Rainfall Ventures
Venture capitalSan Francisco · Pre-Seed–Series A · 2 people tracked
Also known as RAINFALL VENTURES MANAGEMENT, LLC
Investment thesis
Rainfall focuses on backing founders at an early stage, prioritizing each team's mission and identifying their unique strengths to help them become category leaders before their markets become widely recognized trends. The firm emphasizes standing by founders and getting in ahead of emerging trends, having partnered with more than 230 founders across over 100 companies spanning 20+ industries and 10+ countries.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 2 people
from public directories
What they invest in
from 65 of 101 portfolio companiesSaaS ×25AI & Machine Learning ×17Fintech ×16Consumer ×15Enterprise Software ×15Developer Tools ×12Data & Infrastructure ×6EdTech ×5
HQs:United States×37Brazil×2United Arab Emirates×1Israel×1India×1Nigeria×1
Investments · 101 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathPermit.io provides a full-stack authorization framework that lets developers add access control and Identity Access Management to their products, with low-code tools for the rest of the organization.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
180 Seguros is an insurance operations platform that provides end-to-end insurance management solutions, enabling fintechs, banks, cooperatives, and other financial institutions to integrate insurance as a strategic financial product while maintaining focus on their core business.
FintechInsurTechSaaSSão Paulo, BR
Acorns provides automated investment services that allow users to invest in diversified portfolios of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) composed of stocks and bonds, with options including Bitcoin-linked ETFs.
FintechUnknown, US
Jeff Cruttenden(Executive Officer, Director)Mark Dru(Executive Officer)Walter Cruttenden(Executive Officer, Director)Jim Caccavo(Director)Jay Fishman(Director)Mike Sekits(Director)
Athlete To Athlete offers athletic mentorship and coaching programs that pair youth student-athletes (ages 10-18) with current Division 1 college-athlete mentors in their sport for skill development, mindset training, and film review.
EdTechMarketplacesSports Tech
Block Renovation is a residential and commercial construction platform that connects homeowners and builders with vetted contractors and provides project management, pricing transparency, and buyer protections for renovation and new build projects across the United States.
B2B MarketplacesConstruction TechPropTech
Chord provides a unified data layer and AI agents for commerce brands, combining reliable data infrastructure with autonomous tools that operate across the full business stack.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureE-commerceMarketing Tech
Bryan Mahoney(CEO & Co-Founder)Henry Davis(President & Chairman)
Citus is a Postgres extension that enables horizontal scaling of databases by distributing data and queries across multiple nodes.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Sumedh Pathak(Founder/Engineer)
ClassWallet provides a digital wallet platform for managing public funds securely and transparently, serving government agencies, nonprofits, and K-12 schools.
EdTechFintechGovTechMiami, US
Jamie Rosenberg(Founder and Executive Chairman)
Convai provides a platform for creating and deploying 3D AI characters with natural language understanding and multimodal perception capabilities in virtual environments.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsGamingSan Jose, US
Venktesh Shukla(Director)Prashant Mishra(Director)
DagsHub is a platform for AI and machine learning teams to curate and annotate multimodal datasets (vision, audio, and LLM data), track experiments, and manage model versions and deployments.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsDover, US
Dean Guy Smoilovsky(Executive Officer, Director)Rami Lachter(Director)
Docracy was a document signing and management product that is no longer available; its former customers are directed to eversign for electronic signature services.
LegalTechSaaS
Fastgen provides a drag-and-drop platform for building custom APIs and data workflows, with an integrated PostgreSQL database that handles data operations for applications.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareNew York City, US
Mike Mahlkow(Founder)inDavid Nordhausen(Founder)inConstantin Schreiber(Founder)in
Islands.im is an upcoming social app for online casino players, letting users communicate in real time, form groups, watch each other play slots, table games and virtual sports, and join others' sessions while gambling.
ConsumerGamingSocial
Kai provides therapist-led, AI-supported mental health and emotional wellbeing support delivered through messaging apps like WhatsApp and iMessage, combining daily AI chats with oversight from licensed therapists.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthMental Health
Karbon Card provides financial services for cross-border payments, including foreign payment collection and sending, corporate cards, and cloud billing optimization.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSBengaluru, IN
Pei-fu Hsieh(Founder)in
Lighter is a zero-knowledge rollup built on Ethereum that enables high-speed, low-cost onchain trading through cryptographic proofs of order matching and liquidations.
Crypto & Web3FintechCambridge, US
Vladimir Novakovski(Founder & CEO)Susan E Vitka(Director)Alexis Fox(Executive Officer, Director)Lisa Feria(Director)Micah Risk(Executive Officer)Ronald Pastore(Executive Officer, Director)
Pencil Spaces provides a virtual classroom platform with a collaborative whiteboard, integrated video calling, built-in teaching apps, and student engagement and attention tools.
EdTechSaaS
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Rainfall Ventures invest at?
- Rainfall Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Rainfall Ventures's typical check size?
- Rainfall Ventures typically writes checks of $100K – $1M.
- What sectors does Rainfall Ventures focus on?
- Rainfall Ventures focuses on Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Rainfall Ventures located?
- Rainfall Ventures is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Does Rainfall Ventures lead rounds?
- Yes, Rainfall Ventures leads investment rounds.
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