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Humans Of The Internet

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Investment thesis

The firm invests in people working throughout the technology ecosystem, with particular interest in the infrastructure 'picks and shovels' that power platforms. Drawing on a background in internet infrastructure, it is drawn to the intersection of physical and digital technology. It prefers to support founders who build in the open and who 'do well by doing good,' emphasizing sustainability, diversity of thought, and elevating new voices. The team favors innovators who make the ecosystem more inclusive while creating a positive impact on the world. Alongside direct investments, it also partners with small aligned funds.

Source: firm website, verified Oct 2, 2026.

Stage
Seed
Instruments
Equity
Tracked investments
72
Acquisitions
3

Team · 2 people

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Jacob Smith· Co-Founder

What they invest in

from 41 of 72 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×23Enterprise Software ×22Cloud Computing ×20Data & Infrastructure ×17Developer Tools ×17SaaS ×10Cybersecurity ×7Cleantech ×3

HQs:United States×29Canada×1Germany×1

Investments · 72 tracked

founders shown can be your intro path
1NCE1nce.comin𝕏

1NCE provides cellular IoT connectivity and software services for connected products across the IoT supply chain, offered under a single global "Lifetime Flat" plan in over 170 countries.

Enterprise SoftwareIoTSaaSCologne, DE

Co-investorsDTCPI Squared CapitalSoftBank GroupKensington Capital Partners LimitedVicenda Group AG

Agile Space Industriesagilespaceindustries.comin𝕏

Agile Space Industries manufactures in-space chemical propulsion systems including thrusters and rocket engines for satellite and spacecraft operations.

Deep TechDefense TechHardwareSpace TechDurango, US

Daudi M. Barnes(Executive Officer, Director)inDavid Cuthbertson(COO)inChris Pearson(CEO)inWilliam Francis(CCO)inKris Schaa(CFO)Kristin Schaa(Executive Officer)in

Co-investorsCaruso VenturesCommunity Access FundCORI InnovationCortado VenturesGreater Colorado Venture FundGreenline Community Ventures, Llc+4 more

AltExchangealtexchange.comin𝕏

A platform that provides family office-like investment management and reporting for individuals and families managing private investments such as real estate and private funds.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS

Zak Boca(Co-Founder and COO)in

Co-investorsConnetic VenturesMotley Fool Ventures

AmberFloamberflo.io

Amberflo provides real-time usage metering, AI cost tracking and usage-based billing for software and AI companies.

Palo Alto, US

Lior Mechlovich(Founder)Puneet Gupta(Founder & CEO, Amberflo)in

BoardSatya Patel(Director)in

Co-investorsCorrelation VenturesHomebrewLiveOak VenturesLorimer VenturesNorwest Venture PartnersOperator Collective

Archipeloarchipelo.comin

Archipelo builds a system of record for software production, capturing execution attribution — who or what (human developers, AI copilots, or agents) made each change and on what authority — to support security and governance.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Co-investorsACTAI VenturesDell Technologies CapitalFlucas VenturesSamsung NextSLVC

Audilyaudily.com
authzedauthzed.comin𝕏Seed

AuthZed provides authorization infrastructure that automatically evaluates access permissions based on team and organizational hierarchies, eliminating the need for manual permission syncing and background jobs.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareNew York City, US

Jake Moshenko(Founder)inJimmy Zelinskie(Founder)inJoseph Schorr(Founder)inJacob Moshenko(Founder)Joseph S(Founder)

Co-investorsAmplify PartnersGeneral CatalystWork-BenchY CombinatorFirebolt Ventures Management Company, Llc

Bayeslinebayesline.cominSeed

Bayesline provides GPU-accelerated financial analytics software deployed on the cloud for hedge funds and institutional investors to develop customized market analysis and investment strategies.

AI & Machine LearningFintechNew York City, US

Sebastian Janisch(Founder)inMisha van Beek(Founder)inJASLEEN KAUR(Director)

Co-investorsBlockchain Founders CapitalY Combinator468 CapitalCapitalize VCCartaElsa Capital+4 more

Bodobodo.ai

Bodo builds a high-performance analytics engine and answer layer for enterprise AI, letting data teams run Pandas, Python, and SQL across CPUs and GPUs without code, workflow, or data migration changes.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Ehsan Totoni(Founder)in

Co-investorsCandou VenturesDell Technologies CapitalFusionKoch Disruptive TechnologiesUncorrelated Ventures

CodeZero Technologies Inccodezero.io

CodeZero is building Cordon for Teams, a product in development with design partners.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper Tools

Co-investorsBallistic VenturesWUTIF Capital

Copilottravelcopilottravel.com
Curexgetcurex.comin𝕏

Curex offers at-home prescription allergy relief through sublingual immunotherapy treatments, personalized based on individual allergy testing.

