Modern Technical
Venture capitalSan Francisco · Pre-Seed–Seed · 24 people tracked
Investment thesis
Modern Technical Fund is a solo-GP first-check fund that backs technical founders building software for engineering, data, and security teams. It writes $500K-$1M checks into US and Israeli pre-seed and seed-stage startups, investing pre-deck, pre-product, and pre-revenue. The fund participates in priced rounds or post-money YC SAFEs and does not take board seats. Its stated mission is to help technical founders reach product-market fit faster, supported by a community of technical go-to-market operators and security, engineering, and data leaders.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 24 people
from the firm's website
Founder mafia
4 people who came through Modern Technical went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 14 of 22 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×13Developer Tools ×8Cybersecurity ×6Enterprise Software ×6Cloud Computing ×4Data & Infrastructure ×4SaaS ×3Advanced Manufacturing ×1
HQs:United States×7Israel×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 8 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×32 founders×33 founders×2
Investments · 22 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 32025 · 25 dated
Boston, US
Rylan Hamilton(President)Jerome Dubois(Treasurer and Secretary)
Co-investorsEclipse VenturesMenlo VenturesNorwest Venture Partners
Costanoa is a venture capital firm that backs early-stage founders solving large, difficult problems, providing long-term partnership and operational support.
Greg Sands(Founder)inAmy Cheethamin
Co-investorsCostanoa VenturesFoundryUnion Grove Venture PartnersCherry VenturesRain Capital
Co-investorsWebb Investment Network
Drata offers a compliance automation platform that centralizes controls and evidence, continuously monitors controls, and tracks remediation so teams can maintain audit readiness across multiple frameworks.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Diego, US
Adam Markowitz(Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder)inDaniel Marashlian(Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder)inTroy Markowitz(Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder)in
BoardTim Jackson(Director)William Griffith(Director)Oren Yunger(Director)
Co-investorsAAF Management Ltd.Alkeon InnovationBallistic VenturesBasis Set VenturesComcast VenturesConverge+11 more
Dremio provides an Agentic Lakehouse platform that enables fast, governed access to enterprise data across multiple sources without ETL, with an AI Semantic Layer for business context and autonomous infrastructure management.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Tomer Shiran(Founder)inSendur Sellakumar(CEO)in
Co-investorsSapphire VenturesInsight PartnersRedpoint VenturesAlpha Square GroupCisco InvestmentsDTCP+5 more
effx built a platform to help engineering teams collaborate and work more productively, with a focus on microservices architectures.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsCowboy VenturesESSENCE VCKleiner PerkinsTokyo BlackEssence Venture Capital
Elementary builds data observability tools that monitor data quality and reliability for modern data teams.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareTel Aviv-Yafo, IL
Maayan Salom(Founder)inOr Avidov(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorOUP (Osage University Partners)
FOSSA provides audit-grade open source license compliance software that scans codebases with full-text analysis to detect licenses, enforce policies, and automatically generate attribution documents.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsLegalTechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Kevin Wang(Founder)in
Co-investorsCanvas VenturesMetaplanetNorwest Venture Partners1517Bain Capital VenturesCostanoa Ventures+2 more
Keycard provides infrastructure for AI agents to operate safely and securely in production environments, enabling developers to connect agents to services across multiple clouds while maintaining identity, policy, and audit controls.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper Tools
Ian Livingstone(Founder, CEO)inMatthew Creager(Founder, Product & Marketing)inJared Hanson(Founder, Technology)in
Co-investorsAcrew CapitalAndreessen Horowitzboldstart venturesExceptional CapitalMantis Capital
Keycard provides access control and identity management for AI agents, resolving a composite identity (user, device, agent, task) and issuing short-lived, least-privilege credentials scoped to each task when an agent requests access to tools, APIs, and data.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsTapestry VCVermilion Cliffs VenturesAcrew CapitalAndreessen Horowitzboldstart venturesEssence Venture Capital
Maestro is an open-source mobile UI testing tool that runs human-readable YAML end-to-end tests on iOS simulators and Android emulators, with a CLI, visual test IDE (Studio), cloud runner, and an MCP server for AI agents.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Jacob Krupski(Founder)Leland Takamine(Founder)
Co-investorsAcronym Venture CapitalDraper AssociatesDraper DragonEssence Venture CapitalNetEaseNew Stack Ventures+3 more
Manifold operates a frontier AI lab providing GPU compute infrastructure with hardware-backed data protection and confidential computing capabilities.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureAustin, US
Co-investorsDigital Currency GroupCherry VenturesCostanoa VenturesRain Capital
Manifold builds autonomous warehouse robots that perform case picking, palletizing, and trailer loading/unloading, combined with orchestration software that connects to existing ERP, WMS, and WES systems.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningHardwareLogistics & Supply ChainRoboticsLos Angeles, US
Joshua Ibrahim(Founder)inNicolas Yeh(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorCalibrate VenturesCherry VenturesCostanoa VenturesIndustry VenturesRain Capital+2 more
Manifold builds AI Detection and Response security for enterprises deploying autonomous AI agents, monitoring agent behavior at runtime across source code, pipelines, and production systems.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Co-investorsRain CapitalCherry Ventures
MetalBear builds mirrord, a development platform that enables developers and AI agents to code against real cloud environments locally instead of using staging clusters or ephemeral environments.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools
Aviramin
Co-investorsTLV Partners
RunReveal is a security operations platform that ingests, normalizes, enriches, and analyzes security logs, with AI-powered detection and response built in via native AI chat and a Model Context Protocol server.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureAustin, US
Alan Braithwaite(CTO & Co-Founder)Evan Johnson(CEO & Co-Founder)Evan J Johnson(Founder)in
BoardJohn Cowgill(Director)in
Co-investorsCostanoa VenturesOkta VenturesRuntime Ventures
Topogy provides a context layer for AI-native software engineering, giving teams shared system context and tracking architectural consistency and outcomes.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Co-investorsGenerationship
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Costanoa Ventures · therecursive.com · Aug 17, 2026
Manifold Security · dash0.com · Jul 13, 2026
Keycard · globalfintechseries.com · Jul 9, 2026
Fossa · spacenews.com · Jun 26, 2026
Manifold · autonews.gasgoo.com · Jun 22, 2026
Dremio · siliconangle.com · May 5, 2026
Manifold · finsmes.com · Mar 18, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Modern Technical made?
- Modern Technical has 18 tracked investments, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Modern Technical invest at?
- Modern Technical invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What is Modern Technical's typical check size?
- Modern Technical typically writes checks of $500K – $1M.
- What sectors does Modern Technical focus on?
- Modern Technical focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Developer Tools, Enterprise Software, SaaS.
- Where is Modern Technical located?
- Modern Technical is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Does Modern Technical lead rounds?
- Modern Technical typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does Modern Technical co-invest with?
- Modern Technical most often shares deals with Norwest Venture Partners, Cowboy Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, among 33 tracked co-investors.
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