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Artisanal Ventures
Venture capital · Tiburon, CA, United States · North America
Artisanal Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests alongside its affiliated executive search firm, Artisanal Talent. It draws on that search business and a group of limited partners to help founders recruit senior executives.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningCybersecurity
In its own wordscloudenterprise softwareexecutive talentgo-to-market
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Or find every investor that fitsArtisanal Ventures lists 43 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (42%), Cybersecurity (26%) and Enterprise Software (14%). 85% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital and Redpoint Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Artisanal Ventures, 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 Artisanal Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 43. 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 roundArtisanal Ventures does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 100% |
| 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 79th | 43 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 55th | 2% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 76th | 42% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 78th | 5 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 42% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 26% | 4% |
| Enterprise Software | 14% | 8% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 5% | 15% |
| Fintech | 4% | 12% |
| Space & Defense | 4% | 3% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 1% | 6% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 1% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 10 |
| Sequoia Capital | 10 |
| Redpoint Ventures | 9 |
| Cyberstarts | 7 |
| Greylock | 7 |
| SV Angel | 7 |
| Ballistic Ventures | 6 |
| Bessemer Venture Partners | 6 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers43100%
- 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 togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Lightspeed Venture Partners
Compare Artisanal Ventures 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 Artisanal Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Mar 2026 | Series A | |
| 29 Jul 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Artisanal Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Artisanal Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
43 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abnormal AI provides behavioral AI for email, identity, and AI security | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| AcuityMD provides a MedTech intelligence platform to help medical device sales teams move faster and win more | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides customer success agents | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Anthropic develops AI models and products, including the Claude models, and conducts AI safety research. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Arctic Wolf provides cybersecurity services, including security operations and incident response, to protect organizations from cyber threats. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Armada provides ruggedized modular data centers and edge computing hardware and software for deploying GPU infrastructure in remote and demanding environments. | Enterprise SoftwareIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Benchling provides software for research and development teams to manage and automate their workflows, particularly in biotechnology and drug discovery. | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides stablecoin infrastructure and APIs for developers to move, store, and accept stablecoins. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| Cerebras builds and delivers AI-powered infrastructure solutions | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| ClickHouse develops and provides a fast open-source OLAP database for real-time analytics. | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Cogent discovers, validates, and remediates vulnerabilities across an enterprise using AI agents. | Cybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a platform that uses AI for sales, marketing, and operations workflows. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Corridor secures AI coding agents as they write code, enforces what's safe to ship, and scales with teams as agents take on more. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Mar 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Cyera provides a platform for data, identity, and AI security | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Egnyte provides a content cloud and AI context layer for enterprises | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Exa provides a search API for AI agents to access real-time web data | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Fable Security provides a human risk management platform to defend against AI-powered attacks | Cybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Fireworks Ai provides a platform for running, ensembling, and training open models for specialized intelligence | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| GetReal Security develops and provides deepfake detection software for enterprises | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- artisanalv.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 29 Jul 2025
- Companies checked
- 43
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