# Cacti

> Cacti is a VC fund in New York backing Software and Machine Learning. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cactiventures
- Website: https://cacti.vc

Cacti is a New York based firm making investments throughout the SaaS, fintech, crypto, and gambling sectors

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 60% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 40% |
| GPU | 1 | 20% |
| Internet | 1 | 20% |
| Robotics | 1 | 20% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |
| Series E | 1 | 20% |
| Series F | 1 | 20% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 40% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 20% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Tomsovic | General Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-tomsovic |
| Dhruv Hooda | General partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dhruv-hooda |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Shield AI | Shield AI is an enterprise-focused company specializing in AI-powered mission autonomy, developing and deploying advanced autonomous systems for defense and security. The company builds AI pilots that operate aircraft and drones, enabling autonomous flight in environments where communication and GPS may be unavailable. Its platform supports missionplanning, navigation, and real-time decision-making for aerial systems used in reconnaissance and operational tasks. Shield AI also integrates hardware and software components to deploy autonomous capabilities across different types of unmanned systems. The company works with government and defense organizations to support missions that require autonomous operation and data-driven coordination. | $240M | Series F | Mar 06, 2025 |  |
| Fluidstack | FluidStack is a GPU cloud for AI companies. FluidStack specialises in providing compute at scale to companies like Meta, Character AI, Midjourney, and Poolside. Whilst offering private clusters for longer-term workloads requiring 2000+ GPUs such as large LLM training, users are also able to access over 50,000 GPUs including NVIDIA A100s, H100s andmore, from 100s of DCs around the world onto a single cloud platform. | $200M | Series A | Feb 01, 2025 |  |
| Fluidstack | FluidStack is a GPU cloud for AI companies. FluidStack specialises in providing compute at scale to companies like Meta, Character AI, Midjourney, and Poolside. Whilst offering private clusters for longer-term workloads requiring 2000+ GPUs such as large LLM training, users are also able to access over 50,000 GPUs including NVIDIA A100s, H100s andmore, from 100s of DCs around the world onto a single cloud platform. |  | Private Equity | Oct 01, 2024 |  |
| Fluidstack | FluidStack is a GPU cloud for AI companies. FluidStack specialises in providing compute at scale to companies like Meta, Character AI, Midjourney, and Poolside. Whilst offering private clusters for longer-term workloads requiring 2000+ GPUs such as large LLM training, users are also able to access over 50,000 GPUs including NVIDIA A100s, H100s andmore, from 100s of DCs around the world onto a single cloud platform. | $24.7M | Seed | Oct 01, 2024 |  |
| Glean | Glean develops an AI-based search engine software that connects enterprise data and generates answers through a tool in any company. It provides an AI assistant and enterprise search platform called Workplace Search that connects to internal data sources to help employees find information and answer questions. The platform uses advanced search,retrieval, augmented generation, and large language models to generate personalized answers grounded in. | $260M | Series E | Sep 10, 2024 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Craft Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craft-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DST Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-sky-technologies-fo) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Cacti invest in?

Cacti invests primarily in Software, Machine Learning and GPU startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Cacti?

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### Who are the partners at Cacti?

The team at Cacti includes Alex Tomsovic (General Partner) and Dhruv Hooda (General partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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