Frontier Ventures
Venture capitalCupertino · Pre-Seed–Late Stage · 15 people tracked
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Investment thesis
Frontier Ventures backs early-stage AI companies whose products benefit from network effects, which the firm views as the strongest barriers to entry for technology businesses. It concentrates on Seed and Series A rounds and will fund pre-revenue companies that show demonstrated user traction. The firm typically provides up to $5 million per company across several rounds. Its investment team is based in the United States, and while it focuses primarily on U.S.-based companies, it also backs global teams building products for and focused on the U.S. market.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 15 people
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What they invest in
from 18 of 20 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×12SaaS ×8Enterprise Software ×7Fintech ×5Cloud Computing ×3Consumer ×3Data & Infrastructure ×3Developer Tools ×3
HQs:United States×11Slovenia×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 17 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×62 founders×104+ founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 29 founders with education data
Columbia University ×2Harvard University ×2Princeton University ×2Stanford University ×2University of Ljubljana ×2University of Toronto ×2University of Virginia ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 26 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×15Engineering ×6Business & Management ×4Economics ×4Finance & Accounting ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 30 founders with career history
Stanford University ×4Facebook ×2Foundation Capital ×2Lyft ×2Revcontent ×2Turing Enterprises ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
8 founders hold a PhD · 4 hold an MBA (of 27 with degree data)
Investments · 20 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12016 · 12 dated
Albert offers Genius, an AI-powered financial assistant that helps consumers budget, track spending, build financial plans, move money between accounts, shop within budget, and create travel itineraries.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerFintechTokyo, US
Andrzej BaraniakYinon Ravid(Founder)in
Co-investors500 GlobalAltaIR CapitalBetter Tomorrow VenturesCamp One VenturesCapitalGCSC Upshot+6 more
AmpUp develops electric vehicle charging infrastructure solutions for drivers, businesses, and communities.
Climate TechConsumerEnergyMobility & TransportationSaaSSan Francisco, US
Thomas Sun(Founder)in
Co-investors2.12 AngelsAutotech VenturesConnecticut InnovationsFoothill VenturesY CombinatorMuus Climate Partners+3 more
Bild provides a cloud-based product data management (PDM) and product lifecycle management (PLM) platform for hardware and mechanical engineering teams.
Advanced ManufacturingCleantechCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsFintechIoTNew York City, US
Avinash Kunaparaju(Founder)in
Co-investorsMucker CapitalTechstarsTola CapitalCounterview CapitalShasta Ventures
Bizly provides a platform and expert services to help companies find event venues, manage meetings, and plan corporate events.
AI & Machine LearningB2B MarketplacesEnterprise SoftwareSaaSPalo Alto, US
Ron Shah(Executive Officer, Director)in
Co-investorsExpansion Venture CapitalGlobal BrainKDDI Open Innovation FundMetaPropMetaProp VenturesSKY VC+2 more
Ema is an enterprise platform for building "AI Employees" from plain-language intent, with agents that self-optimize and are grounded in a company's own context.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSMountain View, US
Surojit Chatterjee(Co-Founder & CEO)inSouvik Sen(Co-Founder & CTO)in
Co-investorsAccelColle Capital PartnersHitachi VenturesSCB 10XSection 32Wipro Ventures+1 more
The page shows only generic customer testimonials referencing a "Sinza" financial management platform, with no clear description of the company's own product, team, or offering.
Fintech
Tory Reiss(Founder)inItay Vinik(Founder)in
Co-investorsCommon Oceanf7 VenturesKube VCMontage VenturesThe CouncilVesey Ventures+5 more
Expert360 operates a talent marketplace and managed services platform that connects businesses with fractional executives, consultants, and independent experts for strategy, modelling, and interim work across company stages from startups to pre-IPO firms.
