Firebolt Ventures
VC Fund
Menlo Park, United States
Firebolt Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. The firm focuses on early-stage and seed-stage investments in companies that operate within the industries involved with digital media, mobile, software, e-commerce, and information technology. Moreover, the firm takes an algorithmic approach to investing.FireboltVentures was started in 2014 by Cherian Mathew.
- Total investments:
- 97
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 1%
- Fund size:
- $25M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Firebolt Ventures invests in
Stages Firebolt Ventures invests in
Countries Firebolt Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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4 more contacts available
Round size
- Seed
- $3M–$11M
- Series A
- $9.8M–$21M
- Series B
- $15M–$65M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 27 (28%)
- Artificial Intelligence 16 (16%)
- FinTech 13 (13%)
- Financial Services 13 (13%)
- Information Technology 13 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 38 (39%)
- Series A 28 (29%)
- Series B 9 (9%)
- Series C 3 (3%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (2%)
Country
- United States 62 (64%)
- United Kingdom 2 (2%)
- India 1 (1%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
- Poland 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Cherian Mathew
Founder & Partner
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Founder & Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email |
Investments
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Straiker builds AI-native security solutions tp protect customers from a spectrum of security & safety risks. | $64M / Series A / Jun 29, 2026 | |
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Wealth.com provides an artificial intelligence-powered estate and tax planning platform designed for financial advisors, enabling them to deliver structured, ongoing wealth planning services to clients. The company’s software integrates estate planning, tax analysis, and financial data into a single system that supports the creation, management,and continuous optimization of wealth strategies. Its core platform allows advisors to generate legal estate planning documents such as wills, trusts, and powers of attorney, while also offering tools to visualize wealth transfer scenarios and model long-term outcomes. The system includes a client portal where individuals can upload documents, track assets, and collaborate with advisors and other professionals involved in their financial planning. | $65M / Series B / Apr 16, 2026 | |
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Verified Operating System for Modern Nation States Modveon is developing a validated operating system for intelligence-driven services, safe communication, trusted communities, and contemporary money transfer. | $10M / Seed / Feb 09, 2026 | |
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Ava Financial is a fintech company that offers a mobile app-based credit-building platform aimed at individuals looking to establish or improve their credit history. Its main products include the Ava Credit Builder Card, which features a credit line usable at select streaming and online merchant platforms, and the Save & Build Credit Account, asmall secured loan program where users make monthly payments for 12 months and receive a cash refund at the end of the term. The company reports on-time payment history to all three major U.S. credit bureaus—and claims to help users begin seeing credit score improvements quickly, often within days after enrollment. Users link a checking account, pay a monthly subscription fee, and are encouraged to keep credit utilization low. | $15.5M / Seed / Oct 24, 2025 | |
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SEON is the AI command center for fraud prevention and AML compliance. Thousands of companies worldwide trust us to stop fraud without slowing growth.Our platform powers smarter risk decisions by enriching customer profiles, flagging suspicious behavior and managing compliance workflows all in one place. Unlike competitors relying on stale,third-party data, SEON runs on 900+ proprietary, real-time data signals for broader coverage and higher precision.SEON's AI detects hidden fraud networks, builds rules and drafts suspicious activity reports. Teams can also connect their own AI tools, from ChatGPT to Claude to custom agents, directly to SEON's risk data to build their own agentic investigation workflows.We’re trusted by innovators like Revolut, Wise and thousands of others scaling securely into new products and markets. | $80M / Series C / Sep 16, 2025 | |
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Wealth.com provides an artificial intelligence-powered estate and tax planning platform designed for financial advisors, enabling them to deliver structured, ongoing wealth planning services to clients. The company’s software integrates estate planning, tax analysis, and financial data into a single system that supports the creation, management,and continuous optimization of wealth strategies. Its core platform allows advisors to generate legal estate planning documents such as wills, trusts, and powers of attorney, while also offering tools to visualize wealth transfer scenarios and model long-term outcomes. The system includes a client portal where individuals can upload documents, track assets, and collaborate with advisors and other professionals involved in their financial planning. | $30M / Series A / Sep 16, 2024 | |
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Founded in 2023 by serial entrepreneurs Sachin Aggarwal and Asif Awan, StackGen (formerly appCD) automatically generates Infrastructure from Code (IfC) based on application code with golden standards applied. Unlike manual Infrastructure as Code (IaC) creation or "golden templates" that quickly become outdated, StackGen generates IaCautomatically from the application code, without requiring any code changes, and applies preset standards. StackGen provides seamless, full-stack infrastructure solutions that enhance the developer experience and enforce industry standards. Built for platform engineers and DevOps teams tasked with improving the developer experience and enforcing standards, StackGen reduces software development lifecycle (SDLC) bottlenecks, minimizes liabilities, and eliminates cognitive overload. StackGen is backed by notable venture capital firms Thomvest Ventures, WestWave Capital, FireBolt Ventures, and Secure Octane. For further information, please visit www.stackgen.com. | $12.3M / Seed / Sep 10, 2024 | |
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Planera is a software company that makes construction industry more efficient & profitable. | $13.5M / Series A / Aug 27, 2024 | |
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GrabrFi provides access to US banking and all of its resources and possibilities and finances, life to the next level. | $3M / Seed / Aug 01, 2024 | |
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Zingly.ai
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Zingly is currently operating in stealth mode. | $10M / Seed / Jun 05, 2024 | |
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FAQ
What does Firebolt Ventures invest in?
Firebolt Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 97 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 Firebolt Ventures's check size?
Firebolt Ventures typically joins rounds of $3M–$11M at Seed, $9.8M–$21M at Series A and $15M–$65M 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 Firebolt Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Firebolt Ventures?
The team at Firebolt Ventures includes Cherian Mathew (Founder & Partner). 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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