BoxGroup — 2026 Investments

AfterQuery is an applied research lab that curates training data solutions for foundation model development by capturing expert reasoning and decision-making processes.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

CGCarlos Georgescu(CTO)inSMSpencer Mateega(CEO)inDanny Tang(Founder)Alec Zhou(Hiring Manager)Elisa Shi(Chief of Staff)Radhik Wickramasinghe(Hiring Manager)

Co-investorsFAFailup VenturesRARaineY Y CombinatorALAltos VenturesANAndreessen HorowitzLALatitude Capital+1 more

Altara builds AI agents purpose-built for the physical sciences, automating scientific and engineering workflows such as experimental design, yield analysis, anomaly detection, and failure analysis.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise Software

Catherine Yeo(Founder)in

Co-investorsGRGreylock PartnersLILiquid VenturesNENeo

Aranya designs, deploys, and operates production AI infrastructure using clusterdOS, a self-healing distributed operating system that extends Kubernetes across the full stack to simplify infrastructure management for AI workloads.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US

Christian Bhatia Ondaatje(Executive Officer, Director)inABAryamika Bhatia Ondaatje(Executive Officer, Director)inSasivarnan Kanaghasalam Sathyapriya(Executive Officer, Director)in

Co-investorsASAsylum VenturesFIFirst Round CapitalFOFounder CollectiveUNUncommon Projects Capital ManagementVEVermilion Cliffs VenturesPAParable Partners

Arkero builds AI tools that automate repetitive operational work for professional sports clubs and sports businesses, aiming to let their staff focus on strategy and creative work.

AI & Machine LearningSaaSSports Tech

DSDaniel Shi(Founder)inVNVamsi Narla(Founder)inShivaas Gulati(Founder)in

Co-investorsGAGame Changers VenturesGAGaruda VenturesSESeven Seven SixFOFounders' Co-opIAIA Ventures

Autonomous Technologies Group (ATG) builds Autonomous, an AI-driven financial advisory system that analyzes markets and an individual's complete financial life to make personalized investment and tax-optimization recommendations.

AI & Machine LearningFintechNew York, US

Co-investorsBLBlank VenturesFUFusionHAHAWKTAILGAGarry TanJLJLL Spark Global Ventures

Autonomous is an AI-powered wealth management platform that provides integrated financial management across investments, taxes, planning, and execution for high-net-worth individuals with complex financial situations.

AI & Machine LearningFintechNew York City, US

DEDillon Erb(CEO)inDKDaniel Kobran(COO)inChris Swart(CFO)Jen Keller(Chief of Staff)

Co-investorsCOCollaborative FundHAHAWKTAILY Y CombinatorAAAAL VCALAlt CapitalAMAmino Capital+7 more

Avoca provides AI-powered customer service agents for service-based businesses that handle incoming calls, text messages, and chats to book appointments and re-engage customers.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechNew York City, US

ASApurva Shrivastava(Founder)inTCTyson Chen(Founder)inSissi Li Zhou(Founder)in

Co-investorsALAlumni VenturesAMAmino CapitalAMAmplify PartnersAUAudaciousCACapital 49CICitta Capital+28 more

Basis provides a data platform for B2B fintech products, offering bank connections and business financial data through an API and a no-code dashboard.

Data & InfrastructureFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US

Co-investorsEVEvolution VenturesACAccelAVAvid VenturesBEBetter Tomorrow VenturesGVGV (Google Ventures)KHKhosla Ventures+1 more

Basis provides human data labeling and annotation services covering speech, motion, and human interaction data, delivering large volumes of labels each week with fast turnaround.

AI & Machine LearningData & Infrastructure

Co-investorsCRCreator VenturesACAccelAVAvid VenturesBEBetter Tomorrow VenturesGVGV (Google Ventures)KHKhosla Ventures+1 more

BoxGroup is an early-stage investment firm that backs startups at the earliest stage, with portfolio companies including Cursor, Ramp, Baseten, Clay, Plaid, and Ro.

