Diaspora Ventures
Venture capitalSeattle · Pre-Seed · 3 people tracked
Investment thesis
Diaspora Ventures is a pre-seed fund that backs European entrepreneurs building tech companies with global ambition, helping them scale into the US market. The firm believes Europe produces exceptional engineers, product designers, and ambitious founders who often lack access to the funding, talent, playbooks, and networks needed to expand beyond their home borders. By investing early and connecting founders to the US tech ecosystem, Diaspora aims to give the next generation of European startups access to what it considers the best technology ecosystem in the world.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 7, 2026.
Team · 3 people
from the firm's website & public directoriesWhat they invest in
from 23 of 40 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×14SaaS ×7Enterprise Software ×6Data & Infrastructure ×4Fintech ×4Consumer ×3Creator Economy ×3Developer Tools ×3
HQs:United States×8France×3United Kingdom×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 10 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×62 founders×33 founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 11 founders with education data
Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires ×3Stanford University Graduate School of Business ×3Barnard College ×2Centrale Lyon ×2Columbia University ×2emlyon business school ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Investments · 40 tracked
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Alinea is a digital wealth management platform that provides AI-assisted portfolio management and automated investing for individual investors.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSNew York City, US
Eve Halimi(Founder)inAnam Lakhani(Founder)in
BoardPhylicia Koh(Director)
Co-investorsEvolution Venturesf7 VenturesFoundersX VenturesGFR FundKima VenturesPlay Ventures+8 more
Async is an AI-powered video editor that allows users to create, edit, and repurpose videos through conversational prompts rather than traditional editing interfaces.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMedia & Entertainment
Arto Yeritsyan(Founder)in
Co-investorsMosaic VenturesPoint NineSmartGateVC
Blockmate provides crypto infrastructure and compliance tools for banks and fintech companies, including portfolio management, payment integration, and AML compliance features accessible via a single API.
Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintech
Ivan Hladik(Founder)
Co-investorsBADideas.fundDEPO VenturesZAKA VC
Cedalio builds AI agents for accounts payable and procurement that automate invoice processing, validation, and fiscal compliance across multiple workflows.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSan Francisco, US
Luciana Reznik(Founder)inNico Magni(Founder)inGuido Marucci Blas(Founder)in
Co-investorsRebel FundY CombinatorNewtopia VC
Counsel is an AI platform for law firms that ingests data across a firm's tools — including Outlook, Teams, Word, Gmail, NetDocuments, and meetings — and runs background agents that build context on every email, matter, and commitment.
AI & Machine LearningLegalTechSaaS
Co-investorsJ12 Ventures
Safary Club is an invitation-only community and knowledge hub for crypto marketing and business development professionals across sectors such as DeFi, gaming, and infrastructure.
Crypto & Web3Marketing TechSocial
Co-investorsArca FundsLemniscapSaison CapitalBlocktower Capital
DiffuseDrive builds synthetic data generation tools for physical AI systems, using its Atlas product to create real-world-grade scenarios from existing data for model training, validation, and edge case testing.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep TechSan Francisco, US
Balint Pasztor(Founder)
Co-investors500 Emerging Europe
Dune Health offers a telehealth service that analyzes data from patients' wearable devices with AI to generate medical insights, which its doctors use to create and adjust personalized care plans.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechSan Francisco, US
Co-investorsHeadwater Ventures
Dynamiq is a platform for building, testing, deploying, and maintaining generative AI and LLM applications within a company's own infrastructure or VPC, with features including observability, fine-tuning, guardrails, and RAG-based data integration.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Co-investorsGeek VenturesTA Ventures
Ojai, US
Joy Elizabeth Howard(Executive Officer, Director)Dmitri Siegel(Director)
Co-investorsMosaic Ventures
Feels is a social and dating app that lets users create story-like profiles, add prompts, and send personalized direct messages to meet people who share their interests.
