# Horizon Ventures

> Horizon Ventures is a VC fund in Los Altos backing Software and Manufacturing. See 47 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Altos, United States
- Total investments: 47
- Last investment: Sep 2023
- Lead investor: 28%
- Fund size: $20M
- Last fund: Jan 2004
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.horizonvc.com

Horizon Ventures is a California based venture capital firm specialized in early- and late-stage investments.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Horizon Ventures. Shizune tracks 7 team members at Horizon Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/horizon-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $2.7M–$30M |
| Series B | $8.5M–$49M |
| Series C | $4.5M–$40M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 13 | 28% |
| Manufacturing | 5 | 11% |
| Mobile | 4 | 9% |
| Electronics | 4 | 9% |
| Health Care | 4 | 9% |

86 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 10 | 21% |
| Series C | 10 | 21% |
| Series B | 8 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 15% |
| Series D | 4 | 9% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 25 | 53% |
| Israel | 4 | 9% |
| China | 1 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 2% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| George Schneer | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/george-schneer |
| Art Reidel | Managing Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/art-reidel |
| Ash Dhar | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ash-dhar |
| Doug Tsui | Team Member | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/doug-tsui |
| Jack Carsten | Managing Director | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jack-carsten |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kneron | Kneron specializes in designing and developing integrated software and hardware solutions that enable artificial intelligence to function on devices at the edge. Their products serve a variety of applications, including smart homes, smart surveillance, smartphones, robots, drones, and IoT devices. Kneron offers AI System-on-Chips, visualrecognition software development kits, and intellectual property for neural processing units. | $49M | Series B | Sep 26, 2023 |  |
| Sandbox Banking | Sandbox Banking provides banking-as-a-service technology to banks, credit unions, and fintech. Its platform, Glyue, enables users to build banking integrations and APIs that typically accelerate connectivity projects by more than 80%. Glyue contains an extensive and constantly growing library of banking system adapters, pre-built solutiontemplates, an Excel-like integration development environment, and support tools. | $4.3M | Seed | Nov 17, 2022 |  |
| Kytopen | Kytopen develops genome engineering platforms that enable cell therapy research and manufacturing. The company provides non-viral gene delivery systems that facilitate the delivery of mRNA, DNA, and CRISPR Cas9 RNP into cells while retaining cell functionality. Its Flowfect® technology allows high-throughput transfections and scalable optimizationfrom small experiments to large-scale manufacturing.Kytopen’s platforms include Flowfect Discover™ for automated small-volume screening and Flowfect TX® for large-scale delivery, supporting drug discovery and process development. The systems integrate electrical, mechanical, and chemical forces to fine-tune gene delivery, enabling controlled and predictable scaling. The company’s solutions focus on removing bottlenecks in gene delivery and streamlining the transition from laboratory research to therapeutic production. | $30M | Series A | Sep 28, 2021 |  |
| what3words | what3words is the simplest way to talk about location. It has divided the world into a grid of 3m x 3m squares, each with a unique address made from 3 words. Now people can refer to any precise location – a delivery entrance, a picnic spot or a drone landing point – using three simple words. what3words is helping improve businesses around theworld, and paving the way for social and economic progress in developing nations. It can be used via the free mobile app or online map. what3words can also be built into any other app, platform or website, with just a few lines of code. |  | Series C | Apr 29, 2019 |  |
| Windward | WWindward is the leading Predictive Intelligence company fusing AI and big data to digitalize the global maritime industry, enabling organizations to achieve business and operational readiness. Windward’s AI-powered solution allows stakeholders including banks, commodity traders, and major energy and shipping companies, to make real-time,predictive intelligence driven decisions, with a 360° view of the maritime ecosystem and its broader impact on safety, security, finance, and business | $16.5M | Series C | Jul 01, 2018 |  |
| Evolve Biosystems | Evolve Biosystems is a biotechnology company that specializes in providing microbiome-based products designed to develop, restore, and maintain. The company's platform focuses on solving the gut dysbiosis throughout the human life cycle as well as in various animal species, enabling physicians to maintain the healthy gut microbiome in newborninfants with a consumer-directed home use product, and a hospital-based neonatal ICU product. | $40M | Series C | Jun 13, 2018 |  |
| Muho.TV | Video platform showing behind-the-scenes look of sports stars based in Shanghai. |  | Series A | Apr 17, 2018 |  |
| Smash.gg | The Company provides software to improve the Smash experience for streamers, players, tournament attendees, and spectators (collectively, “General Users”) and for registered users who are tournament organizers (“Tournament Organizers”). The Company provides a platform for enabling connections between General Users and Tournament Organizers and forthe collection of payments with respect to the sale of tickets, registrations, merchandise, and services for, and the solicitation of donations with respect to, events registered on the Site from General Users. | $11M | Series A | Aug 02, 2017 |  |
| Soul Machines | Founded in 2016, Soul Machines is a pioneer in the humanization of AI. We use our ground-breaking Biological AI technology to create engaging, empathetic AI Assistants, powered by our patented Digital Brain™. Our revolutionary Soul Machines Studio tools allow anyone to reimagine customer engagement, drive deep interactivity, and create personalizeddigital experiences. Soul Machines is unique in delivering the full capabilities of human and machine collaboration in an ethical, responsive, and unprecedented way. | $7.5M | Series A | Nov 22, 2016 |  |
| Lock8 | Velolock designs and engineers LOCK8 - a hardware and software solution, for cost-effective and user-centric bike sharing and fleet management. LOCK8 uses GPS, GSM and Bluetooth Low Energy to connect you and your bicycle fleet, so you can manage your fleet with absolute ease, while collating big fleet data.Our goal is to accelerate theglobal bike sharing market; optimising existing fleets and providing cheaper, more intuitive solutions to cities and towns, as well as corporate and university campuses. Our vision, however, is to enable a vast reduction of CO2 emissions through the reduction of motor-vehicle travel in cities; to contribute to a positive shift in health and wellbeing, by making bicycle travel safer and accessible to more people; to reduce the socio-economic inequality that current public transport costs impose. |  |  | Aug 27, 2014 |  |

10 of 47 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [New Enterprise Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-enterprise-associates) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Sigma Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sigma-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
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- [Fuse Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fuse-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [InterWest Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/interwest-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Horizon Ventures invest in?

Horizon Ventures invests primarily in Software, Manufacturing and Mobile startups, most often at Series A and Series C stage. Most of the 47 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 Horizon Ventures's check size?

Horizon Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.7M–$30M at Series A, $8.5M–$49M at Series B and $4.5M–$40M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Horizon Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Horizon Ventures?

Public channels for Horizon Ventures include 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 Horizon Ventures?

The team at Horizon Ventures includes George Schneer (Venture Partner), Art Reidel (Managing Director) and Ash Dhar (Venture Partner), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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