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Firestreak Ventures

Family office

Pre-Seed–Seed · 2 people tracked

Also known as Firestreak

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Investment thesis

Firestreak invests at the pre-seed and seed stage in AI/ML infrastructure and applications, open-source software, cybersecurity, blockchain and crypto infrastructure and apps, and vertical AI/SaaS. The firm sees its core mission as amplifying founder ambition and drawing out their creative capacity, an effort it views as requiring long-term patience. It emphasizes a simple, fast process—reviewing a short memo and holding a 30-minute call with minimal diligence—and positions itself as an accessible, hands-on investor offering blunt feedback and a peer support community. It helps with product design and strategy, go-to-market, talent, and fundraising, and deploys patient capital sourced entirely from its family office.

Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.

Stage
Pre-Seed–Seed
Instruments
Equity
Last 12 months
2 investments
Tracked investments
87
Unicorns
21
IPOs
3
Acquisitions
4

Team · 2 people

from the firm's website
Walter G. Kortschak· Founderin𝕏

Senior Advisor and former Managing Director who joined in 1989 and helped establish Summit's West Coast office. Later launched SignalFire and now invests in pre-seed and seed stage companies.

Amir Rustamzadeh· Venture Partnerin𝕏

What they invest in

from 79 of 87 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×54Enterprise Software ×39Developer Tools ×37SaaS ×22Data & Infrastructure ×21Cybersecurity ×16Cloud Computing ×15Fintech ×14

HQs:United States×54Germany×3France×2Israel×2United Kingdom×1Ireland×1

Who they back

founder profiles across 59 portfolio companies
15%
solo founders
9 of 59 mapped founding teams
40%
repeat founders
of 107 founders with career history
~3 yrs
old at investment
median across 11 dated deals

Founding team size:solo founder×92 founders×173 founders×154+ founders×18

Where their founders studiedfrom 98 founders with education data

Stanford University ×11Harvard University ×10Massachusetts Institute of Technology ×5University of California, Berkeley ×4Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur ×3KTH Royal Institute of Technology ×3New York University ×3Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology ×3

What their founders studiedfrom 89 founders with field-of-study data

Computer Science ×47Engineering ×22Business & Management ×12Mathematics & Statistics ×12Physics ×9Humanities ×6Economics ×3Law ×2

Where their founders worked beforefrom 107 founders with career history

Google ×21Microsoft ×10OpenAI ×9Stanford University ×8Google Deepmind ×3Salesforce ×3Adentro ×2Codeanywhere ×2

Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program

Y Combinator ×8

20 founders hold a PhD · 7 hold an MBA (of 101 with degree data) · backed the same founder in 2+ companies: 2 founders

Investments · 87 tracked

founders shown can be your intro path

By year:2026 · 22025 · 32024 · 32023 · 32021 · 12020 · 22019 · 115 dated

Palantir Technologies Inc.palantir.cominNASDAQ: PLTR

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Palo Alto, US

Peter Thiel(Founder)inStephen Cohen(Founder)Nathan Gettings(Founder)Joe Lonsdale(Founder)inAlexander C. Karp(Founder)Alex Karp(Founder)

Co-investors137 Ventures8VCA*AiSprouts VCAkkadian VenturesAllied Venture Partners+73 more

Robinhoodrobinhood.comin𝕏NASDAQ: HOODAug 2019

Robinhood is a financial trading platform that enables users to manage portfolios across stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, options, futures, and prediction markets.

