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Sentiero Ventures
Venture capital · Dallas, TX, United States · North America
Sentiero Ventures is a Texas-based venture capital investor in early-stage enterprise software companies applying artificial intelligence. It is powered by a group of entrepreneurs, operators, and angel investors who support portfolio companies with expertise and connections.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningCybersecurity
In its own wordsartificial intelligenceenterprise softwaremachine learninggenerative aiprocess automationb2b
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Or find every investor that fitsSentiero Ventures lists 18 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (53%), Cybersecurity (21%) and E-commerce & Marketplaces (6%). 83% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Connetic Ventures, Stout Street Capital and Techstars.
No funding round on record names Sentiero Ventures yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not Sentiero Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 18. 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 53% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 21% | 4% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 6% | 6% |
| Fintech | 6% | 12% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 6% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 3% | 8% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 3% | 1% |
| Food & Agriculture | 3% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Connetic Ventures | 2 |
| Stout Street Capital | 2 |
| Techstars | 2 |
| Accelerator Centre | 1 |
| AlleyCorp | 1 |
| Aloniq | 1 |
| Alpha Edison | 1 |
| Apertu Capital | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 46th | 18 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 86th | 53% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers18100%
- 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 Connetic Ventures
Compare Sentiero Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
18 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auquan develops and provides AI-powered workflow automation solutions for institutional finance companies | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Authentrics.AI provides weight-level controls for high-stakes neural networks, allowing for optimization and intervention in model behavior. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Data Sentinel helps organizations discover, govern, and control data across every system, so they can reduce risk, pass audits, and deploy AI with confidence. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Datasent encodes data into a single lossless token format for storage, transmission, and compute | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Geminus links AI to the physical world, integrating data, physics, and computation into a unified system that continuously understands and optimizes complex operations in real time | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Gestalt helps financial institutions turn data chaos into clarity | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Trellis provides advertising software for Amazon and Walmart sellers | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Jozu provides a platform for securing and verifying AI models and workflows | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Mia builds AI systems that connect fragmented data, structure knowledge, and automate workflows across industries. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Moveris checks for a living human on the webcam using deepfake and liveness detection technology | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| oPRO.ai accelerates the transformation of enterprises through advanced AI software to easily deploy, scale, and effortlessly maintain AI in production. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Scalestack provides a platform to scale AI agents with governed workflows and controls | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Science On Call provides 24/7 tech support services to restaurants | Food & AgricultureAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Shearwater develops and provides an AI-powered autonomous drone operation platform called Smart Flight | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| The company provides an AI-based test automation tool for software testing | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops artificial intelligence for robotic assembly and manipulation | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Velou delivers context-rich product data to fuel customer-facing AI | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- sentiero.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 18
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