Audacious Ventures
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Audacious Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. Partnering with the most ambitious founders in technology and helping them achieve their most audacious goals
- Total investments:
- 35
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 23%
- Fund size:
- $12M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Audacious Ventures invests in
Stages Audacious Ventures invests in
Countries Audacious Ventures invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (26%)
- Information Technology 9 (26%)
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (23%)
- EdTech 2 (6%)
- Internet 2 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 15 (43%)
- Series A 7 (20%)
- Series B 4 (11%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (9%)
- Series C 3 (9%)
Country
- United States 18 (51%)
- United Kingdom 2 (6%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
- Mexico 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Kasey Zhang
Investor
|
Investor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Muzzammil Zaveri
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 17 | Find email | |
Nakul Mandan
Founder / Partner
|
Founder / Partner | Total investments: 39 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lightfield is a software company that develops an AI-native customer relationship management platform. Its CRM captures customer interactions from emails, meetings, calls, Slack, and other systems and organizes them into a contextual model of customer relationships, accounts, opportunities, and contacts. The platform uses AI agents to perform taskssuch as account research, meeting preparation, opportunity qualification, follow-ups, pipeline generation, and customer outreach. Its data model maintains the current state of CRM records as well as the history of changes and interactions over time. Lightfield also provides tools for building agents, automations, and workflows using natural-language prompts, APIs, MCP, and a command-line interface. The platform supports data migration from existing CRM systems and can operate alongside systems such as Salesforce and HubSpot through two-way synchronization. | $47M / Series A / Sep 09, 2026 | ||
| Saris AI is an artificial intelligence company that builds agent-based workflow automation systems for financial institutions, particularly banks and credit unions. The company develops AI “agents” that handle back-office operations such as lending workflows, document processing, compliance checks, data extraction, and internal operational tasks.Its platform integrates directly with existing banking systems like core banking software and loan origination systems, allowing institutions to automate processes without replacing their current infrastructure. The system is designed to reduce manual workload by executing multi-step workflows such as data validation, case handling, and administrative processing while keeping humans in control of approvals and oversight.Saris AI focuses on improving operational efficiency by reducing processing costs and increasing output capacity through automation of repetitive and rules-based tasks. The company positions its technology as a way for financial institutions to streamline operations, improve compliance tracking, and enhance customer service responsiveness. | $28.8M / Series A / May 28, 2026 | ||
| WorkOS provides APIs to make applications enterprise-ready, with pre-built features and integrations required by IT admins. With WorkOS, users can start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. WorkOS was founded in 2019 by Michael Grinich and is based in San Francisco, California, United States. | $100M / Series C / Mar 02, 2026 | ||
| General Legal is an AI-native law firm for the fastest growing companies. | $11.5M / Seed / Feb 04, 2026 | ||
| Maxima is the first agentic AI platform for enterprise accounting to deliver SOX-compliant, real-time close. From journal entries and reconciliations to variance analysis, Maxima automates the most manual and error-prone tasks across record-to-report operations.Already deployed at leading enterprises including Rippling, Scale AI, SpotOn, and BiltRewards, Maxima processes millions of complex transactions with over 90% automation, 100% accuracy, and close cycles reduced by up to 80%.Our team brings together top fintech engineers from Robinhood, Bolt, X.ai, and Facebook with former accountants and auditors from EY, BlackLine, and FloQast to solve a decades-old problem with agent prepared, human reviewed accounting | $30M / Series A / Nov 18, 2025 | ||
| Logic is an AI-powered decision automation platform that enables business teams to automate recurring processes without coding. Founded in 2024 by Steve Krenzel and Jess Garms, Logic helps companies scale decision-making and manual reviews through plain English descriptions that deploy as production-ready automations. | $4.3M / Seed / Oct 20, 2025 | ||
| Convoke is curating high-quality datasets, automating workflows, and building a software platform. | $8.6M / Seed / Aug 19, 2025 | ||
| At Synquery, we’re leveraging the power of AI to revolutionize how our clients access human expertise. Our innovative platform shortens the time required to get answers to your most critical questions from days or weeks to minutes.For experts, Synquery provides an opportunity to seamlessly connect with top clients who value their expertise.Witha focus on providing a frictionless, best-in-class experience for both clients and experts, we empower organizations to tap into expert insights effortlessly, driving smarter decisions at scale.Synquery is backed by Afore Capital and Caesar Ventures. | $5M / Seed / May 01, 2025 | ||
| Gulp is a platform that makes building, configuring, and deploying streaming data pipelines easy. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Mar 12, 2025 | ||
| Tezi is building an Autonomous AI trained by top hiring managers and recruiters to lead the end-to-end hiring process. It proactively sources, screens applications, schedules interviews, collects scorecards, and never drops the ball. | $9M / Seed / Jul 31, 2024 | ||
| See all 35 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Audacious Ventures invest in?
Audacious Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 35 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Audacious Ventures?
The team at Audacious Ventures includes Kasey Zhang (Investor), Muzzammil Zaveri (Partner) and Nakul Mandan (Founder / Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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