Buckley Ventures

Buckley Ventures is a venture capital firm founded by Josh Buckley and headquartered in San Francisco, California. Established in 2019, the firm focuses on early-stage investments in the technology sector. It manages a fund launched in 2020, aiming to support innovative companies and entrepreneurs in their growth and development. Through its strategic investments, Buckley Ventures seeks to identify and nurture promising technologies that have the potential to reshape industries.

Joshua Buckley

Founder and Managing Director

Jonathan Choi

Partner

35 past transactions

Parasail

Seed Round in 2025
Parasail is an AI deployment networking company that provides AI products to builders and innovators for secure compute.

Speak

Series B in 2024
Speak is an AI-powered language-learning mobile application designed to help users learn English through interactive conversation. The app utilizes advanced speech recognition techniques, allowing users to engage in dialogues about real-world scenarios. This approach enables individuals to improve their English speaking skills by identifying words and phrases, even when spoken with thick accents. Speak's focus on practical conversation enhances the learning experience, making it easier for users to communicate effectively in various contexts.

Framework

Series A in 2024
Framework is a company focused on creating environmentally friendly consumer electronics, specifically designed for easy upgrades, customization, and repair. Their flagship product, the Framework Laptop 13, received widespread acclaim, including recognition as one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2021. In 2023, the company expanded its offerings with the Framework Laptop 16, a high-performance notebook that features deeply customizable inputs and modular, upgradeable graphics. Framework's approach emphasizes user empowerment by enabling consumers to modify and assemble their devices independently, thereby promoting sustainability and reducing electronic waste.

Symbolica AI

Series A in 2024
Symbolica AI is a research-driven company that develops a unique business model platform. This platform leverages geometric and topological principles in machine learning to train models using formal computational logic, rather than traditional statistical methods. The result is enhanced decision-making capabilities for clients, fostering business growth.

Archetype AI

Seed Round in 2024
Archetype AI is a group of designers and technologists they are pioneering revolutionary artificial intelligence and interaction technologies for the real world.

Rainbow

Seed Round in 2024
Rainbow offers insurance to small enterprises, beginning with eateries.

Mytos

Series A in 2023
Mytos is a company focused on creating a fully automated cell manufacturing platform tailored for the biotechnology sector, particularly in drug development. The platform utilizes advanced automation technology to streamline the production of human cells, allowing pharmaceutical and biotech companies to optimize their cell culture processes. By enabling scientists to easily modify culturing protocols, Mytos facilitates more rapid advancements in cell growth and overall efficiency in research and development. This innovative approach aims to enhance the capabilities of businesses in the drug development industry by providing a sophisticated solution for cell production.

Volt AI

Series A in 2023
Volt AI is a company that specializes in enterprise security solutions aimed at safeguarding people and property from various threats, including crime, violence, and medical emergencies. The company has developed an AI-based threat detection system that enhances security effectiveness while minimizing costs. This system operates by integrating and analyzing video, audio, and other sensor data in real-time, allowing for the identification, response to, and prevention of everyday security incidents as well as critical high-risk events. By leveraging advanced technology, Volt AI enables businesses to maintain a safe environment for their personnel and ensures smooth daily operations.

Fuse

Seed Round in 2023
Fuse is focused on advancing fusion energy technology to promote clean energy solutions. The company develops pulsed power generators that utilize magnetized-liner inertial fusion technologies. These innovations allow energy and utility companies to utilize fusion generators for applications such as nuclear effects testing and energy production. By concentrating on fusion energy, Fuse aims to contribute significantly to the transition towards sustainable energy sources.

Vial

Series A in 2022
Vial is a biotech company that operates a clinical trial platform designed to reduce costs and barriers in drug development. The platform partners with clinics, transforming them into clinical trial research sites by providing necessary equipment, managing administrative tasks such as patient recruitment, scheduling, data entry, invoicing, and compliance. This enables biotechnology companies to efficiently conduct trials across various phases while allowing partner clinics to increase their revenue.

Speak

Series B in 2022
Speak is an AI-powered language-learning mobile application designed to help users learn English through interactive conversation. The app utilizes advanced speech recognition techniques, allowing users to engage in dialogues about real-world scenarios. This approach enables individuals to improve their English speaking skills by identifying words and phrases, even when spoken with thick accents. Speak's focus on practical conversation enhances the learning experience, making it easier for users to communicate effectively in various contexts.

