Ambush Capital
Angel networkNew York Β· Pre-SeedβSeed Β· 4 people tracked
Investment thesis
The firm invests in early-stage startups at the seed stage, focusing on supporting founders with deep domain expertise and operational experience. The team explicitly values frontier technology, vertical AI applications, crypto, and companies built with technically-strong, obsessive founders. They emphasize relationship-building and leveraging their collective experience as multiple successful startup founders and executives at public companies to help portfolio companies scale.
Source: firm website, verified Jul 21, 2026.
Team Β· 4 people
from the firm's websiteA startup founder and angel investor focused on frontier technology with experience building and exiting multiple companies from the ground up. He spent time on leadership teams at public companies following acquisitions of his startups and emphasizes building top-tier technical teams.
A startup founder and angel investor based in NYC who co-founded and scaled a direct-to-consumer pet products company that went public in 2021. She has experience with early-stage building, digital and physical products, vertical AI applications, and distribution, with a focus on customer-obsessed team building.
A multiple-time startup founder and angel investor based in NYC who has built, scaled, and exited two companies and served on leadership teams at two public companies. He brings expertise in economics, crypto, game theory, and product development across mobile and finance applications.
An early-stage operator and investor who began his career at Cambridge Associates where he built a digital asset investing practice. He joined Bison Trails as the first business hire and advanced to Chief of Staff, then led business operations and strategy at Coinbase Cloud following the acquisition, focused on solving hard problems with technical founders.
What they invest in
from 21 of 70 portfolio companiesCrypto & Web3 Γ9Data & Infrastructure Γ8AI & Machine Learning Γ6Cloud Computing Γ6Developer Tools Γ5Fintech Γ4SaaS Γ4Consumer Γ3
HQs:United StatesΓ6
Investments Β· showing 60 of 70
founders shown can be your intro pathNEAR is an open blockchain infrastructure powering the agent economy, providing cross-chain execution, confidential settlement, and private inference capabilities. The platform combines sharded blockchain protocol, cross-chain intent infrastructure, and secure agent tools for enterprises, governments, and crypto platforms.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCrypto & Web3
Illia Polosukhin(Co-Founder)
Amperon provides AI-driven energy forecasting and real-time grid analytics to utilities, renewable generators, and energy market participants across North America, Europe, and Australia. The company combines meteorology, power market expertise, and machine learning to help customers optimize resource allocation and grid reliability.
AI & Machine LearningEnergySaaS
Sean Kelly(Founder & CEO)Abe Stanway(Founder)
Ashby is a recruiting software platform that serves as an applicant tracking system (ATS) and all-in-one hiring management tool for talent teams. The platform provides recruiting operations, candidate pipeline management, hiring workflows, analytics, integrations, and features for managing the end-to-end hiring process.
Enterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Benjamin Encz(Founder)inAbhik Pramanik(Co-Founder & VP of Engineering)in
Ceramic provides a decentralized protocol for event streaming and data management that enables interoperable apps and services to share verifiable data at scale. The platform combines blockchain-anchored verification with distributed P2P networking to serve developers building decentralized applications across social, reputation, collaboration, and identity use cases.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Clay provides a data enrichment and workflow platform that combines first-party, intent, and third-party data from 100+ sources to help sales and growth teams identify and reach target customers. The platform enables teams to conduct customer research and execute GTM campaigns with consolidated data and automation.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureMarketing TechSaaSNew York, US
Dune provides normalized blockchain datasets and analytics across 130+ chains, offering data on stablecoins, prediction markets, tokenized real-world assets, and ERC-20 tokens for traders, analysts, and enterprises.
Crypto & Web3Data & Infrastructure
Ethereal Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in companies building on permissionless blockchain networks and digital assets. The firm works with founders across inception to growth stage, focusing on go-to-market strategy and technical architecture.
Crypto & Web3
Joseph Lubin(Chairman)Min Teo(Managing Partner & Co-CIO)
Builds systems grounded in Cognitive Parsimony Theory where cognition emerges through efficient prediction rather than model scale.
Starcloud builds data center infrastructure deployed in space, leveraging continuous solar energy and radiative cooling to enable large-scale compute clusters for AI training. The company targets hyperscale data center operators and AI companies seeking to avoid terrestrial permitting constraints.
Data & InfrastructureDeep TechSpace Tech
PhilipEzraAdi
Noat is a vertically integrated nicotine products company that develops and manufactures harm-reduction alternatives to tobacco using natural, food-grade ingredients and sustainable materials. The company targets adult nicotine users with discreet, transparent products designed to minimize health risks while eliminating environmental waste.
ConsumerHealthtech
Obol provides distributed validator infrastructure and staking solutions for the Ethereum blockchain, serving institutional operators and AI agents. The platform secures cryptocurrency assets through decentralized validation on the Ethereum network.
Cloud ComputingCrypto & Web3Data & Infrastructure
Plaid provides financial infrastructure and APIs that enable developers to build financial technology products and services. The platform serves fintech companies, developers, and financial institutions by offering consumer-facing applications and backend tools for financial data connectivity.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsFintech
Zach Perret(Founder & CEO)
Prime Intellect provides an integrated platform for training, deploying, and continuously improving custom AI models, combining compute resources, reinforcement learning tools, evaluations, and inference services.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Platform that democratizes AI development by enabling distributed training across global compute resources and collective ownership of resulting open AI models.
Solana is a blockchain network designed for high-performance internet capital markets, payments, and cryptocurrency applications. It serves startups, enterprises, developers, and users seeking a high-throughput distributed ledger platform.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech
Anatoly Yakovenko(Founder)in
Tlon offers a peer-to-peer messenger and AI agent platform where users own their personal server, messages, and AI agent data rather than relying on centralized company infrastructure. The platform includes Tlonbot, an open-source powered AI assistant that learns user workflows while keeping conversation history and preferences stored on the user's own node.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingConsumer
Monad is a high-performance EVM-compatible blockchain designed for fast, low-cost transactions. It enables decentralized applications and financial systems with instant transaction finality and thousands of transactions per second.
Cloud ComputingCrypto & Web3Data & Infrastructure<UNKNOWN>
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Ambush Capital invest at?
- Ambush Capital invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What sectors does Ambush Capital focus on?
- Ambush Capital focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Crypto & Web3, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Ambush Capital located?
- Ambush Capital is headquartered in New York, US.
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