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Artisanal Ventures

Venture capital

Tiburon · Seed–Series A · 7 people tracked

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Investment thesis

Artisanal Ventures positions itself as a partner that gives founders a competitive advantage by combining its network, access to industry-leading talent, and a group of limited partners. Through a partnership with Artisanal Talent, the firm emphasizes helping founders recruit senior executives and build exceptional companies, working alongside other established venture firms and their portfolio companies.

Source: firm website, verified Sep 15, 2026.

Stage
Seed–Series A
HQ
Tiburon, California, US
Instruments
Equity
Founded
2021
AUM
$62M
VC funds
1
Tracked investments
48
Unicorns
14
IPOs
1
Acquisitions
1

Team · 7 people

from the firm's website & public directories
Andrew Van Nest· General Partner
Chase Whittingham· Venture Partnerin
Dalton Becky· Venture Partnerin
Kira Krauss· Venture Partnerin
Tiffany Tran· Executive Assistant

What they invest in

from 45 of 48 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×41Enterprise Software ×32Cybersecurity ×17SaaS ×16Developer Tools ×10Cloud Computing ×8Data & Infrastructure ×5Deep Tech ×4

HQs:United States×30Germany×1

Who they back

founder profiles across 42 portfolio companies
19%
solo founders
8 of 42 mapped founding teams
42%
repeat founders
of 90 founders with career history

Founding team size:solo founder×82 founders×183 founders×84+ founders×8

Where their founders studiedfrom 89 founders with education data

University of California, Berkeley ×7Massachusetts Institute of Technology ×6Duke University ×5Stanford University ×5The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ×4Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi ×3Princeton University ×3Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ×3

What their founders studiedfrom 83 founders with field-of-study data

Computer Science ×43Business & Management ×10Economics ×10Engineering ×9Mathematics & Statistics ×5Humanities ×4Physics ×4Finance & Accounting ×3

Where their founders worked beforefrom 90 founders with career history

OpenAI ×7AMD ×5Twitter ×5Facebook ×4Israeli Military Intelligence - Unit 8200 ×4SeaMicro ×4Talpiot Program ×4VMware ×4

Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program

Y Combinator ×2

8 founders hold a PhD · 10 hold an MBA (of 91 with degree data)

Investments · 48 tracked

founders shown can be your intro path

By year:2025 · 12024 · 12022 · 12021 · 12020 · 12019 · 12016 · 17 dated

Abnormal Aiabnormal.aiin𝕏

Abnormal is an AI-native cybersecurity company that uses behavioral AI to detect and prevent email-based attacks and anomalous threats.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Evan Reiser(Co-Founder & CEO)inSanjay Jeyakumar(Co-Founder & Board Member (formerly CTO))inRami Habal(Chief Product Officer (former))inSmita Sanadhya(Chief Financial Officer (former))inJeff True(Chief Legal Officer (former))inAbhi Bagri(Chief Technology Officer)in

Co-investorsAlkeon InnovationBallistic VenturesEQUIAMGreylock PartnersInflection VenturesInsight Partners+3 more

Acuityacuitymd.comin

AcuityMD is a MedTech intelligence platform that combines market data, AI-powered insights, and sales workflows to help medical device companies identify opportunities, target physicians, and drive product adoption.

AI & Machine LearningMedical DevicesSales Tech

Robert Coe(Founder)inMichael Monovoukas(Founder)in

Co-investorsGrid CapitalICONIQ

AcuityMDinMay 2022

Targeting platform for medical device companies that uncovers new opportunities and tracks existing users.

HealthtechBoston, US

Michael Monovoukas(CEO and Co-Founder)inRobert Coe(CTO and Co-Founder)Lee Smith(Co-Founder and VP of Customer Experience)

BoardLogan Bartlett(Director / Redpoint investor)inEric Vishria(Director / Benchmark investor)in

Co-investorsAjax HealthAtreides ManagementICONIQ GrowthRedpoint VenturesStepstone GroupBenchmark

Agency Aiagency.incin𝕏Acquired

Agency built AI products; the company announced it is being acquired by Klaviyo and winding down on August 31, 2026, with its team joining Klaviyo.

