# Half Court Ventures

> Half Court Ventures is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence. See 104 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 104
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 1%
- Last fund: Jun 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/half-court-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/halfcourtvc
- Website: http://www.halfcourt.vc/

Half Court Ventures is a VC fund in Boston focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Half Court VC is a seed-stage fund focused on AI

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $892k–$6.1M |
| Pre-Seed | $20k–$1.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 46 | 44% |
| Software | 34 | 33% |
| Machine Learning | 30 | 29% |
| SaaS | 13 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 13 | 13% |

159 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 41 | 39% |
| Funding Round | 19 | 18% |
| Pre-Seed | 15 | 14% |
| Series A | 11 | 11% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 6 | 6% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 80 | 77% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 3% |
| Canada | 2 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Josh Lessing | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joshua-lessing |
| Rob May | Managing Partner | 60 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rob-may |
| Will Murphy | Venture Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/will-murphy-15a3 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jozu | Jozu provides a DevOps platform designed for AI agents, applications, and models, focusing on secure and efficient packaging, deployment, and management of machine learning (ML) assets. Its tools cater to security-conscious organizations, offering features such as tamper-proof storage, detailed audit trails, and compliance reporting. Jozu'splatform includes the Jozu Hub, a centralized model registry that supports major AI model formats and integrates with existing development tools. Additionally, it offers optimized inference containers for faster deployments and tools for scanning and auditing models to detect vulnerabilities. By streamlining the ML development lifecycle, Jozu aims to enhance collaboration across teams and ensure consistent model behavior across environments. | $4M | Seed | May 08, 2025 |  |
| Guidesly | Guidesly is building a new platform for outdoor enthusiasts! The first app-based marketplace connecting anglers with trusted guides. Making the searching and booking process easy for anglers and offering guides an app to manage their business. Trusted, certified and instantaneous, Guidelsy is building the next generation of enthusiast tools. | $9.5M | Series A | Jan 16, 2025 |  |
| Knapsack | Fast, on-device AI. Carve your own path with a secure, on-premise, open-source GPT. Semantic search and chat with ultimate privacy and security. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Aug 07, 2024 |  |
| Light Frame | Light Frame is a Swiss American financial technology company building advanced technologies for private banks, wealth management firms, and banks offering investment and wealth services. The company was founded in January 2024 by Schuyler Weiss, Mathieu Clement, Philippe Kernevez, and Gregory Bataille, and it maintains offices in Providence, RI andLausanne, VD. Light Frame completed its Pre-seed round of financing in April 2024, with ATX Venture Partners and New Stack Ventures co-leading the round. Other investors include Rogue Venture Partners, Halfcourt Ventures, Studio Alpha, and Underdog Labs. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | May 29, 2024 |  |
| Aikium Inc. | Protein therapeutics | $800K | Pre-Seed | May 22, 2024 |  |
| Featureform | Featureform provides an open-source virtual feature store. It allows data scientists to define, manage, and serve machine learning features across the organization. | $5.5M | Seed | Dec 13, 2023 |  |
| Onton | Find, research, and buy products from any e-commerce site | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Oct 03, 2023 |  |
| Synthpop | Synthpop is a healthcare SaaS development company. | $2.6M | Seed | Aug 15, 2023 |  |
| Love Lace | Love Lace is to create the metaverse's experience layer through a world-building multiplayer sandbox. |  | Seed | Jul 26, 2023 |  |
| Efabless | efabless connects a global community of chip designers with smart product customers. The company was founded to revive demand-driven innovation in the semiconductor industry.The company brings back the "Garage" to the vocabulary of the semiconductor industry. Efabless builds products that spark from effective customer-centricinnovation, engineered by great talented minds across the globe and manufactured by their dependable foundry partners. |  | Convertible Note | Jul 11, 2023 |  |

10 of 104 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Craft Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craft-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Data Tech Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/data-tech-fund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [AlleyCorp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alleycorp) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Half Court Ventures invest in?

Half Court Ventures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 104 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 Half Court Ventures's check size?

Half Court Ventures typically joins rounds of $892k–$6.1M at Seed and $20k–$1.7M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Half Court Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Half Court Ventures?

Public channels for Half Court Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 Half Court Ventures?

The team at Half Court Ventures includes Josh Lessing (Venture Partner), Rob May (Managing Partner) and Will Murphy (Venture 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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