Firebolt Ventures Management Company, Llc
Venture capitalPalo Alto · Pre-Seed–Late Stage · 2 people tracked
Also known as Firebolt Ventures 1S3
Investment thesis
The firm backs founders from early stages through later rounds, leveraging a network of operators and market intelligence to support companies across transformative technology sectors. Portfolio outcomes demonstrate strength in AI infrastructure, enterprise software, fintech, and developer tools, with multiple exits through acquisitions by major technology companies and one NYSE IPO.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 25, 2026.
Team · 2 people
from the firm's website
What they invest in
from 30 of 70 portfolio companiesEnterprise Software ×14AI & Machine Learning ×13Developer Tools ×11SaaS ×10Cloud Computing ×9Consumer ×6Data & Infrastructure ×6Fintech ×6
HQs:United States×23
Who they back
founder profiles across 28 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×122 founders×83 founders×74+ founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 32 founders with education data
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ×3University of Maryland ×3Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani ×2Duke University ×2Harvard Business School ×2Harvard University ×2McGill University ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 32 founders with career history
Adobe ×2BITS360 ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
1 founders hold a PhD · 3 hold an MBA (of 30 with degree data)
Investments · 70 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12021 · 12 dated
Duolingo offers app-based language learning through short, game-like lessons that teach reading, writing, listening, and speaking, using AI and language science to personalize the experience.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerEdTechPittsburgh, US
Severin Hacker(Director)Luis von Ahn(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardBrad Burnham(Director)inAndrew Moore(Director)
Co-investorsCapitalGDrive CapitalFelicis VenturesK2 GlobalKleiner PerkinsManta Ray Ventures+6 more
Telehealth platform for online medical care and pharmacy services
Cloud security posture and infrastructure-as-code scanning platform
Telehealth platform for online medical care and pharmacy services
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Co-investorsClearSkyWestWave Capital
Process intelligence platform for enterprise automation teams
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Ajay Arora(Founder)in
Co-investorsEvolution Equity PartnersPoint72 VenturesUnusual Ventures
Banking and financial operations platform for startups
Bridge is a stablecoin payments platform that gives businesses infrastructure to receive, store, convert, issue, and spend stablecoins through a single API.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech
Zach Abrams(Founder)in
Co-investors1confirmationArtisanal VenturesCoinbase VenturesDepartment of XYZHaun VenturesLigature VC+7 more
BrightHire provides an AI-powered recruiting platform that analyzes hiring conversations to deliver real-time insights and automate talent decisions for enterprise recruiting teams.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaS
Theodore Chestnut(Founder)in
Co-investorsFlybridge Capital PartnersGround Up VenturesIndex Ventures
No-code quoting, approvals, and subscription checkout platform (acquired by HubSpot).
Stablecoin payments and digital financial infrastructure
Cloud-native network security and firewall platform
ClassPass, based in New York City, runs a subscription service that gives members access to fitness classes and wellness appointments across many independent studios and gyms.
Wellness & FitnessNew York City, US
Payal Kadakia(Executive Officer, Director)Mary Biggins(Executive Officer, Director)Payal Kadakia Pujji(Founder)inRichard Lanman(Executive Officer, Director)Zach Apter(Executive Officer)Tom Aveston(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsAcequia Capital (AceCap)Alpaca VCBAM VenturesCorigin VenturesCRV (Charles River Ventures)Eastward Capital Partners+12 more
Business management software for fitness and wellness operators
Cognition develops Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer agent that plans, writes, tests, and deploys production code within existing development environments to augment human engineering teams.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Scott Wu(Co-founder & CEO)inWalden Yan(Founder)Steven Hao(Founder)in
Co-investors137 Ventures8VCAbstract VenturesAlpha Wave GlobalAntiAvenir Growth Capital+11 more
Developer productivity tools for code review and stacked changes
dbt Labs provides a data transformation platform used by teams to organize, catalog, and manage data in their warehouses.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Tristan Handy(Founder & CEO)inDrew Banin(Co-Founder)inConnor McArthur(Co-Founder)
Co-investorsAllison Pickens VenturesAmplify PartnersAndreessen HorowitzCoatue ManagementICONIQSalesforce Ventures+4 more
Deel is a global HR platform that enables businesses to hire, onboard, and manage employees and contractors across borders.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechFuture of WorkHR TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Alex Bouaziz(Founder/CEO)inShuo Wang(Founder/CRO)inAlexandre Bouaziz(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Ofer Simon(Former Co-Founder)Philippe Bouaziz(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardAnish Acharya(Director)
Co-investorsAlpha Square GroupAltaIR CapitalAmplo VenturesAndreessen HorowitzCoatue ManagementElad Gil+34 more
AI calendar automation and scheduling platform
Developer API for crypto identity and wallet intelligence (acquired by Circle).
