# Factorial Capital

> Factorial Capital is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 34 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brooklyn, United States
- Total investments: 34
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last fund: Oct 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/factorialcap
- Website: http://factorialcap.com/

Factorial Capital is a VC fund in Brooklyn focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Factorial is an investment business.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Factorial Capital. Shizune tracks 2 team members at Factorial Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/factorial-1ad8?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 15 | 44% |
| Software | 9 | 26% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 21% |
| Machine Learning | 4 | 12% |
| Internet | 3 | 9% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 38% |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 26% |
| Series A | 9 | 26% |
| Series B | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 15 | 44% |
| France | 3 | 9% |
| Spain | 1 | 3% |
| Israel | 1 | 3% |
| Germany | 1 | 3% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Matthew Hartman | Managing Partner and Founder | 20 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthew-hartman |
| Ryan Fink | Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-fink |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Patronus AI | Patronus AI develops simulation research and infrastructure aimed at accelerating the progress towards human-aligned artificial general intelligence (AGI). The company provides evaluation models and tools designed to detect issues such as hallucinations, safety risks, and reasoning failures, as well as support custom evaluation workflows. PatronusAI also offers datasets, benchmarking capabilities, and automated evaluators for text, image, and multimodal AI applications. In addition, it conducts research on digital world models and simulation environments intended to support the training and assessment of increasingly capable AI agents. | $50M | Series B | Jun 25, 2026 |  |
| NanoCo AI | NanoCo AI is an Israeli startup that builds enterprise AI agents for real organizations, focused on security and human oversight. The company created NanoClaw, an open-source secure AI agent platform with ~29K GitHub stars. | $12M | Seed | May 20, 2026 |  |
| Nas Daily |  | $27M | Series A | Apr 16, 2026 |  |
| Symbiotic Security | Symbiotic Security is a Cybersecurity Solution | $10M | Seed | Jan 22, 2026 |  |
| Boltz | Boltz, PBC is a public-benefit AI research company whose mission is to enable every scientist to reshape biology and create a healthier, more sustainable future. Its state-of-the-art AI models are used by leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies for biomolecular structure prediction, affinity estimation, and generative design across multiplemodalities. | $28M | Seed | Jan 08, 2026 |  |
| Oboe | Oboe is an AI-powered educational platform that offers resources for learning. | $16M | Series A | Dec 10, 2025 |  |
| UMA (Universal Mechanical Assistant) | UMA design general-purpose mobile and humanoid robots with human-level dexterity and a sophisticated grasp of the physical world. |  | Seed | Dec 01, 2025 |  |
| Beside | Beside is an app that provides users with a dedicated second phone number for calls and texts. It includes AI-driven voicemail transcription, call summaries, and actionable to-dos for conversations. It also supports integration with tools like CRM systems and automation platforms to sync call data and notes. | $20M | Series A | Oct 29, 2025 |  |
| Resolvd | Automate your dev workflows with AI | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Aug 04, 2025 |  |
| Lightpanda | Lightpanda is a Software Development firm offering an AI browser for fast web scraping and automation. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 10, 2025 |  |

10 of 34 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Betaworks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/betaworks) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [BoxGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxgroup) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Homebrew](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/homebrew-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Karman Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karman-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Factorial Capital invest in?

Factorial Capital invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 34 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Factorial Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Factorial Capital?

The team at Factorial Capital includes Matthew Hartman (Managing Partner and Founder) and Ryan Fink (Investor). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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