# Buckley Ventures

> Buckley Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 63 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 63
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 37%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/buckleyventures/
- X (Twitter): https://mobile.twitter.com/BuckleyVentures/with_replies
- Website: https://www.buckleyventures.com

Buckley Ventures is a venture capital firm founded by Josh Buckley.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $4.2M–$20M |
| Series A | $12M–$33M |
| Series B | $19M–$220M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 11 | 17% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 9 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 8% |
| Internet | 4 | 6% |
| Analytics | 4 | 6% |

71 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 26 | 41% |
| Series A | 10 | 16% |
| Series B | 7 | 11% |
| Series C | 4 | 6% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 31 | 49% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 5% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Pakistan | 1 | 2% |
| El Salvador | 1 | 2% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Josh Buckley | Founder | 76 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/josh-buckley |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Foundational Industries | Foundational Industries develops, finances, and operates autonomous manufacturing facilities for contract manufacturing. Its factories use AI-enabled robotics and a unified factory operating layer to coordinate activities from product design through production. The company serves businesses that require domestic production and manufacturingcapacity for critical components and products. | $25M | Seed | Jul 30, 2026 |  |
| Foundation Industries | Foundation Industries provides manufacturing technology and services focused on fast, low-volume, high-mix CNC machining for hard tech companies. The company offers an online portal where engineering teams can upload designs, define specifications, and receive transparent quotes for custom components. Its system supports domestic production runswith turnaround times as short as two days for qualifying orders. Foundation Industries focuses on helping hardware teams move efficiently from design to production by simplifying quoting, ordering, and tracking in one place. The company serves deep tech and physical engineering organizations that need rapid prototyping and small-batch production of precision-machined parts. Its services are intended to reduce lead times, increase predictability, and support the development and launch of complex hardware systems. | $25M | Seed | Jul 30, 2026 |  |
| Drafted | Drafted.ai is an AI-powered platform that creates personalized home floor plans and layouts based on user inputs, including room count, style, and preferences. | $16M | Seed | May 29, 2026 |  |
| Fractile | Fractile is building chips to run large language models two orders of magnitude faster. Existing hardware is good for training LLMs, but very poorly suited to subsequent inference of the trained model, which is increasingly the dominant workload. A network’s weights need to be moved onto a chip once per word generated, and this movement takes a fewhundred times longer than the subsequent computations themselves. Fractile’s revolutionary approach to fusing computation with memory eliminates this bottleneck, and can scale to allow running the world’s largest models at a global scale. | $220M | Series B | May 13, 2026 |  |
| Project Omega | Project Omega is a Rhode Island-based nuclear startup that converts spent nuclear fuel into compact, long-lasting batteries for military uses like wearables, sensors, and drones. | $12M | Seed | Feb 11, 2026 |  |
| Aerolensec | Aerolensec provides an AI safety layer for airside operations, combining voice, radar, and video intelligence to detect anomalies and coordinate rapid response. The platform enables real-time radio transcription with intent recognition and conflict alerts, fuses aircraft, ground crew, and vehicle trajectories to identify restricted-zone incursions,and automates SOP-driven dispatch and incident handling. With post-event compliance modules aligned to FAA and ICAO standards, Aerolensec delivers a multimodal, low-latency edge computing solution that enhances operational safety, reduces runway incursion incidents, and shortens response times for airports, ground service providers, and airline operations control centers. | $4.2M | Seed | Nov 08, 2025 |  |
| Jabbr | Jabbr allows to capture boxing matches with a virtual video production.Its goal is to make video production and advanced performance analytics in combat sports available to anyone with a smartphone. | $5M | Seed | Oct 16, 2025 |  |
| Antimetal | Making cloud savings automated, effortless, and risk-free Start saving in 2 minutes; no code or engineering is required. | $20M | Series A | Jun 12, 2025 |  |
| Biosynch.ai | BioSynch AI is an AI native drug discovery company that turns early drug R&D into an engineering workflow, combining advanced machine learning models, very large biological datasets, and an integrated wet lab, to design and advance new medicines faster and with higher odds of success. | $4.2M | Seed | Apr 06, 2025 |  |
| Parasail | Parasail is an AI deployment networking company that provides AI products to builders and innovators for secure compute. | $10M | Seed | Apr 02, 2025 |  |

10 of 63 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Hyper](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyper-406a) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [WndrCo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wndrco-llc) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Abstract](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-list-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [SOSV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sosv) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Earl Grey Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/earl-grey-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Buckley Ventures invest in?

Buckley Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 63 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 Buckley Ventures's check size?

Buckley Ventures typically joins rounds of $4.2M–$20M at Seed, $12M–$33M at Series A and $19M–$220M 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 Buckley Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Buckley Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Buckley Ventures?

The team at Buckley Ventures includes Josh Buckley (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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