AV8 Ventures
Venture capitalPalo Alto · Pre-Seed–Series A · 15 people tracked
Investment thesis
AV8 Ventures invests in early-stage startups with a focus on healthcare, enterprise, financial services and deep-tech. The firm commits capital early and takes a long-term partnership approach, positioning itself as a supporter of bold founders building category-defining companies.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 15 people
from the firm's website & public directories
Founder mafia
3 people who came through AV8 Ventures went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 34 of 43 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×14Enterprise Software ×12InsurTech ×10Healthtech ×9SaaS ×9Digital Health ×8Biotech ×5Fintech ×5
HQs:United States×19Canada×2United Kingdom×2Germany×1Denmark×1India×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 26 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×122 founders×83 founders×34+ founders×3
Where their founders worked beforefrom 18 founders with career history
Gartner ×2Goldman Sachs ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Investments · 43 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2023 · 12022 · 12021 · 12019 · 12018 · 26 dated
Golden, US
Eric Kirby(Director)Joseph H. Timko(Director)Steven T. Joanis(Executive Officer, Director)Chris McCormick(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Board seatGeorge Ugras· per SEC Form D · $3M raise · filed Sep 2022
Edgeworth, US
Cetin Mericli(Executive Officer, Director)Alonzo Kelly(Executive Officer, Director)Michael George(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardMike Stubler(Director)inJim DiSanto(Director)
Board seatGeorge Ugras· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsBatshit Crazy VenturesDraper TriangleProeza VenturesReshapeScaleX Ventures
San Francisco, US
Mayank Mehta(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardAnand Thaker(Director)
Board seatBaris Aksoy· per SEC Form D · $6.3M raise · filed Jan 2020
Co-investorsTrue Ventures
Hello Alpha (formerly Alpha Medical) is an online telehealth service that connects patients with board-certified providers and licensed primary care providers trained in women's health.
Digital HealthFemTechHealthtechWellness & FitnessPalo Alto, US
Gloria Lau(Founder)
Co-investorsChamaeleonInformed Ventures Advisors, LlcSamsung Next
A women's health-focused company and advocate for women's healthcare.
Annex offers digital multi-peril homeowners insurance for homes in coastal and high-risk regions, covering hazards such as hurricanes, floods, fire, theft, and storms.
FintechInsurTech
Axuall provides a workforce intelligence solution for healthcare staffing and operations, using clinician data to address needs in credentialing and workforce management.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDigital HealthHealthtechHR TechCleveland, US
Charles Edward Lougheed, III(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Charlie Lougheed(Founder)inKathryn Zeller Lougheed(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Co-investorsEpsilon Health InvestorsFlare Capital PartnersFrist Cressey VenturesInHealth VenturesJumpstart VenturesNoro-Moseley Partners
Blueberry Life offers specialised term life insurance for people living with diabetes and other chronic conditions, sold through a fully online, mobile-first quote process.
Digital HealthFintechInsurTech
Dr. Karan Mehta(Founder)
Co-investorsOxford
Brave Care operates pediatric primary and urgent care clinics designed to treat common acute conditions in children, supplemented by remote consultations delivered by clinicians.
HealthtechPortland, US
Asa Miller(Founder)inDarius "Bubs" Monsef(Founder)inMaryam Taheri(Founder)inCorey Fish, MD(Founder)inGary Gerlacher(Executive Officer, Director)Corey Fish, M.D.(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsFifty YearsVentureSouqY CombinatorCollaborative FundFlucas VenturesGreycroft+2 more
Cerby provides an identity security platform that extends password management, SSO, MFA, user provisioning/deprovisioning, and privileged access management to disconnected applications that lack SAML, OIDC, or SCIM support.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Belsasar Lepe(Founder & CEO)inVidal(Co-Founder & CTO)inErnie Tkac(Chief Revenue Officer)inMatt McCawley(VP of Customer Experience, Business Development & Partnerships)inMiles Lavin(Chief Financial and Operating Officer)in
Co-investorsBowery CapitalCarnrite VenturesCategory VenturesCOREangelsIncubate USSCB 10X+7 more
Clever Care is a culturally and linguistically sensitive Medicare Advantage health plan serving Southern California that integrates Eastern and Western medicine approaches.
