How many investments has Ex/Ante made?

Ex/Ante has 25 tracked investments, including 3 dated in the last 24 months.

What stage does Ex/Ante invest at?

Ex/Ante invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.

Where is Ex/Ante located?

Ex/Ante is headquartered in Brooklyn, US.

Does Ex/Ante lead rounds?

Ex/Ante typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.

Who does Ex/Ante co-invest with?

Ex/Ante most often shares deals with Bloomberg Beta, Pioneer, Soma Capital, among 66 tracked co-investors.

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Ex/Ante positions itself as the first venture fund dedicated to agentic technology: tools that support human agency by increasing privacy, security, and information integrity. It argues that surveillance capitalism and digital authoritarianism threaten digital rights, and that democratic resilience depends on technology advancing individual agency. The firm seeks inventive teams building solutions that promote free societies, counter digital authoritarianism, and give individuals control over their data, assets, and information. Ex/Ante offers risk-forward capital and resources to help founders kick-start, build, and scale, working alongside a diverse set of partners.

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Michael Brennan· Senior Program Officer, Technology and Society, Ford Foundation· Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United Statesin 𝕏

Michael Brennan is Director of the Spyware Accountability Initiative at New Venture Fund. He works on issues at the intersection of technology and society, drawing on experience across academia, government, private sector, and philanthropy.

Nabiha Syed· Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation· New York, New York, United Statesin 𝕏

Nabiha Syed is the Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation, where she works on community-led technology futures. Previously, she served as CEO of The Markup, a journalism nonprofit whose investigative work was cited by Congress 21 times, prompted dozens of class action lawsuits, and won national journalism awards. Before founding The Markup in 2020, Syed spent a decade as a media lawyer specializing in technology, free speech, and access to information, and holds degrees from Yale Law School, Johns Hopkins University, and Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar.

Zoe Weinberg· Investment Team· Brooklyn, New York, United Statesin 𝕏

Previously served on the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence and worked at Google AI, with experience in national security and as an investor at the World Bank's IFC and Goldman Sachs. She holds a JD from Yale Law School, an MBA from Stanford, and a BA from Harvard, and co-hosts the podcast Next in Foreign Policy.

Farhan Abrol· Investment Team· San Francisco, California, United Statesin 𝕏

Brings a decade of product and engineering experience to agentic technology ventures. Previously led Public Health initiatives at Meta and was an early engineer and product leader at Pure Storage through its IPO, holding over 20 patents. He also advises nonprofits through the Agency Fund.

Matthew Hawes· Investment Team· New York, New Yorkin

Focuses on early-stage company building alongside founders. Previously led AI investing at 645 Ventures and worked at the intersection of infrastructure and enterprise software at Bain & Company and Insight Partners. He is a Chapter Lead for BLCK VC and holds a BA in Psychology and Computer Science from Harvard.

Michael Mosier· Investment Team𝕏

Co-founder of Arktouros, a legal boutique focused on emerging technology, and twice a first in-house counsel at tech companies (Espresso Systems and Chainalysis). In public service he served as Acting Director of the U.S. Treasury's FinCEN and in senior roles at the DOJ, White House National Security Council, and Treasury.

Anastasia Uglova· Ecosystem· Austin, Texas, United Statesin 𝕏

A specialist in AI security, digital privacy, and agentic technology, working as a Specialist Leader at Deloitte and founder of the Tethics & Chill community. She introduced the concept of 'agentic tech' in her graduate thesis, is a John Stuart Mill fellow at the Mercatus Center, and holds an MS from UT Austin and a BA from Cornell.

Lori DeLuca· Part-time CFO· Lisle, Illinois, United Statesin

Lori DeLuca is the Founder and President of DeLuca Financial Services. Her background spans venture capital, renewable energy, and public accounting, with experience in financial reporting, accounting policies and processes, ERP implementations, and executive leadership.

