Investors / United States / 8-Bit Capital
8-Bit Capital
Venture capital · San Francisco, CA, United States · North America
8-Bit Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in inception-stage software startups. It describes itself as a high-conviction investor run by experienced entrepreneurs and investors.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningCybersecurityFintech
In its own wordsaicybersecurityfintechsoftwareinception-stage
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Or find every investor that fits8-Bit Capital lists 26 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 4 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 75% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (29%), Cybersecurity (20%) and Fintech (16%). 83% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Aviso Ventures, Blank Ventures and Pelion Venture Partners.
Counts come from funding rounds that name 8-Bit Capital, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not 8-Bit Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 4 companies; its own site lists 26. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first round8-Bit Capital does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 25% |
| Seed | 75% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 62th | 26 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 80th | 12% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 48th | 29% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 29% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 20% | 4% |
| Fintech | 16% | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 12% | 8% |
| Space & Defense | 12% | 3% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 4% | 15% |
| Developer Tools | 2% | 0% |
| Human Resources | 2% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Aviso Ventures | 2 |
| Blank Ventures | 2 |
| Pelion Venture Partners | 2 |
| Soma Capital | 2 |
| Streamlined Ventures | 2 |
| Techstars | 2 |
| Y Combinator | 2 |
| 10x Group | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers26100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare 8-Bit Capital head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with 8-Bit Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Sept 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 6 May 2026 | Seed | |
| 23 Sept 2025 | Seed | |
| 4 Sept 2025 | Seed |
Round details for 8-Bit Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in 8-Bit Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
26 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company provides an answer engine for sales teams to automate tasks such as RFPs and sales enablement | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Agree provides a platform for billing, revenue recognition, and reconciliation | FintechSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Antfly provides a multimodal database with a built-in inference engine for searching and indexing various data formats | AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools | Sept 2026Pre-Seed | Page + round | |
| Barndoor provides an AI gateway that governs and controls AI models, connections, and workflows for businesses. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Bind Ai provides AI-powered insurance solutions for brokers and businesses to automate and streamline their workflows | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Booked provides an AI teammate for trades businesses to handle phone calls, texts, and chats, and book jobs | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Bowtie connects users directly to private apps and the internet without a vendor cloud in the middle of the traffic | CybersecurityEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Cerbos provides an authorization management platform for enterprise software and AI | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| CloudFence provides cloud network security products to control and monitor cloud egress and workload communications | CybersecuritySpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Dalton AI helps teams catch failures before they occur by analyzing signals from various sources and providing fixes for approval | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Flux brings payroll, HR, and compliance into one platform, with real-time calculations, automatic regulatory updates, and best-in-class support. | FintechHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| Glue replaces endless chats and channels with structured threads so work stays organized, decisions don't get lost, and teams move faster. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides an AI-powered back office platform for healthcare operations | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Idemeum automates and assists IT tasks with AI agents | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Impart Security provides runtime protection for AI, applications, and APIs. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| InstaSwitch moves income, payroll, spend, vendors, and clients to a new account, automating where possible and guiding where not, to complete the switch. | FintechFintech | May 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Honey Health provides an all-in-one AI back office platform for healthcare | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Pandium provides an embedded integration platform as a service for B2B SaaS companies to build, launch and manage integrations at scale | Space & DefenseSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Propelauth provides authentication solutions for B2B products | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides financial analysis, planning, and management services to individuals. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- 8bitcapital.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 4 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 26
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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