Inception Studio Capital
AcceleratorActively deployingSilicon Valley · Pre-Seed–Series A · 24 people tracked
Investment thesis
The firm's thesis centers on backing experienced, repeat AI founders, who they argue are far more likely to succeed than first-time founders. Its edge is a zero-equity, non-profit accelerator running 72-hour retreats that attract elite serial founders who typically avoid traditional accelerators, eliminating adverse selection. This top-of-funnel gives the fund privileged early access, allowing it to invest first with the best terms. The fund writes $100k initial checks at formation and follows validated winners with $500k-$1.5M, securing MFN and pro-rata rights.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 24 people
from the firm's website
Founder mafia
3 people who came through Inception Studio Capital went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 32 of 41 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×29SaaS ×14Developer Tools ×7Enterprise Software ×7Healthtech ×5Consumer ×4Fintech ×4Hardware ×3
HQs:United States×13
Who they back
founder profiles across 11 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×52 founders×53 founders×1
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Portfolio companies · 41 tracked
alumni founders can tell you what the program is really likeBy year:2023 · 12022 · 12 dated
AethexAI provides a voice AI platform for emerging markets, offering infrastructure, models, and deployment tools to build dialect-aware voice agents that handle calls, messages, and workflows across support, sales, onboarding, and collections.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsDorm RoomEnza Capital
AIx2 is an AI platform for investment funds offering three end-to-end workflows—fundraising, investment, and deal exit—powered by five modules covering sourcing, screening, contact finding, outreach, and due diligence.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
Alex is an AI agent integrated into Xcode that automates code generation, debugging, and development tasks for iOS developers.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Daniel Edrisian(Founder)in
Co-investorsChapter OneDash VCRitual CapitalY Combinator1984 Ventures Management, LlcPeak XV Partners+1 more
Axi.om uses agentic intelligence and AI to predict, explain, and fix drug toxicity early in development by leveraging the largest experimental-to-clinical dataset of profiled molecules linked to human clinical outcomes.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechMedical Devices
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesAmplify PartnersCRV (Charles River Ventures)Atria VenturesDimension Capital
BON Credit is a free AI financial assistant app that connects to users' accounts via read-only access to identify money they are losing or owed and surface better financial options with recommended actions.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerFintech
Samder Khangarot(CEO & Co-founder)Darwin Tu(Co-founder)
Co-investorsAxilor VenturesBetter CapitalOmidyar Network
Coframe is an AI platform that generates and tests variations of a company's website—including code, copy, and images—then optimizes them over time based on performance.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS
Josh Payne(Founder)inPavlo Razumovskyi(Founder)in
Co-investorsB3 CapitalSamsung NextKhosla VenturesNFDG
Emerald Innovations provides a digital health technology and sensor platform that continuously collects objective, unbiased patient function data for use in clinical trials of neurological diseases such as Parkinson's disease and ALS.
BiotechDigital HealthHealthtech
Co-investorsEnergy Impact PartnersNVIDIA
Co-investorsJoyance PartnersLink Ventures
Greenflash is an analytics platform that reads production AI agent conversations—chat, voice, and agentic workflows—to identify where users get stuck and what product changes to prioritize.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Hexus is an AI-powered platform for creating interactive product demos, videos, guides, and walkthroughs from screen recordings or existing content.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS
Co-investorsLiquid VenturesPear VC
Hsys builds Vic, an AI agent for trucking fleets and carriers that automates repetitive back-office and dispatch tasks such as order entry, proof-of-delivery capture into TMS, after-hours dispatch, breakdown triage, appointment scheduling, track-and-trace, and detention/accounts receivable collection.
AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainMobility & Transportation
Co-investorsWebb Investment Network
San Francisco, US
Jeremy Nixon(Founder)
Co-investorsGoAhead VenturesTouring Capital
IQ Surgical is developing a platform intended to improve surgical outcomes using data and intelligence.
AI & Machine LearningHealthtechMedical Devices
Jest is a messaging app that can be used in a web browser and lets users sign up with a text message.
ConsumerGamingSocial
Co-investorsZelda VenturesInnovation EndeavorsJanuary Ventures
Lightning Rod trains small large language models on messy real-world data to make predictions, offering public "Foresight Models" via an OpenAI-compatible inference API as well as custom models trained on a customer's own data.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsPhaze Ventures
Mariana Minerals is a vertically integrated minerals supplier that uses software to source critical minerals for energy, AI, and defense technologies.