Limit Break

Venture Round in 2022
Limit Break is a blockchain gaming company focused on transforming the free-to-play gaming experience through Web3 technology. Founded by seasoned professionals in the mobile gaming sector, Limit Break aims to shift traditional fundraising methods by introducing free mint games, allowing game developers to monetize their creations and engage players in new ways. The company’s platform empowers game creators to sell assets and earn titles using blockchain technologies, enabling players to participate in immersive gaming experiences while collecting tokens and generating income.

Toku

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Toku is a remote hiring firm that focuses on facilitating human resource distribution for startups and technology companies. The company provides a range of services, including token payroll, token grant administration, and employment and tax compliance. Toku offers a unique set of employment and compensation solutions specifically designed for decentralized autonomous organizations. This enables employers to hire globally with confidence, mitigating risks associated with international workforce management. By streamlining processes related to contributor experience and facilitating compliance, Toku supports the operational needs of organizations in the evolving digital landscape.

HomeOptions

Seed Round in 2022
HomeOptions is a real estate brokerage and homeownership platform designed to assist homeowners in maximizing their investment in real estate. The company connects customers with top agents and service providers, facilitating a seamless experience in buying, selling, and managing properties. HomeOptions stands out by offering cash upfront in exchange for the right to sell a home in the future, promoting a transparent and straightforward approach to real estate transactions. Additionally, the platform rewards homeowners at various stages of their journey, providing access to a range of home products and services, as well as refinancing options. Through its comprehensive offerings, HomeOptions aims to simplify the complexities of homeownership and enhance the overall experience for its users.

NexHealth

Series C in 2022
NexHealth, Inc. is a healthcare technology company that has developed a comprehensive platform for managing patient appointments and enhancing the patient experience. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in New York, NexHealth's platform facilitates a range of appointment-related services, including real-time online booking, automated reminders, and two-way messaging. It aims to streamline interactions between patients and healthcare providers, making it easier for patients to self-book appointments, handle billing through text or email, and receive follow-up communications. By integrating with electronic health records (EHRs), NexHealth serves as an open data layer, connecting patients, doctors, and healthcare developers while offering features such as reviews, campaign management, and reporting.

Porter Finance

Seed Round in 2022
Porter Finance is the web’s fastest growing binary options trading platform, offering an unmatched 1500% rate of returns on maximum returns on digital options. With a fast learning curve, user friendly interface and excellent customer support, Porter Finance offers its traders the best online trading experience on the net. The binary options platform offers a wide variety of currencies, stocks, commodities and indices to trade binary options. In total, Porter Finance offers well over 100 different assets for trading options of all types. Offering one of the most comprehensive trading platforms, every investor is sure to find what they are looking for at Porter Finance. The company was formed on the principal that knowledge is power and though knowledge comes success. Launched in 2014, the company prides itself on excellent service and guarantees the best environment for success to their traders passing on their knowledge to traders in order to maximize their trading potential.

DEX Screener

Seed Round in 2022
DEX Screener is a blockchain analytics application utilized by over 1.5 million crypto traders each month. The platform provides real-time financial information, offering users access to live market pricing and comprehensive statistics on various cryptocurrencies. By delivering accurate and timely data, DEX Screener plays a crucial role in supporting traders and users in making informed decisions in the dynamic cryptocurrency market.

Actual

Seed Round in 2022
Actual is a software company that specializes in providing SaaS modeling for large-scale sustainable infrastructure projects. In response to the urgent need for "net-zero" infrastructure aimed at combating climate change and addressing the challenges posed by growing populations, Actual's platform serves as a comprehensive tool for stakeholders involved in these initiatives. By integrating multidisciplinary expertise across various technologies, regulatory frameworks, and financial models, Actual enables users to assess the investability of these projects. The platform facilitates collaboration among stakeholders, helping them originate ideas, develop understanding, and identify viable projects, all while accelerating the development process to meet global demands.

