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San Francisco · Pre-Seed–Seed · 33 people tracked
Also known as Alchemist Japan
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Investment thesis
Alchemist supports AI-SaaS and deeptech companies whose revenue comes from enterprises, regardless of business model or offering type. Both B2B and B2B2C companies qualify, and all product types, customer segments, and business models (hardware or software, license/SaaS/freemium) are welcome. Companies may be located anywhere in the world, with successful alumni across the US, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. The program runs six months and prioritizes the founding team, especially distinctive technical founders, and secondarily targets markets large enough to attract top venture funds. It provides intensive coaching, curriculum, mentorship, fundraising support, and a Demo Day, with an optional small SAFE investment on founder-friendly terms.
Source: firm website, verified Sep 27, 2026.
Team · 33 people
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Founder mafia
The Alchemist Accelerator mafia →65 people who came through Alchemist Accelerator went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 32 of 42 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×21SaaS ×17Enterprise Software ×11Developer Tools ×6Data & Infrastructure ×5Hardware ×5Advanced Manufacturing ×4Marketing Tech ×4
HQs:United States×20Canada×1Germany×1European Union×1United Kingdom×1Ireland×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 7 portfolio companiesWhat their founders studiedfrom 10 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×5Engineering ×4Mathematics & Statistics ×2Physics ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Portfolio companies · 42 tracked
alumni founders can tell you what the program is really likeBy year:2025 · 22024 · 62023 · 42022 · 22021 · 52020 · 12019 · 12018 · 12017 · 12013 · 124 dated
Rigetti develops quantum computing hardware and systems, leveraging superconducting quantum processing units cooled by dilution refrigerators to enable advanced quantum computation capabilities.
Advanced ManufacturingHardwareQuantum ComputingRoboticsSan Francisco, US
Chad Rigetti(CEO)inDr. Subodh Kulkarni(President and CEO)Dave Yen(Product Lead)inSteven HeidelWill ZengCelena Tanguay
Co-investorsAlpha Intelligence CapitalAME Cloud VenturesAndreessen HorowitzBessemer Venture PartnersDCVC (Data Collective)Draper Associates+34 more
Indellia is a feedback intelligence platform designed for consumer brands that aggregates customer reviews, support tickets, and survey data from multiple sources and connects them to specific products.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechRetail TechSaaSPalo Alto, US
Sanjay Arora(CEO)inRuby Singhin
Co-investorsFrontures
Nomadic develops autonomous drones for electrical grid inspection and maintenance, deploying with utility operators across Europe and North America to improve grid reliability and safety.
EnergyHardwareIoTRoboticsMunich, DE
Andreas MoldskredinLauritz Weilin
Co-investorsAsia2G Capital
Apis Cor develops autonomous 3D printing robots that print structural walls on construction sites, and offers related products including move-in-ready 3D printed homes, custom concrete elements, and construction training.
Advanced ManufacturingConstruction TechHardwareRoboticsMelbourne, US
Nikita Cheniutai(Director)Anna Cheniutai(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsAt One VenturesEmpede Capital
Besty is a platform that combines AI, guest experience management, and property operations tools for vacation rental managers.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkPropTechSaaS
Sam Dundas(Founder)inAarlo(Founder)
Co-investorsAIX VenturesArmory Square VenturesBungalow CapitalGrand VenturesRidge Ventures
Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal is a daily newspaper serving 60 communities across 1,200 km in Ontario, Canada.
