# Align Ventures

> Align Ventures is a VC fund in New York backing E-Commerce and Health Care. See 29 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 29
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 28%
- Fund size: $6.2M
- Last fund: Nov 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/align-ventures
- Website: http://www.align.vc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alignventures

Align Ventures is a seed-stage VC investing in emerging brands and next-gen consumer or retail technologies. The firm identifies emerging brands and consumer technologies that dramatically enhance the consumer experience, and accelerate their development through funding and alignment opportunities with the world’s top brands.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$10M |
| Series A | $7M–$700M |
| Series B | $18M–$170M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 7 | 24% |
| Health Care | 7 | 24% |
| Wellness | 6 | 21% |
| Consumer Goods | 6 | 21% |
| Beauty | 4 | 14% |

42 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 48% |
| Series A | 7 | 24% |
| Series B | 4 | 14% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 7% |
| Series D | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 21 | 72% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ben Bryce | Managing Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-bryce |
| Grant Hosking | Managing Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grant-hosking |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tomo | Tomo is an AI technology company that develops a text-based AI assistant for managing tasks, schedules, reminders, and everyday productivity. | $5M | Seed | Jun 25, 2026 |  |
| California Naturals | California Naturals is a personal care brand that offers clean, safe, and natural goods to everyone at an affordable price, replacing harmful items in bathrooms and homes around the world. |  | Series B | Jun 03, 2026 |  |
| Hark | Hark is an AI lab focused on creating advanced personal intelligence through the combination of foundation models and specialized hardware. The company develops an AI interface through custom hardware and autonomous computing, integrated with multimodal models and highly personalized memory. | $700M | Series A | May 20, 2026 |  |
| RADAR | RADAR is a platform that combines RFID and computer vision to automate and augment retail store processes. Our technology offers unprecedented speed and location accuracy, which allows stores to: 1) Manage inventory efficiently through automated inventory counts, improved in-store replenishment, and instantaneous customer stock checks. 2) Measureall customer-product interactions, giving physical stores the same insight into consumer behavior and product performance as online stores. 3) Eliminate checkout lines altogether through our autonomous checkout tool.RADAR was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, NY, USA. | $170M | Series B | May 19, 2026 |  |
| Radiant | Radiant is a technology company that develops portable nuclear microreactors designed to generate electricity and heat in a compact, factory-built form. The company’s flagship product, Kaleidos, is engineered to be transportable to customer sites and to replace traditional power sources such as diesel generators for applications including backuppower and continuous energy supply. Radiant manages design, assembly, fueling, and testing of its reactors with a focus on modular deployment and energy generation without on-site water requirements. It also undertakes infrastructure planning for reactor production facilities to support broader availability of its microreactors. Radiant engages with regulatory processes and industry partners to advance testing and commercialization of its nuclear energy solutions. | $300M | Series D | Dec 17, 2025 |  |
| Scout AI | Scout AI is building the robotic foundation model for defense. | $15M | Seed | Apr 16, 2025 |  |
| California Naturals | California Naturals is a personal care brand that offers clean, safe, and natural goods to everyone at an affordable price, replacing harmful items in bathrooms and homes around the world. | $21M | Series A | Oct 01, 2024 |  |
| Jinx | Jinx is a dog wellness brand that primarily sells dog foods online. It delivers optimal nutritional health dogs need to eat a high-quality protein medley from both animal and plant sources in the right proportions. Jinx online shop provides nutrition options with purposeful ingredients that they can recognize.The company was founded in 2019 witha mission to build a community of like-minded dog parents that take pride in how they care and connect with their fur babies. | $17.9M | Series B | Aug 17, 2023 |  |
| RADAR | RADAR is a platform that combines RFID and computer vision to automate and augment retail store processes. Our technology offers unprecedented speed and location accuracy, which allows stores to: 1) Manage inventory efficiently through automated inventory counts, improved in-store replenishment, and instantaneous customer stock checks. 2) Measureall customer-product interactions, giving physical stores the same insight into consumer behavior and product performance as online stores. 3) Eliminate checkout lines altogether through our autonomous checkout tool.RADAR was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, NY, USA. | $30M | Series A | Jul 13, 2023 |  |
| RADAR | RADAR is a platform that combines RFID and computer vision to automate and augment retail store processes. Our technology offers unprecedented speed and location accuracy, which allows stores to: 1) Manage inventory efficiently through automated inventory counts, improved in-store replenishment, and instantaneous customer stock checks. 2) Measureall customer-product interactions, giving physical stores the same insight into consumer behavior and product performance as online stores. 3) Eliminate checkout lines altogether through our autonomous checkout tool.RADAR was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, NY, USA. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | May 03, 2023 |  |

10 of 29 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Align Ventures invest in?

Align Ventures invests primarily in E-Commerce, Health Care and Wellness startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 29 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 Align Ventures's check size?

Align Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$10M at Seed, $7M–$700M at Series A and $18M–$170M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Align Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Align Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Align Ventures?

The team at Align Ventures includes Ben Bryce (Managing Partner) and Grant Hosking (Managing Partner). 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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