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GoAhead Ventures
Venture capital · Menlo Park, CA, United States · North America
GoAhead Ventures is a venture capital firm that reviews one-way video pitches from founders and aims to give a final decision within about six days. It invests in pre-seed and seed stage companies and typically writes $1M checks.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordstechnologypre-seedseedvideo pitchgeneralist
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Or find every investor that fitsGoAhead Ventures lists 17 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 7 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 71% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (18%), Healthcare & Biotech (18%) and Education (14%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Draper Associates, HOF Capital and Outlander VC.
Counts come from funding rounds that name GoAhead 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 GoAhead Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 7 companies; its own site lists 17. 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 | 14% |
| Seed | 71% |
| Series A | 14% |
| 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 | 4 | 0 |
| '26 | 3 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 44th | 17 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 85th | 86% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 81th | 12% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 9th | 18% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 18% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 18% | 15% |
| Education | 14% | 7% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 7% | 7% |
| Media & Entertainment | 7% | 4% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 7% | 3% |
| Gaming | 4% | 1% |
| Consumer | 4% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Draper Associates | 3 |
| HOF Capital | 3 |
| Outlander VC | 3 |
| Y Combinator | 3 |
| Balerion Space Ventures | 2 |
| Crosscut | 2 |
| E1 Ventures | 2 |
| Liquid 2 Ventures | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers17100%
- 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 Draper Associates
Compare GoAhead Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
as stated on its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with GoAhead Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Nov 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 28 Jul 2026 | Series A | |
| 13 Jan 2026 | Seed | |
| 7 Nov 2025 | Seed | |
| 7 Oct 2025 | Seed | |
| 3 Sept 2025 | Seed | |
| 19 Aug 2025 | Seed |
Round details for GoAhead Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in GoAhead Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
17 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agora combines purpose-built AI and dedicated experts to help investment teams raise capital, serve investors, close the books, and scale. | Real Estate & ConstructionFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Aurelius Systems builds autonomous directed energy systems to stop drone threats | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Collectly provides an AI-powered revenue cycle management platform for healthcare organizations | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Colossal develops genetics and biosciences to de-extinct lost species, such as the woolly mammoth, to restore ecosystems. | ConsumerHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Cookiy finds users paid gigs through an AI agent that they can interact with via text. | AI & Machine LearningGaming | Oct 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Grapefruit Health provides a tech-enabled platform that mobilizes local clinical students to close gaps in healthcare by offloading lower-acuity tasks, allowing clinicians to focus on complex needs. | Healthcare & Biotech | Aug 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| HackerRank provides online coding tests and technical interviews for hiring purposes | EducationHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| Healia helps employers reduce healthcare costs while providing a benefit that covers employees' out-of-pocket costs | Healthcare & Biotech | Jul 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Material manufactures energy products, including batteries, using a technology that integrates energy storage and structure. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Jan 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Poseidon Aerospace builds autonomous aircraft to move goods faster and cheaper anywhere they're needed | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Skribe Medical is a wearable cardio-oncology platform designed to assess cardiac function in minutes, helping oncologists screen for cardiotoxicity and keep life-saving treatments on schedule | Healthcare & Biotech | Nov 2026Pre-Seed | Funding round | |
| Portfolio page | ||||
| TELO Trucks makes electric pickup trucks for urban living and weekend adventuring | Mobility & LogisticsSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Terranova is lifting land out of flood zones using terraforming robots | Real Estate & ConstructionRobotics & Hardware | Nov 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Textla provides a texting platform for businesses with features such as bulk messaging, direct messages, and contact storage. | EducationMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Valar Atomics is scaling nuclear energy for heavy industrial power and clean hydrocarbon fuel production. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| VideoAmp provides media measurement software for planning, optimization, and audience measurement across screens. | Media & EntertainmentEnterprise Software | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- goaheadvc.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 19 Aug 2025
- Companies checked
- 17
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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