Digital HealthDirect to ConsumerHealthtech

Co-investorsCity LightJazzya InvestmentsMyelin VCPID Fund I, a series of DV Collective, LPRed & Blue Ventures

Davidmyttondavidmytton.blog
Daytonadaytona.ioin𝕏

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(Co-founder & CEO)inVedran Jukić(Co-founder & CTO)inGoran Draganić(Co-founder & Chief Architect)inVedran Jukic(Director)in

BoardKevin Zhang(Director)inMatt Turck(Director)

Co-investors500 Emerging EuropeDarkmode Venturese2vcFirestreak VenturesFirstMark CapitalSilicon Gardens+4 more

Determinate Systemsdeterminate.systemsin𝕏

Determinate Systems develops Determinate Nix, a supported distribution of the Nix package manager, along with FlakeHub, a platform for managing and distributing Nix flakes.

Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwarePitsfield, US

Eelco Dolstra(Executive Officer, Director)inGraham S. Christensen(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)in

Co-investorsRoot Ventures Manager, Llc

Districtnorthlvdistrictnorthlv.com
Downtowncinemaslvdowntowncinemaslv.com
Ecldcecldc.comin𝕏

A company developing sustainable green data centers with zero carbon emissions using innovative engineering and emerging technologies.

CleantechCloud ComputingEnergyMountain View, US

Yuval Bachar(Founder)in

Co-investorsHyperwise Ventures

Emissarywithemissary.com

San Francisco, US

Tanmay Chopra(Founder)

Energy Impact Partnersenergyimpactpartners.comin𝕏

Energy Impact Partners is a global investment firm managing over $4.5 billion that invests across venture, growth, and credit strategies in technologies for the energy transition and decarbonization.

CleantechClimate TechEnergyNew York, US

Lindsay Luger(Co-founder & Partner)inHans Kobler(Founder and Managing Partner)inJoshua Feldman(Co-founder, Partner, General Counsel & Chief Operating Officer)inMichael Donnelly(Co-founder, Partner and Chief Risk Officer)inHarry Giovani(Managing Partner & CEO of Energy Impact Partners Credit)inKyle Wool(Partner & Chief Financial Officer)in

Co-investorsClean Energy VenturesDNV VenturesEvergy VenturesJERAMOL SwitchAmazon Alexa Fund+11 more

Evoecoevoeco.com
FINDMINEfindmine.com

New York, US

Michelle Bacharach(Executive Officer, Director)inKonstantin Itskov(Executive Officer, Director)

Co-investorsAgility CapitalGolden SeedsPJCRevTech VenturesXRC

Flexnodeflexnode.ioin

FlexNode provides modular AI infrastructure solutions designed for rapid deployment at the edge.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeep Tech

Andrew C. Lindsey(Founder)in

Co-investorsActivant CapitalAvilaColle Capital PartnersMaryland TEDCOTEDCOVolvo Group Venture Capital AB+2 more

Fly.iofly.io𝕏Seed

Fly.io provides infrastructure and platform services for deploying and running applications in a distributed, globally-connected environment.

Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareChicago, US

Michael Dwan(Founder)Jerome Gravel-Niquet(Founder)inKurt Mackey(CEO)inScott Johnston(Executive Officer, Director)Matthew Cunningham(Executive Officer)

BoardMartin Casado(Director)in

Co-investorsAbstract VenturesAndreessen HorowitzElysium VenturesFrialeGeodesic CapitalInitialized Capital+15 more

Forwardemailforwardemail.net
Frameableframeable.com
Grafana Labsgrafana.comin𝕏

Grafana Labs builds an observability platform that collects, visualizes, and alerts on metrics, logs, traces, and profiles from multiple data sources.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software

Raj Dutt(Founder)inTorkel Ödegaard(Founder)in

Co-investorsCapitalGCoatue ManagementCrew CapitalG SquaredGaldana VenturesGeneral Partnership+11 more

GraphiteRxgraphiterx.comin

GraphiteRx operates a marketplace platform that connects pharmacies, hospitals, clinics, and suppliers to streamline healthcare distribution.

AI & Machine LearningB2B MarketplacesEnterprise SoftwareHealthtech

Co-investorsaMoonBowery CapitalLool VenturesNew Era Capital Partners

Gybegybe.cloud

Gybe builds digital work-day tools designed for deskless, frontline, and critical industry workers who typically lack the software available to office-based employees.

Enterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaS

Co-investorsREFASHIOND Ventures

HarperDBharperdb.io

HarperDB is a backend platform that combines a database, REST and GraphQL APIs, caching, real-time messaging, vector search, and blob storage from a single schema definition, so developers can build application backends without separate frameworks or services.

Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsLoveland, US

Kyle Phipps Bernhardy(Chief Technology Officer)Stephen Jacob Goldberg(Chief Executive Officer, President and Director)Frederick C Yoon(Chief Operating Officer and Secretary)Zachary Paul Fowler(Vice President, Cloud Services)

Co-investorsService Provider Capital

Hatchethatchetventures.com
Headcount365 careersheadcount365.comin

Headcount365 is a platform that centralizes headcount data and planning for HR teams and finance leaders.

Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechHR TechSaaS

David Seconi(CFO (quoted reference, not listed as founder))

Co-investorsInsight PartnersFeld VenturesTIA Ventures

Innovorginnovorg.com
Itfcitfc.co.uk
JumpCloudjumpcloud.comin𝕏

JumpCloud is an AI-powered unified IT management platform that provides identity, access, and device management for organizations managing both human users and non-human AI identities.

Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSBoulder, US

Greg Keller(Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer)inRajat Bhargava(Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder)inAntoine Jebara(General Manager of Channels & Alliances, Co-founder)inSerhat Can(Director, Product Management, Co-founder)inMustafa Akın(Senior Manager, Engineering, Co-founder)inLeonardo Cooper(Co-Founder and Director of Product)in

Co-investorsGeneral AtlanticAlumni VenturesAtlassian VenturesBY Venture PartnersFoundryH.I.G. Capital+14 more

Kadeyakadeya.comin𝕏

Kadeya operates a closed-loop beverage system that autonomously bottles filtered water and flavored, sparkling, or branded drinks on demand at vending stations, then collects the reusable glass and stainless steel bottles for cleaning and reuse.

Circular EconomyCleantechClimate TechFoodTechHardwareWellness & FitnessChicago, US

Manuela ZoninseininAli Rose van OverbekeinAndrew Dunn(Director)

BoardZachary Smith(Director)

Co-investorsChicago Early Growth Ventures (CEGV)Clocktower VenturesDipalo VenturesEvergreen Climate InnovationsGROOVE CAPITALJosephine Collective+6 more

Kentikkentik.comin𝕏

This page is a case study featuring Booking.com's use of Kentik's Network Observability Platform.

Cloud ComputingCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Avraham Freedman(Executive Officer, Director)Justin Biegel(Founder)inIan Pye(Founder)inIan Applegate(Director)

BoardMehra Vivek(Director)Howard Morgan(Director)

Co-investorsAugust CapitalDCVC (Data Collective)Delta-v CapitalEngineering CapitalGlynn Capital ManagementGolub Growth+6 more

Kestrakestra.ioin𝕏

Kestra is a plugin-powered orchestration platform for data pipelines, infrastructure automation, and AI workflows, using declarative, Git-native flows with triggering, execution control, observability, and recovery.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software

Emmanuel Darras(CEO)inLudovic Dehon(CTO)in

Co-investorsAxeleo CapitalEndeavour VisionIsaiISAI GestionRTP GlobalTranspose Platform Management+1 more

Koyebkoyeb.comin𝕏Acquired

Koyeb is a serverless cloud platform for running AI-intensive applications across CPUs, GPUs, and specialized accelerators, offering capabilities like scale-to-zero, autoscaling, and sandboxes for AI agents.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools

Edouard(Co-founder)Bastien(Co-founder)

Co-investorsIsaiISAI GestionKima VenturesMango CapitalSerenaAcequia Capital (AceCap)+4 more

Mango Capitalmangocapitalinc.com
Mayweathermayweather.fit
Mcjcollectivemcjcollective.com
Mixpeekmixpeek.comin𝕏

Mixpeek provides a multimodal AI data platform for advertising technology companies to analyze images, videos, audio, and text content for contextual targeting, creative performance attribution, brand safety, and audience insights.

AdTechAI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsMarketing TechSaaS

Co-investorsESSENCE VCWork-BenchEssence Venture Capital

NetBoxnetboxlabs.com

NetBox Labs offers NetBox, a platform for documenting, modeling, automating, and securing network and data center infrastructure, including IP address management and a source of truth for physical and virtual assets.

Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareNew York, US

Bill Lapcevic(Founder)inKristopher Beevers(Executive Officer, Director)Salil Jani(Executive Officer, Director)inXiao Wei(Executive Officer)in

BoardRaj Dutt(Director)Glenn Solomon(Director)in

Co-investorsEntrée CapitalFlybridge Capital PartnersFounder CollectiveMango CapitalNGP CapitalNotable Capital+3 more

Netrisnetris.ioin𝕏

Netris provides network automation, abstraction, and multi-tenancy platform designed for AI infrastructure operators.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSanta Clara, US

Tigran Martirosyan(Co-Founder & VP Software Engineering)inAlex Saroyan(Co-Founder & CEO)inArsen Arakelyan(Co-Founder & VP Customer Success)in

Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzAlumni VenturesGranatus VenturesSmartGateVC

Nova AItrynova.ai

San Francisco, US

Jeff Shih(Founder)

NS1ns1.comacquired by IBM

IBM NS1 Connect is a managed DNS and traffic management service that uses real-time performance, health, and geographic data to route users to optimal endpoints across distributed infrastructure.

Cloud ComputingCybersecurityData & Infrastructure

Alex Vayl(Founder)in

Co-investorsCisco InvestmentsEnergy Impact PartnersEntrée CapitalFlybridge Capital PartnersFounder CollectiveMango Capital+2 more

Operant AIoperant.aiin

Operant AI provides a runtime defense platform that protects cloud and AI applications across infrastructure and APIs through continuous discovery, detection, and defense capabilities.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Vrajesh(Co-Founder and CEO)inPriyanka(Co-Founder and CTO)inAshley(Co-founder and COO)inPriyanka Tembey(Co-Founder and CTO)inVrajesh B(Founder)Vrajesh Bhavsar(Co-Founder and CEO)

Co-investorsAlumni VenturesBAMCAPBeat VenturesFelicis VenturesSINEWAVE VENTURESTwo Culture Capital+4 more

ORIori.co𝕏

Radiant builds compute infrastructure and services designed to operate as a utility, providing the foundational platform for AI and intelligence applications at scale.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & Infrastructure

Mahdi Yahya(President)inVishal Padiyar(Executive Chairman)

Co-investors6 Degrees CapitalArtem VenturesAsahi Kasei Corporate Venture CapitalBanyan VenturesEpisode1Insiders Ventures+5 more

Outsmartlyoutsmartly.comin𝕏

Outsmartly offers conversion rate optimization (CRO) services and technology for ecommerce brands, running high-leverage tests and providing custom development to improve conversion rates, page load times, and page views.

E-commerceMarketing TechRetail Tech

Shalom Volchok(Founder)in

Co-investorsMango CapitalMaximilian Stoiber

Playgroundplayground.com𝕏SeedDefunct

An AI-powered design platform that enables users to create custom stickers, merchandise, posters, and other products by describing their ideas, which the AI then generates with professional typography and layouts.

AI & Machine LearningConsumerCreator EconomySan Francisco, US

Suhail Doshi(Founder & CEO)in

Co-investorsCaffeinated CapitalShrug CapitalY Combinator8VCDay One VenturesGlobal Founders Capital+9 more

Pontofootwearpontofootwear.com
Pursuitpursuit.org
Qubitroqubitro.com
Reclaimreclaim.aiin𝕏

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 VenturesCurious CapitalFirebolt Ventures Management Company, LlcFlying Fish VenturesGradient VenturesAcrew Capital+3 more

Rollavideorollavideo.com
Runpodrunpod.ioin𝕏

Runpod is an AI developer cloud that provides on-demand GPU infrastructure for experimenting with, training, fine-tuning, deploying, and scaling machine learning models.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureMoorestown, US

Zhen Lu(Executive Officer, Director)inPardeep Singh(Executive Officer, Director)in

Co-investorsIntel CapitalSummit PartnersPJC

Select Starselectstar.comin𝕏Acquired

Select Star offers an automated data catalog that lets teams search, document, and understand their data assets, with features like a business glossary, data lineage, popularity metrics, and entity relationships.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

SHINJI KIM(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)in

Co-investorsBackbone AngelsBowery CapitalCardinia VenturesData TechLightspeed Venture PartnersSozo Ventures+1 more

Spacedrivespacedrive.com
Streamdalstreamdal.comin𝕏SeedDefunct

Streamdal provides code-native data privacy controls embedded directly in application code to detect and prevent personally identifiable information (PII) from being exposed in databases, data streams, or pipelines.

CybersecurityData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwarePortland, US

Ustin Zarubin(Founder)inDaniel Selans(Founder)in

Co-investorsIdeashipY CombinatorAdditionBasis Set VenturesCorrelation VenturesCrosscut Ventures+8 more

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NS1acq. by IBM

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Frequently asked questions

How many investments has Humans Of The Internet made?
Humans Of The Internet has 72 tracked investments, 3 of which have exited.
What stage does Humans Of The Internet invest at?
Humans Of The Internet invests at the Seed stage.
What sectors does Humans Of The Internet focus on?
Humans Of The Internet focuses on Cloud Computing, Consumer, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Impact & Social Good.