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Claymont · Pre-Seed–Seed · 11 people tracked
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Investment thesis
FirsthandVC invests from day zero in experienced founders building autonomous, agentic AI systems. The firm focuses on multi-agent platforms and AI applications across enterprise domains such as legal, healthcare, procurement, construction, and B2B software. Rooted in a network of accomplished Salesforce alumni and B2B software leaders, FirsthandVC leverages curated communities—including its annual Firsthand Homecoming Gala and its AI Agent Conference in New York City—to connect founders with industry executives and unlock distinctive opportunities. It positions itself as a leader of the agentic AI movement in NYC.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 7, 2026.
Team · 11 people
from public directories
Founder mafia
4 people who came through FirsthandVC went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 24 of 28 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×21Enterprise Software ×12SaaS ×12Developer Tools ×4Future of Work ×3LegalTech ×3Sales Tech ×3Cloud Computing ×2
HQs:United States×11
Who they back
founder profiles across 11 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×22 founders×73 founders×2
Where their founders studiedfrom 17 founders with education data
Columbia Business School ×3Stanford University Graduate School of Business ×3NYU Stern School of Business ×2University of California, Berkeley ×2University of Cambridge ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 16 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×8Business & Management ×5Economics ×4Mathematics & Statistics ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 21 founders with career history
Adventure Fund ×2Brex ×2Eventbrite ×2Google ×2Nayya ×2Northwestern University ×2
1 founders hold a PhD · 8 hold an MBA (of 20 with degree data)
Investments · 28 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12025 · 32023 · 59 dated
Coheso provides an AI-powered "legal front door" that captures legal requests from email, Slack, and Teams into a single queue, answering routine questions from company documents and routing complex matters to attorneys with AI-drafted reviews and context attached.
AI & Machine LearningLegalTechSaaS
Ned Gannon(CEO)inManish Agnihotri(Co-Founder & Head of Artificial Intelligence)inChirag Mehta(Co-Founder & Head of Product)inAditya Rathod(Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer)in
Co-investorsTola CapitalCharacterCrew CapitalConnecticut Innovations
8Flow provides an enterprise workflow context platform that collects and enriches metadata across an organization's systems to build a semantic layer without integrations.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Mateo, US
Boaz Hecht(Co-founder & CEO)inJosh Russ(Co-founder & COO)inYev Goldin(Co-founder & VP)in
Co-investorsCaffeinated CapitalHNVRLiquid VenturesBoxGroupTrilogy Equity PartnersOkta Ventures+1 more
A healthcare integration platform that connects EHR, practice management, billing systems, and patient portals to provide real-time insights and actions across the revenue cycle for medical practices.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechSaaS
Aman Magoon(Founder)inAkash Magoon(Founder)in
Co-investorsAsymmetric Capital PartnersBling CapitalCoalition OperatorsGeneral CatalystHomebrewKin Ventures+2 more
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Agent Conference is an annual enterprise event focused on autonomous, agentic AI, bringing together executives, founders, engineers, and investors for keynotes, tracks, workshops, and demos across three themes: Agentic Enterprises, Agentic Engineering, and Agentic Industries.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMedia & EntertainmentNew York City, US
Agree offers a platform that automates the contract-to-cash process, covering agreements, billing, payments, collections, and reporting through agentic workflows.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Will Hubbard(Co-founder)inEvan Dudla(Co-founder)inMarty Ringlein(Co-founder)in
Co-investors8-Bit CapitalBetter Tomorrow VenturesExpedite VenturesTrust FundApolloBlank Ventures
ai.work provides autonomous AI agents that automate business processes across IT, procurement, HR, legal, finance, and operations teams.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFuture of Work
Maor EzerinNir Nahum(Founder)in
Co-investorsA*firstminute capitalLool Ventures
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AskFora is a text-based platform that connects young professionals to discuss career challenges and team dynamics.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkHR TechSaaSSocial
Co-investorsFreshTracks CapitalGlasswing VenturesPerkins Cove PartnersKoa Labs
Avarra provides an AI role-playing platform that turns sales conversations into training modules, letting reps practice realistic customer scenarios, receive coaching feedback, and get certified.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales TechSan Mateo, US
Christopher Iezzoni(Founder)David Knight(Founder)in
Co-investorsGTMfund
Blazel is a LinkedIn content and social selling tool that helps a company's executives, sales, and marketing teams generate, schedule, and publish posts in their own voice, using a fine-tuned LLM and a data layer of enriched LinkedIn profiles.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSales Tech
