# Hone Capital

> Hone Capital is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Software, Transportation and FinTech. See 29 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 29
- Last investment: Aug 2019
- Lead investor: 7%
- Fund size: $50M
- Last fund: Feb 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/honecapital/
- Website: http://www.honecap.com/

Hone Capital is a Silicon Valley based venture capital firm investing primarily in early stage companies in Silicon Valley and selectively in growth stage investments. Hone Capital leverages machine learning to construct a diversified portfolio of high quality early stage technology companies. Hone Capital was established in q4 2015 and hasinvested over $200MM in early and growth stage companies in the technology sector, using their proprietary data-driven intelligence platform and their network of deep relationships with syndicate leads, sector experts, and VC firms.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 34% |
| Transportation | 5 | 17% |
| FinTech | 4 | 14% |
| Machine Learning | 4 | 14% |
| SaaS | 3 | 10% |

69 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 15 | 52% |
| Series A | 7 | 24% |
| Series B | 2 | 7% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 3% |
| Series C | 1 | 3% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 27 | 93% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CodeCombat | CodeCombat creates game-based computer science programs that engage and captivate students as they learn to type real code. With thousands of schools and millions of students, CodeCombat is bringing K12 computer science education to everyone, regardless of gender, race, or background.The ultimate goal of CodeCombat is to bring more users into thefield of computer programming by making the logic and syntax more accessible and enjoyable to learn. The end game is to educate a whole new generation of computer programmers that started their journey by slaying ogres and defending their castles from oncoming enemy hordes.CodeCombat teaches Python, JavaScript, and other languages directly in the browser. Teachers with no computer science background can get started in five minutes. In a world where all programmers have had to be second-language learners, today's students will become native speakers of code. | $6M | Series A | Aug 28, 2019 |  |
| Troops | Troops.ai provides salesforce automation platform that gives real-time transparency around salesforce information. It serves as a Slackbot for sales team. Troops.ai allows its users to configure Salesforce reports, communicate deal wins, and pull salesforce data for all standard and custom objects through Slack.Its investors include First RoundCapital, Founder Collective, Next View Ventures, Great Oaks Capital, Chicago Ventures, Vast Ventures, and other angel investors. | $9.8M | Series B | Jun 05, 2019 |  |
| Overclock Labs | Overclock Labs develops tools for automating how companies manage cloud infrastructure so they can save time, costs, and focus on what they’re good at. Using Overclock's DISCO (Distributed Infrastructure for Serverless Computing Operations), a company can integrate multiple cloud service providers together to reduce costs and increaseperformance. Disco allows customers to seamlessly deploy applications between various Cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Platform, IBM SoftLayer, or private clouds at any time, to enjoy the best offerings from all providers. | $1.3M | Seed | Nov 21, 2017 |  |
| Petal | Petal  is a credit card company that is built to help people financially succeed. It aims to make credit honest, simple, and accessible. The company uses machine learning to analyze a customer’s full digital financial record—not just their credit score.Petal has pioneered cash flow underwriting, as an alternative to credit scores, to make creditmore accessible, and offers a simple, modern digital experience that encourages members to build credit, avoid debt, and spend responsibly. Petal is based in New York, New York, and Richmond, Virginia. The Petal credit card is issued by WebBank, Member FDIC. | $3.6M | Seed | Sep 08, 2017 |  |
| Work Today | Work Today makes it painless for you to apply for jobs. Create a profile one time, and you’ll never need to fill out the same information again. When you find a job you like, launch the Wizard and watch in wonder as it autofills your application. | $1.1M | Seed | Apr 28, 2017 |  |
| Boom Supersonic | Boom Supersonic is a commercial airplane manufacturer that builds a 65- to 88-seat supersonic airliner.Boom Technology is making supersonic passenger travel into reality by making a supersonic airliner. Boom was founded on the philosophy that they need to overcome the challenges to supersonic passenger flight, not surrender to them. They'remaking a supersonic aircraft affordable for business travel. Their ultimate goal is a routine supersonic flight for everyone.Boom Supersonic is redefining what it means to fly in a commercial aircraft by building Overture, its Mach-2.2. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Englewood, Colorado. | $33M | Series A | Mar 22, 2017 |  |
| Starsky Robotics | Trucking is the backbone of the American economy, moving 70% of all freight. Truck drivers risk their lives spending months away from their family to keep the American economy moving.They working to make trucks autonomous on the highway and remote controlled by drivers for the first and last mile. Their trucks will make roads safer while givingdrivers meaningful work close to their homes and families. | $3.8M | Seed | Mar 01, 2017 |  |
| Expo | Pared is an on-demand tool for restaurant workers. The company's mission is to make restaurant life easier by connecting restaurant owners and operators with the restaurant staff they need, when they need them. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $3M | Seed | Feb 28, 2017 |  |
| Roofstock | Roofstock is an online marketplace for investing in leased single-family rental homes in a transparent and low-friction way. The company provides its clients with research, analytics, and insights to evaluate and purchase independently certified properties at set prices. It enables its investors to treat their real estate investments more likestock portfolios, focusing on asset allocation, rather than researching, and buying vacant homes that need to be repaired and leased.Founded in 2015, Roofstock gets its funding from Bain Capital, Ron Conway, Khosla Ventures, Marc Benioff, and other investment companies. It is headquartered in Oakland, California. | $20M | Series B | Nov 14, 2016 |  |
| CARMERA | CARMERA provides real-time 3D maps and navigation-critical data for autonomous vehicles, as well as 3D scene reconstruction and site analytics data for professionals in architecture, construction, real estate and other built environment segments.CARMERA operates an owned and professionally crowdsourced vehicular sensor network built from theground up, that gathers continually updated 3D scene, change detection and analytics data. Our machine vision and geospatial data pipelines extract rich texture and insight for autonomous vehicles and built environment data customers, while helping make vehicles on city streets safer and adhering to privacy best practices.CARMERA’s mission is to automate cities by maintaining the world’s most robust real-time, street-level intelligence platform and to make it accessible to anyone. | $700K | Seed | Sep 01, 2016 |  |

10 of 29 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [CSC Upshot](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/csc-upshot) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Abstract](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-list-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [E-Merge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emerge) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Felicis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/felicis-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Hone Capital invest in?

Hone Capital invests primarily in Software, Transportation and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 29 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 Hone Capital last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Hone Capital closed in Aug 2019. Shizune tracks 29 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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