GFT Ventures
Venture capitalPalo Alto · Pre-Seed–Series A · 7 people tracked
Investment thesis
GFT Ventures backs early-stage, category-leading startups building disruptive frontier technologies aimed at solving difficult global problems. The firm concentrates on areas such as artificial intelligence and data science, autonomous machines, and other frontier technology domains. It invests primarily in the United States and Israel, partnering with entrepreneurs who understand the potential of deep technology. The team combines investment, operational, business development, and technical expertise, and points to prior track records in frontier technology and multiple successful exits.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 7 people
from the firm's website & public directories
What they invest in
from 19 of 26 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×16Marketing Tech ×6Enterprise Software ×5Data & Infrastructure ×4Fintech ×4Healthtech ×3Logistics & Supply Chain ×3SaaS ×3
HQs:United States×12South Korea×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 11 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×32 founders×53 founders×24+ founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 11 founders with education data
University of California, Berkeley ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 11 founders with career history
100.co ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Investments · 26 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 12024 · 32023 · 42022 · 19 dated
Mountain View, US
Vivaswath Kumar(Executive Officer, Director)William Chueh(Director)
BoardWill Drewery(Director)Jiang-Ling Du(Director)Elan Frantz(Director)Chamath Palihapitiya(Director)
Board seatMichal Wolkin· per SEC Form D · $60M raise · filed Jul 2023
Co-investorsSocial Capital Partnership
Rabot offers a Vision AI platform that mounts cameras above existing warehouse pack stations to record, verify, and analyze every order, linking each video to the order ID through the WMS.
AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainRetail TechSan Francisco, US
Isura Ranatunga(Co-Founder)Channa Ranatunga(Co-Founder)Isura R(Founder)
Board seatJay Eum· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsInterlace VenturesNewfund CapitalValuestream VenturesBootstrapLabs
Montclair, US
Zachary Rosenberg(Executive Officer, Director)James Altschuler(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatJeff Herbst· per SEC Form D · $10M raise · filed Aug 2023
DAASH combines multiple research panels, social and advertising signals, and product attribute data to model sales performance, market share, and emerging trends for consumer brands.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureMarketing TechRetail Tech
Melissa Munnerlyn(CMO)inPhilip Smolin(CEO)inJustin Stewart(CTO)
Co-investorsBullpen CapitalEntrepreneur VenturesHypothesisNew Stack VenturesRed Bike CapitalSilicon Road Ventures
Newport Beach, US
Darren Thomas(Founder)Margaret Cunningham(Founder)
Co-investorsCove FundNOMO Ventures
Anyware Robotics builds Pixmo, a multi-purpose mobile warehouse robot with a force-sensing collaborative arm, powered by its AnywareOS intelligence layer for perception, motion planning, and autonomous decision-making.
AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainRoboticsFremont, US
Te Tang(Executive Officer, Director)Yongxiang Fan(Director)Thomas(Co-founder & CEO)inBruce(Co-founder, Head of Robotics Engineering)inSam(Co-founder)inTorsten(Co-founder, Head of Product & Marketing)in
Co-investorsFoothill VenturesStrawberry Creek VenturesAlumni Ventures
Artisight builds an AI-powered "Smart Hospital" platform using ambient intelligence, two-way audio and video, computer vision, and a multi-sensor network to turn hospital rooms into connected virtual care environments.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtech
Co-investorsEpsilon Health InvestorsGen CapitalNVIDIA
Avelis audits medical claims using AI and clinician review to identify billing, coding, and contract errors for health plans and third-party administrators.
AI & Machine LearningHealthtechInsurTech
Angel Onuoha(Founder)inAhmad Shehu(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorZAKA VC
Bria provides visual generative AI infrastructure for tech companies, offering APIs and SDKs for image generation, editing, and optimization built on foundation models trained exclusively on licensed, attributed data.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaS
Co-investorsAtinum Investment Co. Ltd.Bright Pixel CapitalEntrée CapitalIN VentureRed Dot Capital PartnersSamsung Next+3 more
Daash Intelligence runs an AI-based predictive commerce intelligence platform for beauty and personal care retail brands.