Co-investorsMoment Ventures, LlcRecursive VenturesSierra VenturesAfore Capital
Bounce is a baggage storage service that allows users to book and store bags at convenient locker locations or local shops through an online platform.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMarketplacesTravel & Hospitality
Cody Candee(Founder)in
Co-investors359 CapitalAccelAndreessen HorowitzAZURO CAPITAL VENTURESBlitzscaling VenturesCraft Ventures+11 more
CrewAI provides an enterprise platform for discovering, building, deploying, and governing AI agents that automate workflows across business applications, with no-code multi-agent workflow creation and observability.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
João (Joe) Moura(Co-founder)inRob Bailey(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsBlitzscaling Venturesboldstart venturesCraft VenturesDallas Venture CapitalEarl Grey CapitalFlybridge Capital Partners+2 more
Didero builds AI agents that execute procurement, supply chain, and finance workflows on top of a company's existing ERP and communication systems.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply Chain
Tim Spencer(Co-founder)inLorenz Pallhuber(Co-founder)inTom Petit(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsChemistryConstruct CapitalHeadlineHeadline Growth Management, LLCFirst Round CapitalM12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)
Distyl is an applied technology company that deploys AI solutions to help enterprises re-architect critical workflows and systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Arjun Prakash(Founder)inDerek Ho(Founder)in
Co-investorsCoatue ManagementDell Technologies CapitalKhosla VenturesLightspeed Venture PartnersMillennium New HorizonsMillennium Technology Value Partners+4 more
Eudia builds an operating system for legal teams that uses AI and digital twins to help legal professionals manage complex work and knowledge.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechCalifornia, US
Omar Haroun(CEO & Co-Founder)inAshish Agrawal(Founder)in
Co-investorsB3 CapitalDefy PartnersEverywhere VenturesFloodgateHakluyt CapitalOperator Collective+4 more
Eve is an autonomous AI sales agent that connects to a company's existing tools (CRM, inbox, calendar, messengers) to prospect, run personalized outreach, follow up, and book qualified meetings, with all outbound messages drafted for user approval.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech
Co-investorsDOMiNO VenturesGeek VenturesSilicon GardensZypsy Capital
Firsthand Summit is an in-person conference that opens with curated private dinners hosted by summit leaders at restaurants around the city, giving attendees a chance to network and take part in discussions before the main sessions.
Media & Entertainment
Hummingbird operates patient access for healthcare systems, running part or all of the access stack from Epic to the patient call center as a managed service.
Digital HealthHealthtechSaaS
Co-investorsMana Ventures
Knox Systems helps software companies navigate FedRAMP compliance and secure federal government contracts.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityGovTechSaaSAustin, US
Irina Denisenko(Executive Officer, Director)inWilliam Christopher Johnson(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardViviana Faga(Director)inCarrie Lee(Federal Advisor)David Epperson(Federal Advisor)Chad Tetrault(Federal Advisor)
Co-investorsB Capital GroupB4 CapitalFelicis VenturesM12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)B CapitalBenchstrength Partners+2 more
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LastMile AI is building what it calls a "cognitive computer," an AI-native system designed to maintain context about a person, team, and organization, connect to authorized tools, and orchestrate tasks alongside humans and AI.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkNew York City, US
Andrew Hoh(CPO & President)inSarmad Qadri(CEO)inBill Peterson(CTO)in
Co-investorsExceptional CapitalGradient Ventures10x FoundersAME Cloud VenturesBlack Angel Group
Lumber offers an AI-based workforce management platform for construction companies, covering certified payroll, prevailing wage and union compliance, hiring and credential tracking, and real-time field operations visibility.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechHR TechSan Jose, US
Shreesha Ramdas(Founder)in
Co-investorsCarbide VenturesConverge
Lunar.dev provides an AI Gateway that offers granular controls, monitoring, and policy enforcement for production AI traffic, enabling developers to manage LLM API calls, token usage, costs, and security risks at scale.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Co-investorsAngular VenturesUncork CapitalDarkmode Ventures
Noetica provides AI-powered analytics and term ratings for investment professionals analyzing credit and debt opportunities.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechLegalTech
Tom Effland(Founder)inYoni S.(Founder)in
Co-investorsBling CapitalFlybridge Capital PartnersLegalTechLightspeed Venture PartnersThomson Reuters Ventures
Trebellar unifies corporate real estate (CRE) data—including lease, cost, headcount, and space data—into a single governed model using a CRE-specific ontology, and applies purpose-built AI agents to plan, analyze, and execute portfolio decisions.
