Capital One Ventures
Corporate VCMcLean · Pre-Seed–Late Stage · 27 people tracked
Investment thesis
Capital One Ventures invests at every stage guided by a thesis rooted in the strategic imperatives of its parent company, Capital One. It looks for startups whose technologies can commercially engage with or benefit Capital One, reflecting the company's founding belief that banking would be transformed by information and technology. Portfolio examples include Hopper (travel), Melio (accounts payable for small business), and Evinced (digital accessibility), each of which has been integrated into or partnered with Capital One's own products and operations.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 27 people
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What they invest in
from 18 of 20 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×9Enterprise Software ×9SaaS ×9Fintech ×7Cybersecurity ×5Cloud Computing ×3Developer Tools ×3Marketing Tech ×2
HQs:United States×8India×1
Investments · 20 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12025 · 42024 · 32023 · 12016 · 110 dated
Austin, US
Kevin Laws(Director)John Price(Executive Officer, Director)Pete Sinclair(Director)Jim Armstrong(Director)Dan Kloiber(Director)Naval Ravikant(Director)
Board seatJaidev Shergill· per SEC Form D · $14M raise · filed Feb 2016
Adaptive Security provides security awareness training, phishing attack simulation, and email security solutions designed to defend against AI-powered attacks, deepfakes, and social engineering threats.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareNew York, US
Brian Long(Founder & CEO)inAndrew Jones(Founder)in
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesAndreessen HorowitzEniac VenturesK5 GlobalScribble VenturesBain Capital Ventures+4 more
Poolside builds open-weight foundation models and agentic coding models, including the Laguna family, along with the systems and infrastructure needed to train, refine, and improve these models.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools
Jason Warner(Founder & CEO)inEiso Kant(Founder)
Co-investors7GC & CoAbstraction CapitalAir Street CapitalB Capital GroupB4 CapitalBain Capital Ventures+24 more
Databricks provides a unified platform for data engineering, analytics, and artificial intelligence, enabling organizations to build and deploy data and AI applications on cloud infrastructure.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Ali Ghodsi(Co-founder & CEO)inIon Stoica(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Matei Zaharia(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inReynold Xin(Founder)inPatrick Wendell(Founder)inAndy Konwinski(Founder)in
Co-investors137 VenturesA.Capital VenturesAglae VenturesAlkeon InnovationAltra VentureAmplify Partners+71 more
Dragonfly is a local broadband provider in Southwest Alabama offering high-speed fiber internet, WiFi services, and phone lines to residential and business customers.
Cloud ComputingMonroeville, US
Co-investorsKinetic Ventures, L.L.C.Coinbase VenturesFirstMark CapitalQuiet CapitalRedpoint VenturesRipple
Ethoca operates a collaboration network that enables real-time payments intelligence sharing between merchants, card issuers, and technology partners to prevent fraud, reduce chargebacks and transaction disputes, and manage subscriptions.
CybersecurityFintechSaaS
Co-investorsSpectrum EquityLloyds Banking Group
Evinced offers an AI-powered chatbot focused on digital accessibility that answers developer and team questions, reviews code for accessibility issues across web and mobile frameworks, and can read design screenshots.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSPalo Alto, US
Navin R. Thadani(Founder)inGal Moav(Founder)
Co-investorsBenhamou Global VenturesEngineering CapitalInsight PartnersM12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)BGV
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)Ted Schlein(Founder)inMatt Moynahan(CEO)
Co-investorsBallistic VenturesForgePoint CapitalArtisanal VenturesCisco InvestmentsEvolution Equity PartnersK2 Access Fund
Glean.ai is a spend intelligence and accounts payable platform that automates data extraction, GL coding, bill approvals, payments, accruals, and amortizations while surfacing spending trends and vendor benchmarking data.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
Arvind Jain(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsB Capital GroupB4 CapitalClocktower VenturesContour Venture PartnersAltimeter CapitalCoatue Management+11 more
Travel technology company partnered with Capital One Travel.