What they invest in

from 21 of 25 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×13Cybersecurity ×10Enterprise Software ×10Developer Tools ×7SaaS ×6Data & Infrastructure ×4Deep Tech ×4Fintech ×3

HQs:United States×13

Who they back

founder profiles across 12 portfolio companies

58%

solo founders

7 of 12 mapped founding teams

47%

repeat founders

of 17 founders with career history

Founding team size:solo founder×72 founders×23 founders×14+ founders×2

Where their founders studiedfrom 16 founders with education data

Massachusetts Institute of Technology ×2NYU Stern School of Business ×2UCLA ×2

What their founders studiedfrom 16 founders with field-of-study data

Computer Science ×10Engineering ×4Finance & Accounting ×2

Where their founders worked beforefrom 17 founders with career history

Aifoundation ×2Goldman Sachs ×2Stanford University ×2

Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program

Y Combinator ×2

Investments · 25 tracked

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By year:2026 · 2 2025 · 1 2024 · 1 2023 · 37 dated

builder blueprintsbuilder-blueprints.com✓ verified

Builder Blueprints provides curated policy and legal document templates for early-stage startups to implement privacy-protective, user-centric policies from day one.

CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsLegalTechSaaS

Accessgridaccessgrid.com in 𝕏Sep 2025

AccessGrid provides an API that lets organizations issue and manage digital credentials—such as corporate IDs, house keys, and car keys—stored in users' phone digital wallets instead of physical badges or fobs.

Cloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsHardwareSaaSMiami, US

Auston Bunsen(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)in

Co-investorsExceptional Capital Harlem Capital Partners Spice Capital Transpose Platform Management

Anonanon.com

Anon builds agentic AI solutions that deploy AI agents from prototypes to production systems for SMBs and Fortune 500 companies.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software

Daniel Mason(Founder)Daniel Mason Kai Aichholz(Founder)Kai Aichholz(Founder)Peter Nesbitt(Founder)

Co-investorsAbstract Ventures Impatient Ventures Picks and Shovels (Picks & Shovels)Spice Capital Union Square Ventures (USV)AI Seed +4 more

Blueskybsky.social 𝕏

Bluesky is a social media platform built as a Public Benefit Corporation.

Developer ToolsSector AgnosticSocial

Jay Graber(Founder)Rose Wang(Founder)

BoardJack Dorsey(Founder)

Co-investorsAlumni Ventures Blockchain Capital Bloomberg Beta Eterna Capital Plus Ultra Capital Partners Strawberry Creek Ventures +5 more

Capecape.co in 𝕏Apr 2024

Cape is a privacy-focused cellular service provider that offers secure mobile connectivity designed to protect subscriber data and privacy.

CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareArlington, US

John Doyle(Founder)inGavin Uhma(Founder)Nicholas Espinoza(Founder)Nick Espinoza(Founder)

Co-investorsAndreessen Horowitz Definition FDVC Karman Ventures 01 Advisors A*+11 more

Common Toolscommon.tools 𝕏

Alex Komoroske(Founder)in

Co-investorsBetaworks Kyber Knight Capital

Confidentconfident.security

Confident Security provides a privacy-focused inference API and SDK for running AI models on confidential data, using confidential computing and an architecture based on the source-available OpenPCC (modeled on Apple's Private Cloud Compute).

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software

Jonathan Mortensen, PhD(Founder)in

Co-investorsJanuary Capital Liquid Ventures Rebel Fund Vermilion Cliffs Ventures Y Combinator

Cyphlenscyphlens.com in 𝕏

Cyphlens builds content-level encryption that protects data while it is displayed on-screen ("data-in-view"), using its patented Lenscryption technology so files stay encrypted and visible only to verified recipients even if forwarded or intercepted.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software

Rocky Motwani(Co-Founder & CEO)in Andrea Forte(Co-Founder & CTO)in Rina Niles(COO)in

Co-investorsDigital Currency Group

Dapple Securitydapplesecurity.com inDec 2023 · $2.3M

Dapple Security provides data security and privacy features for businesses, built on encryption and data governance technologies.

CybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechCentennial, US

Gadalia Montoya Weinberg O'Brian(Founder/CEO)Gadalia Montoya Weinberg O'Bryan(Founder and CEO)in Keith Bucher(Co-Founder and CTO)in Gadalia O'Bryan(Executive Officer, Director)inWilliam Ackerly(Director)

Co-investorsAccess Venture Partners Everywhere Ventures Gurtin Ventures Techstars Access Ventures Access Ventures +1 more

Datum Technologydatum.net in 𝕏

Datum provides infrastructure and networking services for cloud platforms, offering edge computing capabilities, private networks, and direct interconnection technology typically available only to large cloud providers.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureSanta Monica, US

Sean Fulp(Chief Executive Officer)William T Crump(Manager)

Co-investorsCRV (Charles River Ventures)Encoded Ventures Vine Ventures Quansight Initiate

General Translationgeneraltranslation.com in 𝕏

General Translation provides full-stack infrastructure for localizing applications, documentation, and websites, integrating with a company's codebase, content sources, and workspace tools.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaSSan Francisco, US

Archibald McKenzie(Executive Officer, Director)Fernando Aviles(Founder)in

Co-investorsUpfront Ventures

Hounddoghounddog.aiJul 2023

HoundDog.ai offers a privacy code scanner and a dataflow context engine built on a static code-analysis engine, tracing 100+ sensitive data types (PII, PHI, auth tokens) across code paths to prevent leaks and automate GDPR data mapping and RoPA documentation.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US

Amjad Afanah(CEO & Co-founder)in Joohwan Oh(CTO & Co-founder)in

BoardEMRE ACIKSOZ(Director)HABIB HADDAD(Director)in

Co-investorsMozilla Ventures Page One Ventures The E14 Fund Propeller Inc.

Inherentinherentlaboratories.comJun 2026 · $50M

Inherent is an AI research lab, incorporated as a Public Benefit Corporation, developing general-purpose inventive AI systems and "AI Scientist" agents intended to accelerate research and power autonomous labs.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise Software

Tantum Collins in

Co-investorsIndex Ventures Radical Ventures Metaplanet Mythos Ventures Management, Llc Propel Bio Partners

Inherentinherentlabs.aiJun 2026 · $50M

Inherent develops general-purpose AI agents designed to augment scientific research and discovery across disciplines.

AI & Machine LearningDeep Tech

Louis Kirsch(Founder)in Tantum Collins(Founder)inEdward Hughes(Founder)Kaloyan Aleksiev(Founder)

Co-investorsMythos Ventures Management, Llc Index Ventures Metaplanet Propel Bio Partners Radical Ventures

Klaimeeklaimee.ai in 𝕏Seed

Klaimee provides AI liability insurance and risk certification for autonomous AI agents used by enterprise businesses.

AI & Machine LearningFintechInsurTechSan Francisco, US

Ines Boutemadja(Founder)in Julien Catonnet(Founder)in

Co-investorsFundersClub Y Combinator Blast.Club Depth Ventures Kima Ventures Nordic Capital +5 more

Lockrmaillockrmail.com in 𝕏

lockrMail is an email management service that provides users with branded email addresses to control incoming communications through filtering, blocking, and organization features.

ConsumerCybersecuritySaaS

N0n0.computer

Number Zero is an open R&D organization building software for efficient distributed systems, including iroh, a toolkit for building distributed applications.

Data & InfrastructureDeep TechDeveloper ToolsBrooklyn, US

Brendan O'Brien(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)

Co-investorsVermilion Cliffs Ventures

Octetoctetproof.com in 𝕏

Octet issues hardware-signed cryptographic proofs that a mobile device was physically present in a specified geographic region at a given time, using on-device sensor fusion and secure enclave signing.

CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareFintech

Co-investorsVariant Fund Jumpstart Ventures

Pendulumintelpendulumintel.com in

Pendulum AI builds agentic AI tools that analyze large-scale social, audio, and video data to produce insights, trend detection, and automated reporting for brand, PR, and communications teams.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureMarketing TechSaaS

Co-investorsMunich Re Ventures

Quadrillionquadrillion.ai in 𝕏

Quadrillion.ai builds Qualia, an autonomous AI research agent that plans and runs experiments, interprets results, and proposes new research directions by coordinating multiple agents.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareNew York, US

E Chi(Founder)in

Co-investorsAudacious Bloomberg Beta Soma Capital

Reality Defenderrealitydefender.com in 𝕏Oct 2023 · $15M

Reality Defender develops an AI platform for detecting deepfakes and synthetic media, serving enterprise organizations to prevent fraud and impersonation.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDefense TechEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York City, US

Ben Colman(Founder)in Gaurav Bharaj(Founder)in Ali Shahriyari(Founder)in Lars Buttler(Founder)inMilos Fulton(Executive Officer)in

Board Alexander Ross(Director)in

Co-investorsAmino Capital Argon Ventures Bantam Group Booz Allen Ventures DCVC (Data Collective)Evolution VC Partners +21 more

Tasker AItasker.ai in 𝕏

Tasker AI is an AI assistant that handles complex work and personal tasks through multi-step execution from a single user command.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Ahmed AJ(Founder)in

Co-investorsDepartment of XYZ Pioneer UDHC Universal DeFi Holding Company Venture Dept.Y Combinator +21 more

Webacy Inc.webacy.com

Webacy provides continuous onchain risk ratings and monitoring for tokens, wallets, transactions, stablecoins, RWAs and vaults.

San Francisco, US

Maika Isogawa(Founder)in

Co-investorsDG Daiwa Ventures Mozilla Ventures Soma Capital The MBA Fund GSR LOI Venture +2 more

Other

Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.

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Portfolio news

latest coverage across their companies

KPMG investment in Reality Defender backs hiring spree to fight deepfakes | Biometric Update

Reality Defender · biometricupdate.com · Sep 11, 2026

Inherent Raises $50M in Seed Funding

Inherent · finsmes.com · Jun 1, 2026

Klaimee insures your AI Agents

Klaimee · ycombinator.com · May 3, 2026

Webacy Secures $4.0M Seed Funding | Signalbase

Webacy Inc. · trysignalbase.com · Mar 25, 2026

Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition | TechCrunch

Bluesky · techcrunch.com · Mar 19, 2026

Cyphlens Raises Seed Funding to Bring Visual Encryption to Enterprise

Cyphlens · prnewswire.com · Dec 11, 2025

News - Dapple Security

Dapple Security · dapplesecurity.com · Nov 17, 2025

Tasker AI: Your Personal AI Assistant

Tasker AI · ycombinator.com · Aug 4, 2025

Frequently asked questions

How many investments has Ex/Ante made?: Ex/Ante has 25 tracked investments, including 3 dated in the last 24 months.
What stage does Ex/Ante invest at?: Ex/Ante invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
What sectors does Ex/Ante focus on?: Ex/Ante focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Crypto & Web3, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Fintech.
Where is Ex/Ante located?: Ex/Ante is headquartered in Brooklyn, US.
Does Ex/Ante lead rounds?: Ex/Ante typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
Who does Ex/Ante co-invest with?: Ex/Ante most often shares deals with Bloomberg Beta, Pioneer, Soma Capital, among 66 tracked co-investors.

Media · Podcasts & interviews

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Agentic tech and reasons to be optimistic about AGI with Zoe Weinberg (Managing Partner @ ex/ante) - YouTube

ConfluenceVC: The VC Operating Playbook · Zoe Weinberg

Zoe Weinberg (Founder, ex/ante) - YouTube

The Slow Hunch · Zoe Weinberg

Can Agentic Tech Take Down Surveillance Capitalism? w/Zoe Weinberg (ex/ante) | S8 E6 - YouTube

Rehash: A Web3 Podcast · Zoe Weinberg

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