# HIVE Ventures

> HIVE Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 32 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 32
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/5189404/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/HIVEVentures
- Website: http://hiveventures.co/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hivestartups/

HIVE Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. HIVE Ventures invests in Armenian entrepreneurs who build global companies. We partner with early stage startups worldwide, from Silicon Valley to Armenia.Our mission is to help catalyze the global Armenian tech ecosystem by investing in Armenian founders or companies that hire talent in Armenia. We provide funding, operational guidance, andaccess to our network of world-class talent and advisors. We also promote innovation and entrepreneurship amongst the next generation of aspiring founders through events and workshops.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $525k–$13M |
| Series A | $5M–$22M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 11 | 34% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 19% |
| SaaS | 5 | 16% |
| Health Care | 5 | 16% |

79 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 19 | 59% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 13% |
| Series A | 3 | 9% |
| Series C | 3 | 9% |
| Angel | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 23 | 72% |
| Armenia | 3 | 9% |
| India | 1 | 3% |
| Brazil | 1 | 3% |
| Taiwan | 1 | 3% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brad Lu | Venture Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-lu-6f4e |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Xage Security | Xage Security is an information technology company that offers blockchain-protected security platform for Industrial IoT. | $15M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 18, 2026 |  |
| TrustLogix | TrustLogix is a patented, AI-powered data security platform that accelerates business with AI-ready data control. By unifying DSPM, policy enforcement, and AI data protection, TrustLogix keeps access, protection, and compliance continuously aligned across data, analytics, and AI. The platform automatically detects risks, right-sizes entitlements,and enforces least-privilege policies across Snowflake, Databricks, Power BI, and more—helping enterprises move faster, innovate safely, and stay future-proof in an era defined by speed, trust, and data-driven leadership. | $13M | Seed | Jan 28, 2025 |  |
| VLAST | VLAST is a virtual reality game that produces virtual content with VFX and game engine experts and animation enthusiasts. VLAST is shaping the future of communication with the groundbreaking use of real-time graphics powered by a game engine. | $3.2M | Seed | Apr 22, 2024 |  |
| IsCoolLab | a software company that expertizes in software technology for building smart automation and test automation. | $1M | Seed | May 10, 2022 |  |
| CloudWalk | CloudWalk is a global financial services platform with a primary mission to revolutionize how individuals and small to medium-sized businesses handle money. As the owner of the InfinitePay and Jim.com brands, the company offers a wide-range portfolio, including digital banking, loans, online sales, digital wallets, and payment terminals. Central toits innovative approach is the use of artificial intelligence across its product lineup, ensuring that CloudWalk's offerings are at the forefront of efficiency, user-friendliness, and technological advancement, thereby making financial management smarter and more accessible to a broad audience. | $150M | Series C | Nov 17, 2021 |  |
| PayEngine | PayEngine makes building a payments company easy. We work with Vertical SaaS companies integrating payments and finance tools for their merchants. We help the vertical SaaS company maintain more control, get higher revenue splits, and provide best of breed operational support to their merchants. Don't settle for low end tools and low endpricing. | $1.6M | Seed | Aug 18, 2021 |  |
| Krisp | Krisp app makes remote workers more professional. With Krisp you can take calls from wherever you want without worrying about privacy and background noise. The app works with all conferencing and recording apps out of the box. It also supports any headset and microphone (built-in, Bluetooth or USB). | $5M | Series A | Aug 06, 2020 |  |
| Embry Tech | Helping consumer brands to unlock new verticals in wellness market through a patent-pending platform that includes wearable sensors | $215K | Pre-Seed | Apr 17, 2020 |  |
| Vineti | Vineti is a commercial cloud-based platform that expands patient access to life-saving cells and gene therapies.The software solution offers an independent, purpose-built enterprise solution that is essential for enabling the growth and wide distribution of transformative personalized therapeutics, such as CAR-T cell therapies, for the treatmentof late-stage cancer. The Vineti Personalized Therapy Management (PTM) ® platform automates patient-centric supply chains for a wide range of advanced therapies, in all phases of clinical development and commercial operations. Veneti aims to solve the key challenges patients, medical providers, pharmaceutical companies, and regulators face in the delivery and commercialization of personalized medicine.Amy DuRoss, Heidi M. Hagen, Malek Faham, Razmik Abnous, and Stephen Ting co-founded Vineti in San Francisco, California in 2016. | $35M | Series C | Feb 05, 2020 |  |
| Expper Technologies | Expper Technologies is a robotics company that develops social robots that serve as a companion for kids in hospitals. |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 24, 2019 |  |

10 of 32 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Granatus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/granatus-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does HIVE Ventures invest in?

HIVE Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 32 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 HIVE Ventures's check size?

HIVE Ventures typically joins rounds of $525k–$13M at Seed and $5M–$22M 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 HIVE Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact HIVE Ventures?

Public channels for HIVE 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 HIVE Ventures?

The team at HIVE Ventures includes Brad Lu (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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