AI & Machine LearningEnergyNew MaterialsSan Francisco, US
Turner Caldwell(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inJuan Lozano Van De Ven(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Schuyler (Baker) Tilney(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardErin Price-Wright(Director)inSamir Kaul(Director)in
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzBreakthrough Energy VenturesEarthshot VenturesGreycroftKhosla VenturesBEV+1 more
Mem0 provides memory infrastructure for AI systems, enabling them to build lasting, contextual memory across applications.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Taranjeet Singh(Founder)inDeshraj Yadav(Co-Founder and CTO)in
Co-investorsUntapped CapitalKindred VenturesPeak XV PartnersY CombinatorBasis Set Ventures
Octagon AI produces continuously-updated research reports and strategy baskets that compare model-generated probabilities against live prediction-market prices to surface trading edge, currently covering Kalshi markets with Polymarket planned.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
Co-investorsAI Fund
Omi is an open-source AI device and app that captures screen activity and conversations to generate tasks, reminders, and advice, running locally on the user's device.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerHardwareSan Francisco, US
Co-investorsDawn CapitalDraper Associates468 CapitalEmbedding VC
Pie is an AI-based software testing tool that runs in the background, exercises a product's real user flows on every pull request the way a customer would, and reports reproduced functional and usability bugs before release.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Co-investorsAmex VenturesCapital One VenturesLightspeed Venture Partners
Precognition Labs builds PreCog AI, a software layer for investigation and trust & safety teams that organizes case evidence, applies an organization's approved policies and decision rules, and prepares evidence-backed recommendations while keeping ambiguous and high-risk decisions with human reviewers.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Suhas Manangi(Co-Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsMGV.VC
Queue builds an autonomous robotic pharmacy kiosk that takes in sealed wholesale drug bottles and dispenses filled, verified prescription vials on-site, using computer vision to identify each pill to its National Drug Code and QR codes to verify scripts.
HardwareHealthtechRoboticsPalo Alto, US
Nick Desai(Co-founder)Josh Liu(Co-founder)
Co-investorsAlleyCorpRiot VenturesCerberus Capital ManagementIllinois VenturesPlayground Global
Saywise is a professional profile platform for AI-native builders to showcase their AI projects, skills, and content, making their profiles searchable by recruiters and AI agents.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkHR Tech
Co-investorsPoint72 Ventures
Scorecard provides AI testing and evaluation software that helps teams replace subjective reviews with systematic testing for building trustworthy AI products.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaSSan Francisco, US
Co-investorsKindred VenturesStartXTekton Ventures
Secondly builds InterfacesOS, an operating system and SDK that runs across a user's existing devices—phones, laptops, speakers, displays, cameras, wearables, and custom hardware—to provide a single continuous AI intelligence with a shared memory and context layer.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper Tools
Sela builds AI voice agents purpose-built for mortgage lenders to handle borrower outreach, lead qualification, and origination, engaging borrowers across voice, text, and email and warm-transferring qualified leads to licensed loan officers.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
Subtle Computing (legally Skywalk, Inc.) makes wireless earbuds sold directly at subtle.co and through authorized resellers, along with a companion mobile app.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerDirect to ConsumerHardware
Tyler Chen(Founder)in
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesEntrada VenturesSLVC3E Bioventures CapitalBRVHike Ventures+2 more
Synthpop is a Patient Journey Orchestration Platform that uses AI agents to automate healthcare administrative workflows including referral intake, insurance eligibility verification, prior authorization, and patient communication.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechCambridge, US
Elad Ferber(Executive Officer, Director)inJan Jannink(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardIllana Stern(Director)
Co-investorsAnsa CapitalDefy PartnersNewfund CapitalPage One VenturesZelda VenturesPeterson Ventures+1 more
Trellis embeds AI agents across healthcare delivery to automate administrative workflows and clinical processes, from data extraction and prior authorization submission to denial prevention and patient enrollment.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechSan Francisco, US
Mac Klinkachorn(Founder)inJacky Lin(Founder)in
Co-investorsY Combinator
Ventrilo is an AI assistant platform that provides support for writing, research, and productivity tasks while prioritizing user control and creative enhancement over automation.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaSSan Francisco, US
Andy Chou(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzRain Capital
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesPie · techfundingnews.com · Aug 24, 2026
Sela · lifestyle.bombreport.com · Aug 23, 2026
Queue · finsmes.com · Aug 18, 2026
Emerald · bizjournals.com · Aug 10, 2026
Hyperscale · coindesk.com · Jul 31, 2026
Scorecard · finance.yahoo.com · Jul 17, 2026
Alex · smartcompany.com.au · Jul 17, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Inception Studio Capital made?
- Inception Studio Capital has 41 tracked investments.
- What stage does Inception Studio Capital invest at?
- Inception Studio Capital invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Inception Studio Capital's typical check size?
- Inception Studio Capital typically writes checks of $100K – $1.5M.
- What sectors does Inception Studio Capital focus on?
- Inception Studio Capital focuses on AI & Machine Learning.
- Where is Inception Studio Capital located?
- Inception Studio Capital is headquartered in Silicon Valley, US.
- Does Inception Studio Capital lead rounds?
- Yes, Inception Studio Capital leads investment rounds.
- Who does Inception Studio Capital co-invest with?
- Inception Studio Capital most often shares deals with Y Combinator, Abstract Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, among 38 tracked co-investors.
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