Mango Capital
Venture capitalActively deployingLos Altos · Pre-Seed–Series A · 1 people tracked
Also known as Mango Capital 2018 · Mango Capital 2020 · Mango Capital 2022 · Mango Capital 2025
Investment thesis
Mango Capital backs enterprise software founders at the earliest stage, before product-market fit and before the market recognizes the opportunity. Its focus is narrow: agent infrastructure and intelligent applications. The firm sources deals through the Mango Scout network of founders and operators, giving it access to opportunities before they become visible. Its edge comes from deep technical understanding and firsthand experience across enterprise architecture cycles dating back to the mid-1980s. Mango works with founders as a direct, honest partner, offering candid feedback while deliberately declining board seats.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 18, 2026.
Team · 1 people
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What they invest in
from 72 of 89 portfolio companiesDeveloper Tools ×41AI & Machine Learning ×34Enterprise Software ×28SaaS ×28Data & Infrastructure ×27Cloud Computing ×17Cybersecurity ×14E-commerce ×6
HQs:United States×28Germany×1Italy×1
Investments · 89 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 12022 · 12021 · 12020 · 12015 · 15 dated
Zymtrace is a continuous, cluster-wide profiling platform that uses eBPF to correlate GPU and CPU workloads down to individual CUDA kernels, stall reasons, and lines of code, helping engineering teams find and fix why AI workloads run slowly.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Alguna offers a monetization platform that automates pricing, quoting, and billing operations, including usage-based billing, contract management, and revenue recognition.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Armory provides continuous deployment software that helps development teams automate and manage application releases across their infrastructure at scale, with built-in safety and security controls.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Isaac Mosquera(Founder/CTO)inBen Mappen(Founder/CPO)in
BigPanda delivers agentic AI and automation for IT operations, helping enterprise IT teams detect, triage, and respond to incidents in complex hybrid cloud and modern software environments.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSMountain View, US
Assaf Resnick(CEO and co-founder)
BoardRobin Vasan(Director)inScott Tobin(Director)inShmuel Levy(Director)
Builder.io provides visual development tools that enable teams to collaborate on software development through a plug-and-play approach.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Brent Locks(Co-founder & COO)inSteve Sewell(Co-founder & CEO)inMisko Hevery(Chief Technology Officer)Lindsay Brunner(Head of Communications)
BoardMike Duboe(Board Member (Venture Partner, Greylock))
Censys provides an Internet intelligence platform built on a continuously updated map of Internet infrastructure, giving security teams real-time visibility into their exposure, dependencies, blind spots, and attacker infrastructure.
CybersecurityData & InfrastructureSaaSAnn Arbor, US
Zakir Durumeric(Co-Founder & CEO (previously Chief Scientist))J. Alex Halderman(Co-Founder)Brad Brooks(Former CEO)David Corcoran(Former CEO)Lorne Groe(Former Interim CEO; later CFO/COO)Sarah Ashburn(Chief Revenue Officer)
Clerk provides user management and authentication infrastructure for developers, enabling quick integration of complete user management systems into applications.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Braden Sidoti(Executive Officer, Director)Colin Sidoti(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardShvetank Jain(Director)Karan Mehandru(Director)in
CloudQuery provides multi-cloud visibility and automation for platform and governance teams, letting them query their cloud estate via SQL or natural language across AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Clutch is a visual builder platform that enables creation of AI-powered, personalized websites using drag-and-drop agents, component libraries, and integration with existing tools and data.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsE-commerceEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Eric Florenzano(Founder)in
Commerce Layer provides API infrastructure for enterprise ecommerce, offering 400+ API endpoints, real-time webhooks, and a composable, multi-market architecture.
Developer ToolsE-commerceSaaSPrato, IT
Massimo Scardellato(Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer / Co-CEO)Filippo Conforti(Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer / Co-CEO)Barbara Rybka(Chief Customer Officer / early adviser)Seth Bindernagel(Vice President of Marketing)Kia Saedi(Vice President of Sales)
BoardEric Vishria(Director; Benchmark general partner)in
Eclypsium provides hardware and firmware security solutions for enterprises to identify and address vulnerabilities in chips, low-level code, and digital supply chains.
CybersecurityDefense TechEnterprise SoftwareHardwarePortland, US
Yuriy Bulygin(Co-founder)Alex Bazhaniuk(Co-founder)John Ewert(Executive Officer)
BoardAlex Doll(Director)inTimothy Porter(Director)in
Edgemesh runs at the edge of Shopify stores to filter bots and invalid traffic, capture first-party server-side analytics queryable in plain language, cache storefronts for faster load times, and manage Meta and Google paid media against efficiency targets.
