Apertu Capital
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Apertu Capital is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Early stage fund, focused on investing in founders starting up from the open source community. General partners believe that the next $1T of value in SaaS growth will be companies based on open source software. Firm pledges part of partners' own returns to funding contributors to open source. This program includes inviting new contributorsfrom populations currently underrepresented in tech professions.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
- Fund size:
- $5.3M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Apertu Capital invests in
Stages Apertu Capital invests in
Countries Apertu Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
3 more contacts available
Round size
- Seed
- $760k–$6.1M
- Pre-Seed
- $1M–$1.2M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (67%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (33%)
- Analytics 2 (22%)
- Open Source 2 (22%)
- Machine Learning 2 (22%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (44%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (44%)
- Series B 1 (11%)
Country
- United States 6 (67%)
- Canada 1 (11%)
- France 1 (11%)
- Croatia 1 (11%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Don Sheu
Founder and General Partner
|
Founder and General Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Enrico Marini Fichera
Founder
|
Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Graze
|
Graze is a platform designed for creating custom feeds on Bluesky, allowing users to curate their social media experience. The company enables the creation of personalized feeds, community feeds for friend groups, and specialized feeds centered around specific hobbies. | $1M / Pre-Seed / Apr 16, 2025 | |
Probabl
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Probabl is a provider of open-source data science and machine learning solutions to core developers. | $6.1M / Seed / Sep 14, 2024 | |
Metoro
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Metoro is an AI-powered site reliability engineer. Engineers can ask Metoro questions like “Why is my web app down”, Metoro will investigate and return a custom debugging dashboard with the root cause and potential fixes. | $1.2M / Pre-Seed / Sep 06, 2023 | |
Omnisearch
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Omnisearch is an enterprise search service for unstructured data - audio and video, PDF/Word docs, images, presentations, and more. | $760K / Seed / Aug 13, 2023 | |
TransCrypts
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TransCrypts is a tool for Human Resource Departments to automate the issuance of employment and income verification documents using the blockchain. Our proprietary process not only saves HRs time, money, and headache in dealing with compliance but also gives employees total control over how their work information is being shared. | $1M / Pre-Seed / May 01, 2023 | |
Wilderness Labs
|
We have built a hard-tech IoT platform called Meadow that enables regular web and mobile developers to build, professional, secure, embedded applications in a fraction of the time and cost as traditional platforms and then manage those solutions in the field at scale with our Meadow.Cloud SaaS. We’re 4.5 years old, with most of that in stealth. Wedropped our stealth blanket last year and ran a breakaway kickstarter, we’re now post-revenue but still in beta, with customer purchase commitments of more than $2MM for 2021. | $3.3M / Seed / Mar 16, 2023 | |
Farseer
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Farseer is helping companies eliminate manual work, improve accuracy and security, as well as gain new insights in the domain of financial planning and analytics. They specialized in finances, with the robustness of a web application amplified by predictive features. | $1.5M / Seed / Sep 10, 2022 | |
QDC.ai
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QDC combines state-of-the-art Theoretical Computer Science and Quantum-Inspired Algorithms, leveraging the latest research from computational physics and quantum computing. Our product VeloXQ is a cloud-based Middleware designed to solve today’s hardest combinatorial optimization problems. Customers plug us into their data pipeline, and we providethem with real time analytics, simulations and actionable data. | Pre-Seed / Sep 01, 2022 | |
Anaconda
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Anaconda helps organizations simplify, safeguard, and accelerate AI with open source at scale. The Anaconda Platform bridges the gap between experimentation and production, giving teams the speed they need to innovate alongside the security and governance enterprises require. Over 50 million users and 95% of the Fortune 500 trust Anaconda for datascience and AI development. With 21+ billion downloads across a decade of growth, Anaconda operates across hybrid AI environments and cloud platforms including AWS, Databricks, and Snowflake. Learn more at anaconda.com. | $38.5M / Series B / Apr 13, 2021 |
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FAQ
What does Apertu Capital invest in?
Apertu Capital invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 9 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 Apertu Capital's check size?
Apertu Capital typically joins rounds of $760k–$6.1M at Seed and $1M–$1.2M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Apertu Capital participates in.
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Who are the partners at Apertu Capital?
The team at Apertu Capital includes Don Sheu (Founder and General Partner) and Enrico Marini Fichera (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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