# Handshake Ventures

> Handshake Ventures is a VC fund backing Software, Artificial Intelligence and B2B. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Handshake Ventures is an investment firm.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 25% |
| B2B | 2 | 17% |
| SaaS | 2 | 17% |
| Sales Automation | 2 | 17% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 67% |
| Series A | 2 | 17% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 67% |
| Ireland | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lative | Lative provides a real-time growth efficiency platform for sales organizations by analyzing sales performance with precision and purpose. It provides an investment decision platform to manage growth efficiency, headcount effectiveness, and capacity planning. | $7.5M |  | Nov 13, 2025 |  |
| Anello Photonics | Anello Photonics is a technology company developing a silicon photonic optical gyroscope to navigate, position, and motion track autonomous applications in challenging GPS-jammed and spoofed environments. The company's technology portfolio spans over 28 issued patents, and over 44 pending patents, and includes an AI-based sensor fusion engine.It serves the robotics, defense, construction, agriculture, and autonomous vehicles industries. |  | Series B | Nov 18, 2024 |  |
| Lative | Lative provides a real-time growth efficiency platform for sales organizations by analyzing sales performance with precision and purpose. It provides an investment decision platform to manage growth efficiency, headcount effectiveness, and capacity planning. | $2.9M | Seed | Jan 18, 2024 |  |
| Fitted | Fitted reimagines brand and retailer connectivity. On Fitted, brands get paid immediately on all orders and gain access to real-time visibility into their retailers’ inventory. Retailers unlock flexible payment terms and the ability to place all their brand orders in a single place. It’s an elevated wholesale experience for everyone. | $8.5M | Series A | Jul 21, 2023 |  |
| Savant Labs | Savant Labs provides an intuitive analytics automation platform that empowers users to perform data analysis with no-code and low-code tools. The platform integrates modern data sources and SaaS applications, enabling rapid insights through visual workflows and generative AI. | $11M | Seed | Mar 01, 2023 |  |
| Directus | Directus is an Open Data Platform for managing the content of any SQL database. It provides a powerful API layer for developers and an intuitive App for non-technical users. Written in JavaScript, Directus is completely open-source, modular, and extensible, allowing it to be fully tailored to your exact project needs. | $7M | Series A | Nov 10, 2022 |  |
| Pimly | Pimly offers Salesforce product experience management. Pimly integrates the power of product experience management into the client's Salesforce org, providing completely customizable digital catalogs, sell sheets and other product experiences that are similar to those found on an online store to sales, customer service, and other Salesforceusers.The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. | $5M | Seed | Sep 26, 2022 |  |
| TAZI | TAZI's cloud-based platform predicts customer demand, retention, and fraud detection from structured and unstructured data using AI and Generative AI. It helps customer-facing teams like outreach, sales, and marketing predict behavior to drive revenue. TAZI’s patented technology has been recognized in 31 Gartner reports as an Adaptive andResponsible AI, a Gartner Cool Vendor, and in a Magic Quadrant report. Banks, wealth management companies, and insurance companies use TAZI to create millions of dollars in value. | $4.6M | Seed | Aug 18, 2022 |  |
| LUUM | LUUM is introducing automation to the beauty-services market, initially focusing on eyelash extensions, a widely popular treatment ($20B global market opportunity). Pioneering a patented combination of robotics, AI, and machine vision, LUUM applies a full set of eyelash extensions in 20 minutes (instead of 2 hours), while eliminating the costsand safety risks associated with human application. | $2.9M | Seed | Jul 12, 2022 |  |
| FanRally | FanRally is a subscription membership enablement platform for sports and live entertainment. Its product suite enables teams, events, and venues to launch and manage privilege-based subscription memberships that resonate with modern consumers and unlock lifetime customer value. It was founded in 2020 and is based in Pleasanton, California. | $3M | Seed | Jun 26, 2022 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [WestWave Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/westwave-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Elkstone Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elkstone-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Enterprise Ireland](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enterprise-ireland) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [EPIC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/epic-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Foundation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foundation-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Future Five](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/future-five) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Handshake Ventures invest in?

Handshake Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Handshake Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Handshake Ventures closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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