# Draft Ventures

> Draft Ventures is a VC fund backing Financial Services and Software. See 36 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 36
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last fund: Sep 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/draft-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/draftvc
- Website: http://draftvc.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/draftvc

Draft Ventures is a technology-based investment fund that specializes in early-stage investments primarily in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles. It also provides operational advice and support to its portfolio companies.Draft Ventures was founded by David Rodriguez and Artia Moghbel in 2015. It is headquartered in San Francisco,California.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Draft Ventures. Shizune tracks 2 team members at Draft Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/draft-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.5M–$6M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.8M–$4.4M |
| Series A | $7.8M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 9 | 25% |
| Software | 7 | 19% |
| Apps | 5 | 14% |
| FinTech | 5 | 14% |
| Blockchain | 5 | 14% |

76 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 42% |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 17% |
| Series A | 5 | 14% |
| Series B | 3 | 8% |
| Angel | 1 | 3% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 26 | 72% |
| Spain | 1 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Estonia | 1 | 3% |
| Germany | 1 | 3% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Artia Moghbel | Co-Founder | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artia-moghbel |
| David Rodriguez | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-rodriguez-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mesta | Mesta, a fintech company changing global payment networks with hybrid fiat and stablecoin payment rails, has launched its cross-border payment platform. | $5.5M | Seed | Sep 30, 2025 |  |
| Bright Harbor | Bright Harbor partners with companies and governments to prepare for and recover from natural disasters.Before a disaster, it delivers risk assessments, data-driven insights, and preparedness strategies to help communities reduce exposure and strengthen resilience.After a disaster, it deploys dedicated recovery advisors and proprietarytechnology to work directly with survivors, guide them through assistance options, secure funding, and support critical decision-making. It gathers real-time insights so leaders can shape recovery timelines and improve outcomes. | $10M | Seed | Aug 26, 2025 |  |
| Bitfinity Network | Bitfinity Network is the creator of a blockchain platform that allows users to generate, stake, and swap tokens on their internet-connected computers. The company's platform specializes in groundbreaking next-generation AMM on the ecosystem, allowing contracts to take control of keys and users with a BTC wallet to stake the asset using itsprotocol. | $7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 11, 2024 |  |
| Jia | Small businesses drive the economy. They deserve to own a piece of it. Jia gives entrepreneurs anywhere in the world power to control their financial destiny. We provide blockchain-based financing to businesses in emerging markets and reward them with ownership, enabling them to create wealth and prosperity for themselves and their communities. | $4.3M | Seed | Apr 26, 2023 |  |
| FinanEx | Our mission is to grow the export volume of small and medium size agribusinesses in Latin America, generating a sustainable impact in their rural communities while increasing export volume to countries with food deficit | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Feb 03, 2023 |  |
| Composer | Composer allows users to build, test, and manage automated investment strategies without writing a line of code. the company was founded in 202 and is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. | $6M | Seed | Sep 14, 2022 |  |
| GreenTrade | GreenTrade is a marketplace for nature-based carbon credits and impact claims. The company accelerates the funding of new carbon projects by turning long-term purchase agreements into digital tradable assets and making them available for corporate buyers today. We're a team of experienced entrepreneurs, transforming the Voluntary Carbon Market($200B by 2050) by introducing the concept of Future Credits. Through long-term offtake agreements (ERPAs) with project developers, we’re securing future supply rights and turning them into digital assets (NFTs). Buyers are mitigating future price and access risk, while developers are able to secure funding for additional projects. Our mission is to mitigate climate change through realizing 1B TONNES OF CARBON CREDITS BY 2030. Short Video about us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVQehoqCv1Y |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 30, 2022 |  |
| Jia | Small businesses drive the economy. They deserve to own a piece of it. Jia gives entrepreneurs anywhere in the world power to control their financial destiny. We provide blockchain-based financing to businesses in emerging markets and reward them with ownership, enabling them to create wealth and prosperity for themselves and their communities. | $4.4M | Pre-Seed | Aug 01, 2022 |  |
| Toucan | Toucan is working to make DeFi work for the planet. |  | Seed | Jun 15, 2022 |  |
| Ghost Financial | Ghost Financial is a comprehensive financing and business services platform to support ghost kitchen and restaurant ventures by offering financial products such as insurance, payroll, credit cards and expansion loans for startup & growing kitchens. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Apr 05, 2022 |  |

10 of 36 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Draft Ventures invest in?

Draft Ventures invests primarily in Financial Services, Software and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 36 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 Draft Ventures's check size?

Draft Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$6M at Seed, $1.8M–$4.4M at Pre-Seed and $7.8M–$30M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Draft Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Draft Ventures?

Public channels for Draft Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Draft Ventures?

The team at Draft Ventures includes Artia Moghbel (Co-Founder) and David Rodriguez (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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