HealthtechInsurTechSouthern California, US
Myong Sun Lee(Executive Officer, Director)Hiep Dinh Pham(Executive Officer, Director)Dave Firdaus(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsNorwest Venture PartnersGlobal Founders CapitalGV (Google Ventures)Novo HoldingsFigure 8 InvestmentsPruVen Capital Partners+1 more
San Mateo, US
Neil Peretz(Director)John Gengarella(Executive Officer, Director)
CoverTree provides insurance exclusively for manufactured homes, offering plans that can be purchased online with potential savings.
FintechInsurTechSaaSDetroit, US
RISHIE MODI(Executive Officer, Director)DIVYANSH SHARMA(Executive Officer, Director)ADARSH RACHMALE(Executive Officer, Director)Adarsh Rachmale(Founder)
Co-investorsDistributed VenturesEverywhere VenturesNFPThe Fund
Crogl is an AI platform for enterprise security operations centers that automates security investigation workflows to accelerate junior analyst development and retain institutional knowledge.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
David Dorsey(Founder)inmonzy merza(Founder)
Co-investorsFirestreak VenturesMenlo VenturesTola Capital
CuraFi provides a drug risk and cost management solution aimed at expanding patient access to specialty medication.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechSaaS
Co-investorsSwell PartnersTau VenturesZelda VenturesSixThirty Ventures
DataGalaxy is a data and AI governance platform that helps organizations create context from their data, enforce governance policies, and track the business value of AI initiatives.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Co-investors33NNewfund Capital
DELFI Diagnostics develops FirstLook Lung, a blood-based laboratory test for lung cancer screening that identifies genome-wide alterations in individuals eligible for screening.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDigital HealthHealthtechMedical DevicesBaltimore, US
Victor Velculescu(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Peter Bach(Executive Officer)Jennifer Buechel(Executive Officer)Douglas Schenkel(Executive Officer)Nicholas Dracopoli(Executive Officer)
BoardRishi Gupta(Director)in
Co-investorsForesite CapitalIllumina VenturesMenlo VenturesOpen Field CapitalOrbiMedOUP (Osage University Partners)+3 more
Eclypsium provides hardware and firmware security solutions for enterprises to identify and address vulnerabilities in chips, low-level code, and digital supply chains.
CybersecurityDefense TechEnterprise SoftwareHardwarePortland, US
Yuriy Bulygin(Co-founder)Alex Bazhaniuk(Co-founder)Alex B(Founder)John Ewert(Executive Officer)
BoardAlex Doll(Director)inTimothy Porter(Director)in
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesAndreessen HorowitzaVentureBasecamp FundDniproGlobal Brain+13 more
Elucidate develops AI-powered financial crime risk management solutions for banks, payment providers, and other financial institutions.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechBerlin, DE
Shane Riedel(CEO and co-founder)in
Co-investors11.2 CapitalFrontline VenturesElevator VenturesSixThirty Ventures
Embrace is a user-focused observability platform built on OpenTelemetry that provides real user monitoring (RUM) for mobile and web applications.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSLos Angeles, US
Eric Futoran(Founder and CEO)inFredric Newberg(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorBaroda VenturesBonfire VenturesDuke Capital PartnersEniac VenturesFjor Founders+6 more
Flourish Health provides psychiatrist-led mental health care for young people ages 8-26 with serious conditions such as bipolar, depressive, anxiety, and trauma-related disorders.
Digital HealthHealthtechMental Health
Co-investors25MadisonCity LightGreyMatterHypothesisNew Stack VenturesTensility Venture Partners+2 more
Glow offers workers' compensation and accident insurance for businesses, covering employees both at work and off-the-clock.
InsurTech
Samad Wahedi(Founder)in
Co-investorsCota CapitalIndex VenturesMGV.VCSequoia CapitalAndreessen HorowitzCyberstarts+1 more
Hometree provides energy services and solutions to help homeowners and landlords decarbonise their residential properties in the UK.
