Strategy
Stages
SeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
Sectors
EnterpriseAIFintechConsumerHealthcareCybersecurity
Geographies
USAMenlo Park, CA
Check size
$1M-$100MPortfolio
10 totalRecent Investment Activity
1| Date | Company | Event | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 2026 | Profound | Series C | $96M | — | outlined = lead | Pulse story |
Sector / Stage Activity
By sector (portfolio)
AI infra
3 · 30%
Defense
2 · 20%
Biotech
1 · 10%
Energy/Grid
1 · 10%
Space
1 · 10%
Enterprise SaaS
1 · 10%
Fintech
1 · 10%
Co-Investors
12Andreessen Horowitz · 4 sharedGeneral Catalyst · 4 sharedIconiq Capital · 3 sharedFelicis Ventures · 2 sharedKleiner Perkins · 2 sharedThrive Capital · 2 sharedAltimeter Capital · 2 sharedLaude Ventures · 1 sharedThe House Fund · 1 sharedUC Investments · 1 sharedCapital A Partners · 1 sharedChemistry Ventures · 1 shared
Latest Pulse
- Sep 3, 2026Profound Raises $96M to Own AI Search AnswersProfound raised a $96 million Series C led by Lightspeed to help brands track and influence how they get cited inside AI chatbot answers, the generative engine optimization category forming as search shifts from links to answers.→
- Jun 29, 2026Straiker Raises $64M Series A to Secure the Enterprise AI Agent WorkforceStraiker, which calls itself 'the agentic security company,' raised a $64 million Series A -- bringing total funding to $85 million -- to protect the enterprise AI agents that legacy security tools were never built to govern. The round was led by Marathon Management Partners with Citi Ventures, Illuminate Financial and Workday Ventures, plus existing backers Bain Capital Ventures and Lightspeed.→
- Jun 25, 2026Patronus AI Lands $50M to Build Digital Worlds That Stress-Test AI AgentsPatronus AI raised a $50 million Series B led by Greenfield Partners, with Lightspeed, Notable Capital, Datadog and Samsung participating, bringing total funding to $70 million. The startup builds simulated digital environments -- replicas of websites and internal systems -- where AI agents are stress-tested before deployment, and counts nearly all frontier labs among its customers after 15x revenue growth.→
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