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Venture capitalActively deployingNew York · Pre-Seed–Growth · 3 people tracked
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Investment thesis
Mute Ventures invests in companies from their earliest conviction through later growth stages, operating as one firm across two stages. It backs founders at pre-seed and seed when conviction matters most, and also makes primary and secondary investments in AI, defense, and frontier technology. The firm concentrates on AI infrastructure, applications, and frontier technology, aiming to support generation-defining companies before the signal is obvious. Beyond capital, Mute offers 'The Mute Advantage,' including its Superconnector program to reach potential customers and strategic partners, access to a network of operators, customers, and experts, hands-on guidance to help founders scale, and long-term partnerships.
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Team · 3 people
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What they invest in
from 36 of 45 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×23SaaS ×18Enterprise Software ×9Healthtech ×5Deep Tech ×4Digital Health ×4AdTech ×3Consumer ×3
HQs:United States×15Canada×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 17 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×102 founders×7
Where their founders studiedfrom 16 founders with education data
Columbia University ×2The Wharton School ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 16 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×7Engineering ×3Business & Management ×2Economics ×2Humanities ×2Mathematics & Statistics ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 19 founders with career history
Apple ×2Goldman Sachs ×2Oracle ×2Untapped ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Investments · 45 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 22024 · 12022 · 14 dated
Aclid provides an automation platform for biosecurity and biosafety compliance, offering real-time screening that generates threat assessments and risk profiles for genes, libraries, pools, viral vectors, and plasmids.
BiotechCybersecurityDeep TechSaaSNew York, US
Kevin Flyangolts(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)in
BoardAlex Iskold(Director)in
Co-investors2048 VenturesCoalition OperatorsIA Ventures
American Turbines builds compact, mass-manufacturable gas turbines designed for rapid deployment and parallel operation, forming clustered power generation that scales with demand.
Advanced ManufacturingEnergyHardware
ANNA Autism Care provides ABA therapy for autistic children using Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Intervention alongside parent coaching.
Digital HealthHealthtechWellness & FitnessBoston, US
Aimun Malik(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardBinoy Bhansali(Director)Sean Doolan(Director)in
Co-investorsGreyMatterVirtue Venturesre.Mind Capital
Autonomy is an automotive subscription platform that enables vehicle subscription services as a sustainable business model in automotive retail.
CleantechConsumerMobility & TransportationSaaS
Scott Painter(Founder)inGeorg Bauer(President & Vice Chairman)inFred Weick(Chief Executive Officer)
Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundBuilders + BackersCelesta CapitalFJ LabsFlucas VenturesKube VC+15 more
Blumen provides software that analyzes geospatial, project, and regulatory data to automate permitting and critical-issues analysis at the federal, state, and local level.
AI & Machine LearningEnergySaaSSan Francisco, US
Hannes Boehning(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)in
Co-investorsSusa Ventures
Bouncr is an iPhone app for scanning driver's licenses, state IDs, passports, and mobile IDs to verify age and detect fake IDs by cross-checking the ID's details against public records, social media, education, and employment history.
CybersecurityRetail TechSaaS
Candor Health builds an AI-native provider data intelligence platform for payers, digital health companies, and provider groups, supporting care navigation, referral management, network strategy, and regulatory compliance.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDigital HealthHealthtechNew York, US
Sury Agarwal(CEO)inBikram Vikash(Founder)inLucky(CTO)inAniq Rahman(Director)Suryansh Agarwal(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsAtento CapitalPathlight VenturesTorch CapitalPreface Ventures
Caspian provides software for global trade operations, helping businesses reduce friction in customs and trade processes.
Enterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Justin M. Sherlock, LCB(Founder)inJustin M. Sherlock(Founder)in
Co-investorsActivant CapitalFJ LabsPrimary Venture Partners
Classet builds Joy, an AI voice recruiter that automatically calls, screens, and interviews job applicants, then delivers structured summaries, recordings, and transcripts to a company's inbox or ATS.
AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaS
Co-investorsStarting LineSV AngelWayfinder Ventures
Crossterra provides unified infrastructure for brands to launch and operate localized online storefronts across emerging markets such as China, India, Southeast Asia, LATAM, and MENA.