CleantechEnergyInsurTechPropTechUK, GB
Simon Phelan(CEO and Founder)in
Co-investorsDN CapitalEnergy Impact PartnersAENUFJ LabsLocalGlobeCarbon+2 more
Hydrolix is a real-time data analytics platform that enables sub-second analytics at global scale for petabyte-scale log data, reducing infrastructure costs while providing instant insights from both real-time and historical data across distributed environments.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Marty Kagan(Founder & CEO)Hasan Alayi(Founder)Hasan Alayli(Founder)in
Co-investorsBlumberg CapitalCostella KirschFrontline VenturesNava VenturesOregon Venture FundPortland Seed Fund+5 more
Co-investorsRoyal Street Ventures Management Company, Llc
Co-investorsIQ Capital
Okareo tests conversational and voice AI agents using synthetic users ("Drivers") that simulate real customers across long, multi-turn conversations in 30+ languages to expose edge cases and regressions.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaSSan Francisco, US
Boris Selitser(Founder)
Co-investorsBee PartnersRace Capital
Olé provides term life insurance with automated approval based on AI evaluation, available in coverage amounts from USD 100,000 to USD 10,000,000.
InsurTech
Co-investorsMundi Ventures
One Model provides a platform for HR teams to extract, analyze, and visualize workforce data through explainable AI and analytics tools.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHR TechSan Antonio, US
Chris Butler(Co-Founder, CEO)David Wilson(Co-Founder, COO)Matthew Wilton(Co-Founder, CTO)
BoardDon Douglas(Director)in
Co-investorsRiverwood CapitalGeekdomTechstars
Phenomic AI is a biotech company developing therapies for solid tumors using a machine-learning-powered transcriptomics platform that analyzes single-cell RNA data to identify drug targets and understand tumor biology.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechToronto, CA
Sam Cooper(Co-founder & CTO)Oren Kraus(Co-founder)
Co-investorsCantos VenturesCTI Life Sciences Fund L.P.Garage CapitalHemi Ventures, LlcToronto Innovation Acceleration PartnersHike Ventures+1 more
PlanetiQ operates a satellite constellation using NASA-heritage GNSS radio occultation (GNSS-RO) receivers to collect atmospheric data used as input for weather forecasting models.
Climate TechDefense TechSpace Tech
Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersMoonshots CapitalNew Science VenturesTremendous View CapitalVTC VenturesAccess Ventures
Pulse operates a marketplace where C-suite technology executives share knowledge and insights with each other and with software vendors.
Enterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkMarketplacesSan Francisco, US
Mayank Mehta(Founder/CEO)inAnand Thaker(Founder/Technical /CTO)in
Co-investorsFarvatn VentureY Combinator
Reframe Financial helps families prepare for the financial issues of aging, with a focus on long-term care and caregiving costs.
FintechHealthtechInsurTech
Karan Aneja(CEO & Co-Founder)
Co-investorsAlpha EdisonRoute 66 VenturesJ-VenturesSixThirty Ventures
ShennonBio develops immunotherapy technologies using microfluidic engineering, computational biology, and immunology to advance T cell engineering for cancer treatment.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechMedical DevicesSan Francisco, US
Li Sun, PhD(Founder/CEO)inLI SUN(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardJAMES HARDIMAN(Director)in
Co-investorsDCVC (Data Collective)Future VenturesNextGen Venture PartnersSamos InvestmentsFoundation Capital
SimBioSys builds AI-powered 3D visualization and diagnostic technology that models tumors as "digital twins" to support individualized cancer treatment planning.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDigital HealthMedical DevicesChicago, US
John A Cole(Executive Officer)Joe Peterson(Co-founder)John Cole(Co-founder)Tushar Pandey(Co-founder)Joseph Peterson(Executive Officer, Director)Stacey Stevens(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsGenoa VenturesGENERAL INCEPTION
Soter builds an AI platform for industrial businesses that analyzes images, videos, and text in real time to identify workplace safety risks and suggest corrective actions.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareInsurTechSaaS
Matthew Hart(Founder)in
Co-investorsChamaeleonMatterwave VenturesOTB Ventures
Co-investorsCrosslink CapitalEpisode1ICONYC labsUpWest
ThinkBioscience develops small-molecule drugs aimed at historically difficult drug targets, using synthetic biology to identify novel mechanisms of biomolecular engagement.
