Act One Ventures
Venture capitalLos Angeles · Pre-Seed–Series A · 12 people tracked
Also known as ACT ONE VENTURES MANAGEMENT, L.L.C.
Investment thesis
Act One Ventures backs outlier founders building the next generation of enterprise platforms powered by AI-native systems, with an emphasis on strong data leverage, deep automation, and a clear wedge into critical business workflows. The firm views AI as a new computing paradigm — comparable to the microprocessor or the internet — that is rebuilding core business systems such as infrastructure, compliance, workflows, and intelligence. It leads pre-Seed and Seed rounds, investing with conviction rather than consensus, and concentrates capital in fewer companies to build deeper founder relationships through the path to product-market fit and scale.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 25, 2026.
Team · 12 people
from the firm's website & public directories
Founder mafia
2 people who came through Act One Ventures went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 48 of 55 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×29SaaS ×28Enterprise Software ×12Healthtech ×8Fintech ×7Data & Infrastructure ×6E-commerce ×6Marketing Tech ×6
HQs:United States×22Mexico×4
Who they back
founder profiles across 21 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×112 founders×94+ founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 13 founders with education data
UCLA ×4University of Southern California ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Investments · 55 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12025 · 12024 · 12023 · 12022 · 12021 · 22019 · 18 dated
Cartwheel provides a software platform for restaurant delivery and order management, serving independent restaurants and multi-unit brands through their own delivery networks.
B2B MarketplacesFoodTechLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSLos Angeles, US
Alexander Vasilin(Founder)Dan Zamylin(Founder)Magdim Metshin(Founder)Alex(Co-Founder, CEO)
Co-investorsChingona VenturesEudemian VenturesMoonshots Capital37 Angels
HealthtechBirmingham, US
Andrew Hayek(Executive Officer)Brian Mathis(Executive Officer)Caitlin Zulla(Executive Officer)Cory Roberts(Executive Officer)
Board seatDavid Chaiken· per SEC Form D · $64.3K raise · filed Mar 2019
Santa Monica, US
Kevin McFarland(Executive Officer, Director)Thomas Jennings(Director)Craig Jones(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatMichael Silton· per SEC Form D · $70M raise · filed Jun 2021
AcquiOS AI is an underwriting and deal-management platform for commercial real estate investors and analysts, extracting deal assumptions from broker emails and offering memoranda, populating Excel/PowerPoint templates, and recalculating IRR and DCFs.
AI & Machine LearningFintechPropTech
David Fieldsin
A design and branding studio that creates refined brands, websites, and interfaces for ambitious founders and creative teams, focusing on clean, responsive design that communicates clearly and supports business goals.
Los Angeles, US
David Fields(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsFJ Labs75 & SunnyAcrew CapitalBlockchange VenturesTenOneTen Ventures
Aiva Health provides voice and text control interfaces for healthcare settings, connecting to electronic health records (EHR), work orders, dietary services, staff messaging, translation, policies and procedures, and smart room devices.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtech
Co-investorsAmplify.LA
Optro (AuditBoard) is an AI-powered governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform that unifies audit, risk, information security, and compliance into a single connected system.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Daniel Kim(Founder)inRaul Villar(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsAlkeon InnovationBattery VenturesCross Creek AdvisorsMucker Capital
Blaze is a no-code platform for building HIPAA-compliant healthcare software, including custom apps, workflows, and automations that integrate with major EHRs and go live within days.
HealthtechSaaS
Co-investorsACTAI VenturesFlybridge Capital PartnersFriedomMaC Venture CapitalRoot and Shoot Ventures
Blaze provides a platform that monitors online signals to identify and target potential customers at the moment they demonstrate purchase intent, using AI-powered automation.
Enterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Lauren Rothwell(Founder)inChirag Mahapatra(Founder)in
Co-investorsBling CapitalDigital Currency GroupTRAC (Third Round Analytics Capital)Y CombinatorFaction
Blaze provides a digital payments and prepaid card platform for cross-border transfers and peer-to-peer transactions globally.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3FintechMexico City, MX
Faiyam Rahman(Founder)inLuc Succès(Founder)in
Co-investorsY Combinator
Blaze is an AI platform that generates marketing content for social media, blogs, email, and video.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS
Adam Nathan(CEO & Founder)in
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesArray Ventures Management LlcChamaeleonEarl Grey CapitalInspired CapitalScribble Ventures+3 more
BLAZE provides retail software for cannabis dispensaries, combining point of sale, cashless payments, e-commerce, a website builder, mobile apps, analytics, and delivery in a single platform with AI features.
AI & Machine LearningRetail TechSaaS
Co-investorsDelta Emerald VenturesFriale
Bloom Life provides a platform that gives care teams clinical oversight of high-risk patient populations, using customizable clinical protocols and notifications to flag patients needing attention and address potential complications early.
Digital HealthHealthtech
Julien Penders(Founder)inEric Dy(Founder)in
Co-investorsForeground CapitalGATHER VENTURES
Branch is a workforce payments platform that accelerates wage payments to employees and provides financial services.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechFuture of WorkHR TechMinneapolis, US
Atif Siddiqi(Founder)in
Co-investorsBonfire VenturesGeneral AtlanticGreat North VenturesMatchstick VenturesTechstarsAddition+1 more
Chord provides a unified data layer and AI-powered agents for commerce brands to centralize fragmented data across tools and automate operations.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureE-commerceMarketing Tech
Bryan Mahoney(CEO & Co-Founder)Henry Davis(President & Chairman)in
Co-investorsEqual VenturesGood FriendsHawke VenturesImaginary Venture CapitalWhite Star CapitalM13
Co-investorsAmplify.LAWedbush Ventures
Financial products marketplace with comparison tools and education resources for personal finances
Co-investorsClocktower VenturesPoint72 VenturesBessemer Venture PartnersGaingelsTorch Capital
Dragonboat is an ontology-native product portfolio platform that unifies data across the product development lifecycle into a live semantic source of truth, with built-in apps for strategy, intake, planning, roadmapping, and PDLC.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSanta Clara, US
Yun Flint(Executive Officer, Director)Becky Flint(Founder)in
Co-investorsInsight PartnersRoble VenturesGingerbread Capital
Finix provides embedded payments infrastructure for software platforms, acting as an outsourced PayFac (PayFac-as-a-Service) with end-to-end payments technology, compliance and risk management, merchant onboarding, and reporting tools.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Richie Serna(Founder)inSean Donovan(Founder)in
Co-investorsInsight PartnersInspired CapitalLightspeed Venture PartnersAcrew CapitalCap Table CoalitionCiti Ventures+10 more
Flossy builds AI agents that handle conversations, scheduling, and performance coaching for dental practice front offices.
AI & Machine LearningHealthtechSaaS
Miles Beckett(Founder)inSteve Seigel(Founder)in
Co-investorsB Capital GroupB4 CapitalClocktower VenturesGreen Meadow VenturesPLG VenturesSlow Ventures+7 more
Gail provides conversational AI for insurance, banking, and finance companies, handling customer interactions across voice, SMS, chat, and messaging channels.
AI & Machine LearningFintechInsurTech
Matthew Vega-Sanz(Founder)in
Co-investorsA15Altai VenturesFlorida FundersHTwenty
Metatate provides MCP-based tools that attach structured, machine-readable context — business logic, data contracts, policies, lineage, and access rules — to data workflows so AI agents can evaluate dynamic rules and enforce governance at runtime.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsEntrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA)
Optimal (Optibot) is an AI agent that reviews pull requests using full multi-repo codebase context, catching security vulnerabilities, breaking changes, and CI failures, and provides engineering productivity analytics.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Co-investorsMindshift CapitalChingona Ventures
Glitzi is a service marketplace platform in Mexico that connects users with beauty and wellness professionals for on-demand services including hairstyling, massage, and facials.
ConsumerMarketplacesMexico City, MX
Ana Ramos(Founder)inLuis Enrique Vazquez(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorGaingelsGoodwater CapitalSpice Capital
GroWrk is a platform that automates the full IT device lifecycle — procurement, deployment, recovery, storage, and recycling — across 150+ countries with local compliance.