FintechMenlo Park, US

Vlad Tenev(Founder)inBaiju Bhatt(Founder)inJason Warnick(Chief Financial Officer)inGretchen Howard(Executive Officer)inVladimir Tenev(Founder)

BoardScott Sandell(Director)in

Co-investors1/1 CapitalACME CapitalAlgerAliya Capital PartnersAmplo VenturesAndreessen Horowitz+66 more

Broxbrox.aiin✓ verified

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Durgé Seerden(Co-founder & CTO)inHamish Brocklebank(Founder & CEO)inAlex Mcintosh(CFO)in

Co-investorsFlorida FundersScribble VenturesVela PartnersWonder VenturesIncubate USMaxitech

Command Codecommandcode.aiin𝕏✓ verified

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AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS

Ahmad Awais(Founder & CEO)in

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Ahmad Awais(Founder)in

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Aaruaaru.comin𝕏

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AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureMarketing TechNew York, US

John Kessler(Founder)inCameron Fink(Founder)inNed Koh(Founder)in

BoardLogan Bartlett(Director)in

Co-investorsAbstract VenturesFelicis VenturesGeneral CatalystK5 GlobalLink VenturesNordstar+4 more

Addeparaddepar.comin𝕏Jun 2021

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AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechMountain View, US

Joe Lonsdale(Founder)inEric Poirier(Chief Executive Officer and Board Member)inStephen Snyder(Executive Officer)inMitchell Bompey(Chief Financial Officer)inJason Mirra(Founder)

BoardLaurence Tosi(Director)in

Co-investors8VCBlumberg CapitalCollective LiquidityCota CapitalCraft VenturesCresset Capital+18 more

Anthropicanthropic.comin𝕏

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AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Dario Amodei(Founder)inDaniela Amodei(Founder)inTom Brown(Founder)inJack Clark(Founder)inJared Kaplan(Founder)inChris Olah(Founder)in

Co-investors3Comma Capital7BC Venture Capital7GC & CoA.Capital VenturesAccelAkka+155 more

Athenaathena.comin𝕏

Athena provides executive assistant services for executives and leaders across multiple sectors, selecting candidates based on success-predicting qualities rather than specific industry backgrounds.

Enterprise Software

Jonathan Swanson(Founder)Michael(Founder)Nathan(Founder)Robert Hayes(Founder)

Co-investorsKhosla VenturesMorrison Seger Venture Capital PartnersValor Equity PartnersAirTree Ventures

Autoresearch, Inc.hiloop.aiin𝕏Seed

hiloop provides snapshottable, forkable compute infrastructure with built-in observability for AI agents that propose, run, and verify experiments (autoresearch).

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Karan Brar(Founder/CEO)inThomas Boser(Founder/CTO)in

Co-investorsRedbud Trail GroupTranspose Platform ManagementVela PartnersY CombinatorAndreessen HorowitzAV Capital+11 more

Bentomlbentoml.com𝕏

BentoML provides a platform for deploying, managing, and scaling AI model inference, with support for open-source and custom models across any architecture or framework.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

Co-investorsAcorn Pacific VenturesBow CapitalDCM VenturesSamsung Next

Blockworksblockworks.comin𝕏Jun 2026

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Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintechMedia & EntertainmentNew York, US

Michael Ippolito(Founder)inJohn Ippolito(Director)Dan Tapiero(Director)Jason Yanowitz(Executive Officer, Director)

Co-investors10T FundCoinbase VenturesFlowdeskParaFi CapitalParafi General FundAdvancit Capital+5 more

BotCitybotcity.devin𝕏Series A

BotCity provides a centralized platform for managing Python scripts created by AI or human developers, offering orchestration, monitoring, security controls, and governance capabilities.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Lorhan Caproni(Founder)inGabriel Archanjo(Founder)inMarcia Sanzovo(COO)

Co-investorsAlexia VenturesAstellaNorte VenturesY CombinatorFour Rivers GroupMyAsiaVC+3 more

Cake Aicake.aiin𝕏

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AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York City, US

Misha Herscu(Founder)inSkyler Thomas(Founder)in

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Charmwithcharm.app

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ConsumerCrypto & Web3FintechSocialNew York City, US

Gray Newfield(Founder)inNoah Newfield(Founder)inChristian Rocha(Founder)Toby Padilla(Founder)

Co-investorsPioneerY Combinator468 CapitalCavalry VenturesF-Prime CapitalFuel Capital+7 more

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Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareKarlsruhe, DE

Elias Schneider(Founder)inJonas Zipprick(Founder)Elias Groll(Founder)Roman Frolov(Founder)

BoardCarl Fritjofsson(Director)in

Co-investors42CAPBegin CapitalCompanion M Gmb HHOF CapitalLEA Partners468 Capital+1 more

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Crash Override monitors code written by humans and AI agents, inspects each build layer, applies cryptographic tagging to artifacts, and tracks their provenance in production environments.

CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareNew York, US

Mark Curphey(Director)inJohn Viega(Founder)inMark S. Curphey(Founder)

BoardJay Allan Leek II(Director)Erik Nordlander(Director)inMichael Droesch(Director)in

Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersGV (Google Ventures)In-Q-TelSyn Ventures Seed Management LlcEssence Venture Capital

Croglcrogl.comin𝕏

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AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software

David Dorsey(Founder)inmonzy merza(Founder)inBradford Lovering(Founder)Monzy Merza(Founder)

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AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnergyDenver, US

Cully Cavness(Founder)inChase Lochmiller(Founder)inCharles Cavness(Executive Officer, Director)Matthew DeNezza(Executive Officer)inJamey Seely(Executive Officer)inMichael Gordon(Executive Officer)in

Co-investorsAbstract VenturesACTIVATE CAPITAL PARTNERSAdvaita CapitalAir Street CapitalAkkaAlkeon Innovation+74 more

DAGWorks Inc.dagworks.ioin𝕏SeedAcquired

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AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Stefan Krawczyk(Founder)inElijah ben Izzy(Founder)in

Co-investorsGaingelsStartXY CombinatorAndreessen HorowitzBuilders FundCapitalize VC

Databricksdatabricks.comin𝕏

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AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Ali Ghodsi(Founder)inIon Stoica(Founder)inMatei Zaharia(Founder)inReynold Xin(Founder)inPatrick Wendell(Founder)inAndy Konwinski(Founder)in

Co-investors137 VenturesA.Capital VenturesAglae VenturesAlkeon InnovationAlpha Square GroupAltra Venture+116 more

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Daytona provides a secure, elastic runtime for executing AI-generated code and running agent workflows, offering isolated, programmatically controlled development infrastructure.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsNew York, US

Ivan Burazin(Founder)inVedran Jukić(Founder)inGoran Draganić(Co-founder & Chief Architect)inGoran Draganic(Founder)

BoardKevin Zhang(Director)inMatt Turck(Director)

Co-investors500 Emerging EuropeDarkmode Venturese2vcFirstMark CapitalHumans Of The InternetSilicon Gardens+4 more

Densitydensityai.com

Density AI designs custom AI accelerators optimized for frontier-scale large language model inference, combining near-memory compute architecture with high-bandwidth memory density.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechMountain View, US

Ben Floering(Founder)Bill Chang(Founder)Ganesh Venkat(Founder)

Co-investorsDolby Family VenturesHyphen Capitalimec.xpandNextGen Venture PartnersSouth Park CommonsStartX+5 more

Dlthubdlthub.comin𝕏

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Marcin Rudolf(Founder)inMatthaus Krzykowski(Founder)inAnna Hoffmann(Founder)inAdrian Brudaru(Founder)inAnna Hoffman(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardSteve Vassallo(Director)in

Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersFoundation CapitalAngel InvestDig Ventures Management Limiteds16

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AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareNew York City, US

David DellaPelle(Founder)inMichael Waite(Founder)in

Co-investorsAlumni VenturesCraft VenturesMassMutual VenturesToba CapitalAntler

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Brandon Dixon(Founder)in

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Etchedetched.comin𝕏

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AI & Machine LearningHardwareSemiconductorsSan Jose, US

Gavin Uberti(Founder)inRobert Wachen(Founder)Chris Zhu(Founder)inMark Ross(CTO)inBrian Loiler(VP of Platform)inWayne Cao(VP of Production)in