E-commerceMarketing TechRetail Tech
Farcast develops advanced satellite communication user terminals with flat panel phased array antennas that electronically track satellite movement for reduced size, weight, power, and cost.
Advanced ManufacturingHardwareSpace TechSan Francisco, US
Siamak Ebadi(Founder)in
BoardDavid Byrd(Director)inGuido Jouret(Director)
Fig develops autocomplete software, visual applications, and keyboard shortcuts for terminal interfaces, designed to make command-line tools more usable for both novice and experienced developers.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Brendan Falk(Founder)inMatt Schrage(Founder)in
FINESSE is an AI-driven fashion house that uses proprietary algorithms and customer voting to determine what styles to produce and in what quantities, reducing overproduction and waste.
AI & Machine LearningCircular EconomyConsumerDirect to Consumer
Fyrn designs and sells furniture including chairs, stools, benches, and tables, built on its patented Stemn System.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerce
Gatsby is a React-based, open-source framework for building fast and secure websites, with a unified GraphQL data layer that integrates multiple content sources and APIs.
Developer Tools
Center provides corporate expense and card management, including physical/virtual cards and support resources for teams.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Metronome provides real-time monetization infrastructure covering usage metering, pricing, billing, and reporting in a single platform.
Data & InfrastructureFintechSaaS
San Francisco, US
Mitchell Hashimoto(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Armon Dadgar(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)David McJannet(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardScott Raney(Director)inGlenn Solomon(Director)inRobin Vasan(Director)in
IntelligentCross is a US equities trading venue that uses AI to optimize price discovery by matching orders near-continuously to achieve maximum price stability.
AI & Machine LearningFintech
Roman Ginis(Founder)in
InfluxData develops InfluxDB, a time series database designed to collect, store, analyze, and act on data that changes in real-time.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareIoTNew York City, US
Paul Dix(Founder/CTO)inTodd Persen(Executive Officer, Promoter)Evan Kaplan(Executive Officer, Director)inWinnie Cheng(Executive Officer)in
BoardRobin Vasan(Director)inDaniel Scholnick(Director)in
Infracost provides cloud cost management and FinOps tools that help engineering teams estimate cloud costs and optimize spending across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Diego, US
Ali Khajeh-Hosseini(Founder)inAlistair Scott(Founder)inHassan Khajeh-Hosseini(CEO)Ali Khajeh Hosseini Salehabad(Director)Hassan Khajeh Hosseini Saleh Abad(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardSudip Chakrabarti(Director)
Iru provides an AI-powered unified platform for endpoint management, identity, threat detection, and compliance automation serving IT and security teams.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Diego, US
Adam Pettit(Founder & CEO)Wesley Pettit(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Daughters Mark(Director, Promoter)
Koyeb is a serverless cloud platform for deploying containerized applications and AI workloads across GPUs, CPUs, and accelerators in 50+ global locations.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools
LakeSail offers a Rust-based data processing engine ("Sail") compatible with the Apache Spark API via the Spark Connect protocol, letting data teams run existing PySpark, Spark SQL, Delta Lake, and Iceberg workloads without rewrites.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Adobe is a multinational software company that develops creative, design, and business productivity applications.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyEnterprise Software
Phil Fernandez(CEO)
Meilisearch is a flexible, user-focused search engine that can be integrated into websites and applications, offering full-text, semantic, hybrid, and multimodal search capabilities with sub-50 millisecond response times.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Quentin de Quelen(Founder)in
Mux provides video infrastructure and API services for developers building video applications.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMedia & EntertainmentSan Francisco, US
Jon Dahl(Co-founder, CEO)inAdam Brown(Co-Founder, CTO)inSteve Heffernan(Co-founder and Product Architect)inMatthew McClure(Co-Founder and VP of Developer Experience)in
BoardDaniel Levine(Director)inKristina Shen(Director)in
Neovi builds custom single-family homes and townhomes using a prefabricated "Closed Wall System" that combines steel framing, helical pile foundations, solid surface interiors and triple-paned windows for faster, more energy-efficient construction.