Future of WorkLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS
Carlos N. Escutia(Founder)in
Co-investorsAllied Venture PartnersK20 FundL'ATTITUDE Ventures
Heard provides financial management software built for independent therapists and wellness practitioners, covering accounting, bookkeeping, and practice finances.
FintechMental HealthSaaSWellness & Fitness
Andrew(Co-founder)Victoria Li(Co-founder)
Co-investorsNotable CapitalPathlight VenturesHeadlineUncommon
Howl is an affiliate marketing and commerce platform for content creators, offering tools to manage affiliate links, build branded storefronts, and access brand deals and retail media ad budgets.
AdTechCreator EconomyMarketing Tech
Co-investorsNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Talis Capital
Jelou provides a conversational AI platform for deploying AI agents and enabling in-chat transactions on WhatsApp and other messaging channels such as Messenger, Instagram, and web.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSBeaverton, US
Alberto Vera(Executive Officer)Luis Loaiza(Director)
BoardJaime Cantu(Director)
Co-investorsKrealoCollide Capital
Kriptos provides AI-powered software that automatically analyzes, classifies, and labels documents to prevent data leakage and support regulatory compliance for organizations.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareTiburon, US
Christian Torres(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsBuenTrip VenturesFlorida FundersTechstarsSixThirty Ventures
Lapzo is an AI-powered talent development platform that maps competencies, personalizes learning plans, and evaluates employee performance for organizations.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaSMonterrey, MX
Santiago Maldonado(Founder)in
Co-investorsBDev VenturesMGV CapitalY Combinator
Latii offers FORUM, an AI-driven management platform for the window and door industry that automates the quote-to-install process, using AI agents to analyze blueprints, generate material lists and quotes, and manage installation scheduling and quality checks.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechSaaSNew York, US
Santiago Bueno Velasco(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Juan Pascual Orero(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardRaja Ghawi(Director)in
Co-investorsBrighter CapitalEra VenturesFoundamentalLeadout CapitalNine Four Ventures
Nearfleet builds a hubless, mobile, autonomy-ready logistics infrastructure for regional delivery over longer distances.
HealthtechLogistics & Supply ChainMobility & TransportationRoboticsSaaSJoshua Tree, US
Anthony Sziklai(President, Chief Executive Officer and Sole Director)Kristoffer Bjornerud(Executive Officer)
Social Native (at olapic.com) offers an AI-powered creator marketing platform trained on 1.8M+ creator collaborations and $8B in paid media, predicting brief, creator, and platform performance before spend.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyE-commerceMarketing TechSocialNew York, US
David Shadpour(Founder & CEO)Eytan Elbaz(Co-Founder)inJose De Cabo(Executive Officer, Director)Ben Lin(Director)Luis Sanz Arilla(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsContour Venture PartnersFELIX CAPITALOCV PartnersScout VenturesScout VenturesLongworth Venture Partners+2 more
Paloma is a commerce platform that lets sellers run and manage sales directly inside Instagram, using Meta's Messaging APIs to process claims, bids, and auctions from Comments, Story Replies, and DMs.
E-commerceRetail TechSaaS
Co-investorsBarrel VenturesBlack Jays VenturesOverton Venture CapitalThe Fund
QLESS provides a queue management and appointment scheduling platform that lets organizations reduce lobby wait times and gives staff real-time operational and customer insights.
Enterprise SoftwareGovTechSaaS
Co-investorsPalisades Growth Capital
ReadyAI provides structured, machine-readable intelligence extracted from websites, transcripts, and documentation for AI agents and applications.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsCollab+CurrencyMoonshots Capital
Repeat is a lifecycle marketing platform that identifies key customer moments (replenishment, cross-sell, lapse risk) and automates personalized retention campaigns via email and SMS integrations.
AI & Machine LearningDirect to ConsumerMarketing TechSaaSLos Angeles, US
Kimberly Stiefel(Executive Officer, Director)Sarah Wissel(Director)
BoardNeeraj Agrawal(Director)in
Co-investorsBattery VenturesBreak Trail VenturesTechstarsMucker Capital
AMN Healthcare is a publicly traded healthcare staffing and workforce solutions company that supplies clinical and nonclinical professionals — including nursing, allied, international, leadership, and locum staff — on travel, temp-to-hire, per diem, and permanent bases.
