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Handshake Ventures
Investor
Handshake Ventures is an investment firm whose website lists portfolio companies. The site provides little further detail about its activities.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software
Your fit with Handshake Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsHandshake Ventures lists 6 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 (33%), Enterprise Software (33%) and E-commerce & Marketplaces (8%). 75% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Capital One Ventures, General Catalyst and Green Egg Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Handshake Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundHandshake 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 | 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 0 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 8th | 6 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 | 62th | 33% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Capital One Ventures | 1 |
| General Catalyst | 1 |
| Green Egg Ventures | 1 |
| Green Sands Equity | 1 |
| High Alpha | 1 |
| SCB 10X | 1 |
| Trinity Ventures | 1 |
| True Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers6100%
- 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 33% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 33% | 8% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 8% | 6% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 8% | 15% |
| Cybersecurity | 8% | 4% |
| Gaming | 8% | 1% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Capital One Ventures
Compare Handshake 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 Handshake Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Oct 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Handshake Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Handshake Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
6 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1QBit designs tools for utility-scale quantum computation | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Beautiful.AI provides AI presentation software for teams to create professional presentations. | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Directus generates a production-ready REST and GraphQL API automatically from a connected database. | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a mission-critical communications platform for various industries and organizations. | Enterprise SoftwareCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| FanRally provides a membership system for teams, universities, and casinos to manage ticket access and relationships with their audiences. | Enterprise SoftwareGaming | Portfolio page | ||
| Pimly provides product intelligence solutions for Salesforce | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2025Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- handshakeventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 13 Oct 2025
- Companies checked
- 6
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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