DTDavid Tisch(Founder)in

Co-investorsDADarco CapitalACAccelALAlt CapitalFOForerunner VenturesHOHouseLILiquid Ventures+1 more

DepthFirst offers an application-security platform for humans and AI coding agents, providing a dependency firewall, code-change security review, continuous runtime testing of running applications, and dependency reachability analysis to surface exploitable vulnerabilities.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper Tools

AMAndrea Michi(Founder)inDPDaniele Perito(Founder)inQMQasim Mithani(Founder)in

Co-investorsACAccelFOForerunner VenturesHOHouseMAMantis CapitalALAlt CapitalCOColin Evans+3 more

Efficient Computer develops a programmable processor architecture designed for energy efficiency in general-purpose computation, including AI applications.

AI & Machine LearningEnergyHardwareSemiconductorsPittsburgh, US

BLBrandon Lucia(Founder)inAlex Hawkinson(Founder)Graham Gobieski(Founder)Nathan Beckmann(Founder)

Co-investorsBEBeyond Earth VenturesCOCollaborative FundINIn-Q-TelMAMana VenturesMYMyelin VCOVOverlap Holdings+9 more

Era builds an intelligence layer and platform that lets creators such as jewelers, fashion houses, car brands, and product designers shape how physical devices listen, think, speak, act, and remember.

AI & Machine LearningHardwareIoT

JLJasper Lau(Founder)in

Co-investorsBEBetaworksCOCollaborative FundMOMozilla VenturesABAbstract VenturesTOTopology VenturesYEYes VC

Expert.ai is an enterprise AI company providing natural language and agentic AI solutions for businesses, including banking.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareGovTechSaaSRockville, IT

Dario PardiMarco VaroneFabio MontorselliUmberto PardiStefano SpaggiariPeter Caiazzi

Co-investorsENEndiya PartnersINIndaco Venture PartnersVIView DifferentALAltos VenturesY Y Combinator

Forus embeds into physician workflows to automate the steps between a clinical decision and a patient starting treatment, including insurance authorization, financial assistance, and fulfillment routing across drugs, payers, and pharmacies.

AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechSaaS

SJSahir Jaggi(Founder)in

Co-investorsACAccelATAtria VenturesAVavraBABain Capital VenturesGEGeneral CatalystPEPear VC+2 more

Gumloop is a platform for building and deploying AI agents that automate business tasks such as data analysis, customer support, CRM management, and meeting preparation.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

MBMax Brodeur-Urbas(Founder)inRBRahul Behal(Founder)inMax Brodeur-Urbas Rahul Behal(Founder)AgentHub Careers(Talent at First Round)Jackson McGowan(Recruiter)

Co-investorsFIFirst Round CapitalIMImmad AkhundLULudlow VenturesTHTheory Forge VenturesWNWndrCoY Y Combinator+4 more

A data infrastructure platform that unifies operational data from systems like WMS, TMS, OMS, YMS, and ERP.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSSan Francisco, US

JHJibran Hutchins(CEO)inQHQuan Huynh(CIO)inPSPreston Schmittou(Founder)inJTJoseph Tso(COO)in

Co-investorsF-F-LOG VenturesXPXPRESS VenturesY Y CombinatorBRBrowder CapitalGHGHARAGE VenturesSUSunflower Capital Management Fund+3 more

Icehouse Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in New Zealand founders building global companies, backing them from early stages through scaling.

Sector Agnostic

Co-investorsARArc AngelsNZNZ Growth Capital PartnersAEAera VCALAltered CapitalCACategory VenturesGRGreylock Partners+2 more

Kasa operates a portfolio of flexible accommodations using technology and operational expertise.

Travel & Hospitality

RPRoman Pedan(Chief Executive Officer & Founder)inCMCraig Minoff(Chief Product Officer & Head of Company Ops (Founding Team))in

Co-investorsALAllegion VenturesCECerity Partners VenturesFIFirstMark CapitalFJFJ LabsFOFounder CollectiveNENew York Life Ventures+6 more

Light is an API-first platform that lets companies offer their own branded, embedded electricity plans and virtual power plants without handling regulatory or operational complexity, acting as the regulated electricity provider and managing billing, support, and collections.

