# Firestreak Ventures

> Firestreak Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 80 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Aspen, United States
- Total investments: 80
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 3%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/firestreak
- Website: https://www.firestreak.com

Firestreak Ventures is a VC fund in Aspen focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. We invest in pre-seed and seed stage companies in the developer tooling, infra, OSS, cybersecurity and ML and AI infra.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.3M–$9.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $100k–$2M |
| Series A | $8M–$80M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 32 | 40% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 21 | 26% |
| Information Technology | 17 | 21% |
| Cyber Security | 9 | 11% |
| Developer Tools | 9 | 11% |

50 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 36 | 45% |
| Pre-Seed | 12 | 15% |
| Series A | 11 | 14% |
| Series B | 2 | 3% |
| Angel | 1 | 1% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 33 | 41% |
| Israel | 5 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 5% |
| Germany | 2 | 3% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Amir Rustamzadeh | Venture Partner | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amir-rustamzadeh |
| Walter Kortschak | Managing Partner | 143 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/walter-g-kortschak |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Athena Security Group | Athena Security Group is a cyber security company that offers Cyber Defense, Security Operations, Software Development, and SaaS. | $50K | Seed | Dec 18, 2025 |  |
| Rork | Rork is an AI-powered platform that lets you build complete, cross-platform mobile apps in minutes by simply describing what you want. It uses AI and React Native to generate fully functional apps-examples include visual novel games, Airbnb-style apps, meditation timers, and more. You can export these apps, use them on your phone, and even sharethem via QR codes or links. |  | Seed | Dec 09, 2025 |  |
| InkVell | InkVell is an AI research platform that connects scientists and allow them to carry on their research work smoothly. 2025 | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Dec 08, 2025 |  |
| Aaru | Rethinking the science of prediction. | $80M | Series A | Dec 05, 2025 |  |
| DensityAI | DensityAI is an infrastructure for data centers serving automotive, robotics, and industrial applications | $50K | Seed | Dec 05, 2025 |  |
| Unikraft | The lightweight virtualization company. | $6M | Seed | Oct 10, 2025 |  |
| BotCity | BotCity is a governance platform for Python scripts created by AI or humans.AI copilots have turned Python into the new Excel macro. Business users are now generating thousands of scripts with GPT to automate workflows, often outside IT’s control. This wave of shadow automation creates serious risks to security, compliance, and continuity.BotCity brings oversight and governance to this new wave of AI-generated automation. We are YC-backed, growing 3x annually, serving enterprise customers such as Bayer and LG. | $12M | Series A | Sep 25, 2025 |  |
| Innerworks | Innerworks is a cybersecurity company pioneering Synthetic Threat Intelligence to protect financial services from fraud, bots, and sanctioned actors. Its ethical hacking platform, RedTeam, continuously trains and improves detection models against the most advanced AI threats. Innerworks’ core product suite – bot detection, device fingerprinting,and geolocation intelligence – outperforms the top five market leaders in accuracy, enabling institutions to block malicious actors even if they return with new accounts or identities. Backed by leading firms across payments, cybersecurity & FinTech, Innerworks is setting a new standard in fraud defence for the AI era. | $4M | Seed | Aug 18, 2025 |  |
| Pay-i | Pay-i is a technology company. | $4.9M | Seed | May 21, 2025 |  |
| Aaru | Rethinking the science of prediction. |  | Seed | Mar 04, 2025 |  |

10 of 80 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Firestreak Ventures invest in?

Firestreak Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 80 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 Firestreak Ventures's check size?

Firestreak Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.3M–$9.5M at Seed, $100k–$2M at Pre-Seed and $8M–$80M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Firestreak Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Firestreak Ventures?

Public channels for Firestreak Ventures include LinkedIn 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 Firestreak Ventures?

The team at Firestreak Ventures includes Amir Rustamzadeh (Venture Partner) and Walter Kortschak (Managing 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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