Artisanal Ventures
Venture capitalTiburon · Seed–Series A · 6 people tracked
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 Aug 25, 2026.
Team · 6 people
from the firm's website & public directories
What they invest in
from 45 of 48 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×41Enterprise Software ×32Cybersecurity ×17SaaS ×16Developer Tools ×10Cloud Computing ×8Data & Infrastructure ×5Deep Tech ×4
HQs:United States×29Germany×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 41 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×102 founders×143 founders×94+ founders×8
Where their founders studiedfrom 64 founders with education data
Duke University ×5Stanford University ×4The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ×4University of California, Berkeley ×4Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi ×3Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ×3Technion ×3The College of Management Academic Studies ×3
Where their founders worked beforefrom 64 founders with career history
Meta ×5OpenAI ×5Facebook ×4Talpiot Program ×4Israeli Military Intelligence - Unit 8200 ×3Mamram ×3NetApp ×3TellApart ×3
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
6 founders hold a PhD · 8 hold an MBA (of 67 with degree data)
Investments · 48 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 12024 · 12022 · 12021 · 12020 · 12016 · 16 dated
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))Smita Sanadhya(Chief Financial Officer (former))Jeff True(Chief Legal Officer (former))Abhi Bagri(Chief Technology Officer)in
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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)Michael Monovoukas(Founder)in
Co-investorsGrid CapitalICONIQ
AcuityMD is a vertical AI and commercial-intelligence platform that helps medical-device companies size markets, prioritize physicians and facilities, manage territories and pipelines, forecast demand, and accelerate product adoption.
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)Eric Vishria(Director / Benchmark investor)
Co-investorsAjax HealthAtreides ManagementICONIQ GrowthRedpoint VenturesStepstone GroupBenchmark
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 TorresLuke
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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)Chris Olah(Co-founder & Interpretability Research Lead)
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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
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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
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David Slater(Founder)Evan Pena(Founder)
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AI & Machine LearningBiotechEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Sajith Wickramasekara(Founder/CEO)inAshutosh Singhal(Director)Ashu Singhal(Founder)in
BoardMiles Grimshaw(Director)in
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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
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Cerebras designs and manufactures wafer-scale AI processors and systems for data centers, enabling accelerated AI training and inference at scale.
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Andrew Feldman(Co-founder & CEO)inGary LauterbachMichael JamesSean Lie(Founder)inJean-Philippe Fricker
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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)Yury Izrailevsky(Co-Founder & President)
Co-investorsAltimeter CapitalIndex VenturesAdapt VenturesBattery VenturesBessemer Venture PartnersCoatue Management+9 more
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))Corinne Riley(Board Member (Partner, Greylock Partners))
Co-investorsBain Capital VenturesGreylock PartnersPaladin Capital GroupDefinition
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
Christopher Lu(Director)Paul Yacoubian(Executive Officer, Director)inChris Lu(Founder)in
BoardZach DeWitt(Director)in
Co-investorsWing
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)Evolution Equity PartnersFriends Family CapitalG Squared+14 more
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 Lewis
Co-investorsMosaic VenturesNotable CapitalTrue Ventures
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 Ventures
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+5 more
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)
Co-investorsBallistic VenturesForgePoint CapitalCisco InvestmentsEvolution Equity PartnersCapital One VenturesK2 Access Fund
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
Harvey provides domain-specific AI products for legal and professional services firms, enabling contract analysis, due diligence, compliance, and litigation tasks.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTech
Winston Weinberg(Co-founder & CEO)inGabe Pereyra(Founder)inGabriel Pereyra(Co-founder & President)in
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzKleiner PerkinsOpenAI Startup FundCaesar VenturesCoatue ManagementConviction+15 more
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 ZhuHaoran Zhu(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardSabri Murat Bicer(Director)
Co-investors500 Global645 VenturesAngelPadBrighter CapitalCRV (Charles River Ventures)Glynn Capital Management+6 more
Co-investorsAglae VenturesAmplify Partners
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)Bryan Rosenstein(Founder)Stan Garber(Founder)
Co-investors01 AdvisorsBattery VenturesMenlo VenturesNew York Life VenturesNewView CapitalRedpoint Ventures+2 more
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(Founder)in
Co-investorsIndex VenturesCyberstartsInsight Partners
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 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
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
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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-investorsAccelFrontline VenturesCraft VenturesCyberstartsSequoia Capital
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)Keith Butler(Executive Officer)inJeremy Burton(Executive Officer, Director)inBrian Campbell(Executive Officer)Christine Dorrion(Executive Officer)Jacob Leverich(Executive Officer)in
Co-investorsSutter Hill VenturesAlumni VenturesBasecamp FundEvolution Equity PartnersHuman CapitalMadrona Venture Group+2 more
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)Ben Johnson(Co-Founder & CTO)Matt Wolff(Co-Founder & Chief Scientist (also referenced as Chief AI Officer))inHasan Imam(Chief Executive Officer)inXinran Wang(Chief Technology Officer (formerly EVP of Engineering))in
Co-investorsCRESCENT COVE CAPITALDnx Venturesfama Ventures, LLCGreylock PartnersGV (Google Ventures)IVP (Institutional Venture Partners)+4 more
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(Founder)inStefan Ostwald(Co-Founder and Chief AI Officer)
Co-investorsEQT VenturesG SquaredMosaic VenturesNewionGeneral CatalystBlueYard Capital+2 more
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 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 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))Dhruv Mahajan(Chief AI Scientist)Brooke Daniels(Head of Enterprise and Partnerships)inBharath Gowda(Head of Marketing)in
Co-investorsDST GlobalA*Amjad MasadGreylock PartnersSalesforce VenturesSrinivas Narayanan+2 more
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)Antti Karjalainen(Co-founder; Robocorp founder)
BoardPeter Fenton(Benchmark investor/partner)
Co-investorsCanvas VenturesKoch Disruptive TechnologiesMayfield FundMVP VenturesRocketship.vcSnowflake Ventures+2 more
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 DennisonIsaac Evans(Founder)in
Co-investorsMenlo VenturesBallistic VenturesFelicis Ventures
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
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)Tito Goldstein(Founder)
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesAurumMayfield Fund
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)Maxim Fateev(CTO & Co-Founder)in
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersAndreessen HorowitzConversion CapitalIndex VenturesMadrona Venture GroupSapphire Ventures+4 more
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 CapitalGeodesic CapitalSyn Ventures Seed Management LlcVintage Investment PartnersCyberstartsGeneral Atlantic+1 more
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
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)
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersXYZ Venture Capital
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-investorsLeaders FundBessemer Venture PartnersCyberstartsCerca PartnersCraft VenturesGreylock Partners+4 more
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
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)Alex(SVP Engineering)in
Co-investorsBallistic VenturesB3 CapitalFin CapitalForgePoint CapitalGV (Google Ventures)Qualcomm Ventures+1 more
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
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesAcuity · whbl.com · Aug 20, 2026
Cerebras · techcrunch.com · Aug 20, 2026
Abnormal Ai · Abnormal AI Newsroom · Aug 19, 2026
Resolve AI · Resolve AI (press release) · Aug 17, 2026
Anthropic · Reuters · Aug 15, 2026
Obsidian · Obsidian Security (press release) · Aug 4, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Artisanal Ventures made?
- Artisanal Ventures has 48 tracked investments, 2 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO, 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, Ballistic Ventures, Greylock Partners, among 185 tracked co-investors.
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