San Francisco · Pre-Seed–Series A · 5 people tracked
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Investment thesis
Maple VC focuses on writing the first check for founders at the earliest stages, emphasizing conviction-driven investing before broader market attention. The firm sources deals through communities that connect it to strong founders across all sectors and geographies. It applies a proprietary Maple Investment Framework, combining a Talent Framework and an Investment Framework, to assess opportunities. The team consists of former early operators at companies including Uber, DigitalOcean, and Shopify, and maintains ties to the Canadian startup ecosystem while operating across North America.
Source: firm website, verified Sep 15, 2026.
Team · 5 people
from the firm's website & public directories
Founder mafia
2 people who came through Maple VC went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 57 of 64 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×32SaaS ×25Fintech ×15Enterprise Software ×12Consumer ×9Sales Tech ×7Developer Tools ×6Marketing Tech ×6
HQs:United States×12Canada×4Israel×1South Korea×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 22 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×102 founders×83 founders×34+ founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 24 founders with education data
McGill University ×4Carnegie Mellon University ×3Harvard Business School ×2Harvard University ×2University of New Hampshire ×2University of Waterloo ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 26 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×10Engineering ×8Business & Management ×3
Where their founders worked beforefrom 27 founders with career history
BuzzDraft ×2EasyMarkit ×2ProtoPie ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
2 founders hold a PhD · 5 hold an MBA (of 27 with degree data)
Investments · 64 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12025 · 32024 · 22022 · 62021 · 22020 · 115 dated
Daylight offers Managed Agentic Security Services (MASS), combining AI agents with senior security experts to run security operations including managed detection and response, threat hunting, and phishing investigation.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareTel Aviv, IL
Hagai Shapira(Co-founder)inEldad Rudich(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsCraft VenturesBain Capital VenturesVintage Investment PartnersEv3 Ventures LlcLerer HippeauM13
Parallelz is building a computing architecture and platform that converts existing native mobile apps into native-web apps without code modifications or SDKs, allowing them to run in a browser without installs or app stores.
Deep TechDeveloper ToolsGaming
Co-investorsGlobal Founders CapitalGarage CapitalPlay VenturesTwo Small Fish VenturesInovia Capital
Aalo develops advanced nuclear reactor technology aimed at producing electricity at under 3 cents per kilowatt-hour.
Climate TechDeep TechEnergyHardware
Matt(Co-founder)inYasir(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesBanca Investis — Family OfficeBasecamp FundBlack FlagBrave CapitalCrosscut Ventures+26 more
Accrue provides digital lending, account opening, and treasury onboarding solutions built on the Salesforce platform for financial institutions.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Co-investorsFINTOP CapitalPatriot Financial PartnersGood FriendsGround Up VenturesKraynos CapitalRed Sea Ventures+3 more
Accrue is a cross-border money app for sending and receiving money across Africa and the US, opening US bank accounts, making online payments via a virtual dollar card, saving, and investing.
ConsumerFintech
Clinton Mbah(Founder & CEO)
Co-investorsHoaQLattice CapitalMaven 11Good FriendsGround Up VenturesKraynos Capital+4 more
Accrue is a fintech company providing a branded stored-value wallet platform that lets brands manage payments and refunds, reward customer loyalty, and reduce reliance on traditional payment processors.
E-commerceFintechMarketing TechSaaS
Co-investorsBoxGroupFour Acres CapitalGood FriendsHabitat PartnersGround Up VenturesRed Sea Ventures+3 more
San Francisco, US
Ken Chong(Founder)
Co-investorsReshapeBase10 PartnersTet Ventures
Alloy River provides AI-native software to finance and accounting firms, combining automation, workflow orchestration, and applied AI into their operations to eliminate manual data movement and boost efficiency.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Co-investorsElad GilElectric CapitalPortage VenturesHustle Fund
Argus Systems provides tools for collecting, curating, and annotating sensor data to accelerate robotics and physical AI training workflows.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureRoboticsSan Francisco, US
Co-investorsNorwest Venture PartnersFlex Capital Partners
ARTERNAL is a CRM and operations platform designed for art galleries, auction houses, and art advisories.
Enterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaS
Sean Green(Co-Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsOlive Tree CapitalPrecursor Ventures
AutoLeap is auto repair shop management software that includes tools for collecting, viewing, and responding to Google reviews, sending automated review requests via email or SMS, and analyzing customer feedback.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechMobility & TransportationRetail TechSaaSSales Tech
Steve(Co-founder)Rameez(Co-founder)
Co-investorsAdvance Venture PartnersThreshold VenturesBain Capital Ventures
Beatdapp develops a fraud detection platform for the music streaming industry, aimed at identifying manipulation and protecting revenue integrity for rights holders and streaming platforms.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityMedia & EntertainmentSaaSSocial
Andrew Batey(Co-Founder and CEO)inArpan DeolMorgan Hayduk(Founder)inPouria Assadipour(Founder)in
Co-investors500 GlobalCreative Destruction Lab (CDL)Panache VenturesSaltagen VenturesBlockchain Founders FundHike Ventures
Bench provides catch-up bookkeeping and tax resolution services for small business owners who have fallen behind on their books and back taxes.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSVancouver, US
Ian Crosby(Founder)in
Co-investorsAlpine MeridianCore Ventures GroupTechstarsBain CapitalFenwick & WestHaystack+2 more
Bench IQ is an AI-powered service that analyzes judges' rulings to help attorneys understand judicial reasoning beyond the small fraction of decisions issued as written opinions.
AI & Machine LearningLegalTechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Jimoh Ovbiagele(Founder)
Co-investorsMVP Ventures
Blockus provides a platform and developer tools (SDKs, APIs, multi-chain wallet and bridging support, gasless transactions) that let game studios add on-chain features, onboard players with KYC/AML compliance, and mint in-game NFTs and tokens.
Crypto & Web3Developer ToolsGamingSanta Monica, US
Jess Zhang(Founder)in
Co-investorsBollinger Investment GroupEterna CapitalAltos VenturesInovia CapitalLiquid Ventures
breadd.ai is a sales prospecting tool for freight brokers that finds niche shippers matching a broker's lane, commodity, and equipment, provides verified decision-maker contacts, and drafts personalized outreach notes in the broker's voice.
AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainSales Tech
Calico is an AI-powered platform that automates product design, costing, and execution workflows for apparel manufacturers and brands.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software
Kathleen C.(Founder)in
Co-investorsEntrada VenturesMighty CapitalSerena Ventures
Calico provides intelligent software systems for apparel brands' product teams, helping them manage product development, specs, and manufacturing across a network of vetted factories.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Khalid Khatib(Founder)inKathleen C.(Founder)in
Co-investorsGold House VenturesHyphen Capital
ChargeLab develops EV charging management software and a programmable charging platform used by EV drivers, installers, and software developers.
EnergyMobility & TransportationSaaSEtobicoke, CA
Zak Lefevre(Cofounder)Zak L.(Founder)in
Co-investorsConstruct CapitalCreative Destruction Lab (CDL)Expansion Venture CapitalKing River CapitalNotation CapitalRoot Ventures Manager, Llc+4 more
Charlie Labs builds "daemons" — always-on AI processes defined in Markdown files that work proactively across tools like Slack, Linear, and GitHub to handle recurring maintenance work such as PR review, issue labeling, dependency updates, and documentation upkeep.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsFuture of Work
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesGeneral Partnership
Clay provides a data enrichment and workflow platform that combines first-party, intent, and third-party data from 100+ sources to help sales and growth teams identify and reach target customers.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureMarketing TechSaaSSales TechNew York, US
Kareem Amin(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesAmbush Capitalboldstart venturesBoxGroupCapitalGFirst Round Capital+8 more
Compound Foods develops alternative coffee and cocoa ingredients made from upcycled, climate-resilient sources to address supply chain volatility and environmental impact of traditional coffee and cocoa production.
Climate TechFoodTech
Maricel Saenz(Founder)in
Co-investorsAmplifica CapitalCollaborative FundFemale FoundersJuniperMagma PartnersOne Way Ventures+7 more
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Investment Manager is an AI-powered platform that converts property management reports into structured investment data for real estate portfolio management, enabling investors to validate, analyze, and gain insights from asset performance across their holdings.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwarePropTechSeoul, KR
Insong Kim(Founder)
Co-investorsChamaeleonFlybridge Capital PartnersHan River PartnersMetaPropMetaProp VenturesNFX
Farmstead operates a grocery delivery service that uses AI to fulfill orders from customers' homes in under an hour.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerFoodTechSan Francisco, US
Co-investorsSprint VcSQN Venture Partners, LLCY CombinatorDigitalOceanGelt VCRed Dog Capital+3 more
Fey built financial software focused on investing tools with an emphasis on clarity and design.
Fintech
Tap is a mobile app that helps people find public water stations offering clean, free drinking water.
ConsumerTravel & Hospitality
Co-investorsHinge CapitalNextView Ventures
FINNY is a growth platform that identifies and targets financial prospects for advisors through data aggregation and automated outreach, enabling personalized client acquisition at scale.
