AV8 Ventures

AV8 Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in London, United Kingdom. The firm focuses on early-stage investments, particularly in Series A rounds, targeting sectors such as healthcare, intelligent enterprise, and financial technology, among others. AV8 Ventures emphasizes a hands-on approach, leveraging extensive experience in technology and entrepreneurship to support startups in their growth journey. The firm's investment strategy spans across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Israel, aiming to back innovative companies that tackle technically challenging problems. Through a robust network of experts in various fields, including machine learning, mobility, and biology, AV8 Ventures strives to provide comprehensive support to its portfolio companies.

Baris Aksoy

General Partner

Brett Battles Ph.D

Venture Partner

Amir Kabir

General Partner

Serpil Kuyucak

Operating Partner

Ruchita Sinha

General Partner

N. George Ugras

Managing Director

Aaron Yang

Senior Associate

26 past transactions

Elucidate

Seed Round in 2022
Elucidate GmbH develops a financial crime risk management platform. Its platform Elucidate FinCrime Index (EFI) uses probabilistic modeling and machine learning and determines financial crime risk for financial institutions. Elucidate GmbH was founded in 2019 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Bluezone Insurance

Seed Round in 2022
Bluezone Insurance is an insurtech reinventing life insurance for people with chronic illnesses .

Soter Analytics

Series A in 2022
Soter Analytics has developed the Soter Spine, a combination of wearable sensors and powerful analytics to predict and prevent musculoskeletal injuries in the workplace. Using machine learning and network effects from thousands of connected workers, the Soter Spine gets even smarter with time and will outperform current ergonomic standards. Soter will become the new standard in musculoskeletal injury prevention.

SimBioSys

Series A in 2021
SimBioSys, Inc. is developing a Computational Microscope that integrates state-of-the-art simulation techniques with a diverse set of experimental datasets to provide new insight into the behavior of cancers. The technology allows researchers to peer into the cancer microenvironment to identify the behavior of tumors: the cell phenotypes, how they interact with surrounding tissues, and how they prime their neighbors for invasion, all from the comfort of their computer desk.

Clever Care Health Plan

Series B in 2021
Clever Care Health Plan, Inc. provides healthcare insurance plans to members that connect the benefits of Eastern and Western medicine. It offers plans for acupuncture, herbal remedies, and exercises, such as tai chi and qi gong; and treatments, including cupping and moxibustion. The company sells its products through brokers and sales agents. Clever Care Health Plan, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Westminster, California with an additional office in Arcadia, California.

Alpha Medical

Series B in 2021
Alpha is a new healthcare services company developing a technology platform designed to enable easy, personalized access to online diagnosis and prescription treatment for some of the most common illnesses today. We’re backed by investment from Data Collective Venture Capital, a premier AI-focused venture capital firm, along with many top angels. Alpha has also partnered with the design firm IDEO, and they are assembling a team of some of the most talented engineers, physicians, and designers in the world.

Uizard

Series A in 2021
Uizard Technologies IVS, based in Copenhagen, Denmark, specializes in developing artificial intelligence-driven applications that assist users in designing and prototyping user interfaces for web and mobile applications. Founded in 2017, Uizard's innovative platform allows users to convert wireframes and mockup files into platform-specific code for Android, iOS, and Sketch. Additionally, it employs neural networks to transform screenshots into lines of code, significantly reducing the time required to turn initial ideas into fully functional digital products. The company's offerings also include user experience design tools, UI wireframing, and customizable UI templates, enabling clients to test various styles and achieve personalized designs efficiently.

Axuall

Series A in 2021
Axuall, Inc. provides digital network for verifying identity, credentials, and authenticity to healthcare, insurance, financial services, government, philanthropy, manufacturing, logistics, transportation, security, aviation, and construction sectors. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

MQube

Seed Round in 2021
MQube is a fintech company operating in the mortgage industry. Driven by data, artificial intelligence and deep machine learning, MQube have developed a platform that delivers mortgages with certainty and control. MQube can produce a legally binding mortgage offer in hours (subject to valuation), weeks quicker than market norms, reducing inefficiencies and offering customers better outcomes.

Hydrolix

Seed Round in 2021
Hydrolix is an early-stage startup with an ambition to change the economics of high density data. The company develops a query service technology intended to process petabyte-scale time series data. Hydrolix's cloud-based query service utilizes proprietary compression and indexing technology, allowing customers to process sub-second interactive queries at a fraction of the cost of other existing services.

Locomation

Convertible Note in 2020
Locomation, Inc. is a technology company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that specializes in the development of a trucking platform integrating artificial intelligence with driver support systems. Founded in 2016, Locomation focuses on enhancing safety in the trucking industry by utilizing AI-driven solutions to reduce accidents involving trucks. The company's offerings include autonomous vehicles and systems designed for both commercial and defense applications, aiming to improve operational efficiency and safety in logistics.

Phenomic AI

Seed Round in 2020
Phenomic AI is a developer of a drug discovery platform designed to discovery and optimize therapeutics directly against phenotypic assays.The company's platform uses artificial intelligence to analyze phenotypes in complex disease models including high-content co-culture and 3D assays, enabling pharmaceutical companies to discover drugs in an easier way.

