Ambush Capital
Angel networkNew York · Pre-Seed–Seed · 4 people tracked
Investment thesis
Ambush Capital is composed of experienced startup founders who angel and seed invest in early-stage founders. The team emphasizes building close relationships with the companies they back and leveraging their operating and technical expertise to help teams build world-class companies during the hardest early stage. Their interests span frontier and deep technology, crypto and digital assets, vertical AI applications, and consumer digital and physical products, reflecting the founders' backgrounds across companies like Bison Trails, Coinbase, Bark, and Grand St.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 4 people
from the firm's website
What they invest in
from 21 of 67 portfolio companiesCrypto & Web3 ×9Data & Infrastructure ×8AI & Machine Learning ×6Cloud Computing ×6Developer Tools ×5Fintech ×4Consumer ×3Healthtech ×3
HQs:United States×10
Investments · 67 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 12024 · 12022 · 12016 · 12015 · 15 dated
Chicago, US
Matthew R. Leisinger(Executive Officer, Director)Mara Schmiedt(Executive Officer, Director)Evan Weiss(Executive Officer)
BoardMin Teo(Director)
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.
AI & Machine LearningEnergySaaS
Sean Kelly(Founder & CEO)Abe Stanway(Founder)Timothy Healy(Director)Catherine Flax(Director)Michael D'Aurizio(Director)
BoardTyler Lancaster(Director)
Ceramic provides a decentralized protocol for event streaming and data management that enables interoperable apps and services to share verifiable data at scale.
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.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureMarketing TechSaaSNew York, US
Kareem Amin(Founder & CEO)in
Ethereal Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in companies building on permissionless blockchain networks and digital assets.
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.
Boston, US
Eu-wen Ding(Executive Officer, Director)Lewis Geffen(Corporate Secretary)
Starcloud builds data center infrastructure deployed in space, leveraging continuous solar energy and radiative cooling to enable large-scale compute clusters for AI training.
Data & InfrastructureDeep TechSpace Tech
Ezra Feilden(Executive Officer, Director)inPaul Adrian Oltean(Executive Officer, Director)Philip Johnston(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardMorgan Beller(Director)
Obol provides distributed validator infrastructure and staking solutions for the Ethereum blockchain, serving institutional operators and AI agents.
Cloud ComputingCrypto & Web3Data & Infrastructure
Plaid provides financial infrastructure and APIs that enable developers to build financial technology products and services.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsFintech
Zach Perret(Founder & CEO)William Hockey(Director)Mo Koyfman(Director)Rick Yang(Director)
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
Vincent Weisser(Executive Officer, Director)Johannes Hagemann(Director)
BoardDavid Katz(Director)
Ro is an online healthcare platform that connects patients with licensed providers and delivers prescription treatments, including GLP-1 medications for weight loss, ED treatments, and other health goals.
Digital HealthDirect to ConsumerHealthtech
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.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingConsumer
New York, US
Hsea Ching Hsueh(Executive Officer)Kun Ho Kim(Executive Officer, Director)
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesPrime Intellect · finanzwire.com · Aug 4, 2026
Tenet · stocktitan.net · Jul 17, 2026
Monad · crypto-economy.com · Jul 17, 2026
Dune · entrepreneur.economictimes.indiatimes.com · Jul 17, 2026
Plaid · fintech.global · Jul 16, 2026
Noat · ionanalytics.com · Jul 13, 2026
Clay · syracuse.com · Jul 8, 2026
Obol Network Distributed validator network · nexttier.pro · Jul 6, 2026
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, Consumer, Crypto & Web3, Deep Tech, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Ambush Capital located?
- Ambush Capital is headquartered in New York, US.
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