AI & Machine LearningFintechMarketing TechSaaSSales TechNew York City, US
Eden Ovadia(Founder)inTheodore Janson(Founder)inVictoria Toli(Founder)inAlexander Bush(Executive Officer, Director)Chris Gandolfo(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsActivant CapitalVenrockY Combinator
FINNY is an AI-driven growth and prospecting platform for financial advisors, aggregating data points to identify and target prospects within an advisor's niche and automate personalized outreach.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSSales TechSan Francisco, US
Eden Ovadia(CEO & Co-founder)inVictoria Toli(President & Co-founder)Theodore Janson(CTO & Co-founder)
Co-investorsFinancial Venture StudioRestive Ventures
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Guap is a digital money platform that enables users to hold, send, and convert funds across borders without traditional banking infrastructure, offering internet-native dollar accounts and physical cash conversion points called Tellers.
ConsumerFintech
Inference.ai builds an integrated AI stack spanning applications, model routing, GPU compute, and education tools.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsFusion
Integral is a crypto accounting and financial management platform built for web3 businesses, handling bookkeeping, treasury, tax compliance, and auditing for cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and other digital assets.
Crypto & Web3FintechSaaS
Gui Laliberté(Founder)
Co-investorsFranklin TempletonCoinbase VenturesElectric CapitalRecall CapitalAlso CapitalArray Ventures Management Llc+7 more
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Interlock provides an evidence layer that verifies AI decision workflows against a company's own rules and generates the documentation insurance underwriters require to cover AI-related risk.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareInsurTech
Internet Backyard builds financial infrastructure for the compute economy, modeling data center capacity (racks, regions, SKUs, workloads) as tradeable units that can be priced, billed, financed, insured, and hedged.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingFintech
Co-investorsBasis Set VenturesCrucible CapitalOperator CollectiveCenter Electric
LayerZero builds decentralized infrastructure for interoperability across blockchains and asset issuance, enabling applications and chains to connect liquidity and extend reach across ecosystems.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Bryan Pellegrino(Founder & CEO)inRaz Zarick(Founder)in
Co-investorsa16z cryptoAndreessen HorowitzAndromeda CapitalBitDAOBixin CapitalBixin Ventures+30 more
Mash provides AI knowledge agents built for B2B revenue teams, connecting a company's own data across tools to answer product, technical, and sales questions with verifiable sources.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech
Co-investorsSpacecadet VenturesStrategic Cyber VenturesWhitecap Venture Partners
Mythril is an AI-powered tool for fiction authors that analyzes uploaded drafts and automatically builds a searchable compendium of characters, locations, objects, plot events, and relationships.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomySaaS
Sanju Lokuhitige(Founder)inDavid Taemin Kim(Founder)in
Naya provides a digital platform for physical product development teams, combining AI-driven tools for workflow management, manufacturing cost estimation, and sustainability impact assessment.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Co-investorsDnx VenturesLoftyInc Capital
Neo Financial offers a robo-advisory investment platform called Neo Invest, powered by OneVest, that combines algorithmic portfolio management with human portfolio manager expertise.
CybersecurityFintechCanada, CA
Shlomi Salem(Founder)inAndrew Chau(Founder)inKris Read(Founder)in
Co-investorsAfore CapitalBreyer CapitalEvolution VenturesGolden Venture PartnersGolden VenturesHarvest Venture Partners+5 more
Patch provides AI-native software and market data to help enterprises navigate environmental markets and scale climate action programs.
AI & Machine LearningClimate TechEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Aaron Grunfeld(Founder)inBrennan Spellacy(Founder)in
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzB Capital GroupB4 CapitalCoatue ManagementContraryEnergize Capital+4 more
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Pivot Furniture is a furniture company that is winding down operations — it is no longer accepting new orders but continues to support existing customers with product manuals and billing through an online account dashboard.
ConsumerE-commerce
Co-investorsGolden Opportunities Fund
Playbook is a platform for fitness and active-lifestyle creators — including trainers, yoga and meditation instructors, athletes, coaches, physical therapists, and nutritionists — to build and share content with their audiences.
Creator EconomySports TechWellness & Fitness
Jeff Krahel(Founder)in
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesCleo CapitalGFR FundHiro CapitalBain Capital VenturesBlank Ventures+2 more
Playbook is a digital asset management tool for organizing, understanding, and sharing creative files.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCreator EconomyMarketing TechSaaS
Jessica Ko(CEO & Co-Founder)in
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesBain Capital VenturesBlank VenturesFounders FundHyphen Capital
Playbook is a generative media platform that lets AI-native studios run ComfyUI from any browser, train LoRA models, manage data, and deploy generative media pipelines.
