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Shrug Capital
Venture capital · San Francisco, CA, United States · North America
Shrug Capital is a venture capital fund that invests in early-stage companies. It works closely with founders, using its network to connect portfolio companies with investors and partners.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsearly-stageconsumerdeep techhealthclimate
Your fit with Shrug Capital
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Or find every investor that fitsShrug Capital lists 84 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 10 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 63% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (20%), Food & Agriculture (9%) and Media & Entertainment (9%). 84% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside House Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Seven Seven Six.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Shrug 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 Shrug Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 10 companies; its own site lists 84. 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 | 63% |
| Series A | 13% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 25% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 1 | 0 |
| '20 | 1 | 0 |
| '21 | 3 | 0 |
| '22 | 1 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 3 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 93th | 85 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 76th | 63% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 66th | 6% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 17th | 20% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 88th | 7 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 20% | 18% |
| Food & Agriculture | 9% | 3% |
| Media & Entertainment | 9% | 4% |
| Fintech | 9% | 12% |
| Consumer | 8% | 3% |
| Enterprise Software | 8% | 8% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 7% | 15% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 7% | 6% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| House Capital | 29 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 14 |
| Seven Seven Six | 10 |
| Founders Fund | 9 |
| K5 Global | 9 |
| Y Combinator | 9 |
| BoxGroup | 8 |
| General Catalyst | 8 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers8399%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company11%
- 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 Shrug 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 Shrug Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Mar 2026 | Round | |
| 3 Dec 2025 | Round | |
| 30 Oct 2025 | Series C+ | |
| 10 Jul 2025 | Series C+ | |
| 4 May 2021 | Seed | |
| 6 Apr 2021 | Seed | |
| 20 Feb 2020 | Seed | |
| 28 Jan 2019 | Series A |
Round details for Shrug Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Shrug Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
84 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acquire operates a marketplace for buying and selling online businesses | E-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Aether Bio discovers proteins with high-impact applications, including building super materials and processing critical minerals, using artificial intelligence and robotic high-throughput screening labs. | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Dec 2025Round | Page + round | |
| Aidaly employs family caregivers to provide home care services. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Anduril Industries specializes in advanced autonomous systems for defense and commercial mission sets. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Antares designs and manufactures modular, transportable reactors for strategic energy applications on Earth and in space. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Artemis provides software for energy and roofing companies to design, sell, and execute projects | EducationReal Estate & Construction | Mar 2026Round | Funding round | |
| Atoms designs and sells shoes for everyday wear | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Avalanche Energy develops compact fusion machines for power generation and other applications | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Betterleap provides an AI-powered recruiting agent for healthcare professionals | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Blank Street sells coffee and matcha drinks | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Carrd provides a platform for building one-page sites for various purposes. | Media & EntertainmentEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| ChartHop provides organizational intelligence for people analytics, headcount planning, and human capital management | Human ResourcesEnterprise Software | Feb 2020Seed | Page + round | |
| Clubhouse provides live voice chat services | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Copilot Money offers a personal finance app that coordinates spending, saving, and investing | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a platform and APIs for enterprises to build financial products and automate treasury and payments with stablecoins and fiat currencies. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| DoNotPay uses artificial intelligence to help users fight big corporations, protect their privacy, find hidden money, and beat bureaucracy. | Legal & ComplianceFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company produces and sells tequila | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Earth Funeral provides human composting services as an alternative to cremation and burial | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Rob's Popcorn sells popcorn and other products online. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- shrug.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 28 Jan 2019
- Companies checked
- 84
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