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Venture Guides
Venture capital · Boston, MA, United States · North America
Venture Guides is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage enterprise software companies and actively guides its portfolio companies. It maintains a concentrated portfolio of 15-20 companies and runs a tech sales training program for recent graduates that supplies sales candidates to its portfolio.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningCybersecurity
In its own wordscloud infrastructuresecurityaidataenterprise softwarego-to-market
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Or find every investor that fitsVenture Guides lists 21 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 7 funding rounds, 4 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 43% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (37%), Cybersecurity (37%) and Enterprise Software (13%). 90% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Capri Ventures, Mango Capital and Y Combinator.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Venture Guides, 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 Venture Guides' whole history. Rounds on record name 7 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 | 43% |
| Series A | 43% |
| Series B | 14% |
| 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 | 2 | 2 |
| '26 | 5 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 53th | 21 companies |
| Recent activity | 86th | 5 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 67th | 43% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 94th | 24% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 68th | 37% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 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% |
| Cybersecurity | 37% | 4% |
| Enterprise Software | 13% | 8% |
| Fintech | 5% | 12% |
| Media & Entertainment | 3% | 4% |
| Consumer | 3% | 3% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 3% | 6% |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2095%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company15%
- 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.
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Capri Ventures | 2 |
| Mango Capital | 2 |
| Y Combinator | 2 |
| .406 Ventures | 1 |
| 6 Degrees Capital | 1 |
| Armory Square Ventures | 1 |
| Basecamp Fund | 1 |
| Battery Ventures | 1 |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Venture Guides 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 Venture Guides| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Aug 2026 | Series B | |
| 17 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 21 Apr 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 20 Jan 2026 | Series A | |
| 14 Jan 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 30 Oct 2025 | Seed Led |
Round details for Venture Guides
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Venture Guides' 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assail develops and provides autonomous offensive AI for application security testing and offensive cyber operations. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Cedana provides live migration for CPU and GPU containers | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Clarity Security provides autonomous identity governance solutions to manage and secure identities across various environments. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Compyl provides a platform for governance, risk, and compliance management | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| ElastiFlow provides observability for modern networks, allowing organizations to manage, optimize, and secure their complex networks, | CybersecurityEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Elastio investigates and recovers from compromise and ransomware attacks on various platforms | Cybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | |||
| Genesis Computing develops and deploys AI data agents for enterprises to migrate legacy systems, build and operate pipelines, and resolve failures. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Jun 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| EON anticipates what agents will do next to make them reliable, cheaper and faster by reducing repetition in tasks. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Hoop.dev provides runtime controls for AI agents, allowing them to access real data while judging every agent action and enforcing rules to prevent data exfiltration or other security risks. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Oct 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| IO River provides virtual edge solutions and content delivery network (CDN) management services | Media & EntertainmentCybersecurity | Jan 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Memcyco provides real-time digital impersonation and account takeover fraud protection | CybersecurityFintech | Jan 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Odigos records what runs inside every service, live, with nothing in your code, to provide evidence for engineers, AI agents, and security teams | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Plural provides AI for infrastructure, helping companies manage and automate their infrastructure operations. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Precog extracts and combines business data into an intelligence layer for analytics and AI workflows | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Ray Security provides a platform to control and manage AI agents that access a company's data | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| SpartanX provides a platform for autonomous exposure management, continuously mapping and testing a company's attack surface to identify vulnerabilities. | Cybersecurity | Apr 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| TensorMem makes memory a first-class infrastructure layer for AI inference | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| VibeIQ provides a platform for creating product lines for apparel and consumer goods companies. | ConsumerE-commerce & Marketplaces | Aug 2026Series B | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- ventureguides.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 16 Sept 2025
- 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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