Pathlight Ventures
Venture capitalActively deployingOld Bridge Β· Pre-SeedβSeries A Β· 6 people tracked
Also known as Pathlight Ventures AI
Investment thesis
Pathlight takes a thematic, market- and customer-driven approach, publishing detailed request-for-startups theses across areas such as AI-native systems integrators, healthcare infrastructure, capital markets infrastructure, financial plumbing for physical-world industries, vertical hardware and applied robotics, energy and utilities, security, govtech, agentic adtech, and vertical reconciliation. As a low-volume, high-conviction early-stage firm, it invests in a small number of companies per year and goes deep, giving every founder direct access to its full team. It actively helps founders win early customers, make first hires, and secure investor introductions, drawing on operating experience scaling companies from zero to hundreds of millions in revenue.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team Β· 6 people
from the firm's website & public directories
What they invest in
from 30 of 57 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning Γ21Enterprise Software Γ14SaaS Γ11Fintech Γ10Data & Infrastructure Γ7Cybersecurity Γ4Developer Tools Γ3Cloud Computing Γ2
HQs:United StatesΓ19CanadaΓ1United KingdomΓ1
Investments Β· 57 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathVivere is a specialty insurance platform for managing general agents (MGAs) and their capacity partners, using technology and alternative data to give underwriters operational infrastructure and portfolio transparency.
AI & Machine LearningFintechInsurTech
Chris
Andromeda is a platform that uses risk and behavioral context to automate security and governance for human, AI agent, and non-human identities across cloud environments and applications.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
End-to-end AI sales platform to help companies grow their business.
Apollo provides an AI-powered platform designed for go-to-market teams to improve sales and marketing productivity.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSales TechSan Francisco, US
Tim Zheng(Founder/CEO)inRay Li(Founder)inMatt Curl(Chief Executive Officer)Marcio Arnecke(Chief Marketing Officer)Adam Carr(Chief Revenue Officer)Phil Moon(Chief Financial Officer)
Healthcare provider data intelligence
HealthtechNew York, US
Aniq Rahman(Director)Suryansh Agarwal(Executive Officer, Director)
Chronosphere provides an observability platform for microservices and containers that helps teams detect and fix customer-impacting issues while controlling costs and complexity.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsPalo Alto, US
MARTIN CHEN MAO(Executive Officer, Director)ROBERT JAMES SKILLINGTON(Executive Officer, Director)
AI agents for financial advisors
Copilot is a personal finance app that helps individuals track spending, categorize transactions, and manage their money across financial accounts.
ConsumerFintechChicago, US
PAULA KETZ(SECRETARY)PATRICK G. RYAN(CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER/FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR)ROBERT LEVIN(CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER)
Crossmint is a platform for integrating stablecoin infrastructure including wallets, onramps, and payment orchestration for enterprises and developers.
Crypto & Web3FintechSaaS
EvenUp provides an AI-powered claims intelligence platform for personal injury law firms to draft, review, and strengthen cases.
AI & Machine LearningLegalTech
Rami Karabibar(Chief Executive Officer)inRaymond Mieszaniec(Chief Operating Officer)inSaam Mashhad(Chief of Product & Legal Operations)in
Humaans builds an employee management platform that automates the employment lifecycle, including onboarding, offboarding, promotions, and compensation management, by connecting point solutions with a central employee data hub for People Ops, Finance, and IT teams.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaSLondon, GB
iVerify provides a Mobile Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) platform for iOS and Android that detects advanced threats such as spyware, exploitation, and identity-driven attacks like smishing and SIM swaps without requiring intrusive device management.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSLong Island City, US
Chris Eng(Director)Rocky Cole(Co-founder & COO)Daniel Rogers(Executive Officer, Director)Alexander Hartz(Director)Dustin Moring(Director)Danny Rogers(Co-founder & CEO)
Kalshi operates a federally regulated futures exchange that allows users to trade contracts based on the outcomes of real-world events, creating a new market for event-based financial derivatives.
FintechNew York City, US
Luana Lopes Lara(Founder)inTarek Mansour(Founder)in
BoardAlfred Lin(Director)Michael Seibel(Director)Matt Huang(Director)
CoCounsel is an AI-powered platform designed for tax, audit, and accounting professionals that automates document analysis, research, and workflow standardization.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechPasadena, US
Andrew Gundlach(Director)Steven Chaffee(Executive Officer)Richard Pederson(Executive Officer)Robert Bernstein(Director)Mark Trimmer(Executive Officer)Michael Kellen(Director)
Oasys provides practice management and AI-powered documentation software for mental health practitioners and clinics.
Digital HealthMental HealthSaaSSan Francisco, US
Obvio builds context-aware AI technology that helps cities and police departments monitor reckless driving, educate drivers, and enforce traffic laws such as stop sign, school zone, failure-to-yield, and distracted driving violations.
AI & Machine LearningGovTechMobility & Transportation
Continuum is an AI-powered client intelligence platform for financial advisors that synthesizes data from meetings, emails, and CRMs to generate summaries, surface client insights, and automate follow-up tasks.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
AI for behavioral health management
Onos offers an AI platform that gives health plans a longitudinal view of care quality, utilization, and program integrity across behavioral health operations, covering diagnoses from ABA and substance use disorder to serious mental illness.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthMental Health
Overwatch Data provides an AI-powered threat intelligence platform that monitors digital sources to detect and combat fraud and security risks for enterprise security and risk teams.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareNew York City, US
M365 cybersecurity detection & response
Petra provides identity threat detection and response (ITDR) for Microsoft 365 environments, using behavioral models to detect account compromises and business email compromise, then automatically remediating attacker actions and producing forensic timelines.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaS
Plaid provides financial infrastructure and APIs that enable developers to build financial technology products and services.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsFintech
Zach Perret(Founder & CEO)William Hockey(Director)Mo Koyfman(Director)Rick Yang(Director)
Prophecy is an AI-powered data preparation and analysis platform that generates visual data workflows from natural language descriptions, enabling business users and analysts to inspect, refine, and deploy production-grade code on Databricks, Snowflake, or BigQuery without manual coding.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
AI operating system for higher education
Collaborative budgeting (acquired by Ramp)
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Pathlight Ventures invest at?
- Pathlight Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Pathlight Ventures's typical check size?
- Pathlight Ventures typically writes checks of $500K β $5M.
- What sectors does Pathlight Ventures focus on?
- Pathlight Ventures focuses on AdTech, AI & Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Digital Health, Energy, Enterprise Software, Fintech, GovTech, Hardware, Healthtech, Logistics & Supply Chain, Robotics, SaaS.
- Where is Pathlight Ventures located?
- Pathlight Ventures is headquartered in Old Bridge, US.
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Co-investors Β· 5
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Firms observed investing alongside Pathlight Ventures, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Pathlight Ventures's recorded portfolio.
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