# Brandon Hoffman

> Brandon Hoffman is a seed investor at Sunset Ventures backing Artificial Intelligence. See 52 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Sunset Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sunset-ventures-c665)
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 52
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bdhoffman
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/BrandonDHoffman
- Website: https://x.com/BrandonHoffman_

Brandon Hoffman is a seed investor at Sunset Ventures in Los Angeles focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Brandon Hoffman - Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Sunset Ventures

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 13 | 25% |
| Software | 12 | 23% |
| Financial Services | 9 | 17% |
| Cryptocurrency | 8 | 15% |
| FinTech | 7 | 13% |

95 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 12 | 23% |
| Series A | 11 | 21% |
| Convertible Note | 3 | 6% |
| Series B | 2 | 4% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 40 | 77% |
| Singapore | 2 | 4% |
| Estonia | 1 | 2% |
| Argentina | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HABIT | HABIT is a software that develops robots for various neighborhood services with intelligent robotics. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Jun 11, 2025 |  |
| Hemut | Hemut is a Software Development firm offering logistics software for freight coordination. |  | Seed | Jun 04, 2025 |  |
| Clouted | Unlocking infinite scale for creators through digital twins. | $4.5M | Seed | Oct 04, 2024 |  |
| Capitol AI | Capitol is an AI platform that offers health data solutions for healthcare insurers. The company brings data modeling, AI-powered visualization, collaboration, and storytelling to business users. It helps healthcare organizations make critical decisions by unlocking their data scientists and empowering business users. The company’s Data StoriesPlatform creates visually driven tools that bypass decision bottlenecks by automating insights that drive action.Capitol was founded in 2021 and is based in New York, USA. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Sep 25, 2024 |  |
| Luthor | Luthor drives demand for startups by generating and optimizing on-brand digital marketing content at scale. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Sep 08, 2024 |  |
| Kindo | Kindo elevates the workforce by providing the only truly open AI platform for all businesses. | $20.6M | Series A | Jul 15, 2024 |  |
| sync.labs | sync. labs is an artificial intelligence company that specializes in synchronizing a video to audio in any languages. | $5.5M | Seed | Jul 07, 2024 |  |
| Mine | Fizz is building a debit card that helps college students in the U.S. started building out their credit without having to learn lessons about overzealous credit use the hard way. | $14.4M | Seed | Jun 06, 2024 |  |
| Starlight Charging | Starlight Charging makes and installs electric vehicle chargers that are low cost, reliable, and simple to use. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Apr 03, 2024 |  |
| sync.labs | sync. labs is an artificial intelligence company that specializes in synchronizing a video to audio in any languages. | $500K | Seed | Apr 03, 2024 |  |

10 of 52 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Diverse Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/diverse-angels) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Animoca Brands](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animoca-brands-corporation) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Seven Seven Six](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seven-seven-six) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Commerce Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/commerce-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Sunset Ventures

VC Fund · Los Angeles, United States

Investing at the intersection of frontier technology and consumer internet

3 contacts available at Sunset Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brandon Hoffman | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brandon-hoffman-29f2 |
| Sabrina Peterson | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sabrina-peterson |
| Antonio Key | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antonio-key-69c3 |

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## FAQ

### What does Brandon Hoffman invest in?

Brandon Hoffman invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 52 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Brandon Hoffman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Brandon Hoffman closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 52 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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