AI & Machine Learning

Elias TorresinLuke

Co-investorsFelicis VenturesHubSpot VenturesMenlo VenturesAfore CapitalArray Ventures Management LlcChingona Ventures+2 more

Anthropicanthropic.comin𝕏

Anthropic is an AI safety research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Dario Amodei(Co-founder & CEO)inDaniela Amodei(Co-founder & President)inTom Brown(Co-founder)inJack Clark(Co-founder & Head of Policy)inJared Kaplan(Co-founder & Chief Science Officer)inChris Olah(Co-founder & Interpretability Research Lead)in

Co-investors3Comma Capital7BC Venture CapitalA.Capital VenturesAccelAlkeon InnovationAllen Institute for AI (AI2) Incubator+85 more

Arctic Wolfarcticwolf.comin𝕏

Arctic Wolf provides managed detection and response (MDR) services with 24x7 security teams that detect, investigate, and respond to threats using an open XDR platform processing trillions of events weekly.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Brian NeSmith(Founder & CEO)in

Co-investors33NBright Pixel CapitalClearSkyCyber Mentor FundDelta-v CapitalDraper Associates+16 more

Armadaarmada.aiin

Armada develops edge computing and AI solutions for industrial applications.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeep Tech

Dan Wright(Founder)inJon Runyan(Founder)inPradeep Nair(Founder)in

Co-investors137 VenturesContraryCRESCENT COVE CAPITALFelicis VenturesFlyover CapitalFounders Circle Capital+12 more

Aurascapearmadin.com

AI-powered offensive security platform.

Menlo Park, US

David Slater(Founder)Evan Pena(Founder)

Co-investors8VCAccelBallistic VenturesKleiner PerkinsMenlo VenturesMayfield Fund

Benchlingbenchling.comin𝕏Apr 2016

Benchling provides a cloud-based R&D platform for life sciences, combining a collaborative electronic lab notebook, structured scientific data modeling, automated workflows, and AI tools.

AI & Machine LearningBiotechEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

Sajith Wickramasekara(Founder/CEO)inAshutosh Singhal(Director)Ashu Singhal(Founder)in

BoardMiles Grimshaw(Director)in

Co-investorsAlkeon InnovationAndreessen HorowitzBalaji SrinivasanDraper AssociatesF-Prime CapitalICONIQ+15 more

Bridgebridge.xyzin𝕏

Bridge is a stablecoin payments platform that gives businesses infrastructure to receive, store, convert, issue, and spend stablecoins through a single API.

Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech

Zach Abrams(Founder)in

Co-investors1confirmationCoinbase VenturesDepartment of XYZFirebolt Ventures Management Company, LlcHaun VenturesLigature VC+8 more

Cerebrascerebras.netin𝕏

Cerebras designs and manufactures wafer-scale AI processors and systems for data centers, enabling accelerated AI training and inference at scale.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareSemiconductors

Andrew Feldman(Co-founder & CEO)inGary LauterbachinMichael JamesinSean Lie(Founder)inJean-Philippe Frickerin

Co-investorsAlpha Wave GlobalAzure Ventures GroupCoatue ManagementIn-Q-TelOpen Field CapitalRosecliff Ventures+1 more

Click Houseclickhouse.comin𝕏

ClickHouse develops a column-oriented database management system that enables real-time analytical reporting via SQL queries.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Aaron Katz(Co-Founder & CEO)inAlexey Milovidov(Co-Founder & CTO)inYury Izrailevsky(Co-Founder & President)in

Co-investorsAltimeter CapitalIndex VenturesAdapt VenturesBattery VenturesBessemer Venture PartnersCoatue Management+11 more

Cogentcogent.comin𝕏

Cogent builds an AI-native vulnerability management platform that uses AI agents to detect exposure shortly after disclosure, prioritize risks by real exploitability and business impact, remediate through existing workflow tools, and generate natural-language reporting with audit evidence.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

Thanos Baskous(Co-Founder & VP of Engineering)inVineet Edupuganti(Co-Founder & CEO)inGeng Sng(Co-Founder & CTO)inGeng Gng(Co-founder)in