San Francisco, US
Philip Smolin(Executive Officer, Director)Kim Perell(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardRoss Kimbel(Director)
Co-investorsBullpen CapitalNew Stack VenturesOpenSky VenturesRed Bike CapitalSilicon Road VenturesWillow Growth Partners
Figment is an independent provider of staking infrastructure, offering non-custodial staking, reward tracking, API integrations, and slashing protection to institutional clients such as asset managers, exchanges, wallets, foundations, and custodians.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintech
Lorien Gabel(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investors10SQ Capital (TenSquared)3cubed VenturesAppWorks VenturesArchetypeB Capital GroupB4 Capital+10 more
Go Abacus provides on-premise, air-gapped AI infrastructure and hardware for regulated institutions such as banks and credit unions, keeping sensitive data within the customer's own environment.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityFintechChicago, US
Co-investorsBankTech Ventures
Higgsfield is a platform for creating and generating visual content, including images, videos, and cinematic scenes using AI models.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMedia & EntertainmentLos Gatos, US
Alex Mashrabov(Founder & CEO)inYerzat Dulat(Executive Officer, Director)inMahi De Silva(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsAccelAlpha Intelligence CapitalAlpha Square GroupAngel Collective Opportunity FundBitkraft Esports VenturesBroadLight Capital+12 more
Knit is an AI-driven research agency that delivers consumer insights and research methodology through a researcher-led approach, enabling insights teams to conduct studies in a week or less rather than months.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSuffolk, US
Aneesh Dhawan(Co-Founder & CEO)
Co-investorsAtland VenturesBread And Butter Ventures, LlcBrighter CapitalEndiya PartnersTechstarsAxilor Ventures+5 more
Knit builds clinical intelligence software for enterprise healthcare organizations, trained on clinical data and decisions to support model predictions.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtech
Co-investorsCoalition OperatorsAxilor VenturesEndiya PartnersSilicon Road VenturesSound Ventures
LinqAlpha provides an AI-powered platform for automating investment research and financial data analysis for asset managers and investment professionals.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureFintechCambridge, US
Chanyeol Choi(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Jin Kim(Founder)inHojun Choi(Executive Officer)
BoardCheuk Kim(Director)Mincheol Cha(Director)
Co-investorsAtinum Investment Co. Ltd.Betatron Venture GroupTechstars
Lyzr builds infrastructure and platforms for deploying production-grade AI agents in enterprises, with emphasis on governance, security, observability, and human oversight.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSJersey City, US
Siva Surendira(Founder & CEO)inSurendirasiva Selvaraj(Executive Officer, Director)Jithin George(Founder)in
BoardMadhu Shalini Iyer(Director)inHenry Ford III(Director)
Co-investorsRocketship.vcAccenture VenturesBGVArka Venture LabsBetter CapitalIn-Q-Tel+1 more
Mars Auto builds autonomous Class 8 trucks for commercial cargo transportation in Korea and the United States, using a vision-focused AI driving system that does not rely on pre-mapped routes.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainMobility & TransportationRoboticsSeoul, KR
Ilsu Park(Founder)inGyuri Im(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Co-investorsY CombinatorKakao VenturesZeno Ventures
A network described as connecting brands with their audiences, currently pre-launch and onboarding brands.
Marketing Tech
Co-investorsB Capital GroupB4 CapitalCrosscut VenturesReshape
Qortex offers a video intelligence platform that analyzes video content frame by frame to curate high-performing video segments across CTV, YouTube, and other platforms.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing Tech
Co-investorsBoro CapitalSilicon Road Ventures
Forte provides a rules engine for managing on-chain token economies and compliance controls across blockchain networks.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investors1confirmationa16z cryptoACME CapitalAndreessen HorowitzBattery VenturesCalifornia Technology Ventures+5 more
Switchboard provides a data integration layer that unifies fragmented data sources into governed, AI-ready pipelines for enterprises.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Ju-kay Kwek(Founder)Michael Manoochehri(Founder)
Co-investorsQuest Venture PartnersAptos LabsArche Capital VentureAscensive AssetsBreed VCCleo Capital+8 more
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesGo Abacus · dig-in.com · Aug 10, 2026
Figment · businesswire.com · Jul 28, 2026
Lyzr · citybiz.co · Jul 13, 2026
Anyware Robotics · newmarketpitch.com · Jul 13, 2026
LinqAlpha · saasrise.com · Jul 10, 2026
Higgsfield AI · masternodeai.com · Jul 2, 2026
Daash Intelligence · businesswire.com · May 18, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has GFT Ventures made?
- GFT Ventures has 22 tracked investments, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does GFT Ventures invest at?
- GFT Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What sectors does GFT Ventures focus on?
- GFT Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Robotics.
- Where is GFT Ventures located?
- GFT Ventures is headquartered in Palo Alto, US.
- Does GFT Ventures lead rounds?
- GFT Ventures typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does GFT Ventures co-invest with?
- GFT Ventures most often shares deals with Samsung Next, B Capital Group, B4 Capital, among 77 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamThe AI Gold Rush: Live with Ivy Nguyen, Partner at GFT Ventures
Christian Soschner · Ivy Nguyen
GFT Ventures Founding Partner Jay Eum on AI, Data Science & Frontier Tech
Grace Gong · Jay Eum
Investment Interview with Jay Eum, GFT Ventures
VC HOUSE · Jay Eum
[SNUDataScienceSeminar] A Fireside Chat with Jeff Herbst of GFT Ventures/Host: Prof. Sang Kyun Cha
PIDL · Jeff Herbst
Jay Eum from GFT Ventures on the preparation for our summit
Jay Eum · vimeo.com
Co-investors · 48
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Quest Venture Partners is an early-stage investment firm that typically provides the first institutional capital to startups, backing strong teams with strong ideas.
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Notable Capital is a venture capital firm that has partnered with founders for over two decades, backing companies from the earliest stages through to exit.
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Firms observed investing alongside GFT Ventures, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with GFT Ventures's recorded portfolio.
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