Co-investorsThiel CapitalAntiAZURO CAPITAL VENTURESBain Capital VenturesBeyond CapitalConversion Capital+29 more

Filigranfiligran.ioin𝕏

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CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Samuel Hassine(Founder)inJulien Richard(Founder)

Co-investorsAccelKima VenturesMoonfire VenturesMotier VenturesSTATION FT Ventures+3 more

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Flox provides tooling to manage software and its dependencies down to individual packages, including SBOMs and provenance, with reproducible environments that work across the software lifecycle.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareNew York City, US

Ron Efroni Rotman(Executive Officer, Director)Michael Brantley(CTO)inRon Efroni(CEO)inBen Futoriansky(Executive Officer)in

BoardAaron Jacobson(Director)inPavel Livshiz(Director)in

Co-investorsHetz VenturesNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Angel Collective Opportunity FundEssence Venture CapitalMaximilian StoiberTilia Impact Ventures+6 more

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Varun Vummadi(Founder)inEsha Dinne(Founder)inEsha Manideep(Founder)Varun Vummadi Esha Manideep(Founder)Albert Chuang(Product)inBhuwan Sai Kosuru(Ops)

Co-investorsEight CapitalPioneerRedpoint VenturesY CombinatorLiquid VenturesNexus Venture Partners+1 more

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AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingSemiconductorsPalo Alto, US

Jonathan Ross(Founder)inDouglas Wightman(Founder)

BoardChamath Palihapitiya(Director)in

Co-investorsAccess Ventures (New York)Acequia Capital (AceCap)Alumni VenturesAxiom PartnersB CapitalBanca Investis — Family Office+77 more

Haize Labshaizelabs.com

Leonard Tang(Founder)Richard Liu(Founder)Steve Li(Founder)

Co-investors515 VenturesBeyond CapitalCelero Ventures Ltd.Juniper Ventures Management, LlcOVO FundSoma Capital+3 more

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AI & Machine LearningDeep Tech

Tudor Achim(Founder)inVlad Tenev(Founder)inVlad Tenev Tudor Achim(Founder)

Co-investorsBlossom CapitalGreatPoint VenturesIndex VenturesKleiner PerkinsNVIDIAParadigm+10 more

Honeyhivehoneyhive.aiin𝕏Apr 2025

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AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsNew York City, US

Dhruv Singh(Founder)inMohak Sharma(Founder)in

Co-investorsAIX VenturesEval Ventures FundNKECHI IREGBULEMZero Prime Ventures468 CapitalData Community Fund+2 more

Hugging Facehuggingface.coin𝕏

Hugging Face is a collaboration platform that hosts and provides access to machine learning models, datasets, and applications.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsBrooklyn, US

Julien Chaumond(Founder)inClement Delange(Executive Officer, Director)Clément Delangue(Co-founder & CEO)inThomas Wolf(Founder)inClement Delangue(Founder)

Co-investorsA.Capital VenturesAIX VenturesBetaworksCoatue ManagementConnetic VenturesFelicis Ventures+27 more

Innerworksinnerworks.mein𝕏

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AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityFintech

Oliver Quie(CEO)Oscar Hayek(CTO)Tom Ryan(CPO)Tony Pepper(Board Member)

Co-investorsAlbionVC

Keepkeephq.devin𝕏SeedAcquired

Keep provides AI-powered AIOps solutions to help teams navigate observability data.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSTel Aviv-Yafo, IL

Tal Borenstein(Founder)inShahar Glazner(Founder)inMatveyHelson Taveras(Founder)inOliver Takach(Founder)inWang Ning(Founder)

Co-investorsRuna CapitalVarion VenturesY Combinator305 VenturesCambrian VenturesData Tech+7 more

Lagogetlago.comin𝕏Seed

Lago is an open-source billing platform that enables companies to build and manage their billing infrastructure with transparency and control.

Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US

Anh-Tho Chuong(CEO)inRaffi Sarkissian(Founder)inAnh-Tho CHUONG(Founder)inRaffi SARKISSIAN(Founder)inCyril HAGEGECharly Poly(Front-end Architect \u0026 Tech lead Coach (Freelance))in

Co-investorsSignalFireY CombinatorFirstMark CapitalKima VenturesNew WaveRomain Huet+1 more

Lovablelovable.devin𝕏

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AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaSDover, US

Fabian Hedin(Founder)inAnton Osika(Founder)inAndy Toung(Executive Officer)Anton Osika Fabian Hedin(Founder)

BoardBenjamin Fletcher(Director)Matt Murphy(Director)in

Co-investors20VC83NorthAccelAIX VenturesAlanda Capital Holding LimitedAnthropy Partners+46 more

Lucentlucenthq.comin𝕏Seed

Lucent is an AI-powered session replay and product intelligence platform that automatically detects bugs, identifies UX problems, and surfaces behavioral patterns across user sessions.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

Alisa Rae(CEO)inAlex Koumpas(Founder)Dimitrios Panagiotopoulos(Founder)Harsh Shandilya(Founding Engineer)

Co-investorsAlliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance)First Generation CapitalNextGen VenturesY CombinatorBlast.ClubBrowder Capital+6 more

Mercormercor.comin𝕏

Mercor is a platform that connects skilled workers with AI-related tasks and projects, organizing human intelligence to support the development and training of AI systems.

AI & Machine LearningB2B MarketplacesFuture of WorkSan Francisco, US

Brendan Foody(Founder)inAdarsh Hiremath(Founder)Surya Midha(Founder)inAdarsh H.(Founder)inSundeep Jain(Executive Officer)inFelix Mercierin

Co-investors2.12 Angels20VCA*Alumni VenturesEastlink Capital PartnersEmergence Capital Partners+17 more

Modalmodal.comin𝕏Acquired

Modal provides a cloud platform that lets developers define compute, hardware, and application logic in Python and deploy to the cloud, with fast-booting containers and autoscaling GPUs.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsNew York, US

Erik Bernhardsson(Founder)inAkshat Bubna(Founder)inSeth Zelnick(Executive Officer)inAaron Krane(Founder)in

BoardPatrick Chase(Director)inSarah Catanzaro(Director)in

Co-investorsAmplify PartnersGeneral CatalystLux CapitalRedpoint VenturesCreandumAbstraction Capital+23 more

Modularmodular.comin𝕏Feb 2020Acquired

Modular builds infrastructure for AI model inference and deployment, enabling developers to run AI models across different hardware and cloud environments.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsPalo Alto, US

Chris Lattner(Founder)inTim Davis(Founder)inMostafa Hagog(VP of Engineering)inKalor Lewis(VP, Finance)Eric Johnson(VP of Product Management)inMike Edwards(Head of Special Projects / Business Operations)in

Co-investorsAcorn Pacific VenturesGeneral CatalystGreylock PartnersGV (Google Ventures)SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)Sherpalo Ventures+7 more

Motherduckmotherduck.comin𝕏

MotherDuck provides a serverless cloud analytics database built on DuckDB, enabling users to query and understand their data more easily.

Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureSeattle, US

Jordan Tigani(Founder)inHannes Mühleisen(Co-founder)Mark Raasveldt(Co-founder)Tino Tereshko(Founder)inRyan Boyd(Founder)inLeila Horejsi(Founder)

Co-investorsAmplify PartnersAndreessen HorowitzBattery VenturesEastlink Capital PartnersEssence Venture CapitalFelicis Ventures+10 more

NVIDIAnvidia.comin𝕏

NVIDIA designs GPUs, AI computing hardware, and software platforms for AI development, data centers, autonomous vehicles, and robotics, serving developers, researchers, and enterprises.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityHardwareSemiconductorsSanta Clara, US

Jensen Huang(Founder)inChris Malachowsky(Founder)Curtis Priem(Founder)Colette Kress(Chief Financial Officer)in

Co-investorsDigerati InvestmentsNVenturesPRIMEPULSE SESequoia CapitalSmartGateVCSoftBank Vision Fund+9 more