BoardEnrique Salem(Board Member (Partner & Managing Director, Bain Capital Ventures))inCorinne Riley(Board Member (Partner, Greylock Partners))in

Co-investorsBain Capital VenturesGreylock PartnersPaladin Capital GroupDefinition

CopyAIcopy.aiin𝕏Jul 2021

Copy.ai offers a go-to-market (GTM) AI platform that unifies sales, marketing, and customer success teams by integrating tools, consolidating data, and automating repetitive tasks and workflows.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSales TechMemphis, US

Paul Yacoubian(Executive Officer, Director)inChris Lu(Founder)in

BoardZach DeWitt(Director)in

Co-investorsWing

Cyeracyera.comin𝕏

Cyera is an AI-powered data security platform that helps organizations discover, classify, and secure their data across any environment.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & Infrastructure

Tamar Bar-Ilan(Founder)inYotam Segev(Founder)in

Co-investorsAccelCoatue ManagementCRV (Charles River Ventures)CyberstartsEvolution Equity PartnersFriends Family Capital+14 more

Europe Europe Europetray.aiin𝕏

Tray.ai is an integration and automation platform that solution providers and consultancies use to build custom workflows and automations for their enterprise customers.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Rich Waldron(Founder)inAlistair Russell(Founder)inDominic Lewisin

Co-investorsMosaic VenturesNotable CapitalTrue Ventures

Fablefablesecurity.comin

Fable offers an AI-powered security awareness platform that delivers short-form training, phishing and social-engineering simulations, and behavior-based interventions to reduce human security risk.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

Nicole Jiang(Co-Founder & CEO)inSanny Liao(Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer)inMatthew Fermino(Chief Revenue Officer)inNick Gorski(VP of Engineering)in

Co-investorsGarry TanGreylock PartnersRedpoint VenturesAera VCAgFunderFive Elms Capital+1 more

Fireworks aifireworks.aiin𝕏

Fireworks provides AI infrastructure services, leveraging experience from PyTorch, Meta, and Google.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Mateo, US

Dmytro Dzhulgakov(Founder)inBenny Yufei Chen(Founder)inChenyu Zhao(Founder)inDmytro Ivchenko(Founder)inJames Reed(Founder)inLin Qiao(Founder)in

Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersIndex VenturesInsight PartnersLightspeed Venture PartnersMenlo VenturesOperator Collective+6 more

GetReal Securitygetrealsecurity.comin

GetReal Security develops cybersecurity solutions to detect and protect against malicious synthetic content, including deepfakes and manipulated media in images, audio, and video.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareAustin, US

Hany Farid(Founder)inTed Schlein(Founder)inMatt Moynahan(CEO)in

Co-investorsBallistic VenturesForgePoint CapitalCisco InvestmentsEvolution Equity PartnersCapital One VenturesK2 Access Fund

Harnessharness.ioin𝕏

Harness provides software delivery automation and infrastructure for engineering teams to deploy code reliably and efficiently.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Jyoti Bansal(Co-Founder & CEO)inRishi Singh(Co-Founder & Board Member)in

Co-investorsAlkeon InnovationBattery VenturesCrosslink CapitalFikaGeodesic CapitalGV (Google Ventures)+12 more

Harveyharvey.aiin𝕏

Harvey provides domain-specific AI products for legal and professional services firms, enabling contract analysis, due diligence, compliance, and litigation tasks.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechSan Francisco, US

Winston Weinberg(Co-founder & CEO)inGabe Pereyra(Founder)inGabriel Pereyra(Co-founder & President)in

Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzKleiner PerkinsOpenAI Startup FundCaesar VenturesCoatue ManagementConviction+20 more

Iterableiterable.comin𝕏

Iterable provides customer communication and engagement software that enables brands to create targeted messaging experiences across email, SMS, push, and other channels.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechMedia & EntertainmentSaaSSan Francisco, US

Andrew Boni(Co-founder, CEO (2021-2025))inJustin ZhuinHaoran Zhu(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardSabri Murat Bicer(Director)

Co-investors500 Global645 VenturesAngelPadBrighter CapitalCRV (Charles River Ventures)Delta-v Capital+8 more

