Investors / United States / Sterling Road
Sterling Road
Venture capital · San Francisco, United States · North America
Sterling Road is a first-check investor that typically begins with a $100k investment in startups at the earliest stages and provides coaching through office hours. It makes follow-on investments in teams that show progress, often investing in every round.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsroboticsspaceinfrastructurefintechearly-stage
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Or find every investor that fitsSterling Road lists 89 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (31%), Healthcare & Biotech (14%) and Enterprise Software (8%). 69% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Eight Capital and Transpose Platform.
No funding round on record names Sterling Road yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not Sterling Road's whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 89. 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 | 31% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 14% | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 8% | 8% |
| Fintech | 8% | 12% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 6% | 7% |
| Space & Defense | 5% | 3% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 5% | 6% |
| Education | 4% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 44 |
| Eight Capital | 12 |
| Transpose Platform | 11 |
| PearX | 5 |
| Lombardstreet Ventures | 4 |
| Soma Capital | 4 |
| Cohen Circle | 3 |
| Great Wave Ventures | 3 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 94th | 90 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 | 56th | 31% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 88th | 7 countries |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers8697%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company33%
- 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 Sterling Road head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
89 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Electrodynamics develops and sells a camera that can see through walls and map mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems with millimeter accuracy. | Industrial & ManufacturingCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Alora Studios develops a podcast player that automatically skips ads in podcasts. | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
Industrial & ManufacturingEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | |||
| AquaShield detects water leaks in real estate using non-invasive sensors | Real Estate & ConstructionIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Atomarine develops and deploys offshore power and compute infrastructure platforms | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Aviro designs and builds environments to train AI models to explore and solve problems. | AI & Machine LearningEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Axonnic helps manufacturers automate tasks by recording how their best workers perform them and using that data to train robots. | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Botco.ai develops and implements AI chatbot solutions for various industries, including pharmaceutical and city services. | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Breinify provides AI-powered personalization services for businesses to offer tailored experiences to their customers across various channels. | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides cloud browser infrastructure and agents for automated browsing tasks. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Chow Central delivers food from various brands to customers | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Clarm provides AI coworkers to handle manual back-office work for operations teams at large companies | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company sells automated chicken coops with AI camera and app | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| CTGT is an applied interpretability lab that examines the behavior of frontier models and constrains them to complex organizational policy | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Devyce provides a phone system for recruitment teams with features like live call analysis and integration with various CRMs. | Human ResourcesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Dispatch builds and operates space logistics vehicles for cargo return and satellite manufacturing | Space & DefenseAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Dooze joins meetings, understands what you're working on, and then does it for you. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| DrSwarm develops AI agents to automate follow-ups and outreach to patients for healthcare clinics. | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Egoist Machines develops a personal context layer for carrying user preferences, history, and identity across AI apps | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Elyos provides AI agents for field services and trades to automate customer service and business processes. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- sterlingroad.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 89
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