Pathlight Ventures
VC Fund
Pathlight Ventures is a VC fund focused on FinTech and Software. Exponent Founders Capital is an investment firm.
- Total investments:
- 54
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 19%
- Fund size:
- $2.5M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Pathlight Ventures invests in
Stages Pathlight Ventures invests in
Countries Pathlight Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2.7M–$6.3M
- Series A
- $6.3M–$27M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $10M–$575M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 19 (35%)
- Software 19 (35%)
- Financial Services 17 (31%)
- Artificial Intelligence 11 (20%)
- SaaS 8 (15%)
Stage
- Series A 19 (35%)
- Seed 15 (28%)
- Series B 6 (11%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 5 (9%)
- Series C 4 (7%)
Country
- United States 40 (74%)
- Canada 2 (4%)
- Brazil 1 (2%)
- France 1 (2%)
- Mexico 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Charley Ma
Managing Partner & Co-Founder
|
Managing Partner & Co-Founder | Total investments: 23 | Find email | |
Mahdi Raza
Managing Partner & Co-Founder
|
Managing Partner & Co-Founder | Total investments: 3 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adaptive Real Estate helps construction teams save time and money. Lots of it. | $30M / Series B / Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| Petra Labs is the platform enterprises rely on to manage and improve how they show up in AI-powered search, combining technology with hands-on execution. The platform monitors brand visibility across generative engines, analyzes where and how companies are cited, and identifies high-value prompts to track at scale. Petra Labs delivers customizedattribution models tailored to enterprise needs, connecting AI search presence to pipeline, traffic, and revenue signals. In addition to software, Petra Labs provides hands-on services to action insights, implement optimizations, and continuously improve AI search performance. | $5.2M / Seed / Jul 22, 2026 | ||
| Uniti AI develops artificial intelligence agents designed to assist real estate professionals by engaging, qualifying, and scheduling leads through various communication channels, including email, SMS, WhatsApp, and website chat, operating around the clock. The platform offers customization options, allowing users to tailor qualificationquestions, messaging styles, and escalation protocols without requiring coding skills. Uniti AI's solutions cater to diverse real estate sectors such as self-storage, coworking spaces, multifamily housing, brokerages, and event venues. By automating routine tasks, the company aims to enable human teams to focus on strategic, high-value activities. | $12M / Series A / Jul 21, 2026 | ||
| Hadrius develops compliance management software for financial services firms that helps organizations oversee regulatory requirements through a unified platform. Its platform supports functions such as marketing review, communications archiving, trade surveillance, employee oversight, code of ethics management, and compliance programadministration. The software uses artificial intelligence to automate compliance workflows, monitor communications and trading activity, and generate documentation for regulatory reviews. It is designed for broker-dealers, registered investment advisers, private funds, and compliance consulting firms that are subject to SEC and FINRA regulations. Hadrius also provides centralized tools that help organizations manage policies, supervision activities, risk monitoring, and audit records within a single system. | $22M / Series A / Jul 14, 2026 | ||
| Doss provides an adaptive resource platform (ARP) that integrates core business functions such as inventory management, procurement, sales orders and billing, accounting, warehousing, and production planning into a unified system. The platform includes a workflow editor, allowing users to automate processes and configure workflows tailored to theiroperations. Doss also offers DataStudio, a feature that enables users to create dashboards and monitor sales analytics, production metrics, and operational KPIs without the need for separate business intelligence tools. The system supports integration with digital tools, facilitating the aggregation of orders across point-of-sale systems and synchronization of data from third-party sources and warehouses. Doss serves various industries, including industrials, consumer goods, food and beverage, construction, distribution, and cosmetics, providing a centralized solution for managing complex operations. | $55M / Series B / Mar 24, 2026 | ||
| Artie is an open source solution that provides real-time database replication. Artie leverages change data capture (CDC) and stream processing to sync databases and data warehouses in real-time. We are open source and offer a managed version of our solution! Check out our GitHub at https://github.com/artie-labs/transfer | $15.1M / Series A / Jan 22, 2026 | ||
| AI-native EHR and practice management system with real-time patient monitoring for private practices and therapy networks. Increase your efficiency via automated documentation, scheduling, billing, and teletherapy— all while leveraging advanced data from patients to personalize care. | $4M / Seed / Jan 06, 2026 | ||
| Volca is a company that offers an AI-powered marketing platform tailored for home services businesses. Its core product is an SMS-based referral system that utilizes artificial intelligence to automatically communicate via text messages with homeowners, match them to the appropriate business systems within a CRM, and facilitate automated referralmarketing. | $5.5M / Seed / Jul 23, 2025 | ||
| Ramp is a financial technology company that develops software for corporate spend management, finance operations, and business payments. The company provides an integrated platform that combines corporate cards, expense management, accounts payable automation, procurement, travel booking, reimbursements, treasury services, and accountingautomation. Its software is designed to help organizations manage business spending, streamline financial workflows, and centralize finance operations within a single system. The platform enables businesses to issue and manage corporate cards, process vendor payments, track expenses, handle employee reimbursements, and automate accounting processes. It also incorporates artificial intelligence capabilities that assist with receipt matching, transaction categorization, policy enforcement, approval workflows, and financial reporting. These features are intended to reduce manual administrative work and improve visibility into organizational spending. | $200M / Series E / Jun 14, 2025 | ||
| Code Four is a GovTech company that uses Artificial intelligence for law enforcement through AI-driven automation. | $2.7M / Seed / Jun 11, 2025 | ||
| See all 54 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Pathlight Ventures invest in?
Pathlight Ventures invests primarily in FinTech, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 54 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 Pathlight Ventures's check size?
Pathlight Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.7M–$6.3M at Seed, $6.3M–$27M at Series A and $10M–$575M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Pathlight Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Pathlight Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Pathlight Ventures?
The team at Pathlight Ventures includes Charley Ma (Managing Partner & Co-Founder) and Mahdi Raza (Managing Partner & Co-Founder). 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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