ACTAI Ventures
Venture capitalSan Francisco · Pre-Seed–Series A · 2 people tracked
Investment thesis
ACTAI Ventures invests primarily in pre-seed to seed stage companies and believes innovation can happen anywhere. It seeks startups that apply digitization and data science to make industries more efficient, scalable and replicable; that disrupt large markets while well-timed in their technology wave with high growth, reasonable valuations and positive impact; and that address challenges aligned with the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals within an ESG-driven framework, using technology as a force for good. The firm emphasizes leveraging both financial and social capital to grow impactful companies, and carefully selects founders and partners aligned with its vision and values.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 11, 2026.
Team · 2 people
from the firm's website
What they invest in
from 28 of 44 portfolio companiesSaaS ×9AI & Machine Learning ×7Crypto & Web3 ×6Enterprise Software ×6Media & Entertainment ×5Consumer ×4Data & Infrastructure ×4Fintech ×4
HQs:United States×13Australia×2Jamaica×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 14 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×92 founders×23 founders×14+ founders×2
Where their founders studiedfrom 10 founders with education data
Rutgers University ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 12 founders with career history
Uber ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Investments · 44 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 12022 · 12018 · 13 dated
HealthtechSalt Lake City, US
Timothy Pickett(Executive Officer, Director)Jared Barrera(Executive Officer)Adam Cox(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardGary Seelhorst(Director)Amy Powell(Director)Christian Robinson(Director)
Co-investorsArrington CapitalOff the Chain CapitalYorkville Advisors
Archipelo builds a system of record for software production, capturing execution attribution — who or what (human developers, AI copilots, or agents) made each change and on what authority — to support security and governance.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Co-investorsFlucas VenturesDell Technologies Capital
Ballet makes cryptocurrency cold storage hardware, with its REAL Series product designed as a ready-to-use physical wallet requiring no setup.
Crypto & Web3Hardware
Co-investorsDraper Dragon
Ballet makes physical, offline crypto wallets that store private keys on a bearer asset card, letting users hold and gift cryptocurrency without exchanges, accounts, passwords, or seed phrases.
Crypto & Web3Hardware
Co-investorsDigital Currency Group
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-investorsFlybridge Capital PartnersFriedomMaC Venture CapitalRoot and Shoot VenturesAct One Ventures
Chronosphere is an observability platform for microservices and containers, offering an end-to-end observability solution and a telemetry pipeline (from the creators of Fluent Bit and Calyptia) to collect, transform, and route telemetry data while controlling cost and complexity.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsCarbide VenturesSierra Ventures
B-Corp certified sustainable fashion brand (operated by Tempo Livre) rooted in skateboarding and surfing that plants trees in the Brazilian rainforest.
Cariuma is an eco-friendly footwear brand known for skate shoes that has stopped accepting new orders on its website.
Co-investors4M HoldingK3 Ventures
Chronosphere provides an observability platform for microservices and containers that helps teams detect and fix customer-impacting issues while controlling costs and complexity.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaSNew York, US
MARTIN CHEN MAO(Executive Officer, Director)ROBERT JAMES SKILLINGTON(Executive Officer, Director)Martin Mao(Co-Founder & CEO (now SVP, GM Observability, Palo Alto Networks))inRob Skillington(Co-Founder & CTO)inAshley Alexander(Chief People Officer)Margaret Dawson(Global Head of Marketing)
Co-investorsAdditionAntiBasis Set VenturesCarbide VenturesCardinia VenturesFounders Fund+13 more
Dyad converts unstructured healthcare data into structured clinical codes (SNOMED, ICD-10, CPT) using its GENIE graph-based AI and clinical knowledge graph, delivering outputs into existing EHRs, applications, and data lakes.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureHealthtech
Co-investorsCarbide Ventures
Sahin Caglayan(Founder)in
Co-investorsCapria VenturesIdacapitalTransform Capital Management
Fathom provides AI-powered meeting intelligence that automatically captures notes, summaries, and transcripts while surfacing decisions and action items across Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSSan Francisco, US
Richard White(Founder)in
Co-investorsEarl Grey CapitalTelescope PartnersY CombinatorCharacterChemistryMaven Ventures+1 more
Fathom provides a platform that records and analyzes customer conversations, internal syncs, and strategy calls to give teams a shared view of information and identify patterns.
