Pioneer Fund

Pioneer Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 that makes early-stage investments across a wide range of sectors, including consumer products and services, financial services, information technology, advanced manufacturing, blockchain, life sciences, gaming, artificial intelligence and machine learning, construction technology, education technology, fintech, agriculture technology, advertising technology, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, legal technology, oncology, pet technology, real estate technology, ride-hailing, SaaS and supply chain technology. The firm benefits from a network of more than 420 Y Combinator alumni, enabling it to identify and support YC-backed startups.

Lior Abraham

Venture Partner

Wayne Anderson

Venture Partner

Tamara Bain

Venture Partner

Kate Bambino

Venture Partner

Lena Belogolova

Venture Partner

Past deals in PaaS

Suger

Series A in 2025
Suger is a technology company that provides a management platform specifically designed for Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses to facilitate sales on multiple cloud marketplaces, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Red Hat, Snowflake, and Databricks. The platform offers comprehensive features for managing product listings, offers, contracts, metering, and billing across these marketplaces. Suger’s solution automates the lifecycle management of contracts, including renewals, plan changes, and upselling, which helps businesses streamline their operations and enhance their B2B sales processes. By enabling companies to efficiently navigate the complexities of multi-cloud environments, Suger supports them in accelerating their sales efforts without limitations.

Outerport

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Outerport specializes in streamlining document comprehension through advanced chain-of-memory reasoning technology. Its core product is a model registry platform, facilitating secure and efficient management and deployment of foundation model weights. This enables data scientists and engineers to swiftly load and handle models on existing cloud infrastructure or on-premise hardware, enhancing productivity.

Maitai

Seed Round in 2024
Maitai develops an advanced AI platform that delivers ultra-fast, accurate, and self-improving language models for real-time applications. It offers custom-built LLMs, low-latency deployment, and real-time fault correction to enable enterprises to build reliable, high-performance conversational experiences.

Marblism

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Marblism is a web application development platform designed to serve businesses looking to streamline their application creation process. The platform harnesses an application programming interface that generates code for various components, including front-end, back-end, emails, and notifications. This capability allows users to develop customized applications tailored to their specific needs, enhancing operational efficiency and user experience. Marblism provides a fully functional web-based solution that facilitates the development and deployment of applications, making it a valuable tool for organizations aiming to innovate and improve their digital offerings.

Pocketpod

Pre Seed Round in 2024
PocketPod is a technology company that specializes in AI-driven podcast generation. It offers a platform that creates personalized podcasts based on users' preferences, covering a wide range of topics and delivering them across various devices.

Suger

Seed Round in 2023
Suger is a technology company that provides a management platform specifically designed for Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses to facilitate sales on multiple cloud marketplaces, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Red Hat, Snowflake, and Databricks. The platform offers comprehensive features for managing product listings, offers, contracts, metering, and billing across these marketplaces. Suger’s solution automates the lifecycle management of contracts, including renewals, plan changes, and upselling, which helps businesses streamline their operations and enhance their B2B sales processes. By enabling companies to efficiently navigate the complexities of multi-cloud environments, Suger supports them in accelerating their sales efforts without limitations.

Anchor

Seed Round in 2023
Anchor is a Lagos-based fintech company offering banking-as-a-service APIs and infrastructure. It enables African businesses to build, embed, and launch secure, scalable financial products.

Depot

Seed Round in 2023
Depot is a developer-first build platform that uses cloud computing to speed up the software building process. It integrates with the existing container tooling ecosystem to remove compute bottlenecks and simplify learning curves, helping engineers ship features and iterate faster. The company additionally offers an image-building platform aimed at accelerating core product development, featuring optimized build computing, a speed-up system, and a drop-in replacement that speeds up Dockerfile builds and other related tasks.

Talc AI

Seed Round in 2023
Talc AI specializes in accelerating AI app development and deployment. It offers a platform that creates realistic testing scenarios, allowing companies to identify and mitigate risks early in the development process. This enables businesses to launch AI applications faster and with greater confidence.

0pass

Seed Round in 2023
0pass is an identity platform that enables secure login mechanisms across all organizational logins.

Berri AI

Seed Round in 2023
Berri AI is an API platform for SaaS businesses to create ChatGPT apps programmatically. Users can quickly connect their data with Berri and create LLM apps that are ready for production.

Launchcaster

Seed Round in 2023
Launchcaster is a Web3 platform that supports launching and discovering new projects in the decentralized ecosystem. It enables users to explore ongoing Web3 initiatives, vote on proposals, and shape the direction of projects in development. The platform also provides tools for sending and receiving NFTs, including creating, personalizing, and delivering NFTs to wallets, email addresses, or phone numbers, enabling users to share thoughtful digital assets across networks. By combining project launch capabilities with NFT gifting features, Launchcaster aims to foster community engagement and creative communication within the Web3 space.

Omnistrate

Seed Round in 2023
Omnistrate is a cloud platform that specializes in transforming Docker images into multi-cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions. The company provides a control-plane-as-a-service that enables businesses and service providers to automate application management, allowing developers and IT operations teams to efficiently oversee the software lifecycle. Omnistrate's platform includes features such as infrastructure management, failure handling, upgrades, and end-to-end observability, which facilitate a streamlined environment for testing changes and defining deployment upgrade paths. By simplifying these processes, Omnistrate empowers professionals to monetize their innovations more quickly and focus on higher-value tasks.

