, and developer infrastructure.

We help academic spinouts and seed stage companies in Massachusetts drive breakthroughs in quantum computing, clean energy, AI, biotech, advanced materials, and more.

186 Ventures is a pre-seed & seed stage VC firm based in Boston investing across consumer, enterprise, and disruptive tech.

First Star is a pre-seed fund that backs visionary research-driven founders.

Early-stage investors backing ambitious founders building our AI-powered future from enablement to imagination.

Boston Seed invests at pre-seed and seed stages in audacious founders building meaningful technology across consumer, B2B SaaS, gaming, sports, AI, and cloud infrastructure.

Early stage, typically at the Seed or Series A. ... We principally source companies from the vibrant startup ecosystem in the greater Boston area

Underscore VC is a Boston-based venture capital firm backing bold B2B software entrepreneurs at Pre-Seed and Seed.

We invest early in technical teams transforming major industries

Seed-stage venture capital investing in founders building the next rocket.

In today's world, that means we're your first check in at the seed (or even pre-seed) stage. And as you build and raise subsequent rounds, we can support that with our growth fund as well.

Bonfire Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm backing founders building AI-native B2B software companies.

We are LA's premier pre-seed fund, helping tech founders bring their vision to life.

WE INVEST IN FRONTIER TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES AT THE LEADING EDGE OF THE AI REVOLUTION

With a focus on foundational models, AI infrastructure, and intelligent enterprise and consumer applications, we believe AI will dominate the software category over the next decade.

We invest early in visionary founders building through structural shifts that create new markets and opportunities.

We invest at the emerging growth stage, applying our experience and tech expertise to help your company scale

Providing capital and talent to accelerate the growth of early-stage climate tech ventures

WUTIF Capital (VCC) Inc. likes to be a “first-in” investor in B.C. based technology startups – the earlier the better

7 Gate Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Vancouver, Canada, and Silicon Valley. Investing in early-stage startups from Pre-Seed to pre-Series A

Vanedge Capital is an early-stage venture capital fund based in Vancouver, Canada

Rhino is an early-stage venture capital fund based in Vancouver, BC. We back the best entrepreneurs in Canada and around the world

We help best-in-class Canadian and YC startups jump from garage to growth

With offices in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver, we have deep roots in the local ecosystem

Created in 2011 , our IT Venture Fund was designed to give ambitious Canadian entrepreneurs the initial capital and strategic advice to turn early-stage software companies into global technology leaders

Vertical SaaS, enterprise platforms, IoT software

We invest in innovative, private companies that are ready to scale commercially, as well as investment funds that are committed to supporting growing businesses in B.C.

Pender Ventures is a venture capital investor focused on health tech and B2B technology companies at the inflection point between commercialization and scale

VANTEC Angel Network is western Canada’s pre-eminent angel investing organization

We back bold founders building technology that will transform the world

Renewal Funds is Vancouver-based impact venture capital firm investing in early growth stage companies in Canada and the U.S.

LongJump is a first-check, founder-led fund designed to invest in the next generation of founders. We provide capital, connections, and community to help founders take the leap toward building fast-growing, scalable businesses.

HPVP is an early stage venture fund focused on AI, software and tech-enabled services with a connection to the Midwest.

7wire Ventures is an early stage, venture fund, helping entrepreneurs empower Informed, Connected Health Consumers.