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Palm Drive Capital
Venture capital · New York, NY, United States · North America
Palm Drive Capital is a venture firm that partners with founders early, often writing the first check. It describes itself as a small partnership that stays close to the founders it backs and helps through the process of building companies.
Invests inFintechAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsearly-stagepre-seedseedfounder-ledmarketplacesfintech
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Or find every investor that fitsPalm Drive Capital lists 6 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 6 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Fintech (33%), AI & Machine Learning (25%) and Cybersecurity (8%). 67% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Left Lane Capital and Liquid 2 Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Palm Drive Capital, 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 roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 50% |
| Series A | 17% |
| Series B | 33% |
| 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 4 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 8th | 6 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% 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 | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 33% | 12% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 25% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 8% | 4% |
| Space & Defense | 8% | 3% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 8% | 15% |
| Media & Entertainment | 8% | 4% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 8% | 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.
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 4 |
| Left Lane Capital | 2 |
| Liquid 2 Ventures | 2 |
| Aurelia Foundry | 1 |
| BYLD | 1 |
| British International Investment | 1 |
| Clocktower Ventures | 1 |
| DG Daiwa Ventures | 1 |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Palm Drive 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 Palm Drive Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Jan 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 1 Aug 2025 | Series A | |
| 29 Jul 2025 | Seed | |
| 24 Jul 2025 | Seed | |
| 1 Jan 2025 | Series B | |
| 19 Mar 2024 | Series B |
Round details for Palm Drive Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Palm Drive Capital's 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aurelian provides an AI platform to support public safety answering points (PSAPs) and emergency communication centers (ECCs) with automation and guidance tools. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Aug 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Cascade Space is building a communication network for space missions beyond Low Earth Orbit. | Space & DefenseHealthcare & Biotech | Jul 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Clipto develops and provides a local AI memory platform for organizing and searching media files, including videos, images, meetings, and documents. | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Jan 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Keye provides an AI-powered due diligence platform that automates data analysis for investors | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Jul 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| LemFi is a financial service app that helps users send, receive, and manage money across countries. | FintechFintech | Jan 2025Series B | Funding round | |
| Moove finances and owns mobility assets, designs and manages infrastructure, and runs city-level operations for mobility platforms. | Mobility & LogisticsFintech | Mar 2024Series B | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- palmdrive.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 19 Mar 2024
- 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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