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Holly Ventures

Venture capital · San Francisco, CA, United States · North America

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Holly Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in and supports cybersecurity founders at the earliest stages of company building. It writes smaller checks at the seed stage and works hands-on with founders and co-investors on executive hiring, follow-on financing and strategic support.

Invests inCybersecurityAI & Machine Learning

In its own wordscybersecurityseed stageventure capitalisraelenterprise security

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4portfolio companies
4funding rounds on record
4rounds, last 12 months
$20M to $100Mtypical round it comes in at
Series Amost frequent entry
$33.0Mlatest fund

Holly Ventures lists 4 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 4 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 75% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Cybersecurity (57%) and AI & Machine Learning (43%). 67% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Index Ventures, AlphaDrive Ventures and Cyberstarts.

Counts come from funding rounds that name Holly 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 round
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Share of companies by the stage of the firm's first round
Value
Pre-seed0%
Seed25%
Series A75%
Series B0%
Growth0%

Activity by year

rounds it joined, last 10 years
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Funding rounds per year
TotalRounds it led
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Invests most often with

firms sharing its portfolio companies
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Co-investors
Share
Index Ventures3
AlphaDrive Ventures1
Cyberstarts1
IVP1
Lockstep1
Lux Capital1
Notable Capital1
Operator Collective1

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Its portfolio companies

where they are based, and what their own sites show

Headquarters

Site status

  • Site answers4100%
  • 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 companies

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Cybersecurity57%4%
AI & Machine Learning43%18%

Co-investor network

who it backs companies with, and who they back together
32 shared companies27 shared companies23 shared companies17 shared companies13 shared companies12 shared companies12 shared companies9 shared companies9 shared companies8 shared companies7 shared companies6 shared companies6 shared companies5 shared companies5 shared companies5 shared companies4 shared companies3 shared companies3 shared companies3 shared companies3 shared companies3 shared companies3 shared companies3 shared companiesIndex Ventures: 3 shared companiesIndex Ventures3AlphaDrive Ventures: 1 shared companiesAlphaDrive Ventures1Cyberstarts: 1 shared companiesCyberstarts1IVP: 1 shared companiesIVP1Lockstep: 1 shared companiesLockstep1Lux Capital: 1 shared companiesLux Capital1Notable Capital: 1 shared companiesNotable Capital1Operator Collective: 1 shared companiesOperator Collective1Redpoint Ventures: 1 shared companiesRedpoint Ventures1Sequoia Capital: 1 shared companiesSequoia Capital1Swish Ventures: 1 shared companiesSwish Ventures1Vine Ventures: 1 shared companiesVine Ventures1
Shared portfolio companies with Holly VenturesFirms that also back companies together

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Compare Holly Ventures head to head

portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both back

Three or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.

Funds

as stated on its site
Holly Ventures$33.0M"$33M" on its site

Recent portfolio activity

when companies last raised with Holly Ventures
DateCompanyStage
22 Jul 2026Glowglow.ioSeries A
16 Jul 2026beacon.securitybeacon.securitySeed
18 Feb 2026Venicevenice.ioSeries A

Round details for Holly Ventures

Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Holly Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.

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Portfolio

4 companies checked against their own sites
CompanyWhat it doesThemesFirst round with itEvidence
Asteliaastelia.ioAstelia helps organizations identify and mitigate vulnerabilities in their networks using AI and reachability analysis.
Cybersecurity
Portfolio page
beacon.securitybeacon.security · United StatesBeacon Security provides a platform for AI-native security that optimizes and normalizes security logs, enabling security teams to detect, hunt, and protect at machine speed.
CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning
Jul 2026SeedPage + round
Glowglow.io · IsraelGlow develops and provides endpoint security solutions using artificial intelligence
CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning
Jul 2026Series APage + round
Venicevenice.io · United StatesVenice provides a unified Privileged Access Management platform for human, machine, and AI agent identities
CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning
Feb 2026Series APage + round

About this data

site last read 5 Nov 2026
Site
hollyventures.com
Last read
5 Nov 2026
Watching since
6 Nov 2026
Rounds since
18 Feb 2026
Companies checked
4

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