Hike Ventures
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Hike Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
- Total investments:
- 56
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 11%
Last updated:
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Industries Hike Ventures invests in
Stages Hike Ventures invests in
Countries Hike Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
3 more contacts available
Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$6M
- Pre-Seed
- $500k–$2.5M
- Series A
- $8.2M–$152M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 24 (43%)
- Software 11 (20%)
- Information Technology 11 (20%)
- Machine Learning 10 (18%)
- Health Care 6 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 30 (54%)
- Pre-Seed 7 (13%)
- Series A 6 (11%)
- Series B 2 (4%)
- Corporate Round 2 (4%)
Country
- United States 24 (43%)
- Canada 8 (14%)
- Israel 2 (4%)
- Japan 1 (2%)
- Brazil 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mikihiro Yasuda
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
Takahiro Shoji
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Claybird
|
Claybird offers an AI video ad creation agent that plans, generates, edits, and publishes ad videos from concept to release. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Dec 03, 2025 | |
Ethosphere
|
Ethosphere is changing the brick-and-mortar retail game through innovative voice-AI technology that drives incredible employee experiences, next-level customer engagement, and unparalleled brand insights. | $2.5M / Pre-Seed / Sep 16, 2025 | |
Cekura AI
|
Cekura AI is an AI based Software Development firm offering Developer Tool to observe and test AI voice agents. | $2.4M / Seed / Jul 01, 2025 | |
Salmon Labs
|
Salmon is the AI engine for enterprise growth teams to autonomously accelerate revenue generation by providing real-time, accurate prospect insights at scale. The company helps the growth function – revenue ops, marketing/sales ops, pipeline expansion – quickly and accurately source, verify, and qualify their prospects. | $2.6M / Seed / May 05, 2025 | |
Mesh
|
Founded in 2020, Mesh's mission is to build an open, connected and secure financial ecosystem. Mesh is a modern financial operating system that provides enterprise clients with the ability to enable digital asset transfers, crypto payments, account aggregation and registered securities trading, all within their platform. With integrations toover 300+ platforms like Robinhood, Coinbase and MetaMask, Mesh is creating an embedded financial ecosystem that is more open, connected and secure for businesses and users alike. To learn more, visit https://www.meshconnect.com/. | $82M / Series B / Mar 11, 2025 | |
Mesh
|
Mesh Pay is a payment infrastructure platform that enables businesses to accept and send digital assets and cryptocurrency transactions through a single integration. It supports connectivity with hundreds of wallets and exchanges, and processes payments, deposits, verification,s and global payouts, settling funds in stablecoins or local currency toreduce volatility risk and increase completion rates. The platform includes SmartFunding™, which orchestrates funding from multiple sources to streamline checkout and payout processes, and offers real-time address validation and settlement features. Mesh Pay also provides programmable wallet capabilities for autonomous commerce and routes funds securely across wallets, banks and exchanges. | $82M / Series B / Mar 11, 2025 | |
Nowadays
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Nowadays is an AI-powered platform designed to simplify event planning by automating venue negotiations and logistics. The service allows users to input event details, and the AI handles communications with venues, streamlining the planning process for corporate events. | $2M / Seed / Dec 06, 2024 | |
CalmWave
|
almWave provides a platform that uses AI and expert services to help healthcare organizations optimize operations and make data-informed decisions. Utilizing a healthcare organization’s data, the company transparently empowers leadership to manage staff more efficiently, reduce turnover rates, and improve patient outcomes. | $5.3M / Seed / Nov 19, 2024 | |
Legion Health
|
Legion Health provides telepsychiatry services that enhance patient access to mental health care. The company focuses on integrating technology to streamline interactions between patients and providers while ensuring services are covered by insurance. It aims to support comprehensive mental wellness through personalized treatment plans andcollaboration with other care team members. | $5.6M / Seed / Sep 15, 2024 | |
Oort
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Oort develops a decentralized data cloud designed to collect, process, and monetize AI-ready data. The company offers products such as Oort DataHub, Oort Storage, and plans to introduce Oort Compute, which together support decentralized data infrastructure and services. Oort’s platform leverages a global network of nodes and data contributors toenable distributed data management and sharing. This infrastructure supports AI companies, dataset marketplaces, and off-the-shelf datasets, aiming to facilitate secure and efficient access to diverse data sources. Oort also provides tools for hosting nodes and integrates protocols like Olympus to maintain decentralized operations. | $10M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 04, 2024 | |
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FAQ
What does Hike Ventures invest in?
Hike Ventures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 56 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 Hike Ventures's check size?
Hike Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$6M at Seed, $500k–$2.5M at Pre-Seed and $8.2M–$152M 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 Hike Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Hike Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Hike Ventures?
The team at Hike Ventures includes Mikihiro Yasuda (Founding Partner) and Takahiro Shoji (Founding Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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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