EvenUp provides an AI-powered claims intelligence platform for personal injury law firms to draft, review, and strengthen cases.
AI & Machine LearningLegalTech
Rami Karabibar(Chief Executive Officer)inRaymond Mieszaniec(Chief Operating Officer)inSaam Mashhad(Chief of Product & Legal Operations)in
Co-investors137 VenturesAllison Pickens VenturesB Capital GroupB4 CapitalBain Capital VenturesBessemer Venture Partners+11 more
FortressIQ built a computer-vision-based process discovery and task mining platform; acquired by Automation Anywhere in 2021-2022.
San Francisco, US
PANKAJ CHOWDHRY(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsboldstart venturesComcast VenturesAudaciousLightspeed Venture PartnersTiger Global Management
AI-native code editor for software developers
AI inference chips and systems for high-performance AI workloads
Harvey provides domain-specific AI products for legal and professional services firms, enabling contract analysis, due diligence, compliance, and litigation tasks.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTech
Winston Weinberg(Co-founder & CEO)inGabe Pereyra(Founder)inGabriel Pereyra(Co-founder & President)in
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzKleiner PerkinsOpenAI Startup FundArtisanal VenturesCaesar VenturesCoatue Management+15 more
Code security platform for secrets and repository risk detection
No-code quoting, approvals, and subscription checkout platform
Co-investorsLightspeed Venture PartnersNeotribe Ventures
LaunchDarkly provides a feature management platform that enables development teams to release code changes safely through feature flags, detect production issues in real time, and run experiments without redeploying applications.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaSOakland, US
Edith Harbaugh(Co-founder; Chief Executive Officer, Executive Chair)inJohn Kodumal(Co-founder)in
Co-investors500 GlobalAlchemist AcceleratorBessemer Venture PartnersCervinHeavybitNewView Capital+11 more
Modern banking infrastructure for fintech companies.
Lemonaid Health is a telehealth company that lets patients access medical care and treatment online from home, including services like contraceptive pill prescriptions and UTI treatment.
ConsumerDigital HealthDirect to ConsumerHealthtechSan Francisco, US
Co-investorsArtis VenturesCivilization Ventures Management, LlcCorrelation VenturesDaybreak PartnerseGateway CapitalHikma Ventures+4 more
Mercury is an investor database listing venture capital investors and their sector focus areas.
Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSector Agnostic
Immad Akhund(Founder & CEO)inJason Zhang(Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer)inMax Tagher(Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer)in
Co-investors500 GlobalAndreessen HorowitzAngel Collective Opportunity FundBetter Tomorrow VenturesBuilders + BackersChapter One+38 more
AI-powered hearing systems and speech enhancement technology
AI creative tooling with mainstream recognition
Momence is an all-in-one management platform for fitness studios, gyms, spas, and dance schools that consolidates booking, member management, payments, and communications into a single software.
B2B MarketplacesConsumerEnterprise SoftwareSaaSTravel & HospitalitySan Francisco, US
Vojta Drmota(Founder)inMatteo Carroll(Founder)in
Co-investorsFundersClubY CombinatorFCVCFJ Labs
Co-investorsBreyer Capital
Product analytics platform for digital experience teams (acquired by Optimizely).
Faction is a venture capital firm that invests in cryptocurrency and blockchain projects at the seed and series A stages, focusing on entrepreneurs building fundamental utility across the technology stack.