ConsumerSocialParis, FR
Laurent de Tapol(Founder)
Co-investorsCreator VenturesKima Ventures
Finnt builds AI agents that execute accounting and controllership tasks for finance teams, generating journal entries and financial statements with audit documentation in minutes.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintech
Anji Ismail(Founder)inFaouzi EL YAGOUBI(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorIsaiKhosla VenturesUntapped VenturesUpHonest Capital
Lobby builds behavioral models that extend human cognition, enabling AI agents to act autonomously in line with a user's judgment and preferences.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkSaaS
Co-investorsMozilla Ventures
Co-investorsCatapult VenturesHCVCKima VenturesSerena
Co-investors7percent VenturesActuate VenturesAuxxoDVx VenturesE2MC VenturesJuniper+3 more
Feedback and design iteration tool for collaborative website and web-app development.
Co-investorsLa Famiglia
Kinetix is an AI research company that combines 3D and machine learning to understand and generate human motion, building generative models for character animation, human pose estimation, and video generation.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechGamingMedia & EntertainmentParis, FR
Yassine Tahi(CEO)inHenri Mirande(CTO)in
Co-investorsEntrepreneur First
Co-investorsFounderFuel
Permify is an open-source authorization service, inspired by Google's Zanzibar, that lets engineering teams model and enforce fine-grained access controls using a centralized permission database and schema language.
CybersecurityData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Co-investors500 Emerging Europe
Scenario is an AI platform for generating on-brand creative assets across image, video, audio, and 3D, allowing teams to train custom models on their own style and access 600+ third-party models in one workspace.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomySaaS
Spaceport offers a platform to measure, manage, and monetize intellectual property and creative assets, connecting IP holders, builders, and capital partners across the IP lifecycle.
Creator EconomyGamingMedia & Entertainment
Co-investorsArca FundsCrit VenturesDecasonicNextView VenturesBlocktower Capital
Supliful is a fulfillment and private-label platform that lets creators and entrepreneurs build consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands—such as supplements, coffee, and on-demand products—without holding inventory, handling manufacturing, or managing logistics.
B2B MarketplacesDirect to ConsumerE-commerceLogistics & Supply ChainWellness & FitnessDenver, US
Martins Lasmanis(CEO)in
Co-investorsBADideas.fundNeer Venture PartnersZAKA VC
The Cobblers operates an online marketplace that matches customers with vetted artisans for restoration and repair of luxury footwear, handbags, and accessories from brands like Christian Louboutin, Gucci, and Louis Vuitton.
Circular EconomyConsumerMarketplaces
Co-investorsK20 Fund
Theneo is an all-in-one developer portal platform for creating and managing API documentation, guides, and private customer portals with real-time collaboration features.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Ana Robakidze(Founder)in
Co-investorsAtlassian VenturesMerus CapitalY Combinator
Co-investorsVenista Ventures
Blockchain-based podcasting platform helping creators monetize through NFTs.
Co-investorsLa Famiglia
Co-investorsDorm Room
Vespucci is a product analytics tool that connects to existing Amplitude or Segment data and runs models to explain why a product is used, generating reports on the factors that influence user activation, retention, and other behaviors.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureSaaS
Paris, FR
Corentin Larroque(Founder)Stephane Giraudie(Founder)Valentin Martin(Founder)
Co-investorsProgression
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesSpaceport · payloadspace.com · Mar 17, 2026
Alinea · finsmes.com · Feb 5, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Diaspora Ventures made?
- Diaspora Ventures has 40 tracked investments.
- What stage does Diaspora Ventures invest at?
- Diaspora Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed stage.
- What sectors does Diaspora Ventures focus on?
- Diaspora Ventures focuses on Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Diaspora Ventures located?
- Diaspora Ventures is headquartered in Seattle, US.
- Who does Diaspora Ventures co-invest with?
- Diaspora Ventures most often shares deals with Y Combinator, Kima Ventures, 500 Emerging Europe, among 53 tracked co-investors.
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