# Honeystone Ventures

> Honeystone Ventures is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 44 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 44
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last fund: Apr 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/honeystone-ventures
- Website: https://www.honeystonevc.com/

Honeystone ventures is an early-stage software fund that focuses on pre-seed and seed funds. The company is based in Palo Alto, California.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$6.9M |
| Pre-Seed | $125k–$1.5M |
| Series A | $10M–$45M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 18% |
| Software | 6 | 14% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 9% |
| Cyber Security | 3 | 7% |

63 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 22 | 50% |
| Series A | 6 | 14% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 9% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 17 | 39% |
| Israel | 3 | 7% |
| Chile | 1 | 2% |
| India | 1 | 2% |
| Spain | 1 | 2% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mani Honigstein | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mani-honigstein |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Turnout | Turnout Technologies is a technology related company. | $35M | Series A | Jun 11, 2026 |  |
| Idilio | Idilio TV is a media‑tech startup building an AI‑powered microdrama platform primarily for Spanish‑ and Portuguese‑speaking audiences. | $5.5M | Seed | Jun 09, 2026 |  |
| Ratio | Ratio is a fintech platform that provides customers with flexible payment options, simplifying the procurement process. Ratio provides buy now, pay later services that integrate payments, predictive pricing, analytics, and finance, allowing B2B SaaS companies and other recurring revenue businesses to increase sales while gaining access to the valueof new contracts. Ratio allows businesses to leverage their recurring revenue streams to unlock new non-dilutive capital. | $15.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 14, 2026 |  |
| TESS | Founded in California by Brazilian entrepreneurs, TESS AI is an enterprise-grade autonomous agentic AI platform engineered to deliver hard corporate ROI. The company empowers professionals to build highly customized AI agents orchestrating over 250 AI models, featuring native integration with global automation ecosystems. By pioneering adisruptive, "seatless" pricing model, TESS eliminates restrictive per-user licenses, generating up to 90% in cost savings and allowing enterprises to consolidate their stack by replacing 4 to 5 traditional SaaS tools within the first six months. Powered by a complex agentic architecture—outperforming Meta’s $2B Manus AI—TESS is driving explosive adoption, with over 16,000 users executing more than 600,000 autonomous tasks every month. | $4.9M | Seed | Mar 02, 2026 |  |
| Take2 AI | take2 is an online marketplace platform that provides a place for job seekers to display the skills required to land a job. | $14M | Series A | Feb 11, 2026 |  |
| Multifactor | Multifactor provides secure identity management with authentication, authorization, and auditing using strong cryptography. It provides a secure account-management and access-sharing platform designed for both humans and AI agents. The service functions as a “vault” for passwords, passkeys, 2FA codes, and other authentication materials, enablingusers to store all their login credentials in one secure place. | $15M | Seed | Dec 04, 2025 |  |
| Turnout | Turnout Technologies is a technology related company. | $21M | Seed | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| Cache | Cache offers automated savings and interest optimization for personal finances using technology-driven solutions. |  | Seed | Apr 01, 2025 |  |
| Guidde | Guidde provides an AI-powered video documentation platform that helps teams capture, edit, organize and share instructional video content for software processes and workflows. It enables users to record screen activity and transform it into structured, narrated guides that can support training, onboarding, support documentation and knowledgetransfer. The platform includes tools for automatic transcription, voiceover generation in multiple languages, and tagging to make video content searchable and contextually available within existing tools. Guidde also offers integration options so that videos can be embedded in help desks, CRM systems and collaboration platforms to support users where they work. Its capabilities allow teams to standardize and scale video-based instruction across both internal and external audiences. | $15M | Series A | Feb 19, 2025 |  |
| Justpoint | Justpoint is the artificial intelligence-powered platform connecting people with the right litigation attorney and tools. Using predictive analytics rather than billboards, Justpoint brings transparency, simplicity, and credibility to the process of finding litigators in the personal injury space. For attorneys, Justpoint takes on back-office taskswhile creating efficiencies in the discovery process so they can quickly understand a claim's merit and obtain the best results. With over 1000 law firms, more than 300,000 historical claims, and operations in 33 states, Justpoint’s team of attorneys, engineers, and doctors are dedicated to increasing access to justice. For more information visit https://justpoint.com. | $45M | Series A | Feb 12, 2025 |  |

10 of 44 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Honeystone Ventures invest in?

Honeystone Ventures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 44 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 Honeystone Ventures's check size?

Honeystone Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$6.9M at Seed, $125k–$1.5M at Pre-Seed and $10M–$45M 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 Honeystone Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Honeystone Ventures?

Public channels for Honeystone Ventures include LinkedIn 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 Honeystone Ventures?

The team at Honeystone Ventures includes Mani Honigstein (Managing 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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