CleantechClimate TechEnergySaaSAustin, US

Baker Shogry(Co-founder)inACAdam Compain(Co-founder)in

Co-investorsGIGigascale CapitalMAMatrixMIMischiefACACTivate CapitalSPSpark Capital

Niteshift provides a cloud platform that runs coding agents (such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenCode) inside fully configured, isolated development environments spun up from a repo's docs, scripts, CI, and Docker.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools

SMSajid Mehmood(Founder)inConor Branagan(Founder)in

Co-investorsAMAmplify PartnersGRGreylock PartnersSVSV Angel

Northwood provides end-to-end ground infrastructure for space missions, from concept through deployment to live data delivery.

Deep TechHardwareSaaSSpace Tech

SLShaurya Luthra(Founder)inBridgit Mendler(Founder)Griffin Cleverly(Founder)

Co-investorsALAlpine Space VenturesALAlso CapitalALAlumni VenturesANAndreessen HorowitzAUAurelia FoundryBABalerion Space Ventures+15 more

Novella offers an AI-powered workspace called Ella that turns text prompts into cinematic videos, providing writing, generation, and editing tools in one place.

AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMedia & Entertainment

Co-investorsMUMute VenturesAVAvid VenturesBLBlank VenturesBRBrewer Lane VenturesCRCrystal Venture PartnersSVSV Angel+1 more

Virtual reality headset maker founded in 2012 by Palmer Luckey; acquired by Facebook in 2014 for about $2 billion.

Menlo Park, US

NMNate Mitchell(Founder)Brendan Iribe(Founder)Michael Antonov(Founder)Palmer Luckey(Founder)

Co-investors8V8VCANAndreessen HorowitzFOFounders FundKAKayak VenturesMAMatrixSPSpark Capital+15 more

Ornn AI builds compute price indices and a marketplace that treat GPU compute as a tradable, hedgeable commodity.

AI & Machine LearningB2B MarketplacesCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureFintechNew York City, US

Wayne Nelms(Founder)

BoardKBKush Bavaria(Founder)in

Co-investorsANAndreessen HorowitzCRCrucible CapitalLILink VenturesNONordstarVIVine VenturesA1a16z crypto+2 more

Osmosis provides reinforcement learning infrastructure that enables AI agents to improve themselves from experience.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

KZKasey Zhang(CEO)inALAndy Lyu(CTO)inJosh Lee(Founder)Ryan Haynes(Founder)Shiv Gaglani(Founder)Sunny Aggarwal(Founder)

Co-investorsY Y CombinatorALAlumni VenturesAUAudaciousCRCRV (Charles River Ventures)FEFelicis VenturesIMImagination Capital+20 more

Paradev is a source-available IDE and orchestration layer for running many CLI-based coding agents (such as Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode) in parallel, with each task isolated in its own Git worktree and branch.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS

Co-investorsBRBroom VenturesRERed River West46468 CapitalLILiquid VenturesOROrange CollectivePAPalm Drive Capital+3 more

Pomelo is a San Francisco fintech combining international money transfers with consumer credit lines and a Mastercard card.

London

GIGaston Irigoyen(Founder)inJFJuan Fantoni(Founder)inHern?n A. Corral(Director)EVEric Velasquez Frenkiel(Founder)inTomas Maria Gutierrez Ruegg(Executive Officer)Hernan Corral(Founder)

Co-investorsA*A*CECento VenturesINInsight PartnersMAMantis CapitalS3S3250500 Global+24 more

Pomelo provides maternity and neonatal care services, offered as a benefit to employees or members through employer and organizational partnerships.