E-commerceLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS
Co-investorsEniac VenturesEqual VenturesAlleyCorp
Curio makes interactive toys that come to life as conversational characters for children.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerHardware
Samuel Eaton(Founder)in
Co-investorsACME CapitalBlue Wire CapitalDunbar CapitalShine CapitalKhosla VenturesOKX Ventures
Dayzero builds AI "employees" — autonomous agents for roles like sales, customer support, product management, recruiting, and medical diagnostics — that integrate with enterprise cloud systems and business tools.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsEqual VenturesGreenoaksKleiner PerkinsMeritech Capital PartnersSpark Capital
Delphi is an AI-powered assistant platform that helps venture capitalists scale their investment operations by automating deal screening, founder communication, and thought leadership distribution.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyEdTechEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaS
Dara Ladjevardian(Founder)inSam Spelsberg(Founder)in
BoardKeith Rabois(Investor/Venture Capitalist)in
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesMenlo VenturesMVP VenturesSequoia CapitalFounders FundLux Capital+1 more
Draftboard is an AI agent that identifies the best connections in a user's network to facilitate warm introductions to sales prospects, investors, founders, and job candidates.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech
Co-investorsCentre Street PartnersGround Up VenturesTwelve Below
E9 Genomics builds Urchin, an agentic biological search and reasoning platform that autonomously searches, integrates, and reasons over public and private biological data to help biopharma teams find non-obvious, high-value opportunities.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep Tech
Essence is developing an app for creating, discovering, and interacting with verified "digital clones" — AI replicas of a person's mind that others can text, call, or video chat with, and that can consult one another with per-memory permission controls.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerSocial
General Intuition is an AI research organization focused on developing general artificial intelligence through learning and play-based approaches, utilizing game environments and reinforcement learning to teach machines perception, anticipation, and real-world reasoning capabilities.
AI & Machine LearningDeep Tech
Vincent Micheli(Co-founder)inPim de Witte(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsActivant CapitalAlliance VCAlliance VentureAlumni VenturesBackedBascom Ventures+24 more
Hamlet indexes public local government meeting transcripts from U.S. city councils, planning commissions, and zoning boards, making them searchable by company name, address, or topic.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureGovTechPropTechOakland, US
Co-investorsCrosslink CapitalSlow VenturesBlumberg CapitalFoundersX VenturesGradient VenturesY Combinator
Havoc develops software for coordinating autonomous vehicles across air, sea, and land domains, enabling operators to supervise hundreds or thousands of autonomous assets simultaneously through a unified control platform.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechRoboticsProvidence, US
Paul Lwin(Co-Founder & CEO)inJoseph Turner(Executive Officer)Andrew Gregg(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardPaige Craig(Director)in
PartnerBlaine Davis· solo GP
Co-investors0BS640 OxfordAlumni VenturesB Capital GroupB4 CapitalBVVC+12 more
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Hyper (Hypercard) builds AI agents for corporate finance functions, offering products for travel and expense management (Expense-GPT), financial planning and analysis (FP&A-GPT), and corporate travel booking (Travel-GPT).
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintech
Co-investorsSoma CapitalGood Friends
Ignition Benefits is an employee benefits brokerage that uses AI to run its sales and back-office operations, helping companies with fewer than 200 employees manage health insurance costs.
AI & Machine LearningFintechInsurTechLos Angeles, US
Nick Taranto(Founder/CEO)in
Co-investorsY Combinator
Lapis is an AI-powered platform that automates the creation, launch, and optimization of paid advertising campaigns across channels including ChatGPT, Google, Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Reddit.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSan Francisco, US
Varunram Ganesh(Founder)inSai Surbehera(Co Founder)in
Co-investorsMyAsiaVCStrategxy Ventures LLCThe E14 FundTranspose Platform ManagementY CombinatorFounders Future+4 more
Marble Health addresses pediatric mental health care access by connecting children with treatment providers.
Digital HealthHealthtechMental Health
Co-investorsFJ LabsLorimer Ventures
Montra enables product teams to translate feedback and judgment into actionable tasks for AI agents and team members, bridging the gap between human insight and execution.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechToronto, CA
Campbell Baron(Founder)in
Co-investorsArdent VentureBackwards CapitalFirst Round Capital
Moxie provides medspa entrepreneurs and aesthetic providers with business tools, services, and a community to launch, run, and scale their aesthetic practices.
