# Dream Machine

> Dream Machine is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Software and Social Media. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last fund: Dec 2017
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/dreammachinevc
- Website: https://www.dreammachine.vc

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$6M |
| Pre-Seed | $850k–$1.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 28% |
| Social Media | 5 | 28% |
| Mobile Apps | 3 | 17% |
| Apps | 2 | 11% |
| Internet | 2 | 11% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 11% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 61% |
| France | 2 | 11% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alexia Bonatsos | Founder, Managing Director | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexia-bonatsos |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Airbuds | Airbuds is social music software meant to bring users together through music experiences. | $5M | Seed | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| Ghost Message | 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 | 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 | 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 | Somewhere Good is a social platform centered around identity and community. | $3.8M | Seed | May 18, 2021 |  |
| Lobus | 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 |  | Apr 29, 2021 |  |
| Lobus | 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 | 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 |  |
| Audyo | Like Reddit, for listening. Listen to your favorite articles, podcasts, audiobooks, and people, with Audyo. | $850K | Pre-Seed | Feb 10, 2021 |  |
| Lobus | 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 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Shrug Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shrug-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Upside Partnership](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/upside-partnership) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Weekend Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/weekend-fund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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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 is Dream Machine's check size?

Dream Machine typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$6M at Seed and $850k–$1.7M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Dream Machine participates in.

### How do I contact Dream Machine?

Public channels for Dream Machine include 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 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 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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