Freshpaint

Series A in 2022
Freshpaint is a data platform that specializes in collecting and analyzing customer data to enhance marketing efforts. The company’s software allows for seamless integration of customer data from websites and applications into various marketing and analytics tools, enabling teams to automate the collection of behavioral data, such as clicks and page views. This automation reduces the workload on engineering teams, allowing them to concentrate on product development. Freshpaint's platform aids product, data, and growth teams in accessing the insights needed to improve user engagement and retention. Co-founded by Michael Malis and Steven Fitzsimmons, Freshpaint aims to streamline the management of customer data for more effective marketing strategies.

Pulppo

Series A in 2022
Pulppo is a technology-driven real estate platform that streamlines property transactions in Latin America. It partners with top brokers, equipping them with tools and resources to facilitate transparent and efficient sales.

Anchor

Seed Round in 2022
Anchor is a Lagos-based fintech company offering banking-as-a-service APIs and infrastructure. It enables African businesses to build, embed, and launch secure, scalable financial products.

Medplum

Seed Round in 2022
Medplum offers an open-source developer platform designed to simplify healthcare application development. It focuses on streamlining workflow automation, secure data storage, and providing UI components tailored for healthcare.

Maya Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Maya Labs develops virtual assistant software to build and democratize general-purpose machine intelligence. Its platform automates complex, custom tasks across browsers, desktops, apps, and APIs, enabling machines to think, learn, and program to perform a wide range of tasks and substantially improve user output.

Strong Compute

Seed Round in 2022
Strong Compute is focused on revolutionizing cloud computing by offering a platform designed specifically for neural network training. The company leverages advanced software and hardware optimizations to significantly enhance performance, achieving speed improvements of 10x to 1000x in neural network development, 1000x in file transfer rates, and 10x in instance start times. This innovative approach enables users to maintain continuous workflow without interruptions for research, maintenance, or parallel experiments. By targeting the expansive $500 billion cloud market, Strong Compute aims to redefine how cloud resources are utilized, emphasizing performance-based pricing rather than traditional consumption metrics.

Touch and Pay

Seed Round in 2022
Touch and Pay Technologies specializes in providing digital payment and transaction services through innovative use of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. The company’s platform facilitates financial inclusion by digitizing and processing mobile payments, enabling both online and offline transactions. It addresses the challenges faced by businesses of varying sizes by streamlining processes such as payment settlement, registration, collection, and tracking of payments made in the field. Touch and Pay Technologies offers a comprehensive dashboard and reporting system that ensures full visibility into all transactions, thereby enhancing reliability in cashless payments. By integrating these digital services, the company aims to create a more efficient and appealing market for its users.

Riogrande

Seed Round in 2022
Riogrande is a developer of an e-commerce platform focused on acquiring, building, and scaling online brands in the Latin American market. The company collaborates with e-commerce entrepreneurs to enhance and strengthen their brands, aiming to optimize and integrate operations for improved efficiency. By leveraging its platform, Riogrande seeks to create a new generation of online brands, offering businesses the opportunity to achieve greater economies of scale and reach higher performance targets.

Stacker

Series A in 2021
Founded in 2017, Stacker is a London-based no-code software creation platform that empowers developers to build applications using intuitive tools such as clever spreadsheets, animated slide decks, and email filters. Its modular application platform automates common tasks, enabling developers to create software without extensive coding knowledge.

Stacker

Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2017, Stacker is a London-based no-code software creation platform that empowers developers to build applications using intuitive tools such as clever spreadsheets, animated slide decks, and email filters. Its modular application platform automates common tasks, enabling developers to create software without extensive coding knowledge.

Freshpaint

Seed Round in 2020
Freshpaint is a data platform that specializes in collecting and analyzing customer data to enhance marketing efforts. The company’s software allows for seamless integration of customer data from websites and applications into various marketing and analytics tools, enabling teams to automate the collection of behavioral data, such as clicks and page views. This automation reduces the workload on engineering teams, allowing them to concentrate on product development. Freshpaint's platform aids product, data, and growth teams in accessing the insights needed to improve user engagement and retention. Co-founded by Michael Malis and Steven Fitzsimmons, Freshpaint aims to streamline the management of customer data for more effective marketing strategies.

Shogun

Series A in 2020
Shogun Labs, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in creating cloud-based page building tools for e-commerce businesses. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Walnut, California, Shogun offers a drag-and-drop page builder that allows brands and agencies to design customized landing pages for online stores, particularly for platforms like Shopify and BigCommerce. The company's solutions enable high-growth brands to achieve fast page load times and enhance user experiences, ultimately driving conversions and brand loyalty. By simplifying the web development process, Shogun empowers non-technical users to create appealing and functional online storefronts that effectively showcase their products.

OneGraph

Seed Round in 2018
OneGraph Inc is a technology company that provides a GraphQL service designed to connect various Software as a Service (SaaS) APIs, facilitating faster and more efficient integrations for web and mobile applications. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Walnut, California, OneGraph automates key processes such as parallelization, queuing, and caching, enabling users to manage data requests through a single interface. The platform simplifies authentication flows, making it easier for clients and their customers to access services securely. With support for numerous APIs, including major platforms like Stripe, Salesforce, and GitHub, OneGraph aims to streamline the development process and enhance the overall user experience in accessing and utilizing API data.

Shogun

Seed Round in 2018
Shogun Labs, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in creating cloud-based page building tools for e-commerce businesses. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Walnut, California, Shogun offers a drag-and-drop page builder that allows brands and agencies to design customized landing pages for online stores, particularly for platforms like Shopify and BigCommerce. The company's solutions enable high-growth brands to achieve fast page load times and enhance user experiences, ultimately driving conversions and brand loyalty. By simplifying the web development process, Shogun empowers non-technical users to create appealing and functional online storefronts that effectively showcase their products.
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