# 1745 Ventures

> 1745 Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 212 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 212
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 13%
- Fund size: $63M
- Last fund: Mar 2006
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bdmi
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/BDMIFund
- Website: http://www.bdmifund.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bdmifund

1745 Ventures is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. BDMI is a venture capital firm headquartered in New York focused on innovative digital media technologies, products, and distribution channels in North America, Europe and Israel. BDMI concentrates on early stage investments in the digital media landscape. The company focuses predominantly on Series A and B investments, but also has a seed fundthat includes about 20 companies. The initial investment range is from $500k to $3m. We look for opportunities where we can accelerate growth through BDMI’s financial and management resources and close connectivity with one or more Bertelsmann divisions. With consolidated revenues of over $25 billion, Bertelsmann is an international media company encompassing television (RTL Group), book publishing (Penguin Random House), magazine publishing (Gruner + Jahr), music (BMG) and media services (Arvato) in more than 60 countries. Due to the vast resources of Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA, BDMI is an investor that provides not only capital, but can also support startups by using its network of diverse contacts at Bertelsmann and in the broader media world.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$6M |
| Series A | $3.2M–$20M |
| Series B | $4M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 39 | 18% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 25 | 12% |
| Advertising | 24 | 11% |
| Internet | 21 | 10% |
| E-Commerce | 21 | 10% |

188 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 74 | 35% |
| Series A | 46 | 22% |
| Series B | 25 | 12% |
| Funding Round | 17 | 8% |
| Series C | 11 | 5% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 126 | 59% |
| Germany | 7 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 7 | 3% |
| Spain | 3 | 1% |
| Canada | 3 | 1% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sim Blaustein | Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sim-blaustein |
| Daniel Bok | VC Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-bok |
| Urs Cete | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 16 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/urs-cete |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sensity AI | The Visual Threat Intelligence Platform. Deep learning for monitoring and detecting #deepfakes. | $2.1M |  | Jan 15, 2026 |  |
| Fractional AI | Fractional AI builds bespoke gen AI software to transform businesses. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2026 |  |
| Zoe Financial | Zoe Financial helps its customers find an independent and fiduciary financial advisor. Zoe Financial screens the experts to ensure that they will provide the client with the right advice in the right manner. Because financial help extends beyond just the numbers. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States. | $29.6M | Series B | Apr 29, 2025 |  |
| Jeeva.ai | Jeeva.ai is an AI-powered platform that provides automated lead discovery, data enrichment, and outreach services. | $8.3M | Series A | Apr 04, 2025 |  |
| Rain | Rain provides infrastructure for stablecoin-powered payments and financial products for businesses. The company builds APIs and tools that let partners create and manage digital wallets, embed stablecoin accounts, and issue payment cards that connect blockchain settlement with traditional payment networks like Visa. Its platform supports money-inand money-out flows, fiat-to-stablecoin conversion, and compliance features so enterprises and financial platforms can integrate digital money use cases directly into their products. Rain’s technology is modular, enabling firms to pick components such as card issuance, wallet services, and cross-border payouts based on their needs. | $24.5M | Series A | Mar 24, 2025 |  |
| Jukebox Health | Jukebox Health empowers older adults and people with disabilities to live safer, healthier, more independent lives at home. The Company partners with Medicaid & Medicare plans to identify and address home safety risks, reducing the $500B a year spent on long term care. Jukebox delivers environmental modifications at scale by leveraging itstechnology platform and national networks of vetted occupational therapists, accessibility product suppliers, and installers. | $20.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 28, 2025 |  |
| Spikerz | End-to-end security SaaS platform for digital and social assets. | $7M | Seed | Jan 16, 2025 |  |
| Rembrand | Rembrand offers online marketing, social media marketing, newsletter, display advertising, content marketing, digital annual report, digital couponing, brand strategy, brand creation, brand revitalization, brand design, brand experience, employer branding, SEM, SEO, SEA, and more services. | $23M | Series A | Jan 02, 2025 |  |
| Ocular AI | Ocular is a Cloud and Artificial Intelligence company, backed by Y Combinator, bringing Enterprise AI and Search to the Workplace and Engineering. | $2M | Seed | Nov 10, 2024 |  |
| TollBit | TollBit is a content monetization platform that allows AI bots and data scrapers to pay websites directly to license their content and protects the health of the entire content ecosystem. | $24M | Series A | Oct 22, 2024 |  |

10 of 212 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does 1745 Ventures invest in?

1745 Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Advertising startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 212 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 1745 Ventures's check size?

1745 Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$6M at Seed, $3.2M–$20M at Series A and $4M–$30M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds 1745 Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact 1745 Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at 1745 Ventures?

The team at 1745 Ventures includes Sim Blaustein (Partner), Daniel Bok (VC Investor) and Urs Cete (Co-Founder & Managing Partner). 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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