AI & Machine LearningPropTechSaaSSan Francisco, US
David Garcia Quintas(Founder)inDiego Ferreiro Val(Founder)in
Co-investorsBynd Venture CapitalIA Seed VenturesJetstreamKfund1Flourish CapitalAlt Capital+2 more
Weave Bio offers an AI-native regulatory platform for preparing and managing eCTD-formatted regulatory dossiers, automating data organization, authoring, review, publishing and response management across the therapeutic lifecycle.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Ari Caroline(Co-founder, Chief Strategy Officer)inBrandon Rice(Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer)in
Co-investorsGround Up VenturesMagnetic VenturesRaptor GroupTMVUS Venture PartnersCharacter+1 more
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
AvarraHummingbird HealthcareObjectiveWeave
Exits · 2
2 acquisitions · showing 1Objectiveacq. by Upwork
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies8Flow · startuphub.ai · May 26, 2026
Crewai · blog.crewai.com · Mar 31, 2026
Adonis · fintech.global · Mar 26, 2026
Knox Systems · prnewswire.com · Mar 17, 2026
EVE · finsmes.com · Nov 11, 2025
Weave Bio · finsmes.com · Oct 17, 2025
Distyl · pymnts.com · Sep 24, 2025
Agree · pymnts.com · May 6, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has FirsthandVC made?
- FirsthandVC has 28 tracked investments, 2 of which have exited, including 4 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does FirsthandVC invest at?
- FirsthandVC invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What sectors does FirsthandVC focus on?
- FirsthandVC focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Enterprise Software, SaaS.
- Where is FirsthandVC located?
- FirsthandVC is headquartered in Claymont, US.
- Who does FirsthandVC co-invest with?
- FirsthandVC most often shares deals with Flybridge Capital Partners, Bling Capital, Craft Ventures, among 53 tracked co-investors.
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Co-investors · 30
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm that backs founders from Seed through Series F and beyond, emphasizing deep, immersive partnerships with the companies it invests in.
Sierra Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage SaaS and technology startups, focusing on B2B cloud software delivered via subscription models.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, known for pioneering the platform model with a large team of operators supporting founders across stages.
Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture firm that backs early founders, with a focus on AI-native companies driving scale and industry change.
Everywhere Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that writes pre-seed checks and is backed by a community of founder and operator LPs.
Gradient is a seed-stage venture fund focused on backing founders building artificial intelligence companies, providing hands-on support as builders and mentors.
Two Sigma Ventures has rebranded and is now known as Deviation Capital; the page directs visitors to the new website.
Recursive Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital fund backing US pre-seed and seed tech startups applying artificial intelligence to disrupt industries.
Altimeter is a technology-focused investment firm that partners with founders to help build enduring companies. It manages multiple funds investing across both public and private markets and aims to support companies through all stages of growth, including their transition into public markets.
Jetstream is a San Francisco-based venture fund run by Tommy Leep that backs startups at the pre-seed stage. It emphasizes quick decisions and helps portfolio founders with customer introductions, strategy, and raising follow-on rounds through its community of founders and investors. Its investments include companies in areas such as disaster recovery, fintech, health, and EV charging.
Greylock Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with founders building companies from inception. Its partners make only one or two new investments per year to focus deeply on each partnership.
Uber is a technology company operating multisided platforms that connect consumers with ride services, transit, delivery of food and groceries, and freight shipping across more than 70 countries and 15,000+ cities.
▶18 more co-investors
Foundation CapitalSusa VenturesPartech VenturesC2 InvestmentsPrecursor VenturesCanvas VenturesDCM VenturesPantera CapitalVibe CapitalPareto HoldingsTSVC23andMeTeamworthy VenturesAllison Pickens VenturesZ47Strawberry Creek VenturesNew Form CapitalLakeside Capital
Firms observed investing alongside FirsthandVC, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with FirsthandVC's recorded portfolio.
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