Investors / Snowball VC
Snowball VC
Venture capital
Snowball VC is an independently managed venture fund that backs companies from a16z Speedrun cohorts, selecting roughly the top ten companies of each cohort while the program runs. It has backed 22 companies from Speedrun cohorts and offers founders support with product and growth strategy, hiring, analytics, and investor introductions.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsaiaccelerator alumniearly stagetechnical foundersb2b software
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Or find every investor that fitsSnowball VC lists 21 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (37%), Enterprise Software (14%) and Healthcare & Biotech (11%). 75% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Berkeley Frontier Fund, Blitzscaling Ventures and EnterpriseTech 34.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Snowball VC, 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 Snowball VC's whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 21. 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 | 50% |
| Series A | 50% |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 53th | 21 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 63th | 5% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 68th | 37% 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 | 37% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 14% | 8% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 11% | 15% |
| Fintech | 9% | 12% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 6% | 6% |
| Education | 6% | 7% |
| Human Resources | 3% | 1% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 3% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Berkeley Frontier Fund | 2 |
| Blitzscaling Ventures | 2 |
| EnterpriseTech 34 | 2 |
| Accel | 1 |
| Ada Ventures | 1 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 1 |
| BMW i Ventures | 1 |
| Connecticut Innovations | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers21100%
- 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 Berkeley Frontier Fund
Compare Snowball VC 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 Snowball VC| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 20 Jul 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Snowball VC
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Snowball VC's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
21 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ambiguous provides a workspace with 18 productivity apps that allow human-AI collaboration | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Amdahl provides an API that helps businesses optimize their sales and marketing outputs | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Atrios offers tools and perks for businesses, including exclusive deals with various vendors. | FintechSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Kanu creates software that automates an organization's workflows using its data, system integrations, documents, and learned processes | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Hotbox automates Instagram DMs for brand drops | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Kintow automates vendor orders and scheduling for restaurants using voice AI inventory counting and operations | Food & AgricultureAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company studies clothing as a system of representation and builds instruments for observing and interpreting these systems of meaning. | EducationEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Loan Labs provides a platform for loan origination, connecting brokers, lenders, and agents to streamline the loan process. | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Loops AI helps ecommerce stores understand customer requests and provide relevant search results and product information | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Luvu develops a home fitness app | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Miraka brings live clinician-led cardiac care directly to your home, with continuous monitoring to catch symptoms before they become emergencies. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Rork creates tools for building mobile and web applications using AI. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Sellara builds models that use AI to take operational work off teams and flag problems before they are asked, for financial institutions. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| SupaHuman provides AI solutions for vocational education and training providers | EducationAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| TAYA produces a wearable device that captures and stores thoughts and ideas, allowing users to revisit them later through a companion app. | ConsumerHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company helps turn proprietary knowledge into real-world execution using artificial intelligence | AI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Acceler8 provides AI workforce intelligence for talent and succession planning | AI & Machine LearningHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| Brief captures decisions where they happen, connects them into one graph, and acts on them across all product stages | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Cascade uses AI to help AEC firms find and win more jobs by surfacing RFPs matched to their capabilities | AI & Machine LearningReal Estate & Construction | Jul 2026Seed | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 6 Nov 2026- Site
- thesnowball.vc
- Last read
- 6 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 20 Jul 2026
- Companies checked
- 21
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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