Obliviousoblivious.comin𝕏Apr 2023

Oblivious builds privacy-enhancing software that enables organizations to perform secure data collaboration and deploy services while maintaining data sensitivity.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareDublin, IE

Jack Fitzsimons(Co-founder)Robert Pisarczyk(Co-founder)in

Co-investorsAct Venture CapitalACT Venture CapitalAcurio VenturesAtlantic Bridge VenturesCavalry VenturesExpeditions+2 more

Odigos Technologies Inc.odigos.ioin𝕏

Odigos Technologies uses eBPF-based technology to automatically generate distributed traces for applications without requiring code modifications or manual instrumentation.

Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareBoston, US

Ari Recht(Founder)inEden Federman(Founder)in

Co-investorsEight CapitalVenture Guides Management, L.P.Y CombinatorMango CapitalSalesforce Ventures

Oleriaoleria.comin𝕏

Oleria provides an access graph platform that unifies identity, access, activity logs, and data classification to help security teams investigate incidents and identify who accessed breached data, how they gained access, and what actions they performed.

CybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareBellevue, US

Jim Alkove(Executive Chairman, Co-founder)inJagadeesh Kunda(Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder)in

BoardTaher Elgamal(Director)inJohn Watters(Director)in

Co-investorsEvolution Equity PartnersSalesforce VenturesTapestry VC

OpenAIopenai.comin𝕏

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company focused on developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) with emphasis on safety and beneficial outcomes for humanity.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Sam Altman(Founder)inElon Musk(Founder)inGreg Brockman(Founder)inIlya Sutskever(Founder)inWojciech Zaremba(Founder)inJohn Schulman(Founder)

Co-investors7BC Venture CapitalA-Rod CorpA.Capital VenturesA'Z AngelsAdvent InternationalAliya Capital Partners+99 more

Owner.comowner.comin𝕏Jul 2020

Owner provides software for independent restaurants in the USA to drive sales and protect profits, including tools to compete with large chains.

AI & Machine LearningFoodTechMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US

Dean Bloembergen(Founder)inAdam Guild(Founder)inRob Lehman(President & COO)in

BoardJason Lemkin(Director)inJack Altman(Board Director)in

Co-investorsActivant CapitalHeadlineRedpoint VenturesSaaStr FundTranspose Platform ManagementAlt Capital+19 more

PAX Marketspax.marketsin𝕏Seed

PAX builds a patented API for digital asset exchanges that optimizes market efficiency and trade execution speed through custom hardware and low-latency infrastructure.

Crypto & Web3Deep TechFintechSan Francisco, US

Pete Stevenson(CEO)inBenjamin Kilimnik(Founder)inBenin

BoardJasleen(CEO of Bains Labs)inCody(Director of Trading Operations at Alpaca Markets)in

Co-investors57Blocks CapitalEight CapitalInvestorXTranspose Platform ManagementY Combinator468 Capital+21 more

Perfectgoperfect.comin𝕏

GoPerfect offers an AI recruiting platform whose agent sources, screens, and engages candidates by searching 800M+ profiles, scoring applicants, and sending personalized outreach via LinkedIn, email, and SMS.

AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaSVancouver, US

Michael Wallace(Executive Officer, Director)Stephen Lile(Executive Officer, Director)Miriam Kim(Executive Officer, Director)in

Co-investorsAloniqJoule VenturesHorizons VenturesTemasek

Permitpermit.ioin𝕏

Permit.io provides a full-stack authorization framework that lets developers add access control and Identity Access Management to their products, with low-code tools for the rest of the organization.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSTel Aviv, IL

Or Weis(Founder)inAsaf Cohen(Founder)in

Co-investors97212 VenturesMana VenturesNFXRainfall VenturesRoosh VenturesCalm Ventures+3 more

Perplexityperplexity.aiMar 2023

An AI-powered answer engine providing accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to questions.