Eclypsium

Series B in 2020
Eclypsium, Inc. develops a cloud-based device security platform for organizations. Its platform Eclypsium, an enterprise device security platform that offers security to the unprotected firmware and hardware layer of the enterprise including laptops, servers, and networking infrastructure. Eclypsium, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Cerby

Seed Round in 2020
Cerby is a cybersecurity company focused on helping enterprises harness Shadow IT. Cerby delivers a seamless end-user experience and addresses the shadow IT problem by enabling end-users to onboard and securely use applications of their own choosing.

Rephrase.ai

Seed Round in 2020
Rephrase.ai is a technology company that specializes in creating high-quality videos and animations using artificial intelligence. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India, the company has developed an AI-powered platform that transforms text into video content featuring a person speaking. This innovative technology utilizes generative AI to analyze and replicate facial features, allowing for the generation of photorealistic faces that correspond to any spoken audio. Rephrase.ai's platform is versatile, catering to various applications such as personalized video marketing, training materials, and digital assistants, making it a valuable tool for businesses in sales, education, and corporate communications.

Locomation

Venture Round in 2020
Locomation, Inc. is a technology company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that specializes in the development of a trucking platform integrating artificial intelligence with driver support systems. Founded in 2016, Locomation focuses on enhancing safety in the trucking industry by utilizing AI-driven solutions to reduce accidents involving trucks. The company's offerings include autonomous vehicles and systems designed for both commercial and defense applications, aiming to improve operational efficiency and safety in logistics.

Phenomic AI

Seed Round in 2020
Phenomic AI is a developer of a drug discovery platform designed to discovery and optimize therapeutics directly against phenotypic assays.The company's platform uses artificial intelligence to analyze phenotypes in complex disease models including high-content co-culture and 3D assays, enabling pharmaceutical companies to discover drugs in an easier way.

Pulse

Series A in 2020
Pulse Q&A Inc. develops an artificial intelligence based platform that provides crowdsourced data for technology executives. It offers Pulse Q&A to test messaging and positioning in real time before campaign launches for a new product launch or a message refresh. The company’s platform is used to make and shape decisions by enabling users to create questions and serve it to peers, customers, or prospects, and collect data. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

MQube

Seed Round in 2019
MQube is a fintech company operating in the mortgage industry. Driven by data, artificial intelligence and deep machine learning, MQube have developed a platform that delivers mortgages with certainty and control. MQube can produce a legally binding mortgage offer in hours (subject to valuation), weeks quicker than market norms, reducing inefficiencies and offering customers better outcomes.

Uizard

Seed Round in 2019
Uizard Technologies IVS, based in Copenhagen, Denmark, specializes in developing artificial intelligence-driven applications that assist users in designing and prototyping user interfaces for web and mobile applications. Founded in 2017, Uizard's innovative platform allows users to convert wireframes and mockup files into platform-specific code for Android, iOS, and Sketch. Additionally, it employs neural networks to transform screenshots into lines of code, significantly reducing the time required to turn initial ideas into fully functional digital products. The company's offerings also include user experience design tools, UI wireframing, and customizable UI templates, enabling clients to test various styles and achieve personalized designs efficiently.

Delfi Diagnostics

Venture Round in 2019
Delfi Diagnostics, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Baltimore, Maryland, that specializes in early cancer detection through non-invasive blood tests. Founded in 2018, the company utilizes advanced artificial intelligence and genome sequencing technologies to identify unique patterns of DNA fragmentation in patients' blood, enabling the detection of cancer at its most treatable stage. By focusing on precision diagnostics, Delfi Diagnostics aims to improve patient outcomes and contribute to the evolving landscape of cancer care.

PlanetIQ

Series B in 2019
The need for global atmospheric data has never been greater. The costs of natural disasters are soaring as extreme weather increases and population expands, putting more and more lives and property at risk. Meanwhile, smarter and more powerful weather and climate models are hungry for the data they need to produce more precise forecasts on time scales ranging from hourly to decadal. Yet the traditional model for government-funded satellite programs has not kept up with today’s technology and the rising demand for data. Aging spacecraft, budget constraints and schedule delays threaten critical gaps in data crucial to monitoring and predicting day-to-day weather, hurricanes and winter storms, floods and drought, space weather and climate change.

Hometree

Series A in 2018
Hometree Marketplace Limited is a UK-based company that specializes in providing home improvement and energy services to homeowners. Established in 2015 and headquartered in London, the company offers a variety of services including annual boiler maintenance, plumbing, electrical work, and home energy solutions. Hometree provides comprehensive home cover plans that protect against breakdowns in heating, plumbing, and electrical systems, as well as installation and financing options for renewable energy technologies. This range of services is designed to simplify home management for homeowners, giving them greater control and peace of mind regarding their home maintenance and energy consumption.

Locomation

Seed Round in 2018
Locomation, Inc. is a technology company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that specializes in the development of a trucking platform integrating artificial intelligence with driver support systems. Founded in 2016, Locomation focuses on enhancing safety in the trucking industry by utilizing AI-driven solutions to reduce accidents involving trucks. The company's offerings include autonomous vehicles and systems designed for both commercial and defense applications, aiming to improve operational efficiency and safety in logistics.