Enterprise SoftwareSaaS
Richard White(Founder)in
Co-investorsImmeasurableMaven VenturesRackhouse Venture Management LpBoxOne VenturesChemistryEarl Grey Capital+2 more
Live interactive video platform for community engagement and monetization.
Co-investorsCarbide Ventures
YouTube is an online video platform operated by Google LLC.
Co-investorsDns CapitalLombard OdierSequoia CapitalSyz CapitalU.S. Global Investors
Climate risk assessment and weather insurance platform for agriculture and climate-exposed businesses
Co-investorsInterValley Ventures
Automated weather insurance platform helping agriculture and climate-exposed businesses assess climate risks and buy affordable cover.
JACANA is a Caribbean wellness platform based in Jamaica that produces botanical personal care products and therapeutic plant medicines inspired by Jamaican healing traditions.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerWellness & FitnessSt. Ann, JM
Co-investorsArtemis Growth Partners
Kickfurther provides inventory funding for businesses through a consignment model, purchasing a company's inventory and consigning it back so that it is not recorded as debt or a liability on the balance sheet.
B2B MarketplacesConsumerFintechRetail Tech
Sean De Clercq(Co-founder & Chairman of the Board)inErik(Co-founder & Head of Product)Erik Straub(Founder)inGregg Gordon(CEO)Gregory J. Gordonin
Co-investorsBreak Trail VenturesDraper AssociatesIT-Farm CorporationDenver Ventures
Liquidium is a decentralized, non-custodial cross-chain lending protocol that lets users supply native Bitcoin, ETH, or ICP to earn yield or borrow assets like USDT against Bitcoin collateral without centralized wrapping or bridges.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsAGE CryptoAsymmetric
Liven is a hospitality management platform for restaurants, QSRs, groceries and food venues, combining point-of-sale, self-ordering, omnichannel delivery, kitchen and inventory management, payments, loyalty and marketing in one system.
FoodTechRetail TechSaaS
Co-investorsArtesianBlitzscaling VenturesCarbide VenturesPerennial Partners
Magic Hour is an AI-powered video creation platform that enables users to generate videos from ideas without requiring extensive production expertise.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerCreator EconomyMedia & EntertainmentSan Francisco, US
Runbo Li(Founder)inDavid Hu(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorDG Daiwa VenturesTRAC (Third Round Analytics Capital)
Co-investorsSora Ventures
MicroTau develops MAKO Flightfilm, a shark skin-inspired drag-reducing surface film applied to aircraft exteriors to improve aerodynamic efficiency and reduce fuel burn without structural modifications.
CleantechClimate TechDeep TechNew MaterialsNot specified, AU
Co-investorsNSW Clean Technology Innovation Grants
Nakamoto is a Bitcoin company with a Bitcoin-denominated balance sheet operating three business lines: media and information services through BTC Inc., financial and asset management via UTXO Management, and advisory and consulting for Bitcoin-native companies.
Crypto & Web3FintechMedia & Entertainment
Co-investorsAlphaLab CapitalCaladanSora Ventures
nft now is a media publication covering the NFT, Web3, and crypto space, producing news, features, and editorial content about digital assets and the broader creator and blockchain community.
Creator EconomyCrypto & Web3Media & EntertainmentCheyenne, US
Matthew Medved(Executive Officer, Director)Alejandro Navia(Executive Officer, Director)Samuel Hysell(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investors3cubed Ventures
Nico del Pino(Founder)in
Co-investorsArca FundsCultur3 CapitalEmfarsisSur VenturesTheVentureCityBlocktower Capital+1 more
Platform empowering Hispanic web3 gaming community through content creation, quests and esports
Co-investorsBitkraft Esports VenturesCultur3 Capital
Platform and community hub for the Hispanic web3 gaming community, enabling economic participation through content, quests, and esports.
Palo Alto Networks provides cybersecurity platforms and services to protect organizations' digital infrastructure across cloud, network, and security operations.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareCupertino, US
Nir Zuk(Founder - Emeritus)Slavik Markovich(Co-Founder and CEO)Rishi Bhargava(Co-Founder)Dan Sarel(Co-Founder and VP Product)Guy Rinat(Co-Founder and VP Engineering)
BoardJake Flomenberg(Board Member (via Accel; later General Partner at Wing Venture Capital))
Co-investorsAccelAlphaDriveAmplify PartnersaVentureBallistic VenturesBase Partners+17 more
Perle provides human expert data services for AI teams, including expert-labeled training data, model evaluation, red-teaming, bias auditing, and multi-sensor robotics data collection.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Ahmed Rashad(Founder)in
Co-investorsAlphaLab CapitalBig Brain HoldingsBreedCaladanCoinFundPaper Ventures+2 more
Pledge operates a charitable giving platform that enables companies, nonprofits, and individuals to facilitate donations.