San Francisco, US

Andrew D. Konwinski(Executive Officer, Director)Dzianis Yarats(Director)Aravind Srinivas Lakshminarayanan(Director, Executive Officer)Aravind Srinivas(Founder)inDenis Yarats(Founder)Andrew Konwinski(Founder)

Co-investors1435 Capital359 Capital7BC Venture CapitalAccelAdvaita CapitalAIX Ventures+63 more

Playco enterprise-saasplay.co

Playco is an instant gaming company that develops web-based games playable across platforms without app downloads, designed for people to play together with friends and family.

Gaming

Michael Carter(Co-founder)Justin Waldron(Co-founder)inTakeshi Otsuka(Co-founder)inCross(Co-founder)

Co-investorsDreamers VCGood AI CapitalMaiora Rebel VenturesMaven VenturesRoosh VenturesSGH Capital+5 more

Polymarket Consumer Growthpolymarket.comin𝕏

Polymarket is a prediction market platform where users trade contracts based on the outcomes of future events across politics, sports, economics, and other categories.

Crypto & Web3FintechMarketplaces

Shayne Coplan(Founder)in

Co-investors1confirmationA.Capital VenturesAbstract VenturesAccess Ventures (New York)Advaita CapitalAnti+35 more

Proboprobo.comin𝕏Seed

Probo helps organizations manage and demonstrate compliance with standards like ISO 27001 and SOC2.

CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSParis, FR

Antoine Bouchardy(CEO)inBryan Frimin(Co-founder & CTO)inAntoine Bourchardy(Co-founder & CEO)

Co-investorsBlast.ClubFundamentumY CombinatorAcquisition.comCathexis VenturesElevation Capital+4 more

Prorata Aiprorata.aiin𝕏

ProRata builds attribution and revenue-sharing solutions for AI search, tracking how licensed content is used and sharing revenue with content creators and publishers.

AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMedia & EntertainmentPasadena, US

Bill Gross(Founder & CEO)inMarcia Goodstein(Executive Officer)inSusan Aledort(Executive Officer)Nagraj Kashyap(Director)inNicholas Thompson(Director)

BoardDakin Sloss(Director)in

Co-investorsAlumni VenturesBold Capital PartnersCalibrate VenturesLink VenturesMVP VenturesRevolution+4 more

Qodoqodo.aiin𝕏Sep 2024 · $40M

Qodo builds a code quality and review platform for engineering teams working with AI coding agents, providing multi-agent code review, self-learning enforceable coding rules, and a context engine that reasons over full codebase context across the software development lifecycle.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York City, US

Itamar Friedman(Founder)inDedy Kredo(Founder)Itamar Friedman Dedy Kredo(Founder)

Co-investorsICON - Israel Collaboration NetworkMaor InvestmentsSquare Peg CapitalTLV PartnersPhoenix Venture PartnersQumra Capital+2 more

Quip Networkquip.networkin𝕏

Quip Network is building a worldwide quantum computer with a team of cryptographers, engineers, and operators focused on quantum-resistant cryptography, smart contracts, and distributed systems.

Crypto & Web3Deep TechQuantum Computing

Richard Carback(Co-founder & CTO)in

Co-investorsOrange DAOPortal Ventures

Other

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

E-TEKFinisarHyperlend On-chain money marketMcAfee

Exits · 7

3 IPOs · 4 acquisitions · showing 2

Palantir Technologies Inc.NASDAQ: PLTRRobinhoodNASDAQ: HOOD

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How many investments has Firestreak Ventures made?
Firestreak Ventures has 87 tracked investments, 7 of which have exited, including 5 dated in the last 24 months.
What stage does Firestreak Ventures invest at?
Firestreak Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
What sectors does Firestreak Ventures focus on?
Firestreak Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Crypto & Web3, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Developer Tools, SaaS.
Who does Firestreak Ventures co-invest with?
Firestreak Ventures most often shares deals with Felicis Ventures, Y Combinator, General Catalyst, among 336 tracked co-investors.

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