Drive Capital
VC Fund
Columbus, United States
Drive Capital is a VC fund in Columbus focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Drive Capital invests in innovative technology, healthcare, and consumer companies in the Midwest. The firm is looking for innovative entrepreneurs addressing big market opportunities. Its goal is to partner with entrepreneurs that have audacious goals and strive to build large sustainable companies. The firm seeks to invest in informationtechnology, financial services, and mobile sectors.It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.
- Total investments:
- 180
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 57%
- Fund size:
- $100M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Drive Capital invests in
Stages Drive Capital invests in
Countries Drive Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 13 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$13M
- Series A
- $5M–$22M
- Series B
- $12M–$54M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 35 (19%)
- Artificial Intelligence 28 (16%)
- Health Care 16 (9%)
- Machine Learning 16 (9%)
- Information Technology 13 (7%)
Stage
- Series A 40 (22%)
- Series B 36 (20%)
- Seed 19 (11%)
- Series C 15 (8%)
- Pre-Seed 12 (7%)
Country
- United States 82 (46%)
- Canada 14 (8%)
- Israel 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Chris Olsen
Co-Founder & Partner
|
Co-Founder & Partner | Total investments: 26 | Find email | |
John Volquez
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Andy Jenks
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 18 | Find email | |
Isabel Chirase
VP of Finance
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VP of Finance | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Marianne Bulger
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 13 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vecna Robotics offers automated material handling, hybrid fulfillment, and workflow optimization solutions. The company aims to revolutionize customer productivity by delivering the best automation technologies. By placing workflows over robots, the company ensures that all parts and players complement each other. | $31M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 09, 2026 | ||
| Nanogram is an AI-powered gaming startup that creates an instant prompt-to-game platform, allowing anyone to build and share interactive short-form video games. Frequently described as "TikTok for mobile games," the company delivers an endless, vertical social feed of byte-sized, zero-download games that players swipe through and playinstantly. | $2.2M / Pre-Seed / Jul 30, 2026 | ||
| KOHO Financial provides an application based banking platform intended to simplify financial products available to everyone. Its platform helps users to complete their day to day banking operations while offering tools such as goals, cash flow projections, group spending, spending insights, and categorizations, enabling users to manage theirexpenses and banking operations on the go. | $93.2M / Series E / Jun 10, 2026 | ||
| VAST Data is a software company bringing an end to complex storage tiering and unlocking the ability to use flash across the enterprise. Its managed storage software unlocks the value of data and modernizes data centers in preparation for the era of AI computing. It delivers real-time performance to all data and overcomes the historic cost barriersto building all-flash data centers.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York. | $1B / Series F / Apr 09, 2026 | ||
| Humanly’s conversational AI engages with every single candidate. By automating the repetitive candidate screening and selection tasks, you reclaim valuable time. And by creating visibility into the interview, you make more confident and equitable hiring decisions using clear-cut evidence. The company was founded in 2019 and is Co-Headquartered inSeattle, Washington , and Sacramento, California. | $25M / Series B / Apr 08, 2026 | ||
| Normal is rethinking semiconductors from the ground up.Normal EDA - Normal deploys AI software to accelerate complex hardware engineering with zero defects – all in one unified EDA platform.Normal ASICs - With the help of Normal EDA, and our closest semiconductor partners, we are building thermodynamic computing hardware that could reduce AIenergy consumption by 1000x.Normal helps enterprises deploy AI into their highest-stakes applications, where AI can reason reliably, autonomously understand its own limits. Normal’s AI application development platform is powered by a novel full-stack probabilistic machine learning infrastructure driven by thermodynamic physics. | $50M / Series B / Mar 25, 2026 | ||
| Conduit Health provides telehealth DME access and telepsychiatry consultations, connecting patients and providers online. | $21.9M / Series A / Mar 17, 2026 | ||
| Yolando provides services in AI visibility management, brand knowledge modeling, and go-to-market execution. It helps companies align how AI interprets their brand with how people experience it. The platform monitors and maintains consistency of brand representation across different AI touchpoints. Yolando supports companies in managing AI-driveninteractions and brand information. | $8.5M / Seed / Jan 26, 2026 | ||
| Founded in 2021, Birdseye is an ecommerce analytics platform that enables growing Shopify brands to significantly improve their marketing and advertising efforts. By providing a central database, easy-to-use visualization tools, AI-driven analysis, and recommendations, Birdseye simplifies and streamlines data-driven decision making into a single,comprehensive dashboard. With its ability to provide sophisticated insights, along with detailed, step-by-step implementation instructions, Birdseye empowers stakeholders at all levels to improve their marketing performance. Birdseye is dedicated to transforming static reports into actionable and profitable opportunities, and is poised to be the leading ecommerce software provider for Shopify and ecommerce businesses. To learn more, https://www.birdseyeglobal.com | $5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 26, 2026 | ||
| Alpaca is a financial technology company that provides developer-first APIs and brokerage infrastructure for programmatic access to stock, options, and cryptocurrency markets, enabling businesses and individual traders to integrate trading and investing capabilities into their applications. Its platform offers REST, WebSocket, and event-driveninterfaces that support algorithmic trading, automated strategy execution, real-time market data, backtesting, and portfolio management workflows. Alpaca’s services also include brokerage account functionality, clearing and settlement services, and tools that allow firms to embed investing features into their products or to build custom trading systems on top of its API-centric architecture. The company supports global fintech partners with solutions such as tokenization, high-yield cash programs, multi-leg options trading, and advanced order types that align with diverse trading and investment use cases. Its technology is used by developers, quant traders, fintech platforms, and financial institutions seeking programmable market access and integrated financial services. | $150M / Series D / Jan 14, 2026 | ||
| See all 180 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Drive Capital invest in?
Drive Capital invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Health Care startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 180 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 Drive Capital's check size?
Drive Capital typically joins rounds of $1M–$13M at Seed, $5M–$22M at Series A and $12M–$54M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Drive Capital participates in.
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Who are the partners at Drive Capital?
The team at Drive Capital includes Chris Olsen (Co-Founder & Partner), John Volquez (Partner) and Andy Jenks (Partner), among 13 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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