Media & EntertainmentThunder Bay, CA
Gia is an AI-powered chatbot designed to help patients and doctors with genetic testing workflows, including risk assessment, family history collection, and results delivery.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechWellness & FitnessSan Francisco, US
Moran Snir(CEO)inGuy Snir(COO)inMotti Shohat M.D.(Founder)Brian CerceoJeff Froom
Co-investorsMeron CapitalY CombinatorCompoundFifty YearsiAngels
Joshua Leven(Founder)in
Co-investorsM12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)Wellington ManagementPlexo CapitalZenda
Craft provides a data and AI-powered platform for supply chain risk management and supplier network visibility.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSSan Francisco, US
Ilya Levtov(CEO)in
Co-investors515 VenturesGlasswing VenturesGreycroftHigh AlphaInner Loop CapitalIrregular Expressions+3 more
Empromptu provides an end-to-end platform for building, deploying, and optimizing production AI applications, with built-in governance, compliance, and data management capabilities.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Dr. Sean Robinson(Co-Founder & CTO)Shanea Leven(Co-Founder & CEO)
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesFoundersEdgeRogue Womens FundSouth Loop VenturesPrecursor Ventures
EngFlow provides build system optimization and infrastructure tooling that reduces software build times for developer teams.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareAustin, US
Ulf Adams(CTO, Co-Founder)inHelen Altshuler(CEO, Co-Founder)in
Co-investorsAndreessen Horowitzfirstminute capitalTiger Global ManagementEverywhere VenturesSerpentine VenturesSiesta Ventures+2 more
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Halluminate provides reinforcement learning environments for financial services firms to train frontier AI models on workflows in investment banking, private equity, and consulting.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSan Francisco, US
Jerry Wu(CEO)inWyatt Marshall(CTO)inRob Alward(Member of Technical Staff)Olivia Seastrom(Recruiter)
Co-investorsAntigravity CapitalMGV.VCOrange CollectiveTranspose Platform ManagementY CombinatorAndreessen Horowitz+7 more
LaunchDarkly provides a feature management platform that enables development teams to release code changes safely through feature flags, detect production issues in real time, and run experiments without redeploying applications.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaSOakland, US
Edith Harbaugh(Founder)inJohn Kodumal(Founder)in
Co-investors500 GlobalBessemer Venture PartnersBloomberg BetaCervinChemistryFirebolt Ventures Management Company, Llc+14 more
Legitify is an online notarization service that lets professionals get documents notarized remotely, including for use cases such as KYB verification.
FintechLegalTechSaaS
Ricardo Cosme(Chief Technology Officer)in
Co-investorsAntlerEnterprise Ireland
Lendsnap provides software that automates document and data collection for mortgage lenders by connecting directly to borrowers' financial accounts, reducing the time loan officers spend requesting paperwork and enabling faster loan origination across agency and non-agency loan types.
FintechSan Francisco, US
Orion Parrott(Founding CEO)inMike Romano(| Vice President of Business Development)in
Co-investorsY Combinator
Linearity is a design and animation platform that provides workspace and collaboration features for designers and teams to create projects, share files, and work together on illustrations and animations.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMarketing TechSaaS
Vladimir Danila
Co-investors468 CapitalEQT VenturesHV CapitalPossible VenturesDiscovery Ventures III Gmb H & Co. KG
MoEngage is a customer engagement platform that helps brands deliver personalized experiences across industries including financial services, food & beverage, media & entertainment, travel & hospitality, and retail/e-commerce.
AdTechMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Raviteja Dodda(Founder)inYashwanth Kumar Kammara(Executive Officer, Director)Yashwanth Kumar(Founder)
BoardShailesh Ghorpade(Director)inRahul Chandra(Director)inTarun Davda(Director)in
Co-investorsAmicus Capital PartnersB Capital GroupB4 CapitalChrysCapitalExfinity VenturesF-Prime Capital+8 more
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Moesif provides an API analytics and monetization platform for teams building API and AI products, offering usage-based billing on API calls and LLM token counts, payload debugging, quota enforcement, and usage monitoring.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaSSan Francisco, US
Derric GIlling(Founder)inDerric Gilling(Founder)Xing Wang(Founder)
Co-investorsFresco CapitalHeavybitMerus CapitalSilicon BadiaTest Kitchen CapitalCraft Ventures+1 more
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Multiplayer is a developer tool that runs locally alongside AI coding agents to automate the debugging loop—detecting, triaging, deduplicating, and fixing bugs across development, testing, QA, and production.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Steph Johnson(Co-Founder & CEO)inThomas Johnson(Co-Founder & CTO)