Level Pathlevelpath.comin𝕏

Levelpath provides AI agents that automate procurement workflows, transforming procurement from administrative overhead into a strategic business function.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

Alex Yakubovich(Founder)inBryan Rosenstein(Founder)inStan Garber(Founder)in

Co-investors01 AdvisorsBattery VenturesMenlo VenturesNew York Life VenturesNewView CapitalRedpoint Ventures+2 more

Linx Securitylinx.securityinDec 2019

Linx offers a unified platform that brings together security, governance, and access management to help organizations manage the full identity lifecycle.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York City, US

Israel Duanis(Co-Founder & CEO)inNiv Goldenberg(Co-Founder & CPO)in

BoardFRANCISCO LOPES(Director)FRANCISCO SCHMIDBERGER(Director)

Co-investorsCyberstartsIndex VenturesInsight Partners

Modern Treasurymoderntreasury.comin𝕏

Modern Treasury provides a payments infrastructure platform that enables businesses to move and track money across fiat and stablecoin rails through a single API.

Crypto & Web3Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US

Matt Marcus(Co-Founder & CEO)inDimitri Dadiomov(Cofounder & CEO)inSam Aarons(Co-Founder & CTO)in

Co-investorsArchetypeCastle Island VenturesCleo CapitalMischiefNewView CapitalQuiet Capital+7 more

Noma Securitynoma.securityin𝕏

Noma provides automated red teaming for AI systems, testing models and applications against evolving attack techniques through intelligent agents.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software

Niv Braun(Founder)in

Co-investorsBallistic VenturesEvolution Equity PartnersGlilot Capital PartnersDatabricks Ventures

Numericnumeric.ioin

Numeric builds a software platform for corporate finance and accounting teams that combines real-time accounting, data transformation, and AI-powered analytics to replace manual spreadsheet-based processes.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSan Francisco, US

Parker Gilbert(Founder & CEO)inAndrew Bihl(Founder)inAnthony Alvernaz(Founder)in

Co-investorsAlkeon InnovationFifth Down CapitalHawk Hill VenturesIVP (Institutional Venture Partners)Long Journey VenturesMenlo Ventures+7 more

Oasisoasis.securityin

Oasis Security provides management and security solutions for non-human identities across hybrid cloud environments.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise Software

Danny Brickman(Founder)in

Co-investorsAccelCyberstartsFrontline VenturesCraft VenturesSequoia Capital

Observeobserveinc.comin𝕏May 2025

Observe provides observability software that helps engineers troubleshoot distributed applications, consolidating logs, metrics, and traces into a single platform built on Snowflake.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwarePalo Alto, US

Qi Jin(Executive Officer)inKeith Butler(Executive Officer)inJeremy Burton(Executive Officer, Director)inBrian Campbell(Executive Officer)inChristine Dorrion(Executive Officer)inJacob Leverich(Executive Officer)in

Co-investorsSutter Hill VenturesAlumni VenturesBasecamp FundEvolution Equity PartnersHuman CapitalMadrona Venture Group+5 more

Obsidianobsidiansecurity.comin

Obsidian Security provides visibility, controls, and threat detection for SaaS applications and AI tools across enterprise environments.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNewport Beach, US

Matt W.(Founder)inGlenn Chisholm(Co-Founder; former CEO, now Chairman & Chief Product Officer)inBen Johnson(Co-Founder & CTO)inMatt Wolff(Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer)inHasan Imam(Chief Executive Officer)inXinran Wang(Chief Technology Officer (formerly EVP of Engineering))in

Co-investorsCraft VenturesCRESCENT COVE CAPITALDnx Venturesfama Ventures, LLCGreylock PartnersGV (Google Ventures)+6 more

Parloaparloa.comin𝕏

Parloa Labs is a research organization advancing the science and practice of artificial intelligence through deployments of voice AI agents.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSBerlin, DE

Malte Kosub(CEO & Co-founder)inStefan Ostwald(Chief AI Officer & Co-Founder)in

Co-investorsEQT VenturesG SquaredMosaic VenturesNewionGeneral CatalystBlueYard Capital+3 more

Plenfulplenful.comin

Plenful is an AI platform that automates complex administrative workflows in pharmacy operations, designed for healthcare organizations and pharmacy teams.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechSaaSSan Francisco, US