Construction TechNew MaterialsPropTechNewark, US
NetBox Labs provides a platform for managing network and infrastructure state, covering intended state, operational state, and drift detection along with observability and lifecycle management.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Netlify is a platform for building, deploying, and scaling modern web applications, serving millions of developers and thousands of enterprises.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaSSan Francisco, US
Mathias Biilmann(Co-founder & CEO)Christian Bach(Co-founder, Chief Strategy and Creative Officer)
Vectra AI provides real-time network observability and threat detection across hybrid environments spanning on-premises, multi-cloud, SaaS, edge, and IoT/OT systems.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityData & InfrastructureIoT
Network Next provides network acceleration for multiplayer games, reducing latency for players with high ping.
Data & InfrastructureGaming
Novu provides communication infrastructure that connects products and AI agents to notification channels including inbox, email, SMS, push, chat, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Telegram.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS
IBM NS1 Connect is a managed DNS and traffic management platform that uses real-time performance, health and geographic data to route users to the best endpoint.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityData & Infrastructure
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
Passport provides an international shipping and fulfillment platform for direct-to-consumer brands, offering cross-border logistics, landed-cost checkout, compliance management, and local fulfillment services.
E-commerceLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS
Alex Yancher(Founder & CEO)
Prisma builds an ORM and database tools for developers to simplify database workflows across application development, deployment, and scaling.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
ProjectDiscovery offers Neo, an autonomous AI-powered security testing platform that continuously scans web applications, APIs, and cloud infrastructure to identify and verify vulnerabilities with high accuracy and minimal false positives.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper Tools
QPoint provides an endpoint security tool (Qcontrol) that installs as a single binary to discover AI agents running on a machine and capture their file access, tool calls, network requests, and process execution in real time.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsWindermere, US
Tyler Flint(Founder)Mark Parson(Co-founder)Andrew Valencia(Leadership Team)Jon(Head of Engineering)Kevin Romani(Executive Officer)Marc Berry(Executive Officer)
Rasa builds a conversational AI platform that extends large language models with business logic, enabling enterprises to develop AI agents that handle high-volume interactions securely.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Alex Weidauer(Co-founder & Strategic Advisor)Tom Bocklisch(Principal Architect)
Boston, US
Alexander Weidauer(Executive Officer, Director)Alan Nichol(Director)
BoardAndrei Brasoveanu(Director)in
Seltz provides web knowledge infrastructure for large language models and autonomous AI agents, offering continuously updated, high-quality data with precise retrieval capabilities designed for machine reasoning.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Shaped is a relevance engine that powers personalized content feeds, hybrid search, and AI agent memory retrieval for real-time personalization applications.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York City, US
Tullie Murrell(Founder/CEO)in
Spacial is an AI-powered pre-construction platform that turns 2D building drawings into coordinated, code-aware construction documents, generating structural, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing plans within a single building model with automated code and clash checks.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechPropTech
Maor Greenberg(Chief Executive Officer)Ami Avrahami(Chief Product Officer)Jay Klein(Chief Technology Officer)
Stealthium provides a runtime observability and security platform for GPUs and AI workloads, offering multilayer visibility across single nodes and multi-cluster deployments.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & Infrastructure
Tesorio provides a Connected Financial Operations platform that automates accounts receivable workflows including collections, cash application, forecasting, and payment management for finance teams at growing companies.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Carlos Vega(Founder/CEO)inFabio Fleitas(Founder)in
TinyFish provides a single API for web-interacting AI agents, combining web search, page fetching, a real browser-rendering engine, and autonomous agents that can navigate pages, fill forms, and authenticate into sites to return structured JSON.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Unikraft provides a compute platform that transforms Dockerfiles into minimal Linux-based unikernel VM images, offering VM-grade isolation with sub-10ms cold starts and high density (100K+ instances per server).
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper Tools
Unstructured transforms complex, unstructured data (64+ file types) into clean, structured data suitable for AI and analysis, handling ETL, security, compliance, and integrations across enterprise systems.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Brian Raymond(Founder & CEO)
VideoDB provides video infrastructure designed for AI workloads, replacing the bolted-on stack of transcription, vision-language models, vector search, and custom orchestration teams typically assemble on top of traditional storage and encoding systems.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Weav.ai builds an AI-native decisioning platform for property and casualty (P&C) insurers, automating tasks such as data ingestion, risk assessment, exposure verification, and review across underwriting, premium audit, and claims.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareInsurTechSaaS
Peeyush Rai(Founder & Chief Executive Officer (CEO))Jeff Heine(Founding Member & Chief Revenue Officer (CRO))Neal Silbert(Chief Product Officer (CPO))Adam G. Frew(Chief Marketing Officer (CMO))Dr. Sebastian Walter(Head of Engineering)
Yurts (Legion Intelligence) builds enterprise AI agents that perform search, analysis, content creation, and multi-step workflow automation across a company's existing systems and documents, with source attribution, access-policy governance, and human-in-the-loop controls.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Ben David Van Roo(Executive Officer, Director)Jason Schnitzer(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardManish Patel(Director)Ross Fubini(Director)in
Exits · 3
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioArmoryacq. by HarnessModulzacq. by WorkOSShapedacq. by Whatnot
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesCensys · PR Newswire · Jul 22, 2026
Armory · esgtoday.com · Jul 19, 2026
Modus · ca.investing.com · Jul 17, 2026
Marketo · fortuneindia.com · Jul 17, 2026
Builder io · startuptalky.com · Jul 17, 2026
Passport · eu-startups.com · Jul 16, 2026
Shaped · techcrunch.com · Jul 15, 2026
Fig · theinsurer.com · Jul 15, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Mango Capital invest at?