HealthtechSaaSWellness & FitnessNew York City, US
Sam Gerstenzang(Founder)in
Co-investorsSignalFireVIEWPOINT VENTURESBessemer Venture PartnersHaystack
Novella offers an AI-powered workspace called Ella that turns text prompts into cinematic videos, providing writing, generation, and editing tools in one place.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMedia & Entertainment
Co-investorsAvid VenturesBlank VenturesBoxGroupBrewer Lane VenturesCrystal Venture PartnersSV Angel+1 more
Omen provides continuous fluid analysis sensors that monitor the health of critical hardware in real time, detecting equipment failures before they occur across data centers and industrial machinery.
Deep TechEnterprise SoftwareIoT
Daniel Jeong(Founder)in
Co-investors640 OxfordBackwards CapitalCRV (Charles River Ventures)LMNT VenturesNava VenturesScribble Ventures+3 more
Outset is an AI-powered research platform that combines conversational AI, behavioral intelligence, and emotional analysis to conduct moderated research interviews and synthesize consumer insights at scale across multiple languages and countries.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Aaron Cannon(Founder)inMichael Hess(Founder)in
Co-investors8VCAdverb VenturesPioneerRadical VenturesRitual CapitalY Combinator+11 more
Peak offers TAP, a platform that provides advertisers with visibility into where their programmatic ads appear adjacent to child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and other high-risk content.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaS
Co-investorsExpert DOJOLightShed Ventures
Photon Health provides prescription routing infrastructure that lets patients choose a pharmacy based on real-time price, stock, and fulfillment options before a prescription is sent.
B2B MarketplacesDigital HealthHealthtechSaaSNew York, US
Benjamin Otto Sipe(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Michael Rado(Director)
BoardNicholas Chirls(Director)in
Co-investorsBoxGroupFlare Capital PartnersFloating PointHeadwater VenturesHealthier CapitalLong Journey Ventures+2 more
Pinnacle offers a performance coaching program (Pinnacle Black) that pairs human coaches with AI and wearable data to improve executives' cognitive performance, decision-making, and resilience.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkWellness & Fitness
Co-investorsBetaworksGMG VenturesMercuri.vc
Receive provides earned revenue access for businesses through a Business Mastercard that gives dynamic spending power based on analyzed sales data, letting companies fund growth before revenue arrives.
FintechSaaSNew York, US
Ariel Blum(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsClocktower VenturesGreatPoint VenturesSoma CapitalBlank VenturesNextGen Venture Partners
Revive (getrevivehq.com) offers a curated resale edit of sought-after fashion pieces from brands such as Anine Bing, Farm Rio, Ruti, Bloomingdale's, and Lululemon.
Circular EconomyE-commerceMarketplaces
Co-investorsBanter CapitalBeechwood CapitalBlueberry VenturesCoalition OperatorsEqual VenturesGreenHouse Capital+2 more
SellScale builds AI-driven tools aimed at helping businesses grow revenue, applying artificial intelligence to sales and outbound processes.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech
Co-investorsFour Acres CapitalPear VCSoma CapitalBrowder CapitalOVO Fund
Shipsidekick provides a logistics platform combining warehouse management, order management, transportation management, and ERP functions, with an AI assistant, for shippers and third-party logistics providers (3PLs).
AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS
Co-investorsColumbia Lake PartnersDevelopment Bank of WalesMS&AD VenturesOctopus VenturesPact VCSemantic Ventures+1 more
A company building AI agents and agent orchestration products to automate business operations.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSNew York, US
Andrew Pignanelli(Founder)inAbhishyant Khare(Founder)in
Co-investorsCompoundUntapped CapitalAcrew CapitalUnion Square Ventures (USV)
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
ByLinesHumanInterfaceOnOrderOpponentPlanmonsterPocketshopPosteventSuperconnector
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesOmen AI · finsmes.com · Jun 30, 2026
Moxie · globenewswire.com · Mar 10, 2026
Outset · finsmes.com · Dec 11, 2025
The General Intelligence Company · generalintelligencecompany.com · Dec 8, 2025
Lapis · ycombinator.com · Oct 16, 2025
Receive · finsmes.com · Jul 17, 2025
Delphi · finsmes.com · Jun 24, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Mute Ventures made?
- Mute Ventures has 45 tracked investments, including 3 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Mute Ventures invest at?
- Mute Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Growth stages.
- What sectors does Mute Ventures focus on?
- Mute Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Deep Tech, Defense Tech.
- Where is Mute Ventures located?
- Mute Ventures is headquartered in New York, US.
- Who does Mute Ventures co-invest with?
- Mute Ventures most often shares deals with Y Combinator, Activant Capital, Alumni Ventures, among 81 tracked co-investors.
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