BiotechCrypto & Web3New York, US
Oren Harnevo(Executive Officer, Director)Ronald Bianchini, Jr.(Executive Officer, Director)Roneil Rumburg(Cofounder)Ohad Finkelstein(Director)Christina Calvaneso(Executive Officer)Brian Pozesky(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsAccelAdaverseAlephAxeleo CapitalBluebird VenturesBright Pixel Capital+36 more
Acquired feature management and experimentation platform for product teams
Optimizely develops an AI-powered marketing operating system used by over 10,000 businesses to manage campaigns and conduct experiments.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSNew York, US
Pete Koomen(Founder)inDan Siroker(Co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer)Alexander Atzberger(Chief Executive Officer of combined Optimizely)inShafqat Islamin
BoardIlya Fushman(Director)inScott Weiss(Director)
Co-investorsAdvancit CapitalAndreessen HorowitzAshton KutcherBattery VenturesBridge BankCorrelation Ventures+20 more
Identity verification enabling companies to confirm their users' identities.
Charles Yeh(Founder)in
Co-investorsFirst Round CapitalFounders FundIndex VenturesInsight PartnersKarma VenturesBOND+5 more
PlanetScale is a database platform built on the Vitess open-source project, designed for scaling large distributed systems.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsMountain View, US
Jiten Vaidya(Founder)
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzDig Ventures Management LimitedInsight PartnersKleiner PerkinsPreston-Werner VenturesSignalFire+1 more
Digital banking and financial services for small businesses
Co-investorsAccompliceAcorn Pacific VenturesBling CapitalFlybridge Capital PartnersAtlas VentureKhosla Ventures+2 more
Postman is an API platform that helps developers build, test, and manage APIs throughout their lifecycle.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Abhinav Asthana(CEO and co-founder)inAnkit Sobti(Co-founder)inAbhijit Kane(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsBattery VenturesInsight PartnersNexus Venture Partners83NorthAltra VentureCoatue Management+13 more
Pulumi provides Infrastructure as Code tools using general-purpose languages to help engineers build and manage cloud infrastructure faster.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSeattle, US
John Joseph Duffy(Executive Officer, Director)Eric David Rudder(Executive Officer, Director)Eric Rudder(Founder)Joe Duffy(Founder)in
BoardSheila Gulati(Director)in"S. ""Soma""" Somasegar(Director)
Co-investorsMadrona Venture GroupNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Tola CapitalStrike Capital
Co-investorsHack VC
Reclaim offers an AI scheduling assistant that automatically optimizes a user's calendar around priorities, meetings, tasks, and focus time.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkMarketing TechSaaSSales TechSeattle, US
Henry S.(Founder)inAlexandra Taylor(Director, Promoter)Kyle Buckingham(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Co-investorsCorrelation VenturesFlying Fish VenturesGradient VenturesAcrew CapitalCharacterIbex Investors+1 more
Ripple builds blockchain-based financial infrastructure to enable cross-border value transfer and payment solutions for enterprises, governments, and financial institutions.
Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintechSan Francisco, US
Ryan Fugger(Founder)David Schwartz(Director)inSusan Athey(Director)Gene Sperling(Director)Christian Larsen(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Young Guo(Director)
Co-investors500 GlobalAbstract VenturesAurum Venture PartnersAvant Global LLCCamp One VenturesCastle Island Ventures+19 more
Acquired consumer finance app for subscriptions, bills, and savings
Privacy-preserving data clean room for enterprise collaboration (acquired by Snowflake).
Security workflow automation and incident response platform (acquired by Zscaler).
Privacy-preserving data clean room for enterprise collaboration
Socure provides an AI-driven platform for digital identity verification, fraud prevention, and risk decisioning, serving enterprises and government agencies across financial services, gaming, healthcare, e-commerce, and other sectors.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityFintechNew York, US
John Ayers(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardJohn F. Frankel(Director)inSunil Madhu(Executive Officer, Director)inAlessandro Piol(Director)Pavlo Protopapa(Director)Philip Eytan(Director)
Co-investorsAccelAlpha PartnersAltaIR CapitalAmity VenturesCommerce VenturesConnectivity Ventures+15 more
Speak is an AI-powered language learning platform that uses a proprietary curriculum to teach users conversational language through personalized lessons, practice exercises, and real-time interaction with a tutor.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerEdTechSocialSan Francisco, US
Andrew Hsu(Founder)in
Co-investorsAccelAngel Collective Opportunity FundCollaborative FundGSV VenturesKhosla VenturesNext Play Ventures+6 more
Infrastructure-from-code platform for cloud engineering teams.