Anvyl

Series B in 2022
Anvyl, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in supply chain management, providing a platform for brands to streamline their manufacturing processes. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, Anvyl offers tools for managing suppliers, overseeing production, and tracking product data throughout the supply chain. The platform leverages data analytics to enhance visibility into manufacturing, automate interactions, and standardize communications between brands and manufacturers. It facilitates effective contract negotiations, scheduling, and quality tracking, ensuring timely delivery of products. By simplifying the complexities of supply chain management, Anvyl aims to create a more efficient and transparent manufacturing ecosystem.

Rain AI

Venture Round in 2022
Rain AI is a semiconductor company dedicated to creating energy-efficient hardware specifically for artificial intelligence applications. By developing neuromorphic chips that draw inspiration from the architecture of the human brain, Rain AI aims to provide scalable, dynamic solutions for AI processing. Its innovative hardware is designed to significantly reduce energy consumption compared to conventional AI processors, addressing the increasing demand for sustainable computing. Rain AI's technology is versatile and applicable across a range of settings, from data centers to edge devices, enabling broader adoption of advanced AI capabilities. The company's advancements in learning algorithms and scaling architecture contribute to the development of more efficient neural networks, ultimately facilitating the construction of processors that mimic true artificial intelligence.

Artifact

Seed Round in 2021
Artifact is a developer of a qualitative data insights platform aimed at helping businesses understand customer needs. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Lehi, Utah, the company focuses on warehousing qualitative data at critical stages of the customer journey. Its platform utilizes artificial intelligence to generate analyst-grade reports that reveal meaningful patterns and insights. Artifact’s solution enables users to track historical changes in topics and sentiments while comparing these across various customer cohorts and milestones. This functionality allows organizations to make informed decisions that effectively align with both their business objectives and customer impact.

RoadFlex

Seed Round in 2021
RoadFlex is a modern fuel card and expense management platform designed specifically for growing commercial vehicle fleets across various industries, including passenger transportation, HVAC, delivery, and landscaping. The platform provides users with enhanced visibility and control over fuel expenditures and other work-related costs, thereby simplifying fleet management. By integrating payment tools and optimizing financial operations, RoadFlex allows fleet owners to streamline their processes, improve efficiency, and reduce expenses compared to traditional financial services.

Pomelo

Seed Round in 2021
Pomelo is a financial technology company focused on empowering immigrants by facilitating cost-effective international money transfers and credit building. The company's application enables users to send money to their families abroad without incurring fees, while also providing a secured credit card that allows users to deposit funds and establish a credit line. This dual functionality not only supports families in maintaining financial connections across borders but also assists users in building their credit history. Pomelo's commitment to financial empowerment and global connectivity is driven by a dedicated team of experienced founders and operators.

UnitX

Series A in 2021
UnitX provides an inspection solution based on deep learning for automated manufacturing. The company specializes in deep learning, robotics, imaging systems, and precision engineering.

Breeze

Seed Round in 2021
Breeze is a fully automated and digital insurance solution, specifically tailored for freight forwarders and logistics companies, backed by advanced technology, big data and an industry-first machine learning platform. Breeze’s digital insurance solution fully integrates with existing systems and workflows, allowing forwarders and logistics companies to seamlessly offer shippers better protection for their cargo (from issuing insurance policies to end-to-end claims processing), while also generating more revenue for their business. There are no implementation costs or any operational effort to setting up Breeze’s platform, and it can take minutes to be up and running. For more information visit breezeai.com

BridgeLinx

Seed Round in 2021
BridgeLinx is a digital freight network and marketplace designed to enhance logistics services primarily for large manufacturers and retailers. By leveraging machine learning, the company efficiently connects shippers with carriers, including truckers, owner-operators, and private fleets, while combining the reliability of asset-based logistics with the flexibility of brokerage services. BridgeLinx also provides comprehensive solutions that encompass port operations, documentation, and settlement, facilitating a seamless shipping process for businesses. This approach not only simplifies freight movement but also streamlines the overall logistics experience, enabling carriers to operate more effectively.

unspun

Series A in 2021
Unspun, Inc. is a digital apparel company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2015. It specializes in creating custom jeans tailored to individual consumers using advanced body scanning technology, fit algorithms, and additive manufacturing. The company aims to address environmental challenges by minimizing pattern-cutting waste and unsold inventory, thus contributing to a reduction in global carbon emissions. Unspun's innovative approach enables on-demand production of jeans in under ten minutes, utilizing localized manufacturing processes designed to be zero-waste. Its technology has gained recognition, including being named one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2019, and supports a B2B platform that facilitates digital customization for major apparel brands.

