# BAM Ventures

> BAM Ventures is a VC fund in Los Angeles backing E-Commerce and Software. See 151 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 151
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 3%
- Fund size: $20M
- Last fund: Dec 2017
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bam-ventures-llc/about/
- Website: http://bam.vc

BAM Ventures is a VC fund in Los Angeles focused on E-Commerce and Software. LA-based early-stage fund backing the next rising technologies, products, and services that delight consumers and transform commerce.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for BAM Ventures. Shizune tracks 4 team members at BAM Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/bam-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$7M |
| Pre-Seed | $600k–$2.3M |
| Series A | $5M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 35 | 23% |
| Software | 17 | 11% |
| Retail | 15 | 10% |
| Internet | 12 | 8% |
| Health Care | 11 | 7% |

155 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 81 | 54% |
| Series A | 23 | 15% |
| Pre-Seed | 18 | 12% |
| Series B | 5 | 3% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 2% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 105 | 70% |
| South Korea | 3 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Singapore | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Maurice Maschmeyer | Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maurice-maschmeyer |
| Shamin Walsh | Managing Director | 82 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shamin-walsh |
| Brian Lee | Co-Founder & Managing Director | 46 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-lee |
| Richard Jun | Co Founder & Managing Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-jun |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Good Bacteria | Good Bacteria manufactures and sells probiotic supplements and functional health products. | $3.2M | Seed | Jan 29, 2026 |  |
| The Realest | The Realest is an online auction website that offers next-generation authentication standard and marketplace for entertainment memorabilia. | $12M | Series A | Jan 28, 2026 |  |
| CRED | CRED provides predictive intelligence software that enables enterprises to make data-driven decisions by integrating internal business systems with real-time external market signals. Our platform combines real-time data on 200 M+ companies with predictive models to help businesses identify which prospects will convert, which customers might churn,and when competitors are vulnerable. | $15M | Seed | Jun 30, 2025 |  |
| Nectar Social | Nectar is the first agentic social commerce technology that converts organic channels into measurable, high-converting income streams. Nectar's best-in-class intelligence and analytics enable organizations to be proactive with their audiences, uncovering insights that drive action while also boosting trust, loyalty, and growth. | $10.6M | Seed | Jun 05, 2025 |  |
| Videa | VideaHealth is offers dentistAI’s software automatically detects pathologies in dental imaging, helping dentists avoid missing diseases and effectively communicating treatment recommendations to patients. Today, dentists miss up to 50% of pathologies in dental x-rays. Treatment delays or non-treatment often results in significant health risks forthe patient and a loss of revenue for the dentists as he cannot treat missed diseases. | $40M | Series B | Jan 28, 2025 |  |
| Locker Corp. | Connecting people to their passions by building online marketplaces for niche sports communities. | $700K | Seed | Jan 15, 2025 |  |
| Trillion Labs | Trillion Labs operates as an AI company. | $4.2M | Seed | Aug 02, 2024 |  |
| Locker Corp. | Connecting people to their passions by building online marketplaces for niche sports communities. | $500K | Seed | Apr 30, 2024 |  |
| Sway | Sway offers regenerative design solutions for plastic pollution using seaweed to create compostable replacements for single-use plastics. The company was co-founded by Julia Marsh, Matt Mayes, and Leland Maschmeyer and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $5M | Seed | Dec 05, 2023 |  |
| Nectar AI | Nectar is an AI powered social commerce platform that helps brands scale comms and drive conversions through messaging. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Oct 26, 2023 |  |

10 of 151 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Forerunner](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forerunner-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does BAM Ventures invest in?

BAM Ventures invests primarily in E-Commerce, Software and Retail startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 151 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 BAM Ventures's check size?

BAM Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$7M at Seed, $600k–$2.3M at Pre-Seed and $5M–$15M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds BAM Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact BAM Ventures?

Public channels for BAM Ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at BAM Ventures?

The team at BAM Ventures includes Maurice Maschmeyer (Investor), Shamin Walsh (Managing Director) and Brian Lee (Co-Founder & Managing Director). 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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