Homebrew
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Homebrew is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Homebrew works with mission-driven teams developing technology products and services across multiple industries, with a focus on helping startups navigate seed and early growth stages. Homebrew provides operational guidance, investor collaboration, and introductions to customers, partners, and subject matter experts to support business execution and decision-making. Its investment approach emphasizes long-term founder relationships, board development, data-informed problem solving, and continued participation in later funding rounds when aligned with company growth.
- Total investments:
- 249
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 15%
- Fund size:
- $50M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Homebrew invests in
Stages Homebrew invests in
Countries Homebrew invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$8.9M
- Series A
- $7M–$25M
- Series B
- $9.5M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 55 (22%)
- Artificial Intelligence 35 (14%)
- Information Technology 28 (11%)
- Financial Services 25 (10%)
- FinTech 21 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 117 (47%)
- Series A 69 (28%)
- Series B 20 (8%)
- Pre-Seed 9 (4%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 7 (3%)
Country
- United States 156 (63%)
- Mexico 3 (1%)
- Brazil 2 (1%)
- Canada 2 (1%)
- Colombia 2 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Beth Scheer
Head of Talent
|
Head of Talent | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Hunter Walk
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 24 | Find email | |
Maria Gioia
Director of Operations
|
Director of Operations | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Mike McQuaid
Project Leader and Maintainer
|
Project Leader and Maintainer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Satya Patel
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 43 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scuba is an AI-powered shared context engine and productivity platform built to serve as a unified "shared memory" for teams and their digital AI agents. | $34M / Seed / Oct 14, 2026 | ||
| Peppermint provides financial operations software for clinical research sites, focusing on managing billing, reconciliation, and accounts receivable processes related to clinical trials. The platform connects with existing clinical trial management systems (CTMS) and accounting tools to collect visit, contract, invoice, and payment data without requiring research teams to change their workflows. It validates trial activity against sponsor contracts, identifies discrepancies, and helps prepare invoices while maintaining an audit trail tied to specific study visits and payments. Peppermint also gives research networks visibility into outstanding sponsor payments and receivables through real-time financial tracking across studies and sites. Its integrations include systems such as CRIO, Veeva, RealTime, QuickBooks, NetSuite, and Sage Intacct, allowing organizations to consolidate financial records from multiple operational platforms. | $4.7M / Seed / Oct 08, 2026 | ||
| Saris AI is an artificial intelligence company that builds agent-based workflow automation systems for financial institutions, particularly banks and credit unions. The company develops AI “agents” that handle back-office operations such as lending workflows, document processing, compliance checks, data extraction, and internal operational tasks.Its platform integrates directly with existing banking systems like core banking software and loan origination systems, allowing institutions to automate processes without replacing their current infrastructure. The system is designed to reduce manual workload by executing multi-step workflows such as data validation, case handling, and administrative processing while keeping humans in control of approvals and oversight.Saris AI focuses on improving operational efficiency by reducing processing costs and increasing output capacity through automation of repetitive and rules-based tasks. The company positions its technology as a way for financial institutions to streamline operations, improve compliance tracking, and enhance customer service responsiveness. | $28.8M / Series A / May 28, 2026 | ||
| Slang.ai is a digital phone concierge that answers questions, takes reservations, and satisfies callers. | $28M / Series B / Feb 24, 2026 | ||
| Archimetis provides an AI-powered operational reasoning system for complex industrial facilities. The platform applies industrial AI and agent-based reasoning to help energy, chemical, pharma, and refinery operators predict failures and optimize processes in real time. Archimetis analyzes plant data from planning to execution to support faster,higher-confidence operational decisions. The system is designed for refineries and process manufacturing environments seeking to reduce downtime and improve throughput. Archimetis also offers demos and implementation support for refinery and process manufacturing teams. | $11.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 11, 2026 | ||
| VillageSQL is a drop-in MySQL fork which provides AI-native features directly inside MySQL | Seed / Feb 04, 2026 | ||
| VillageSQL is a drop-in MySQL fork which provides AI-native features directly inside MySQL | $35M / Series A / Feb 04, 2026 | ||
| Clarity Pediatrics is reimagining pediatric chronic care, starting with ADHD. Nearly 10% of American children are diagnosed with ADHD, and for parents it can feel impossible to get the right care. We are building a virtual pediatric ADHD clinic that delivers trusted care to all families. Our new clinical model is tech-enabled, backed by the bestscience, and has the potential to deliver exceptional health outcomes to transform a child’s trajectory. | $14.5M / Series A / Dec 17, 2025 | ||
| Numbi is building the AI-powered G&A engine for Latin American businesses | Pre-Seed / Dec 01, 2025 | ||
| Datacurve Providing code data validated by engineers, allowing you to design the most competent model or application | $15M / Series A / Oct 09, 2025 | ||
| See all 249 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Homebrew invest in?
Homebrew invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 249 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Homebrew invest in?
Homebrew typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$8.9M at Seed, $7M–$25M at Series A and $9.5M–$50M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Homebrew's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Homebrew took part in.
How do I contact Homebrew?
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Who are the partners at Homebrew?
The team at Homebrew includes Beth Scheer (Head of Talent), Hunter Walk (Partner) and Maria Gioia (Director of Operations). 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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