Banter Capital
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Banter Capital is an early stage venture capital fund focused on backing founders who are unusual, surprising, curious, and ambitious. It is the distillation of a near decade apprenticeship working under the mentorship of some of the best venture capitalists of all time.
- Total investments:
- 32
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 3%
Last updated:
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Industries Banter Capital invests in
Stages Banter Capital invests in
Countries Banter Capital invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $2.2M–$12M
- Pre-Seed
- $3.1M–$3.3M
- Series A
- $18M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 8 (25%)
- Blockchain 7 (22%)
- Artificial Intelligence 6 (19%)
- Financial Services 4 (13%)
- Gaming 3 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 23 (72%)
- Series A 4 (13%)
- Pre-Seed 3 (9%)
- Funding Round 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 16 (50%)
- Israel 2 (6%)
- India 1 (3%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
- Poland 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Queue
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Queue is a healthcare technology company that develops automated robotic pharmacy systems designed to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of medication dispensing. The company builds robotic solutions that automate prescription fulfillment and pharmacy workflows, helping healthcare providers, hospitals, and pharmacies reduce manualdispensing tasks, minimize medication errors, and increase operational efficiency. Its technology is intended to modernize pharmacy operations while enabling pharmacists to spend more time on direct patient care.The company's platform integrates robotics, software, and workflow automation to manage medication storage, dispensing, inventory tracking, and prescription processing. By automating repetitive and labor-intensive pharmacy tasks, Queue helps healthcare organizations improve dispensing accuracy, optimize inventory management, reduce waste, and accelerate prescription fulfillment while maintaining compliance with medication safety standards.In addition to its robotic dispensing systems, Queue provides software that enables real-time monitoring of pharmacy operations, inventory management, reporting, and integration with existing healthcare and pharmacy information systems. Its solutions are designed for use in retail pharmacies, hospitals, and other healthcare settings seeking to improve medication management through automation. | $12.6M / Seed / Jul 01, 2026 | |
Podium Automation
|
Podium Automation offers a no-code industrial automation platform that connects factory equipment, sensors, and software systems into unified workflows. The company focuses on replacing manual, spreadsheet-based processes with configurable digital workflows tailored to manufacturing operations. Its tools let operations and engineering teams buildautomations for tasks such as production tracking, quality checks, material flow, and equipment monitoring without custom code. Podium Automation integrates data from machines and existing systems to create real-time visibility into shop-floor performance. The platform supports alerts, dashboards, and workflow logic that help coordinate people, machines, and data across the plant. This approach aims to shorten deployment time for automation projects and make continuous process improvement more accessible to manufacturing teams. | $18M / Series A / Jun 15, 2026 | |
LightTable
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LightTable is a software company that specializes in designing documents and fewer RFIs for architects and construction. | $22M / Series A / May 27, 2026 | |
Barnwell Bio
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Barnwell Bio analyzes waste streams for insights into animal health and farm management. | $6M / Seed / Jan 26, 2026 | |
Muse Software
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Muse Software operates as an operations management platform, built for museums and zoos. | $4.5M / Seed / Nov 12, 2025 | |
Omen AI
|
Omen AI develops an AI-powered asset intelligence platform that monitors equipment health through real-time fluid analysis and predictive diagnostics. The company provides sensor technology and portable testing systems that analyze fluids in machinery to identify wear, contamination, and potential equipment issues before failures occur. Omen AIcombines hardware sensors with AI-driven data analysis to help organizations monitor industrial machines and infrastructure systems. The platform supports applications such as industrial equipment maintenance and data center fluid monitoring by providing continuous insights into machine conditions. | $10.5M / Seed / Oct 01, 2025 | |
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LightTable
|
LightTable is a software company that specializes in designing documents and fewer RFIs for architects and construction. | $6M / Seed / Aug 19, 2025 | |
Andrenam
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Andrenam is a defense technology and artificial intelligence company that develops an AI-powered distributed maritime sensing network for persistent underwater and surface domain awareness. The company builds autonomous acoustic sensing systems that detect, classify, and track maritime activity in real time, providing continuous intelligence fordefense, maritime security, and autonomous naval operations. Founded by former aerospace engineers, Andrenam focuses on strengthening maritime situational awareness through scalable, networked sensing infrastructure.Its platform combines AI-powered sonar processing, distributed acoustic sensing, edge and cloud computing, autonomous sensor networks, real-time data streaming, underwater target detection, and maritime intelligence into a unified system. Andrenam's Pearl smart buoys continuously collect and transmit acoustic data, enabling operators to detect and track submarines, unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), and other maritime assets with low-latency analytics. The platform integrates AI-driven signal processing with distributed hardware to support persistent monitoring across large maritime environments. | $10M / Seed / Jun 16, 2025 | |
Northwood Space
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Northwood Space is a hardware solution that dramatically increases the number of orbits and frequency bands available for satellite communications from the ground. | $30M / Series A / Apr 22, 2025 | |
Gallatin
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Gallatin is building a logistics platform based on the needs and constraints of today's defense industry. Gallatin's platform creates actionable insights across the tactical, operational, and strategic levels providing integrated capabilities for first, middle, and last mile solutions where they're needed most. | $15M / Seed / Apr 08, 2025 | |
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FAQ
What does Banter Capital invest in?
Banter Capital invests primarily in Software, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 32 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 Banter Capital's check size?
Banter Capital typically joins rounds of $2.2M–$12M at Seed, $3.1M–$3.3M at Pre-Seed and $18M–$30M 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 Banter Capital participates in.
When did Banter Capital last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Banter Capital closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 32 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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