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesBowery CapitalOkapi Venture CapitalAbstract VenturesAndreessen HorowitzArmory Square Ventures+11 more
Onebrief develops software designed for military and defense organizations, enabling real-time collaboration and knowledge access for command and operational teams.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechEnterprise SoftwareGovTechSaaSHonolulu, US
Grant Demaree(Founder)inRafa Pereira(Founder)inAdam Lackey(Executive Officer)inRafael Pereira(Founder)Grace Wang(Talent Sourcer)Lenora Larson(Recruiter)
Co-investorsAnorak VenturesBattery VenturesCaffeinated CapitalGeneral CatalystHuman CapitalInsight Partners+14 more
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Oso provides visibility and controls for AI agent adoption within enterprises, enabling discovery, monitoring, and enforcement of agent access and behavior.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareNew York, US
Graham Neray(Founder)inNick Kucharski(CTO (Cofounder & CTO))Sam Scott(Founder)
Co-investorsFelicis VenturesHarpoon VenturesSequoia CapitalEntrada VenturesInnovacomJ-Ventures+1 more
Performetry provides people and revenue analytics software that connects workforce metrics to business outcomes.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaSDun Laoghaire, IE
Denys Grabchak(Co–Founder, CEO)inElena Grabchak(Co–Founder, CTO)in
Co-investorsTechstarsAltaIR Capital
Pitchit provides industry-specific AI voice agents that answer inbound calls, texts, and web inquiries to qualify leads, triage emergency service calls, and book appointments 24/7.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech
Co-investorsGray VenturesSilicon Road Ventures
rENIAC builds a Data Engine that acts as a drop-in database accelerator using FPGA, CPU and tiered storage (DRAM+SSD) to lower latency and increase throughput for SQL, NoSQL and Graph databases.
Data & InfrastructureDeep TechHardwareMountain View, US
Co-investorsBullpen CapitalFirst Star VenturesJ-VenturesFirst Star VenturesIntel CapitalLeawood Venture Capital Llc+2 more
Sastrify provides an AI-powered platform that helps IT, Finance, and Procurement teams discover all software applications in use, automate license management, and control software spend.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Maximilian Messing(Founder)inSven Lackinger(Founder)
Co-investorsBOOOMDiscovery Ventures III Gmb H & Co. KGEndeit CapitalFirstMark CapitalQuint VenturesSimon Capital+4 more
Segmed provides structured, de-identified medical imaging data and multimodal datasets from diverse populations to support research in AI and healthcare.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDigital HealthHealthtechMedical DevicesSan Francisco, US
Martin Willemink(Founder)inJie Wu(Founder)inMarinus Johannes Willemink(Executive Officer, Director)Wojciech Adam Koszek(Executive Officer, Director)Cailin Hardell(Founder)Cailin Kramer(Founder)in
Co-investorsBlumberg CapitalExpeditionsiGan PartnersMighty CapitalNina CapitalNovaCapital+4 more
Stensul provides a no-code, AI-enabled platform for enterprise marketing teams to build, review, and launch emails and landing pages within brand and compliance guardrails.
Enterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSNew York, US
Noah Dinkin(Founder)in
Co-investors515 VenturesFirst Round CapitalJavelin Venture PartnersSageview CapitalUS Venture PartnersArthur Ventures+7 more
Syntonym develops AI-powered visual anonymization technology that removes personally identifiable information from video and image data while preserving the visual signals needed for computer vision models to function effectively.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareLondon, GB
Batuhan Özcan(Founder)in
Co-investorsAPY VenturesLima VenturesSimya VCAtlas Ventures (UK)
Unbabel provides AI-powered machine translation software combined with human editors to enable multilingual customer support and localization for businesses globally.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Vasco Pedro(CEO)inJoão Graça(CTO)inBruno Prezado Silva(Lead Designer)inHugo Silva(Developer)inPhil Shawe(President and CEO)inJin Lee(Co-CEO)
Co-investorsAmino CapitalFaberFundersClubGreycroftGV (Google Ventures)Notion Capital+22 more
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Volansi manufactures and operates unmanned vertical-takeoff aircraft designed to carry heavy payloads across long distances for point-to-point delivery, targeting business customers in defense, commercial, and medical sectors seeking to reduce operational downtime expenses.
Advanced ManufacturingRoboticsSan Francisco, US
Hannan Parvizian(Founder)inWesley ZhengArnaud Thiercelin(Vice President of Software Engineering)Casey Kuznetsova(Recruiting Consultant)Lisa Noeltner(Senior Manager of Recruiting)Minh Chung Hoang(Director of Avionics)in
Co-investorsHemisphere Ventures LLCY CombinatorAccelerator VenturesAlumni VenturesAutomation VenturesAvlok Capital+11 more
Yieldigo develops retail pricing technology that uses advanced mathematics, machine learning, and AI to help retail price managers set and manage prices.
