# Acequia Capital (AceCap)

> Acequia Capital (AceCap) is a VC fund backing Software. See 297 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 297
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 5%
- Fund size: $4M
- Last fund: Jun 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acequia-capital/
- Website: http://acecap.com/

Acequia Capital (AceCap) is a VC fund in Seattle focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. The Acequia Capital partnership and distributed network is agile, diversified, and market tested. We are at the center of a global ecosystem that attracts and fuels the technical founders and product teams building the next wave of global businesses.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$8.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $575k–$3.3M |
| Series A | $4.9M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 72 | 24% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 44 | 15% |
| Information Technology | 36 | 12% |
| Machine Learning | 24 | 8% |
| Biotechnology | 21 | 7% |

251 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 148 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 45 | 15% |
| Series A | 37 | 12% |
| Convertible Note | 12 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 9 | 3% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 108 | 36% |
| United Kingdom | 38 | 13% |
| France | 15 | 5% |
| Germany | 9 | 3% |
| Switzerland | 9 | 3% |

24 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fritz Lanman | Angel Investor | 49 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fritz-lanman |
| Hank Vigil | Co-Founder, General Partner | 39 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hank-vigil |
| Leif Danielsen | General Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leif-danielsen |
| Rauten Hofmeyr | COO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rauten-hofmeyr |
| Rio Caraeff | Venture Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rio-caraeff |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Devplan | Devplan is an AI-powered workspace for product development teams, transforming ideas into execution-ready plans by integrating with tools like GitHub, Linear, Jira, and company docs. | $2.5M | Seed | Jun 18, 2026 |  |
| Applied Atomics, Inc. | Co-located nuclear power plants to unlock the next 1,000 years of advanced industry. | $8.3M | Seed | Mar 25, 2026 |  |
| Rapidata | Rapidata is a data processing platform that offers human-verified innovative data labeling and data processing services at scale. | $8.5M | Seed | Feb 19, 2026 |  |
| Corintis | Corintis develops cooling technologies for high performance semiconductors. | $24M | Series A | Sep 25, 2025 |  |
| Hyperdrives | Hyperdrives is a deep-tech engineering company that specializes in super-efficient, highly power-dense, and yet low-cost electric drive systems. | $3.5M | Pre-Seed | Sep 01, 2025 |  |
| Tracelight | Tracelight is an AI-powered Excel add-in that enhances financial modeling by enabling users to generate formulas from natural language, check for errors, and interact with models using plain English. It helps financial professionals save time, reduce errors, and work more efficiently while maintaining security and data privacy. | $3.6M | Seed | Aug 07, 2025 |  |
| Arago | Arago develops a computing system that uses photonic technology to accelerate core operations in artificial intelligence and scientific computing. The company focuses on enhancing matrix multiplication performance, a key computational component in modern AI models, by using light-based processes rather than traditional electronic circuits. Itssystem integrates a PyTorch-based software stack with a multi-physics processor that handles tasks with cubic complexity, while a digital processor manages remaining operations with quadratic complexity. This hybrid approach maximizes memory transfer efficiency and processing capacity. The system supports industry-standard form factors, allowing for integration into existing hardware infrastructure without requiring significant changes. | $26M | Seed | Jul 08, 2025 |  |
| sensmore | Sensmore develops embodied physical AI and VLAM systems for use in heavy machinery. Its technologies are applied in sectors such as mining, construction, and related industries. The company focuses on enabling autonomous operations by integrating AI with machinery to support decision-making and navigation in complex environments. It designs itssystems to function under conditions where traditional automation methods may be limited. These solutions contribute to operational efficiency and reduce reliance on manual control. | $7.3M |  | May 20, 2025 |  |
| Loki Robotics | Loki Robotics builds robotic infrastructure for autonomous facility management using robots and AI. Loki cleans airports, shopping malls, factories and data centers using robots that clean like humans and achieve true lab-grade cleaning quality where general purpose robots fail. Facility managers and building service contractors use Loki to reduceoperating costs, increase service uptime, and eliminate dependence on an increasingly scarce labor pool. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | May 19, 2025 |  |
| Rainmaker Technology | Rainmaker employs cutting-edge technology to generate rain, replenish water sources, and address drought challenges in a sustainable and effective manner. | $25M | Series A | May 05, 2025 |  |

10 of 297 investments shown.

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- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 24 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Acequia Capital (AceCap) invest in?

Acequia Capital (AceCap) invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 297 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Acequia Capital (AceCap)'s check size?

Acequia Capital (AceCap) typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$8.3M at Seed, $575k–$3.3M at Pre-Seed and $4.9M–$25M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Acequia Capital (AceCap) participates in.

### How do I contact Acequia Capital (AceCap)?

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### Who are the partners at Acequia Capital (AceCap)?

The team at Acequia Capital (AceCap) includes Fritz Lanman (Angel Investor), Hank Vigil (Co-Founder, General Partner) and Leif Danielsen (General Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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