FintechImpact & Social GoodSaaS
Co-investorsBonfire VenturesDesigner FundLDR VenturesMantis CapitalMaven VenturesNew Ground Ventures+1 more
Positional offers an autonomous SEO agent that handles strategy, content creation, and technical SEO across multiple aspects of search optimization.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSCharleston, US
Matthew Lenhard(Founder)in
Co-investorsSouth QuadY Combinator
AI-powered wellness companion founded by Harvard physician providing personalized mental health support
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization; the page is a multilingual landing page and does not describe specific products or services.
GovTech
Co-investors2050Afrigreen Debt Impact FundArborview CapitalDesigner FundMI.TO TechnologyquantumEDGE Ventures+2 more
Superlogic provides an experiential inventory and rewards platform that enables brands to offer exclusive experiences—spanning music, sports, dining, and culture—in place of or alongside traditional loyalty rewards.
Marketing TechSaaS
Co-investors10SQ Capital (TenSquared)Sanctor Capital
Tribute is an online platform for creating group video gifts, where organizers collect video messages and photos from friends, family, or coworkers and compile them into a montage for occasions such as birthdays, weddings, retirements, and memorials.
ConsumerMedia & EntertainmentNew York City, US
Rory Petty(Founder)
Co-investors37 Angels
TrueVault provides a SaaS platform that helps businesses achieve privacy compliance with regulations like GDPR and CCPA through data mapping, customer notices, and internal policy guidance.
Enterprise SoftwareLegalTechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Jason Wang(Founder)in
Co-investorsFundersClubK5 VenturesY CombinatorAmino CapitalKhosla VenturesPegasus Tech Ventures
Flying camera manufacturer combining aerospace design expertise with advanced drone technology
Vantage Robotics designs and manufactures American-made small UAVs (drones), including the pocket-sized Trace nano drone and the Vesper drone, along with a rugged flight controller, for defense, security, and inspection use.
Defense TechHardwareIoTRoboticsSan Francisco, US
Tobin Fisher(Executive Officer, Director)in
Co-investorsCostella KirschRefinery VentureRuvento Ventures Pte Ltd.SQN Venture Partners, LLCSand Hill AngelsVeteran Ventures Capital
Exits · 2
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioPortfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesNakamoto · cryptobriefing.com · Aug 23, 2026
Palo Alto Networks · Security Boulevard · Aug 5, 2026
Ballet · broadwayworld.com · Jul 27, 2026
Fathom · stocktitan.net · Jul 16, 2026
Fathom · stocktitan.net · Jul 16, 2026
Pledgeling · readsludge.com · Jul 2, 2026
TrueVault · bitscale.ai · Mar 27, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has ACTAI Ventures made?
- ACTAI Ventures has 47 tracked investments, 4 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO.
- What stage does ACTAI Ventures invest at?
- ACTAI Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What sectors does ACTAI Ventures focus on?
- ACTAI Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cleantech, Climate Tech, Crypto & Web3, Developer Tools, Digital Health, Fintech, Hardware, Healthtech, Impact & Social Good, New Materials, Sector Agnostic, Wellness & Fitness.
- Where is ACTAI Ventures located?
- ACTAI Ventures is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Who does ACTAI Ventures co-invest with?
- ACTAI Ventures most often shares deals with Carbide Ventures, Y Combinator, Sora Ventures, among 121 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamAmanda Terry, ACTAI Ventures | ACTAI Global Maui 2025
SiliconANGLE theCUBE · Amanda Terry
Fireside chat with Bill Tai, Founder of ACTAI Ventures
Democratize Intelligence · Bill Tai
Inside the Mind of Top Seed Investor Bill Tai in Fireside Chat with Amanda Terry of ACTAI Ventures
ACTAI Ventures · Bill Tai
ACTAI Ventures Fireside Chat with Limited Partner Ken Goldman and Managing Partner Amanda Terry
ACTAI Ventures · Amanda Terry
ACTAI Ventures' 2nd annual Surf Summit at Kelly Slater Wave Co ~ July 2026
ACTAI Ventures
Silicon Quantum Computing Fireside Chat with Amanda Terry
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