Joy Liu(Founder & CEO)in

Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersNight CapitalNotable CapitalTq Ventures Llc

Reach Securityreach.securityin𝕏Mar 2024 · $20M

Reach provides a platform for organizations to identify and remediate hidden security risks, exposures, and misconfigurations across their existing security tools.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Garrett Hamilton(CEO and Co-Founder)inColt Blackmore(Co-Founder and CTO)in

BoardGregory Eaton(Founder & Managing Director)in

Co-investorsBallistic VenturesCheyenne VenturesM12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)Ridge VenturesTechOperators Venture CapitalWebb Investment Network

Resolve AIresolve.aiin𝕏

Resolve AI provides AI agents that handle on-call rotations, incident investigation, and production operational tasks for software engineering teams, integrating with existing tools via MCP, API, and Skills.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Spiros Xanthos(Founder and CEO)inMayank Agarwal(Founder and CTO)inJason Forget(President & Chief Revenue Officer (founding CRO))inDhruv Mahajan(Chief AI Scientist)inBrooke Daniels(Head of Enterprise and Partnerships)inBharath Gowda(Head of Marketing)in

Co-investorsDST GlobalA*Amjad MasadGreylock PartnersLightspeed Venture PartnersSalesforce Ventures+2 more

Sem4aisema4.aiin𝕏

Sema4.ai builds intelligent agents that use natural language processing to enable users to express and execute complex tasks, and deploys Actions to accelerate enterprise workflows.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSAtlanta, US

Rob Bearden(Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer)inRam Venkatesh(Co-founder / product and technology leader)inPaul Codding(Co-founder)inSudhir Menon(Co-founder)inAntti Karjalainen(Co-founder; Robocorp founder)

BoardPeter Fenton(Benchmark investor/partner)in

Co-investorsCanvas VenturesHarpoon VenturesKoch Disruptive TechnologiesMayfield FundMVP VenturesRocketship.vc+3 more

Semgrep App Security Platformsemgrep.devin𝕏

Semgrep develops a code scanning platform that detects security vulnerabilities and code issues across multiple programming languages, integrated with CI/CD tools like GitHub and GitLab.

CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US

Drew DennisoninIsaac Evans(Founder)in

Co-investorsMenlo VenturesBallistic VenturesBright Pixel CapitalFelicis VenturesHarpoon VenturesLightspeed Venture Partners+3 more

Soleysoleytherapeutics.cominOct 2020

Soley Therapeutics develops proprietary imaging, AI, and automation technology to analyze cellular responses to stress and drug exposure, enabling the discovery of novel medicines and therapeutic mechanisms.

AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechSouth San Francisco, US

Ken V. Alwyn(Chief Financial Officer)Kurosh Ameri(Director)Yerem Yeghiazarians(Director)

Co-investorsBreyer Capital

Team Bridgeteambridge.comin

Teambridge provides time-tracking and workforce-management software that captures mobile clock-ins, connects them to scheduled shifts, workers, and sites, and surfaces exceptions for review before payroll.

AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkHR TechSaaSSan Francisco, US

Arjun Vora(Founder)inTito Goldstein(Founder)

Co-investorsAbstract VenturesAurumMayfield Fund

Temporaltemporal.ioin𝕏

Temporal is an open-source workflow engine that enables durable execution for backend services and distributed systems.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsBellevue, US

Samar Abbas(CEO & Co-Founder)inMaxim Fateev(CTO & Co-Founder)in

Co-investorsAmplify PartnersAndreessen HorowitzConversion CapitalIndex VenturesLightspeed Venture PartnersMadrona Venture Group+4 more

Transmit Securitytransmitsecurity.comin𝕏

Transmit Security provides an enterprise platform that combines customer identity and access management (CIAM) with fraud prevention and identity verification, using predictive AI to detect fraud and secure customer access.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software

Mickey Boodaei(Co-founder)inRakesh Loonkar(Co-founder)in

Co-investorsBright Pixel CapitalCyberstartsGeodesic CapitalSyn Ventures Seed Management LlcVintage Investment PartnersGeneral Atlantic+1 more

Turbine oneturbineone.comin

Turbine One develops edge computing and autonomous fleet management software for military and defense operations.