Digital HealthFuture of WorkHealthtechHR Tech
Co-investorsDigi VenturesUpfront VenturesBAM VenturesRincon Venture PartnersSlow VenturesSUMMATION HEALTH VENTURES+1 more
Sora is a labor compliance platform that digitizes and manages employee records for companies in Mexico, using AI agents to advise on labor decisions, generate documents based on the Federal Labor Law (LFT), and provide legally valid electronic signatures with facial biometrics.
AI & Machine LearningHR TechLegalTech
Co-investorsInspired CapitalSpero Ventures
Tapcart is a mobile commerce platform that helps Shopify brands build custom shopping apps to strengthen customer relationships and increase sales.
AI & Machine LearningDirect to ConsumerE-commerceSaaSSanta Monica, US
Eric Netsch(Founder & CEO)inSina Mobasser(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsCorrelation VenturesEvolution VC PartnersLeft Lane CapitalRosecliff VenturesAmplify.LAGreycroft+1 more
Tapcart is a mobile commerce platform for Shopify brands that helps merchants build custom mobile apps to improve customer experience and drive sales.
AI & Machine LearningDirect to ConsumerE-commerceRetail TechSaaS
Eric Netsch(Founder & CEO)inSina Mobasser(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsGreycroftAmplify.LAEvolution VC PartnersLeft Lane CapitalSignalFire
Thrasio is an ecommerce and technology company staffed by ecommerce and tech specialists focused on improving products and consumer experiences.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerce
Co-investorsEvolution VC PartnersFikaRiverPark VenturesSilver Lake PartnersUpper90Vershina Capital
Time Study is an enterprise platform for measuring and analyzing how employees spend their time, connecting time data to financial, operational, and workforce decisions.
Enterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaS
Co-investorsJumpstart Nova37 AngelsElevate Capital
Track (Track Royalties Inc.) offers banking, accounting, and payments services built for the music industry, aimed at record labels and artists.
FintechMedia & Entertainment
Veryfi builds an AI-powered data extraction and processing platform that converts unstructured documents like receipts and invoices into actionable business insights.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Dmitry Birulia(Founder)inErnest Semerda(Founder)in
Co-investorsNewView CapitalY Combinator
Xilo provides customizable insurance software with dedicated support for agents and brokers to manage their operations without significant workflow changes.
InsurTechSaaS
Eli Zaragoza(Co-founder)Jon Corrin(CEO)
Co-investorsAllied Venture PartnersCove FundForefront VentureNew Stack VenturesValuestream Ventures
XStereotype offers an AI content intelligence platform that scores marketing content across 40+ dimensions—including bias, emotional impact, conversion likelihood, and authenticity—using human behavioral research broken down by demographic segment.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing Tech
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesThrasio · wfmz.com · Aug 21, 2026
Blaze · parsers.substack.com · Aug 18, 2026
Sora · the-decoder.com · Aug 17, 2026
Dragonboat · wcax.com · Aug 9, 2026
Repeat · techcrunch.com · Jul 31, 2026
Chord Commerce · thesaasnews.com · Jun 8, 2026
Paloma · businessinsider.com · Apr 30, 2026
Branch · trysignalbase.com · Mar 25, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Act One Ventures made?
- Act One Ventures has 41 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO, including 2 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Act One Ventures invest at?
- Act One Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Act One Ventures's typical check size?
- Act One Ventures typically writes checks of $1M – $3M.
- What sectors does Act One Ventures focus on?
- Act One Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, SaaS.
- Where is Act One Ventures located?
- Act One Ventures is headquartered in Los Angeles, US.
- Does Act One Ventures lead rounds?
- Yes, Act One Ventures leads investment rounds.
- Who does Act One Ventures co-invest with?
- Act One Ventures most often shares deals with Techstars, Battery Ventures, Florida Funders, among 82 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
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