# Burst Capital

> Burst Capital is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 53 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 53
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 2%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/burstcapital
- Website: https://burst.llc

Burst Capital is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Burst Capital has a wide network of other execs, founders, and investors. The firm typically invests in the Seed or Series A rounds of software and service companies, primarily those with the marketplace and SaaS business models. Burst Capital was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California, United States.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 14 | 26% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 15% |
| Wellness | 6 | 11% |
| Health Care | 6 | 11% |
| SaaS | 4 | 8% |

80 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 22 | 42% |
| Seed | 20 | 38% |
| Series B | 5 | 9% |
| Series C | 2 | 4% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 34 | 64% |
| Canada | 2 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Weave | Weave resloves engineering tasks by merging large language models with targeted machine learning. | $13.5M | Series A | Jul 28, 2026 |  |
| Hostie | Hostie is an AI-first customer experience platform designed for restaurants, automating guest inquiries, reservations, and takeout orders. We proudly partner with some of the world’s top restaurants, including Flour + Water, Nisei, Slanted Door, ILIS, and more. Co-founded by a product designer-turned-restaurateur and an AI engineer, Hostie blendshospitality expertise with cutting-edge technology to enhance restaurant operations. | $12M | Series A | Jul 08, 2026 |  |
| Namespace Labs | Namespace accelerates the development workflow of fast-moving software engineering teams. | $15M | Series A | Mar 23, 2026 |  |
| Honey Health | HoneyHealth is a Diabetes self-management platform that provides health data insights and information from Diabetes experts and leaders. | $7.8M | Seed | Oct 27, 2025 |  |
| Ava Financial | Ava Financial is a fintech company that offers a mobile app-based credit-building platform aimed at individuals looking to establish or improve their credit history. Its main products include the Ava Credit Builder Card, which features a credit line usable at select streaming and online merchant platforms, and the Save & Build Credit Account, asmall secured loan program where users make monthly payments for 12 months and receive a cash refund at the end of the term. The company reports on-time payment history to all three major U.S. credit bureaus—and claims to help users begin seeing credit score improvements quickly, often within days after enrollment. Users link a checking account, pay a monthly subscription fee, and are encouraged to keep credit utilization low. | $15.5M | Seed | Oct 24, 2025 |  |
| Woz | Woz is an AI platform where anyone can create and grow software enterprises without knowing any code. | $6M | Seed | Oct 15, 2025 |  |
| Courtyard | Courtyard is a platform that provides liquidity to collectible assets via physically backed NFTs. It allows ownership of physical collectibles to be instantly and securely transferred anywhere in the world via NFTs, without the physical item itself having to be moved. Connected Collectibles - a new, frictionless way of storing and trading physicalgoods - is redefining physical asset ownership. | $30M | Series A | Jul 24, 2025 |  |
| Hostie | Hostie is an AI-first customer experience platform designed for restaurants, automating guest inquiries, reservations, and takeout orders. We proudly partner with some of the world’s top restaurants, including Flour + Water, Nisei, Slanted Door, ILIS, and more. Co-founded by a product designer-turned-restaurateur and an AI engineer, Hostie blendshospitality expertise with cutting-edge technology to enhance restaurant operations. | $4M | Seed | Apr 29, 2025 |  |
| Pickle | Pickle is a rental marketplace that aims to monetize the billions of underutilized assets sitting in consumers closets and brand inventory. Our users can easily tap into shared closets within their community through flexible and/or on-demand delivery options (i.e. UberEats style door-to-door delivery). Our goal is to provide affordable andconvenient access to quality items exactly when our users need them. | $12M | Series A | Mar 12, 2025 |  |
| Baton Market | The team at Baton is building a marketplace to enable SMB acquisitions with tools to help business owners unlock liquidity and let buyers access this gigantic, fragmented asset class. They are angling to be the Zillow of SMB acquisitions. | $10M | Series A | Jan 21, 2025 |  |

10 of 53 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Canvas Prime](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canvas-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Craft Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craft-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Version One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/version-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [FirstMark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firstmark-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Scribble Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scribble-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Spero Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spero-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Burst Capital invest in?

Burst Capital invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Wellness startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 53 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 Burst Capital last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Burst Capital closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 53 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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