Anvyl

Series B in 2021
Anvyl, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in supply chain management, providing a platform for brands to streamline their manufacturing processes. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, Anvyl offers tools for managing suppliers, overseeing production, and tracking product data throughout the supply chain. The platform leverages data analytics to enhance visibility into manufacturing, automate interactions, and standardize communications between brands and manufacturers. It facilitates effective contract negotiations, scheduling, and quality tracking, ensuring timely delivery of products. By simplifying the complexities of supply chain management, Anvyl aims to create a more efficient and transparent manufacturing ecosystem.

Vercel

Series C in 2021
Vercel Inc., established in 2015 and based in Walnut, California, specializes in developing a cloud platform for on-demand deployment of frontend applications. The company offers automated deployment solutions from pull requests via GitHub and Bitbucket, as well as merge requests through GitLab. Vercel's platform is designed to facilitate the development, previewing, and shipping of Jamstack sites, enabling efficient delivery of web pages through content delivery networks.

WOMBO

Seed Round in 2021
Wombo is a developer of an AI-powered mobile application that enables users to create lip-synced videos from their images. The app allows individuals to upload any photo, often featuring copyrighted characters, which the application then transforms into a deepfake video that lip-syncs to a selection of songs. The technology behind Wombo employs motion capture techniques to generate realistic facial, eye, and lip movements, which are then applied to the images provided by users. This innovative approach allows for a unique form of self-expression, as users can generate various artistic representations of themselves through the app.

Placer.ai

Series B in 2021
Placer.ai is a technology company that specializes in location analytics, offering a platform designed to provide real-time insights into consumer behavior and foot traffic patterns. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Los Altos, California, the company utilizes anonymized location data from various sources to empower professionals in sectors such as retail, commercial real estate, hospitality, and economic development. Its platform enables users to collect and analyze data, conduct competitor analysis, and create dashboards that visualize trends and insights. This functionality allows businesses to make informed decisions regarding site selection, marketing strategies, and the optimization of store performance.

Vial

Seed Round in 2021
Vial is a biotech company that operates a clinical trial platform designed to reduce costs and barriers in drug development. The platform partners with clinics, transforming them into clinical trial research sites by providing necessary equipment, managing administrative tasks such as patient recruitment, scheduling, data entry, invoicing, and compliance. This enables biotechnology companies to efficiently conduct trials across various phases while allowing partner clinics to increase their revenue.

WalletConnect

Seed Round in 2021
WalletConnect Association is a Switzerland-based company that develops an open-source protocol designed to facilitate secure connections between decentralized applications and mobile wallets. By utilizing end-to-end encryption and a QR code scanning mechanism, WalletConnect enables users to interact with decentralized applications without the need for browser extensions or the exposure of private keys. This innovative approach allows for seamless communication and transaction signing, enhancing user experience within the blockchain and cryptocurrency ecosystem. The protocol empowers application developers to integrate multiple wallets through a single implementation, thereby broadening their reach and improving accessibility for users.

NexHealth

Series A in 2020
NexHealth, Inc. is a healthcare technology company that has developed a comprehensive platform for managing patient appointments and enhancing the patient experience. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in New York, NexHealth's platform facilitates a range of appointment-related services, including real-time online booking, automated reminders, and two-way messaging. It aims to streamline interactions between patients and healthcare providers, making it easier for patients to self-book appointments, handle billing through text or email, and receive follow-up communications. By integrating with electronic health records (EHRs), NexHealth serves as an open data layer, connecting patients, doctors, and healthcare developers while offering features such as reviews, campaign management, and reporting.

ClassDojo

Series C in 2019
ClassDojo, Inc. is an online school communication platform founded in 2011 and based in San Francisco, California. The platform connects teachers, students, and families, fostering close-knit communities that enhance the educational experience. It allows educators to share classroom activities, including photos and videos, and facilitates communication through features like Class Story and private messaging with parents. ClassDojo aims to engage students and their families by providing a space where learning can be shared and celebrated, ultimately enriching the educational environment and promoting collaboration both in and out of the classroom. The company, previously known as Class Twist, Inc., rebranded to ClassDojo, Inc. in December 2017.
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