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Brainstorm Ventures
Venture capital · San Francisco, CA, United States · North America
Brainstorm Ventures is a small, generalist venture capital firm founded in 1999 by former exited founders. It invests at the earliest stages in startups across North America, with roots in Silicon Valley and Mexico City.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsgeneralisttechnologyearly stagenorth americalatin america
Your fit with Brainstorm Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsBrainstorm Ventures lists 55 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (16%), Healthcare & Biotech (12%) and Fintech (11%). 73% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside HOF Capital, Khosla Ventures and Soma Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Brainstorm 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 Brainstorm Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 55. 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 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 86th | 55 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 59th | 4% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 4th | 16% 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 | 16% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 12% | 15% |
| Fintech | 11% | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 11% | 8% |
| Education | 7% | 7% |
| Consumer | 6% | 3% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 6% | 6% |
| Food & Agriculture | 5% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| HOF Capital | 3 |
| Khosla Ventures | 3 |
| Soma Capital | 3 |
| StartX | 3 |
| Y Combinator | 3 |
| Balerion Space Ventures | 2 |
| Base Ventures | 2 |
| Better Ventures | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers5498%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company12%
- 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 Brainstorm 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 Brainstorm Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Nov 2026 | Seed | |
| 24 Mar 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Brainstorm Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Brainstorm Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
55 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portfolio page | ||||
| AIO provides an all-in-one AI platform for restaurants | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Anvil Robotics provides a platform for building, deploying, and scaling Physical AI applications | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Aravo provides third-party risk management software and services | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Bleeding Edge builds and deploys gigawatt-scale AI data centers in Mexico. | AI & Machine LearningReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| BrainGrid provides a platform for building applications, allowing users to plan and verify their projects before building them. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Mar 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Cerego provides personalized learning | Education | Portfolio page | ||
| Commonwealth Fusion Systems is developing commercial fusion energy systems using high-temperature superconducting magnets and tokamak-based configurations. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Class Companion provides AI-powered tutoring and feedback tools for teachers and students. | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| The company provides procurement software for businesses to manage spending and streamline procurement processes. | FintechEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Delightree provides a platform for franchise operations using AI | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Eden builds the infrastructure and frontier AI that turn diagnostic data into precise clinical answers. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| EverFleet provides leasing solutions for fleets and professional drivers | Legal & ComplianceAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Finvero provides a credit platform with AI and alternative scoring | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Focal manufactures and installs personalized electric heaters for restaurants, homes, and outdoor spaces. | Industrial & ManufacturingConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Immersion helps companies know what connects people to their brand and themselves by measuring the emotional resonance of live experiences | Healthcare & BiotechEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Glaut provides a research operating system for researchers to collect, analyze, and report data | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- brainstorm.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 24 Mar 2026
- Companies checked
- 55
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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