BiotechDeep Tech
Co-investorsBuff Gold VenturesCU Healthcare Innovation FundWireframe VenturesAxial VC
Uizard is an AI-powered UI design and prototyping tool that lets users create mockups, wireframes, and interactive prototypes for mobile apps, websites, and web apps.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaSCopenhagen, DK
Co-investorsbyFoundersConnetic VenturesInsight PartnersLDV CapitalNew York Venture Partners
WAX is an app that enables collectors to catalog and insure watches, handbags, jewelry, and other luxury items across over 30 categories.
InsurTech
Rich(CEO)
Co-investorsExpansion Venture CapitalSlow VenturesNewark Venture Partners
Yuvo Health provides software and business services to help community health centers operate more effectively within value-based care models.
Digital HealthEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechSaaSNew York, US
Cesar Herrera(Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder)inJanel Sia(Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder)Stephanie Hudson(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardFatima Husain(Director)inBrenton Fargnoli(Director)inJoseph Mayer(Director)in
Co-investorsAlleyCorpGreyMatterHLM Venture PartnersLifeX VenturesMastryMosaic General Partnership, LLC+3 more
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesAlpha · marketbeat.com · Aug 20, 2026
Glow · techcrunch.com · Jul 22, 2026
Pulse · finsmes.com · Jul 17, 2026
Clever Care Health Plan · funderintel.com · Jul 16, 2026
Delfi Diagnostics · geekwire.com · Jul 13, 2026
Cerby · infotechlead.com · Jul 2, 2026
Embrace · pymnts.com · Jun 23, 2026
PlanetiQ · prnewswire.com · Apr 16, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has AV8 Ventures made?
- AV8 Ventures has 39 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO.
- What stage does AV8 Ventures invest at?
- AV8 Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is AV8 Ventures's typical check size?
- AV8 Ventures typically writes checks of $500K – $10M.
- What sectors does AV8 Ventures focus on?
- AV8 Ventures focuses on Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Healthtech.
- Where is AV8 Ventures located?
- AV8 Ventures is headquartered in Palo Alto, US.
- Does AV8 Ventures lead rounds?
- AV8 Ventures typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does AV8 Ventures co-invest with?
- AV8 Ventures most often shares deals with Y Combinator, Frontline Ventures, GreyMatter, among 138 tracked co-investors.
Co-investors · 40
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Greycroft is a venture capital firm that partners with founders across multiple industries and geographies, investing in software, sustainability, and consumer brands.
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is a venture capital firm that invests in and provides long-term support to founders building new companies.
Foundation Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that commits to founders at the idea stage and maintains long-term relationships with portfolio companies through their growth journey.
DCVC (Data Collective) is a deep tech venture capital firm that backs entrepreneurs using computational approaches to solve large-scale real-world problems across many industries.
Eniac Ventures partners with early-stage founders, backing companies from 0 to 1.
Madrona Venture Group is a Seattle-founded venture firm that partners with founders across early and acceleration stages, providing capital plus hands-on support in recruiting, strategy, business development, and fundraising.
Bowery Capital is an early-stage venture firm focused on B2B software companies, providing hands-on go-to-market, talent, and business development support to founders.
Intel Capital is the corporate venture capital arm associated with Intel, investing in and supporting technology companies as they scale.
Wing is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies focused on business technology, data, mobile, and cloud infrastructure. The firm was founded by two experienced investors who maintain long-term engagement with their portfolio companies.
Flare Capital Partners is a healthcare technology-focused venture firm that partners with founders building companies to improve outcomes, lower costs, and reshape healthcare delivery.
New York Venture Partners is a founder-run family office that makes direct investments in pre-seed and seed startups, having backed over 60 companies. It offers financing along with mentorship and strategic marketing consulting.
▶28 more co-investors
Draper TriangleAccelB Capital GroupPlug and Play VenturesFundersClubPioneerFreestyle CapitalSoftBank Vision FundSoma CapitalTwo Sigma VenturesVillage GlobalArray Ventures Management LlcPrimary Venture PartnersBaruch Future VenturesFusionS28 CapitalAtreides ManagementS3 VenturesBMW i VenturesOkta VenturesSparkLabs Global VenturesLightspeed India PartnersBlackhorn VenturesImagination CapitalTrail Run CapitalCatapult VenturesOperator StackMarkd
Firms observed investing alongside AV8 Ventures, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with AV8 Ventures's recorded portfolio.
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