Digital HealthFemTechHealthtechJersey City, US

MBMarta Bralic Kerns(Founder)in

Co-investorsANAndreessen HorowitzATAtomicoFIFirst Round CapitalPLPLUS CapitalSTStripesSVSV Angel

Proception develops advanced humanoid hands that combine robotics and artificial intelligence to enable dexterous manipulation.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningDeep TechRoboticsSan Francisco, US

JLJay Li(CEO)inJXJack Xu(Founder)inJianxiang Xu(Founder)Albert Cai(Mechanical Engineer)Mohsen Sombolestan(RL/Control Engineer)Nick Levinski(Sensor Engineer)

Co-investorsFIFirst Round CapitalSUSurgePoint AngelTRTranspose Platform ManagementVEVentioneers CapitalY Y Combinator46468 Capital+6 more

Radical Aero builds StratoSats, autonomous solar-powered aircraft that operate at 65,000 feet for extended periods to deliver persistent high-performance infrastructure.

Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechDefense TechHardwareSpace TechSeattle, US

JTJames Thomas(Founder)inCNCyriel Notteboom(Founder)inSimone Jensen(Founder)

Co-investorsINInflection.xyzSCScout VenturesSCScout VenturesY Y CombinatorANAndreessen HorowitzBEBessemer Venture Partners+4 more

Rogo offers a secure AI platform for financial firms that automates workflows across research, analysis, and reporting, using custom-trained language models built for finance.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechNew York, US

GSGabriel Stengel(Founder)inJWJohn Willett(Founder)inTRTumas Rackaitis(Founder)in

Co-investors13137 VenturesALAlleyCorpKLKleiner PerkinsMAMantis CapitalPOPositive Sum CapitalSCScOp Venture Capital+12 more

Sable builds AI employees, starting with "Aidan," an agent that uses real-time browser interaction and vision to run product demos, lead qualification, and customer calls at scale.

AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech

Co-investors8V8VCSESequoia CapitalSASabrina Hahn FundSVSV Angel

Tala is a financial infrastructure company that uses AI and alternative data to deliver credit and financial services to underserved populations.

AI & Machine LearningFintechImpact & Social GoodSanta Monica, US

SSShivani Siroya(Founder & CEO)in

Co-investorsACActive PartnersBABAM VenturesCICircle & Co.CLClocktower VenturesCOCollaborative FundDCDCVC (Data Collective)+30 more

Unusual provides AI model evaluation and optimization services for brands.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSan Francisco, US

WJWill Jack(CEO)inKMKeller Maloney(Founder)inSarah Xu(Head of GTM)

Co-investorsPIPioneerTRTranspose Platform ManagementY Y Combinator0 0 ADCOCory LevyELEldon Pass+4 more

Rime develops voice synthesis technology using a linguistics-first approach for enterprise applications, powering voice agents for healthcare and financial services providers requiring high accuracy on complex terminology and compliance-compliant natural-sounding conversations.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHealthtech

JBJyoti Bansal(Founder)inJVJohn Vrionis(Co-founder)inLily Clifford(CEO)Brooke Larson(Co-Founder)Ares Geovanos(Co-Founder)CLCalvin Lingin

Co-investorsCOCorazon CapitalM1M13TWTwilio VenturesSPSputnik ATXLOLong Journey VenturesPHPhosphor Capital+1 more

Willow is a voice-to-text application that transcribes and formats spoken words into written text across desktop and mobile devices.

AI & Machine LearningConsumerDeveloper ToolsFuture of WorkSan Francisco, US

AGAllan Guo(CEO)inAdam Geha(Founder)Dale Brett(Founder)David Gall(Founder)Ian Ye(Founder)John Chang(Founder)

Co-investorsHEHetz VenturesSESeven Seven SixY Y CombinatorBUBurst CapitalGOGoodwater CapitalLILiquid Ventures+3 more

Willow makes breast pumps and pumping accessories for nursing mothers, including in-bra wearable pumps and collection cups that convert traditional electric pumps into hands-free devices.

ConsumerDirect to ConsumerFemTechHardware

Co-investorsALAlumni VenturesGAGaingelsNENew Enterprise Associates (NEA)POPortfoliaWIWindham Capital PartnersBUBurst Capital+3 more