Future of WorkHR TechMarketplaces
Bridget Loudon-Harris(CEO and Co-Founder)in
Co-investorsAirTree VenturesPerennial Partners
Fantix provides machine learning and AI models for synthetic data generation and data enrichment, designed for marketing and business intelligence use cases.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureMarketing Tech
Lokesh Bidhan(Founder)in
Co-investorsBlockchain Valley Ventures, LlcB HeroesFounders FactoryGaingelsNotion Capital
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FirstIgnite provides AI software that helps universities, hospitals, nonprofits, and foundations identify, engage, and manage partnership opportunities in research funding, philanthropy, and technology licensing.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Chase Bonhag(Founder)inCody Pawlowski(Founder)in
Co-investorsConnetic VenturesID VenturesIllinois VenturesMichigan RiseY CombinatorGaingels
Albert Genius is an AI-powered financial assistant that helps consumers with budgeting, financial planning, money transfers, and shopping recommendations.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerFintechSaaS
Co-investorsRanch Ventures
Lendflow provides a platform for fintechs, lenders, and vertical SaaS companies to offer lending and financial products to their customers.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingFintechAustin, US
Jon Fry(Founder)inMatthew Watts(Founder)in
Co-investorsArdent VentureKnoll VenturesNavitas CapitalUnderscore VCY Combinator2048 Ventures+3 more
OnRamp builds an AI-driven customer onboarding platform that uses workflow orchestration, automation, and agentic AI to reduce friction in post-sales customer relationships.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales Tech
Ross Lerner(Founder)in
Co-investorsContour Venture PartnersJavelin Venture PartnersKoch Disruptive TechnologiesPS27 VenturesThe MBA Fund
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(Co-founder & CEO)Elon Musk(Co-founder & former Co-chair / board member)inGreg Brockman(Co-founder & President)inIlya Sutskever(Co-founder & Chief Scientist)inWojciech Zaremba(Co-founder)inJohn Schulman(Co-founder (departed 2024))
Co-investors7BC Venture CapitalA-Rod CorpA.Capital VenturesA'Z AngelsAdvent InternationalAlpha Wave Global+70 more
PredictLeads creates datasets that measure company performance.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSLjubljana, SI
Roq Xever(Founder)inMatic Perovšek(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorFrontier Venture Capital
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Stacks is a blockchain platform that enables smart contracts and decentralized applications to leverage Bitcoin as a secure base layer through a Layer 2 solution, offering developer tools and a programming language called Clarity.
Crypto & Web3Developer ToolsNew York, US
Ryan Shea(Co-founder)inMuneeb Ali(Co-founder)in
BoardAlbert Wenger(Director)in
Co-investorsBig Brain HoldingsBreyer CapitalCompoundContinue CapitalDigital Currency GroupDraper Associates+19 more
Sunsama is a daily planning and task management tool that integrates with Microsoft Teams, allowing users to convert messages into tasks, share daily plans with teammates, and post progress updates.
Enterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSKailua, US
Travis Meyer(Founder)inAshutosh Priyadarshy(Founder)in
Co-investorsAltaIR CapitalGlobevestorLaunchCapitalY CombinatorBoost VC
AGI infrastructure company solving the human intelligence bottleneck and empowering enterprises to harness generative AI.
AI & Machine LearningSilicon Valley, US
Jonathan Siddharth(Founder)inVijay Krishnan(Founder)in
Co-investorsAltaIR CapitalAmino CapitalAngel Collective Opportunity FundAVVBrainstorm VenturesChapter One+18 more
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Union.ai provides a workflow orchestration platform, built on Flyte, that lets biotech and life-sciences teams write and run computational pipelines in pure Python with per-task container images, mixed CPU/GPU compute, and input-hash caching.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSeattle, US
Haytham Abuelfutuh(Founder)inKetan U(Founder)
Co-investorsNava VenturesNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)
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
Openai · techcrunch.com · Aug 12, 2026
Albert · alleywatch.com · Aug 11, 2026
Ema · moneycontrol.com · Jul 22, 2026
PredictLeads · blog.predictleads.com · Jul 13, 2026
Bild · outlierkit.com · May 12, 2026
FirstIgnite · msufoundation.org · Mar 26, 2026
Stacks Open-source network · trysignalbase.com · Feb 27, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Frontier Ventures made?
- Frontier Ventures has 20 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Frontier Ventures invest at?
- Frontier Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Late Stage stages.
- What is Frontier Ventures's typical check size?
- Frontier Ventures typically writes checks of $100K – $5M.
- What sectors does Frontier Ventures focus on?
- Frontier Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning.
- Where is Frontier Ventures located?
- Frontier Ventures is headquartered in Cupertino, US.
- Does Frontier Ventures lead rounds?
- Frontier Ventures typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does Frontier Ventures co-invest with?
- Frontier Ventures most often shares deals with Y Combinator, AltaIR Capital, Autotech Ventures, among 91 tracked co-investors.
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