Dream Machine
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Dream Machine is an oppotinistic seed fund, interested in AI, voice, AR, VR, IoT, and blockchain.It is founded by Alexia Bonatsos, the former co-editor-in-chief of TechCrunch and one of the earliest reporters to write about Whatsapp, Uber, Airbnb, and Pinterest.With Dream MAchine, she hopes to help exceptional founders make science fictionnon-fiction.
- Total investments:
- 18
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Dream Machine invests in
Stages Dream Machine invests in
Countries Dream Machine invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.3M–$6M
- Pre-Seed
- $850k–$1.7M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (28%)
- Social Media 5 (28%)
- Mobile Apps 3 (17%)
- Apps 2 (11%)
- Internet 2 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 12 (67%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (11%)
- Series A 1 (6%)
- Funding Round 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 11 (61%)
- France 2 (11%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alexia Bonatsos
Founder, Managing Director
|
Founder, Managing Director | Total investments: 5 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Airbuds is social music software meant to bring users together through music experiences. | $5M / Seed / Sep 17, 2025 | ||
| Ghost Message enables users to send an anonymous message to pals in a group chat to flirt, make jokes, or pose queries. | $8M / Seed / Mar 15, 2023 | ||
| Wellen is on a mission to support active aging and empower women to live longer, stronger and healthier lives. Half of women over the age of 50 will break a bone due to osteoporosis, and osteoporotic fractures result in over $57B in societal costs. Wellen’s program is designed to change these statistics. Wellen’s active aging platform(www.getwellen.com) offers personalized, science-backed fitness programs that help women build and maintain strong bones. Its Well Guide offers a constant stream of holistic, expert-reviewed content that complements its fitness program with nutritional, exercise and lifestyle information to help support bone health throughout the lifespan and fight osteopenia and osteoporosis. | $1.7M / Pre-Seed / Jan 15, 2022 | ||
| OneRoof connects people living in the same building to form a resourceful, fun, and supportive neighbor community. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. | $1.3M / Seed / Oct 28, 2021 | ||
| Somewhere Good is a social platform centered around identity and community. | $3.8M / Seed / May 18, 2021 | ||
| Lobus is aiming to commoditize blockchain tech with an asset management platform that they hope can bring creator-friendly mechanisms from NFT marketplaces like SuperRare to the physical art world as well, allowing art owners to maintain partial ownership of the works they sell so that they can benefit from secondary transactions down the line. | $6M / Seed / Apr 29, 2021 | ||
| Newness is focused on building differentiated tools and features that work well for the beauty streamer market in particular. | $3.5M / Seed / Feb 26, 2021 | ||
| Like Reddit, for listening. Listen to your favorite articles, podcasts, audiobooks, and people, with Audyo. | $850K / Pre-Seed / Feb 10, 2021 | ||
| Lobus is aiming to commoditize blockchain tech with an asset management platform that they hope can bring creator-friendly mechanisms from NFT marketplaces like SuperRare to the physical art world as well, allowing art owners to maintain partial ownership of the works they sell so that they can benefit from secondary transactions down the line. | Seed / Apr 07, 2020 | ||
| YOLO is an app to send and receive anonymous messages on Snapchat. | $8M / Series A / Feb 28, 2020 | ||
| See all 18 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Dream Machine invest in?
Dream Machine invests primarily in Software, Social Media and Mobile Apps startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Dream Machine invest in?
Dream Machine typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$6M at Seed and $850k–$1.7M at Pre-Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Dream Machine's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Dream Machine took part in.
How do I contact Dream Machine?
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Who are the partners at Dream Machine?
The team at Dream Machine includes Alexia Bonatsos (Founder, Managing Director). 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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