AAL VC
VC Fund
Vancouver, Canada
AAL VC is a VC fund founded by a team of experienced technologists and operators and built on top of a diverse tech community of LPs and experts. AAL VC invests in Seed+ companies across North America and Europe, with a focus on deeply technical founders buidling in AI/ML, devtools, cloud, infra, and open source.
- Total investments:
- 32
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries AAL VC invests in
Stages AAL VC invests in
Countries AAL VC invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$27M
- Pre-Seed
- $100k–$15M
- Series A
- $6.7M–$40M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 16 (50%)
- Software 12 (38%)
- Generative AI 5 (16%)
- Information Technology 5 (16%)
- Developer Tools 4 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 13 (41%)
- Series A 7 (22%)
- Pre-Seed 5 (16%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (9%)
- Series B 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 19 (59%)
- United Kingdom 3 (9%)
- Canada 2 (6%)
- France 1 (3%)
- Luxembourg 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Dmitry Stepanov
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
| GP | Total investments: 2 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| AlgoX2, backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, is a clean-sheet data-streaming platform designed by the team behind the New York Stock Exchange’s trading technology. It is Kafka API compatible with native support for Redis, NATS, and MQTT. AlgoX2 unifies stream processing, connectors, and lakehouse gateways in a single fault-tolerant cluster,delivering up to 10X higher throughput and up to 90% lower TCO than legacy stacks, with ultra-low latency. | $10M / Seed / Sep 30, 2026 | ||
| ZML develops a production inference stack that decouples artificial intelligence workloads from specific proprietary hardware targets. The platform compiles open-source machine learning models directly into optimized code for multiple chip types without using traditional Python runtimes. | $20M / Seed / Jul 08, 2026 | ||
| xmemory is an AI‑focused startup working on advanced, structured memory architectures for AI agents and large‑language‑model (LLM) systems. It provides a specialized AI infrastructure layer that enables AI agents to transition from stateless to stateful by implementing a structured, hierarchical memory architecture. | $4M / Pre-Seed / Mar 18, 2026 | ||
| Laminar is a Information Service providing firm offering an open source platform for observability, analytics, evals and chain management. | $3M / Seed / Mar 16, 2026 | ||
| Algorized is a Swiss-based start-up developing advanced sensing and perception technologies. Impact-driven, its mission is to accelerate human sensing technologies to protect life. The solution is designed for human presence and objects detection, tracking and positioning as well as vital signs monitoring, even through obstacles, and includescomplex processing algorithms for ultra-wideband (UWB) impulse radar sensors. Algorized technology is built for application in a variety of fields from people safety, greener buildings and life-saving technologies through to autonomous vehicles, human machine interaction and consumer electronics. | $13M / Series A / Feb 10, 2026 | ||
| Etched.ai designing specialized chips for language model inference. | $500M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 13, 2026 | ||
| Autonomous is an AI-powered fintech company that helps users manage investments and financial decisions independently. | $15M / Pre-Seed / Jan 07, 2026 | ||
| AlgoX2, backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, is a clean-sheet data-streaming platform designed by the team behind the New York Stock Exchange’s trading technology. It is Kafka API compatible with native support for Redis, NATS, and MQTT. AlgoX2 unifies stream processing, connectors, and lakehouse gateways in a single fault-tolerant cluster,delivering up to 10X higher throughput and up to 90% lower TCO than legacy stacks, with ultra-low latency. | $3.5M / Seed / Oct 08, 2025 | ||
| Zencoder is an innovative AI coding agent platform that enhances software development by enabling developers to leverage embedded AI agents in their workflow, leading to faster product delivery. Zencoder leverages embedded AI agents to improve the code generation of the LLMs and reduce hallucinations through deep syntactic and semantic analysis ofthe developer's repository and the generated code. Further, the agentic workflow helps correct the code generated by the LLMs, giving developers time to focus on high-value tasks. | Seed / Jul 09, 2025 | ||
| 21st dev provides an open-source platform for discovering, sharing, and generating reusable React UI tools for frontend development. | Pre-Seed / Mar 25, 2025 | ||
| See all 32 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does AAL VC invest in?
AAL VC invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Generative AI startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 32 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does AAL VC invest in?
AAL VC typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$27M at Seed, $100k–$15M at Pre-Seed and $6.7M–$40M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not AAL VC's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds AAL VC took part in.
How do I contact AAL VC?
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Who are the partners at AAL VC?
The team at AAL VC includes Dmitry Stepanov (General Partner) and Eugene Mikhaylov (GP). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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