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Lobby Capital
Venture capital · Palo Alto, CA, United States · North America
Lobby Capital is a venture capital firm that makes investments in technology-enabled startups and manages the legacy August Capital portfolio. It draws on the Lobby Conferences community of entrepreneurs for its network and takes a partner-led, hands-on approach with founders.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsaienterprise softwarecybersecuritydeveloper toolsconsumermarketplaces
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Or find every investor that fitsLobby Capital lists 56 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds, 3 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 60% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (19%), Fintech (14%) and Enterprise Software (14%). 95% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside August Capital, Y Combinator and Cross Creek.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Lobby Capital, 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 Lobby Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 5 companies; its own site lists 56. 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 roundLobby Capital does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 40% |
| Series A | 60% |
| 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 | 4 | 3 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 86th | 55 companies |
| Recent activity | 82th | 4 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 66th | 40% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 59th | 4% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 13th | 19% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 19% | 18% |
| Fintech | 14% | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 14% | 8% |
| Cybersecurity | 10% | 4% |
| Consumer | 9% | 3% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 8% | 6% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 7% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 5% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| August Capital | 13 |
| Y Combinator | 6 |
| Cross Creek | 5 |
| Founders Circle Capital | 5 |
| Accel | 4 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 4 |
| Bessemer Venture Partners | 4 |
| Manhattan Venture Partners | 4 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers5293%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company47%
- 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 Lobby Capital 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 Lobby Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Nov 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 16 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 31 Aug 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 28 Jan 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 28 Jul 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Lobby Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Lobby Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
56 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ambient.ai provides computer vision intelligence to prevent security incidents | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
FintechFintech | Portfolio page | |||
| The company provides AI-powered fraud prevention and intelligence services to protect businesses and customers from scams. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Aug 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Jul 2025Series A | Page + round | |||
| Avant provides personal loans and credit cards that can be applied for online | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Better Trucks is a regional, last-mile delivery platform that specializes in arranging for residential deliveries. | Legal & ComplianceE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| BILL provides a financial operations platform for businesses and firms to manage tasks such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, and cash flow forecasting | FintechSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Blue Nile sells diamond jewelry and engagement rings | E-commerce & MarketplacesConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides content management, workflow, and collaboration services to businesses. | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Cloudera provides a hybrid platform for data and AI | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Control4 connects and controls smart devices, bringing them into one platform for home and business automation. | ConsumerIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides an AI-native ERP system for hotels, restaurants, retail, and franchises to manage their accounting, payments, and business intelligence. | Enterprise SoftwareFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Evite provides online invitations, event pages, and greeting cards. | Media & EntertainmentE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Faros Ai provides a platform to monitor, measure, and optimize AI production and adoption across teams | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
 Fastlyfastly.com · United States | Fastly provides a platform for delivering and securing online content and applications at a global scale. | Media & EntertainmentCybersecurity | Portfolio page | |
| Finpilot does the recurring work of the investment office with speed, consistency and analytical depth | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Nov 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| ForeVR Games develops and publishes virtual reality games, including ForeVR Bowl, ForeVR Darts, ForeVR Cornhole, and ForeVR Pool. | Enterprise SoftwareGaming | Portfolio page | ||
| FourKites provides a platform for supply chain orchestration using artificial intelligence | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Gaia Dynamics provides an AI-powered platform for global trade compliance, helping businesses navigate tariffs and trade risk. | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Sept 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Baton turns customer context into real demos, POCs, and live production instances in minutes, not months. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- lobby.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 28 Jul 2025
- Companies checked
- 56
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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