AI & Machine LearningMedia & EntertainmentSaaS
Co-investorsDorm RoomAbstract VenturesBain Capital VenturesBlank VenturesFounders FundHyphen Capital
Rentahuman operates a marketplace that connects AI agents with human contractors to perform physical-world tasks.
AI & Machine LearningB2B MarketplacesConsumerFuture of WorkHR TechSan Francisco, US
Alexander Liteplo(Founder)in
Co-investorsY Combinator
ResQ provides a platform to coordinate repairs, maintenance, and vendor management for facility operators and service businesses, automating workflows to reduce operational friction and improve customer service.
AI & Machine LearningB2B MarketplacesEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaS
KJ Singh(Founder)
Co-investorsCanvas VenturesGolden Venture PartnersGolden VenturesHomebrewInovia CapitalRSE Ventures+1 more
ResQ Legal is a law practice focused on aviation-related personal injury cases, including airplane, helicopter, and air ambulance crashes and inflight injuries.
LegalTech
Emery Brett Ledger(CEO of The Ledger Law Firm)in
Co-investors9Yards CapitalBurst CapitalCanvas VenturesGolden VenturesHomebrewInovia Capital+2 more
Ritual sells traceable dietary supplements direct to consumers, including a magnesium bisglycinate chelate product marketed for sleep, calm, and muscle recovery.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerWellness & Fitness
Co-investorsNorwest Venture PartnersRivet VenturesUpfront VenturesGingerbread Capital
Sivo enables fintechs and platforms to access affordable credit by financing and trading predictable payment streams from real-world cash flows such as gig economy payouts, digital commerce transactions, invoices, and subscriptions.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3FintechVancouver, CA
Kate Hiscox(Founder)inDani Conejo Rico(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorEmles Venture PartnersFlucas VenturesImmeasurable
Sonibel Instruments makes a compact, torch-mounted acoustic sensor that captures the sound of the weld arc and uses machine learning to detect defects such as porosity, lack of penetration, lack of fusion, and slag inclusions in real time.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningHardware
Hooman(Chief Product Officer)in
Co-investorsDorm RoomChampion Hill Ventures
Stadium Live is a gamified social sports platform aimed at younger sports and culture fans, combining sports content with interactive social and reward features.
ConsumerSocialSports Tech
Co-investors6th Man VenturesIntonation VenturesOriginsPosition VenturesAlumni VenturesBreakout Capital+2 more
Marco Zappacosta(Cofounder)in
Co-investorsCapitalGDraper AssociatesFounders Circle CapitalG SquaredJavelin Venture PartnersLong Journey Ventures+2 more
Titus is a payment processing platform that enables businesses on partner platforms to accept "pay at close" payments and traditional card/ACH transactions.
FintechMarketplacesPropTechSaaS
tmrw is a peer-to-peer payments app that lets users send and receive dollars with friends and see friends' activity.
ConsumerFintechSocial
Co-investorsBrad Mills
Underflow builds Aurora, an AI agent that reads incoming insurance submission emails, extracts data from ACORD forms, identifies missing information, and follows up with brokers automatically to produce quote-ready submissions.
AI & Machine LearningInsurTechSaaS
Wilson Lau(Founder)
WayTrade operates a technology platform for trading low-carbon feedstocks such as used cooking oil (UCO), connecting fuel producers, aggregators, and feedstock suppliers across a global network.
B2B MarketplacesCleantechLogistics & Supply Chain
Co-investorsClimacticConstruct CapitalMaC Venture CapitalOperator StackInsight Partners
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
AaltoBlack LakeClaraFawn FriendsReadfabriq
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesCalico · pacbiztimes.com · Sep 8, 2026
Bench · financialit.net · Sep 8, 2026
LayerZero · genfinity.io · Aug 25, 2026
Beatdapp · edmsauce.com · Aug 18, 2026
Integral · kalkinemedia.com · Aug 13, 2026
Argus · funderintel.com · Jul 16, 2026
Clay · syracuse.com · Jul 8, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Maple VC made?
- Maple VC has 64 tracked investments, including 4 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Maple VC invest at?
- Maple VC invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Maple VC's typical check size?
- Maple VC typically writes checks of $500K – $1.5M.
- What sectors does Maple VC focus on?
- Maple VC focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, Fintech, FoodTech, Media & Entertainment, Retail Tech, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Maple VC located?
- Maple VC is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Does Maple VC lead rounds?
- Maple VC typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does Maple VC co-invest with?
- Maple VC most often shares deals with Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, BoxGroup, among 129 tracked co-investors.
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