Montreal
Frederic Lalonde(Founder & CEO)
Co-investorsAccompliceBrightspark VenturesDream Maker VenturesDrive CapitalInovia CapitalKensington Capital Partners Limited+6 more
Lightico provides an AI-powered platform that automates complex customer journey processes for banks and telecom companies, handling regulated workflows across sales, onboarding, service and retention with digital compliance and minimal IT integration.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Zviki Ben Ishay(CEO & Co-Founder)inJustin Josh(CTO & Co-Founder)inOmri Braun(COO & Co-Founder)in
Co-investorsCrescendo Venture PartnersLiquidity CapitalLool VenturesMangrove Capital PartnersOxxHarmony Partners
Melio provides a platform for business accounts payable and receivable, enabling small and mid-sized businesses to pay vendors and contractors while also generating professional invoices to collect payments.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Co-investorsAccelAlephBessemer Venture PartnersClocktower VenturesCoatue ManagementFirst Cheque+2 more
Pie is an AI-based software testing tool that runs in the background, exercises a product's real user flows on every pull request the way a customer would, and reports reproduced functional and usability bugs before release.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Co-investorsInception Studio CapitalAmex VenturesLightspeed Venture Partners
Stensul provides a no-code, AI-enabled platform for enterprise marketing teams to build, review, and launch emails and landing pages within brand and compliance guardrails.
Enterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaS
Noah Dinkin(Founder)in
Co-investorsJavelin Venture PartnersSageview CapitalUS Venture PartnersArthur VenturesLowercase CapitalPeak State Ventures+1 more
StrongDM provides privileged access management and identity governance for infrastructure across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York, US
Elizabeth Joy Zalman(Executive Officer, Director)Justin Allan McCarthy(Executive Officer, Director)Justin McCarthy(Founder)inSchuyler Chapin Brown(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsCisco InvestmentsDCVC (Data Collective)Frontline VenturesGolub GrowthNew York Venture PartnersSequoia Capital+6 more
A mobile experience where users tap through short interactive scenarios and make choices, framed as a game rather than a quiz, to build a profile of the user's personality or preferences.
ConsumerGamingSocial
Co-investorsBetaworksArcTern VenturesG2 Venture PartnersKhosla VenturesMenlo Ventures
Tuhk is a fraud-fighting platform that connects banks, merchants, and payment providers to identify hidden risks, stop abuse, and improve transaction approval rates.
CybersecurityFintech
Co-investorsFINTOP CapitalLloyds Banking Group
Velocity builds monetization and distribution infrastructure for AI-native applications, drawing on experience developing advertising, machine learning, and growth platforms at large scale.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing Tech
Co-investorsNFXRed Dot Capital PartnersTRANSCENDCoinbase VenturesDragonflyFirstMark Capital+2 more
Velocity is an enterprise platform for payments and treasury operations built on stablecoins, unifying settlement, payments, treasury, and FX into a single programmable, multi-asset system.
Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintech
Co-investorsActivant CapitalDigital Space VenturesCoinbase VenturesDragonflyFirstMark CapitalFuel Ventures+3 more
Velocity provides financing, shipping, AI, and analytics products for eCommerce brands in India.
E-commerceFintechLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSGurugram, IN
Abhiroop Medhekar(Founder)inSaurav Swaroop(CTO)inAtul Khichariyain
Co-investorsDST GlobalFJ LabsiSeedPresight CapitalValar Ventures LlcCoinbase Ventures+4 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 companiesPie · techfundingnews.com · Aug 24, 2026
Trove · africa.businessinsider.com · Aug 14, 2026
Databricks · techcrunch.com · Aug 13, 2026
Hopper · shopback.com · Aug 7, 2026
Velocity · thefintechtimes.com · Jul 24, 2026
Velocity · thefintechtimes.com · Jul 24, 2026
Velocity · thefintechtimes.com · Jul 24, 2026
Glean · turingpost.com · Jul 18, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Capital One Ventures invest at?
- Capital One Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth, Late Stage stages.
- What sectors does Capital One Ventures focus on?
- Capital One Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, Fintech, SaaS.
- Where is Capital One Ventures located?
- Capital One Ventures is headquartered in McLean, US.
- Does Capital One Ventures lead rounds?
- Capital One Ventures typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does Capital One Ventures co-invest with?
- Capital One Ventures most often shares deals with Accel, Accomplice, Bessemer Venture Partners, among 23 tracked co-investors.
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