- Mango Capital invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Mango Capital's typical check size?
- Mango Capital typically writes checks of $1M – $1.5M.
- What sectors does Mango Capital focus on?
- Mango Capital focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, PropTech, SaaS.
- Where is Mango Capital located?
- Mango Capital is headquartered in Los Altos, US.
- Does Mango Capital lead rounds?
- Yes, Mango Capital leads investment rounds.
- Who does Mango Capital co-invest with?
- Mango Capital most often shares deals with Mayfield Fund, Battery Ventures, Crosslink Capital, among 20 tracked co-investors.
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Co-investors · 75
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.
Mayfield is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage consumer and marketplace companies, backing founders from inception through IPO.
Madrona Venture Group is a Seattle-founded venture firm that partners with founders across early and acceleration stages, providing capital plus hands-on support in recruiting, strategy, business development, and fundraising.
Accel is a venture capital firm that partners with exceptional teams, positioning itself as a first partner to founders globally.
SV Angel is an investment firm that partners with and supports founders building transformative companies, providing long-term backing and close advisory relationships.
CRV (Charles River Ventures) is an early-stage venture capital firm that backs founders leading seed and Series A rounds, having invested for over 55 years since its 1970 founding.
Bessemer Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm that partners with entrepreneurs across enterprise, consumer, and healthcare sectors from early stages through growth.
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.
Insight Partners is an investment firm focused on accelerating revenue and profit growth in software companies, providing capital and operational support through its Insight Onsite team.
Battery Ventures is an investment firm that has backed more than 450 companies over its 40-year history, operating with a global investment staff as a single unit.
Intel Capital is the corporate venture capital arm associated with Intel, investing in and supporting technology companies as they scale.
Essence VC is a rare "engineer-first, solo GP" fund led by Timothy Chen, who was initially rejected as "too technical/too nerdy" for traditional VC but built Essence into what's considered "one of the hottest startup funds in tech," backed by top-tier LPs like Marc Andreessen and Martin Casado. The fund explicitly positions itself as investing in infrastructure companies before they exist, backing founders at the repo/demo stage with comfort writing checks when there's only GitHub traction and an alpha—much earlier and more technically driven than most infra-focused VCs.
▶63 more co-investors
Sequoia CapitalGV (Google Ventures)Greylock PartnersAlumni VenturesFelicis VenturesTrue VenturesIVP (Institutional Venture Partners)Flybridge Capital PartnersCrosslink CapitalMaC Venture Capital468 CapitalDecibel PartnersDig Ventures Management LimitedBasis Set VenturesFathom CapitalLightspeed Venture PartnersRedpoint VenturesKleiner PerkinsB Capital GroupNorwest Venture PartnersCanaan PartnersSapphire VenturesBond Capital ManagementAcrew CapitalTrinity VenturesUS Venture PartnersWingPelion Venture PartnersAcequia Capital (AceCap)PeakStorm VenturesHoxton VenturesFifty YearsBrighter CapitalPreface VenturesCarao Venturesat.inc/Uncork CapitalAccel-KKRBuckley Ventures Management Company LlcHanabi CapitalAccompliceCyberstartsDell Technologies CapitalCausalCiti Ventures23andMeICONIQ CapitalWildcat Venture PartnersSpider CapitalLead Edge CapitalCisco InvestmentsJackson Square VenturesPropeller VCThomvest Venturesmuru-DValor Equity PartnersAdams Street PartnersBek VenturesLightspeed India PartnersTriangle Peak PartnersCreative Destruction Lab (CDL)Elementum Ventures
Firms observed investing alongside Mango Capital, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Mango Capital's recorded portfolio.
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