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Path Ventures
Venture capital · San Francisco, CA, United States · North America
Path Ventures is an early-stage investment firm that backs founders building companies around the AI-enabled workforce. It is led by Billy Draper and Porter Ontko and is based in San Francisco.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
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Or find every investor that fitsPath Ventures lists 25 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its most frequent entry is Series B, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (26%), Space & Defense (13%) and Education (13%). 86% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Divergent Capital, Draper Associates and Lightbank.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Path 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 Path Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 1 company; its own site lists 25. 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 | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 100% |
| 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 | 60th | 25 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 60th | 4% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 37th | 26% 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 | 26% | 18% |
| Space & Defense | 13% | 3% |
| Education | 13% | 7% |
| Fintech | 10% | 12% |
| Legal & Compliance | 8% | 2% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 8% | 3% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 8% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 5% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Divergent Capital | 2 |
| Draper Associates | 2 |
| Lightbank | 2 |
| Night Capital | 2 |
| AI Grant | 1 |
| AP Ventures | 1 |
| Across Capital | 1 |
| Amino Capital | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers25100%
- 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 Divergent Capital
Compare Path 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 Path Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Oct 2025 | Series B |
Round details for Path Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Path Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
25 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company provides AI workers for policy and compliance workflows using proprietary regulatory data and contextual intelligence. | AI & Machine LearningLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Bettermode provides an all-in-one customer community platform | Enterprise SoftwareSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Birdwatch provides home maintenance and repair services | Real Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Consensus provides an AI-powered tool for searching and analyzing peer-reviewed literature to aid in academic research. | EducationHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Copilot Money offers a personal finance app that coordinates spending, saving, and investing | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company is building a collaborative math editor | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Popchew delivers food, including burgers and fries, in NYC. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Edlink helps companies build and scale integrations with districts and universities through a unified API. | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Fractional facilitates collective investment in properties through online investment clubs | Real Estate & ConstructionFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Gearflow provides an AI-powered procurement platform for fleet teams | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Palm provides a business identity network that connects platforms to verified business data across every jurisdiction. | FintechSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Parallel provides financial planning software for startups and founders. | FintechSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Slang provides an AI-powered phone answering system for restaurants. | AI & Machine LearningFood & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Justpoint provides predictive intelligence for product liability using data and analysis on its customers' own hardware | Legal & ComplianceAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Lina provides space, community and support for healthcare practitioners in private practice so they can focus on what they do best - high quality patient care. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Modalic builds unmanned systems designed to extend swarm range and enable real-time multi-domain missions for the US and our Allies. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Monumental Labs creates stone ornaments and structures, and sculptures, using a combination of robotic milling and hand finishing. | Industrial & ManufacturingReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Rosy Soil produces and sells biochar super soils for plants | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- path.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 9 Oct 2025
- Companies checked
- 25
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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