Leading AI research and product company
Acquired stablecoin orchestration and payments infrastructure
Supabase is a fully managed PostgreSQL backend platform that integrates with AI builders like Claude, Lovable, and Bolt to enable rapid development of production applications.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Paul Copplestone(Founder)inAnt Wilson(Founder)inANTHONY WILSON(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)PAUL COPPLESTONE(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)in
BoardCARYN MAROONEY(Director)
Co-investorsBase Case CapitalAccelBerkeley FrontierChapter OneCoatue ManagementCraft Ventures+11 more
Livestream commerce marketplace with consumer scale
dbt (part of Fivetran) provides a SQL-based data transformation platform that lets data teams build modular, tested, version-controlled data pipelines with interactive lineage, automated refactoring, and orchestration.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaSSeattle, US
Nick Handel(Founder)inThomas Chiarella(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsKeiretsu Forum
Rocket Money (formerly Truebill) is a personal finance application that helps users manage subscriptions, set budgets, and track savings goals.
ConsumerFintechSilver Spring, US
Yahya Mokhtarzada(Founder/CEO)inHaroon Mokhtarzada(Founder)inIdris Mokhtarzada(Founder/CTO)in
BoardCesar Lee(Director)
Co-investorsY CombinatorAccelBessemer Venture PartnersDVCEvolution VC PartnersMaC Venture Capital+5 more
Global payroll platform, category-defining SaaS outcome
Valtix, now part of Cisco as Multicloud Defense, provides automated network security across multiple cloud environments.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Praveen Patnala(Founder)in
Co-investorsCisco InvestmentsVertex VenturesWingTrinity VenturesTSG
Vercel is an infrastructure platform for building and deploying applications, with emerging support for agentic capabilities that allow AI agents and humans to collaborate in software development.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Guillermo Rauch(Founder & CEO)in
BoardGeoff Lewis(Director)inDaniel Levine(Director)inReid Christian(Director)in
Co-investors8VCAccelBedrockBeyond CapitalCoatue ManagementCold Start Ventures+25 more
Whatnot is a live commerce marketplace that enables creators and entrepreneurs to build businesses by connecting with audiences through real-time streaming and shopping.
ConsumerCreator EconomyE-commerceMarketplacesSocialLos Angeles, US
Grant LaFontaine(Founder/CEO)inLogan Head(Founder)in
BoardDalton Caldwell(Director)inConnie Chan(Director)inLaela Sturdy(Director)inAnu Hariharan(Director)
Co-investorsAlkeon InnovationAndreessen HorowitzBackwards CapitalCapitalGGreycroftICONIQ+11 more
AI-powered hearing systems and speech enhancement technology (acquired by Meta).
Interview intelligence platform for recruiting teams
Security workflow automation and incident response platform
Exits · 9
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioDuolingoNASDAQ: DUOLGoodRxNASDAQ: GDRXTenableNASDAQ: TENBAccuricsacq. by TenableBluBracketacq. by HashiCorpCacheflowacq. by HubSpotLemonaidacq. by 23andMeNetSpringacq. by OptimizelyTransformacq. by dbt Labs
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Cognition AI · techcrunch.com · Aug 19, 2026
Deel · calcalistech.com · Aug 3, 2026
Reclaim · pymnts.com · Jul 29, 2026
Ripple Labs · cryptonews.net · Jul 18, 2026
Mercury · marketbeat.com · Jul 18, 2026
Vercel · weetracker.com · Jul 17, 2026
Postman · finance.yahoo.com · Jul 17, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Firebolt Ventures Management Company, Llc made?
- Firebolt Ventures Management Company, Llc has 70 tracked investments, 11 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Firebolt Ventures Management Company, Llc invest at?
- Firebolt Ventures Management Company, Llc invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth, Late Stage stages.
- What sectors does Firebolt Ventures Management Company, Llc focus on?
- Firebolt Ventures Management Company, Llc focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Consumer, Crypto & Web3, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Developer Tools, Digital Health, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Marketplaces, SaaS, Semiconductors.
- Where is Firebolt Ventures Management Company, Llc located?
- Firebolt Ventures Management Company, Llc is headquartered in Palo Alto, US.
- Does Firebolt Ventures Management Company, Llc lead rounds?
- Firebolt Ventures Management Company, Llc typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does Firebolt Ventures Management Company, Llc co-invest with?
- Firebolt Ventures Management Company, Llc most often shares deals with Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue Management, Y Combinator, among 275 tracked co-investors.
Co-investors · 1
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