AI & Machine LearningDefense TechIoT

Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersGeneral PartnershipPROOFXYZ Venture Capital

Unblockedgetunblocked.comin𝕏

Unblocked builds developer productivity software designed to improve workflow by reducing meetings, interruptions, and documentation friction during software development.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaS

Dennis Pilarinos(Founder, CEO)in

Co-investorsAmplify PartnersXYZ Venture Capital

Upwindupwind.ioin𝕏

Upwind is a cloud and AI security platform that combines a runtime intelligence layer with agentless and eBPF-based sensors to correlate cloud inventory, posture, network topology, applications, and identities into a single operational view.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Amiram Shachar(Co-Founder & CEO)inTal Zur(Co-Founder & CTO)inLavi Ferdman(Co-Founder, Growth)inLiran Polak(Co-Founder & Chief Architect)inTomer Hadassi(COO)inRinki Sethi(Chief Security Officer (CSO))in

Co-investorsCyberstartsLeaders FundBessemer Venture PartnersCerca PartnersCraft VenturesGreylock Partners+5 more

Vega Securityvega.ioin

Vega provides a security analytics platform for security operations teams that enables access to and analysis of security data across multiple storage locations without requiring data migration, using an AI-native approach to detection and investigation.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Shay SandlerinYonni ShelmerdineinOfir NirinMike DuonginEli RozeninHadas Ofirin

Co-investorsAccelCyberstartsAlbum VCCRV (Charles River Ventures)Redpoint Ventures

Witness aiwitness.aiin

WitnessAI builds an AI-native security platform that helps enterprises protect and accelerate their AI adoption across evolving AI tech stacks.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareMountain View, US

Rick Caccia(CEO)inTodd Chronert(Chief Revenue Officer)inStephanie Gilliam(SVP Marketing)inDan(Chief Product Officer)inMark Sierra(Chief Financial Officer)inAlex(SVP Engineering)in

Co-investorsBallistic VenturesB3 CapitalFin CapitalForgePoint CapitalGV (Google Ventures)Qualcomm Ventures+2 more

Zafran Securityzafran.ioin𝕏

Zafran provides threat exposure management and security orchestration for enterprises, helping security teams coordinate existing tools and identify real-world security gaps across complex hybrid environments.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software

Sanaz Yashar(Co-founder and CEO)in

Co-investorsMenlo VenturesCyberstartsSequoia Capital01 AdvisorsCisco InvestmentsVintage Investment Partners

Other

Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.

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Frequently asked questions

How many investments has Artisanal Ventures made?
Artisanal Ventures has 48 tracked investments, 2 of which have exited, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
What stage does Artisanal Ventures invest at?
Artisanal Ventures invests at the Seed, Series A stages.
What sectors does Artisanal Ventures focus on?
Artisanal Ventures focuses on Cloud Computing, Consumer, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Healthtech, SaaS.
Where is Artisanal Ventures located?
Artisanal Ventures is headquartered in Tiburon, US.
Who does Artisanal Ventures co-invest with?
Artisanal Ventures most often shares deals with Menlo Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Ballistic Ventures, among 190 tracked co-investors.

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$1.7M – $87M
Greylock Partners

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$100K – $200M
Redpoint Ventures

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$100K – $10M
Unusual Ventures

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$1M – $15M
firstminute capital

firstminute capital is an early-stage European venture fund that backs founders at inception, providing the first institutional cheque into companies building global technology across AI and deep tech.

$1.3M – $3.8M
Essence Venture Capital

Essence VC is a rare "engineer-first, solo GP" fund led by Timothy Chen, who was initially rejected as "too technical/too nerdy" for traditional VC but built Essence into what's considered "one of the hottest startup funds in tech," backed by top-tier LPs like Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado. The fund explicitly positions itself as investing in infrastructure companies before they exist, backing founders at the repo/demo stage with comfort writing checks when there's only GitHub traction and an alpha—much earlier and more technically driven than most infra-focused VCs.

$10K – $10M
Cusp Capital

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$7.6M

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