# Authentic Ventures

> Authentic Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oakland, United States
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last fund: Aug 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/authenticventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/authenticvc
- Website: http://www.authentic-ventures.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authenticventuresvc

Authentic Ventures (AV) is a seed and early stage Venture Capital Firm that believes that a strong, inclusive network of founders, operators and investors can accomplish great things. They have a particular interest in women and minority founders that are solving hard problems. They use their diverse network of talent to help their companies andeach other succeed.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 22% |
| Machine Learning | 5 | 19% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 15% |
| SaaS | 3 | 11% |

48 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 16 | 59% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 15% |
| Series B | 4 | 15% |
| Series A | 3 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 17 | 63% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lindsay Lee | Founder and Managing Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lindsay-lee |
| Michael Nichols | Venture Operations Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-nichols |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Keygraph | Keygraph develops an AI-driven cybersecurity and compliance platform that unifies identity management, device management, and application security into a single system. The platform aggregates users, devices, applications, and code into a connected “security graph,” enabling organizations to manage access controls, monitor risks, and enforcesecurity policies with full contextual visibility. Its solution includes capabilities such as identity governance, mobile device management, and automated compliance workflows for standards like SOC 2, allowing teams to streamline audit preparation and maintain continuous compliance. The platform also incorporates application security tools, including static analysis, software composition analysis, and AI-driven penetration testing that identifies and validates exploitable vulnerabilities in real time. |  | Seed | Oct 02, 2025 |  |
| Cerebrium | Cerebrium offers a no-code analytics and AI platform alongside serverless infrastructure for deploying and scaling AI models. It enables businesses to connect multiple data sources, such as Shopify, Google Ads, and Zendesk, with no engineering effort required. Automatically, data is cleaned and visualized through prebuilt dashboards andcustomizable metrics. Simultaneously, its serverless GPU infrastructure supports real-time LLMs, agents, vision models, and voice applications, delivering low-latency performance, auto-scaling, multi-region deployment, and per-second billing. Use cases include real‑time AI commentators, voice bots, and training avatars for simulations. The platform streamlines both analytics and AI application deployment without requiring code or DevOps expertise. | $8.5M | Seed | Jul 06, 2025 |  |
| Wander | Wander is a platform that allows users to book smart homes for their next workcation, vacation, or anything in-between. Wander is a startup that builds infrastructure to experience the world. The company was founded by John Andrew Entwistle. | $50M | Series B | May 28, 2025 |  |
| Carrot Credit | Carrot Credit is a financial services company that provides line of credit to the customers and businesses. | $4.2M | Seed | May 22, 2025 |  |
| Juxta | Juxta builds first-of-its-kind software that helps hospitals optimize the flow of patients, staff, and resources throughout their facilities. By incorporating intuitive geospatial programs into everyday operations, Juxta equips admin with a suite of unique analytics that help them make valuable choices for their hospitals. | $500K | Pre-Seed | May 12, 2024 |  |
| Wicked Saints Studios | Wicked Saints Studios develops a game studio platform using behavioral technology to create interactive media. Its technology is combined with narrative augmented reality (AR) experience for a generation that cares about their mental health. | $3.5M | Seed | Sep 13, 2023 |  |
| SendOwl | SendOwl is a software company that develops tools for selling digital products through social media and blogs. | $9M | Seed | Feb 16, 2023 |  |
| Humans Anonymous | Humans Anonymous is an anonymous live audio platform that facilitates safe spaces for communities of people with similar life experiences to share their struggles, get advice, and support each other. | $1.7M | Seed | Sep 02, 2022 |  |
| Humans Anonymous | Humans Anonymous is an anonymous live audio platform that facilitates safe spaces for communities of people with similar life experiences to share their struggles, get advice, and support each other. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Sep 02, 2022 |  |
| Credit Mountain | Credit Mountain is a fintech startup founded in 2020 and is based in Dallas, TX | $3.7M | Seed | Aug 29, 2022 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Redpoint](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redpoint-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Backend Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backend-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Predictive](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/predictive-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Adapt Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adapt-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Advection Growth Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/advection-growth-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Authentic Ventures invest in?

Authentic Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Authentic Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Authentic Ventures?

The team at Authentic Ventures includes Lindsay Lee (Founder and Managing Partner) and Michael Nichols (Venture Operations Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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