AI & Machine LearningRetail TechSaaS
David Klecka(Founder)inJiri Psota(Founder)in
Co-investorsBHM GroupPateroPresto VenturesJ&T VenturesPortfoLion Capital Partners
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ZaiNar develops a platform for Physical AI that uses existing wireless networks to provide real-time positioning and sensing without satellites, cameras, or dedicated infrastructure.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareRedwood City, US
Philip Kratz(Executive Officer, Director)inDaniel Jacker(Executive Officer, Director)Curtis MacDonald(Director)inAlexander Hooshmand(Director)
BoardSteve Jurvetson(Director)inJerry Yang(Co-founder & former CEO, Yahoo!)
Co-investorsAlpana VenturesCP VenturesEssentia VenturesEvolution VC PartnersFuture Venturesgener8tor+6 more
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
ArmetaCloobot IncDatoxKaspixLoadex AIMantisMantis AnalyticsRELAYTO AI Regulated Content PlatformTheorema
Exits · 4
1 IPOs · 3 acquisitions · showing 2Rigetti Quantum ComputingNASDAQ: RGTIClear Geneticsacq. by Invitae
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesZaiNar · zainartech.com · Feb 19, 2026
Onebrief · finsmes.com · Jan 13, 2026
Moengage · techcrunch.com · Dec 17, 2025
Pitchit · leadsontrees.com · Jun 19, 2025
Halluminate · ycombinator.com · Jun 18, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Alchemist Accelerator made?
- Alchemist Accelerator has 42 tracked investments, 4 of which have exited, including 2 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Alchemist Accelerator invest at?
- Alchemist Accelerator invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What is Alchemist Accelerator's typical check size?
- Alchemist Accelerator typically writes checks of $30K.
- What sectors does Alchemist Accelerator focus on?
- Alchemist Accelerator focuses on AI & Machine Learning, B2B Marketplaces, Deep Tech, Enterprise Software, SaaS.
- Where is Alchemist Accelerator located?
- Alchemist Accelerator is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Does Alchemist Accelerator lead rounds?
- Alchemist Accelerator typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does Alchemist Accelerator co-invest with?
- Alchemist Accelerator most often shares deals with Y Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners, Heavybit, among 80 tracked co-investors.
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Co-investors · 23
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, known for pioneering the platform model with a large team of operators supporting founders across stages.
Ridge Ventures is a focused venture capital fund that backs experienced founders building revenue-first enterprise software companies at the late seed and early Series A stages.
CP Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm run by founders with extensive personal angel and fund investing experience, investing globally in scalable breakthrough technology companies.
Everywhere Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that writes pre-seed checks and is backed by a community of founder and operator LPs.
Costanoa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that backs a select group of founders solving hard problems, offering long-term partnership, operational expertise, and hands-on support.
firstminute capital is an early-stage venture fund providing the first institutional cheque to European founders building global technology companies across AI and deep tech.
Bungalow Capital is an early-stage investment firm run by Dave and Matt that backs founders at the earliest, pre-traction stage based on vision and conviction.
Plug and Play is an innovation platform that connects corporations, governments, startups, investors, and universities, running accelerator programs and venture investing across more than 25 vertical industries.
Lookout Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm backing B2B SaaS startups located outside the major coastal tech hubs across the United States.
Hustle Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests quickly in startups, offering capital along with educational programs and mentorship. It also runs an angel investing community that lets members invest alongside the fund.
Monashees is a Latin American venture capital firm backing technology-driven founders building category-defining companies from the region for global markets.
1984 Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that backs founders, publishing content on fundraising, company building, and AI. Its portfolio includes companies such as PostHog and Proxie.
▶11 more co-investors
Band of AngelsDVCLiveOak VenturesInventureBreakpoint CapitalSurface VenturesIporanga VenturesPath VenturesMonozukuri VenturesAscendo VenturesParallel 18
Firms observed investing alongside Alchemist Accelerator, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Alchemist Accelerator's recorded portfolio.
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