# Anne Dwane

> Anne Dwane is a seed investor at Village Global backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 49 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Village Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/village-global-2)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 49
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 35%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dwane
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/adwane
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/anne.dwane

Anne Dwane is a seed investor at Village Global in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Anne is an early stage investor with experience as a tech company founder, venture-backed CEO and public company executive. Prior to her current role at Village, Anne was Co-Founder & Partner of GSV Acceleration Fund. This early stage venture capital fund backs entrepreneurs leveraging technology to improve learning and talent developmentfrom K-12 through higher education and career advancement. Previously, Anne was Chief Business Officer at Chegg. Anne joined Chegg with the acquisition of Zinch, which enabled millions of students to showcase themselves as "more than test scores" to be matched with colleges, scholarships, grad schools and more. Previously, Anne co-founded Military.com to connect service members and veterans to benefits, including GI Bill and career networking. Military.com was acquired by Monster Worldwide, where she led affinity networks. Prior, Anne was in business development at Paul Allen's Interval Research Corporation and in brand management for Nabisco. She holds a bachelor's degree in Marketing & International Management from Georgetown University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Anne is co-author of Getting In: The Zinch Guide to College Admissions & Financial Aid in the Digital Age (Wiley 2011). She was named a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 18 | 37% |
| Software | 13 | 27% |
| Machine Learning | 10 | 20% |
| SaaS | 7 | 14% |
| Business Intelligence | 6 | 12% |

80 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 24 | 49% |
| Pre-Seed | 17 | 35% |
| Series A | 2 | 4% |
| Angel | 1 | 2% |
| Series D | 1 | 2% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 27 | 55% |
| India | 3 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 4% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Eyebot | Eyebot develops eye examination technologies and manufactures eyeglasses that remove barriers to getting vision care. | $20M | Series A | Aug 26, 2025 |  |
| Forethought | Launched in 2018, Forethought is a generative AI for customer service automation to maximize efficiency and productivity. Forethought’s products enable seamless customer experiences by infusing generative AI, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), at each stage of the customer support journey: resolving common cases instantly, predicting andprioritizing cases, and assisting agents with relevant knowledge. | $25M | Series D | May 13, 2025 |  |
| 1Fort AI | The only cyber insurance and security solution designed to give businesses digital peace of mind – all in a few clicks, no tech expertise needed. | $9.9M | Seed | Apr 17, 2025 |  |
| Breakout | Breakout is the always available agentic workforce that grows your inbound pipeline by Delivering personalized conversations to every website visitor Showing live demos based on the conversation Giving actionable insights to the GTM team on what your website visitors are looking for | $3.3M | Seed | Feb 27, 2025 |  |
| Flower | Flower Computer Company creates technology that turns everyday objects like flowers into interconnected computers. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Sep 28, 2024 |  |
| P-1 AI | P-1 AI is a technology company focused on developing an artificial general engineering intelligence (AGEI) designed to help humanity design physical systems with far greater efficiency and complexity than currently possible. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 30, 2024 |  |
| Eyebot | Eyebot develops eye examination technologies and manufactures eyeglasses that remove barriers to getting vision care. | $6M | Seed | Jun 06, 2024 |  |
| Angel AI Company | Angel AI Company is an AI platform that offers kids between the ages of five and twelve an age-appropriate online experience. | $4.8M | Seed | May 16, 2024 |  |
| AngelQ | A safer and smarter portal to your child's digital world. Angel is a new way for children to interact with the digital world. With Angel’s unique AI technology, content is dynamically translated and filtered to ensure all online interactions are age-appropriate. Kids love it. Parents helped design it. | $4.8M | Seed | May 16, 2024 |  |
| Excarta | Excarta is a cloud-based weather intelligence platform that places AI at the core of its offering, transforming the way businesses anticipate, prepare for, and react to weather-related risks. | $2.5M | Seed | Dec 19, 2023 |  |

10 of 49 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Baukunst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baukunst) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Baseline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baseline-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Cooley](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cooley-llp) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Adapt Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adapt-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Boston Seed Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boston-seed-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Village Global

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Village Global is an early stage venture capital firm backed by some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs.

5 contacts available at Village Global.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brianne Kimmel | Network Leader | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brianne-kimmel |
| Adam Corey | Co-Founder and Operating Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-corey-e560 |
| Anne Dwane | Co-Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anne-dwane |
| Ben Casnocha | Co-Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-casnocha |
| Erik Torenberg | Co-Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erik-torenberg |

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## FAQ

### What does Anne Dwane invest in?

Anne Dwane invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 49 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Anne Dwane last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Anne Dwane closed in Aug 2025. Shizune tracks 49 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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