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A-Star Partners
Venture capital · San Francisco, CA, United States · North America
A* is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in technology companies. It describes itself as leading a shift from transactional capital to meaningful partnerships with founders.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordstechnologyearly stageventure capital
Your fit with A-Star Partners
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Or find every investor that fitsA-Star Partners lists 66 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (28%), Enterprise Software (13%) and Fintech (13%). 92% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside SV Angel, Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name A-Star Partners, 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 A-Star Partners' whole history. Rounds on record name 1 company; its own site lists 66. 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 roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 100% |
| 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 0 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 90th | 66 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 45th | 28% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 28% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 13% | 8% |
| Fintech | 13% | 12% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 8% | 6% |
| Cybersecurity | 7% | 4% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 7% | 15% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 5% | 1% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 4% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| SV Angel | 19 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 17 |
| Sequoia Capital | 15 |
| Kleiner Perkins | 12 |
| Y Combinator | 11 |
| General Catalyst | 10 |
| Gil & Co | 10 |
| Abstract | 9 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers66100%
- 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 A-Star Partners 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 A-Star Partners| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Nov 2023 | Seed |
Round details for A-Star Partners
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in A-Star Partners' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
66 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airbnb provides holiday rentals and unique homes for travelers. | Real Estate & ConstructionLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Alcor builds wearable AI to make any manual worker perform beyond expert level. | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Aligned Marketplace helps self-insured employers connect employees and families to independent advanced primary care nationwide. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Amboras provides an ecommerce platform and store builder with AI-powered tools and services | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Andera automates controls testing with AI for audit teams | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Antioch develops physical AI at the speed of software using high-fidelity simulation for the full physical AI lifecycle | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides an AI-powered go-to-market system for sales and marketing teams | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Atoms invests in and develops companies in various industries, including food and robotics. | Food & AgricultureRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Cape provides private cell phone service with a focus on security and minimal data collection | ConsumerCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Carta provides an end-to-end suite for managing private capital, including equity management, fund administration, and legal operations. | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Clara provides spend management services to companies, including corporate cards, vendor payments, and expense management tools. | FintechSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| CloudWalk Inc. provides various financial and commerce services through its platforms and agents, including payment handling and financial management. | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Cognition operates an autonomous software engineer called Devin that plans, writes, tests, and ships production code on its own | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Decagon builds, optimizes, and scales AI agents for customer service | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
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| Edra automates business processes using AI agents that learn from existing systems and data. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| EyeTell is where you write, cast, direct, cut, and share your story, with a community of people who make things too. | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
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| Flock Safety provides security products and solutions, including license plate readers, video cameras, and drones, to various industries and sectors. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- a-star.co
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 20 Nov 2023
- Companies checked
- 66
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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