# Joe Schmidt IV

> Joe Schmidt IV is a Series A investor at Andreessen Horowitz backing Artificial Intelligence. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 63%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joeschmidtiv

Joe Schmidt IV is a Series A investor at Andreessen Horowitz in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Joe Schmidt is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.6M–$3.6M |
| Series A | $7.2M–$38M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 50% |
| Software | 3 | 38% |
| Insurance | 3 | 38% |
| SaaS | 2 | 25% |
| InsurTech | 2 | 25% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 63% |
| Seed | 2 | 25% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 75% |
| Mexico | 1 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Convey | Convey is an all-in-one platform to train, ship, and manage enterprise-grade AI workers (also called "digital teammates") that work autonomously in the background to automate workflows. | $38M | Series A | Jun 17, 2026 |  |
| Treeline | Treeline.ai offers AI-powered IT, security, and compliance services to emerging enterprises. | $25M | Series A | Mar 31, 2026 |  |
| Glimpse | Glimpse partners with brands to place their products in luxury short-term rentals as a sales and acquisition channel. Glimpse was founded in 2020 by Kushal Negi, Akash Raju, and Anuj Mehta and was headquartered in New York. | $35M | Series A | Mar 25, 2026 |  |
| FurtherAI | FurtherAI is a domain-specific AI for the insurance industry. Our AI Assistant automates complex workflows like submission intake, policy comparisons, and underwriting audits—making teams faster, smarter, and more efficient.Leading insurers, reinsurers, MGAs, and brokers rely on FurtherAI to drive better decisions at scale. Backed by topinvestors including Y Combinator, Nexus, South Park Commons, and Converge, FurtherAI supports customers writing over $15B in premiums across all 50 states. | $25M | Series A | Oct 07, 2025 |  |
| 11x AI | 11x is an AI and Automation company that builds autonomous digital workers. 11x is on a mission to automate everything and redefine the future of work. | $50M | Series B | Sep 30, 2024 |  |
| Oyster | Oyster is an AI software company for insurance that connects customers, agencies, and carriers. We're building a new operating system with seamless carrier connectivity and integrated digital workers that autonomously operate across the insurance value chain. To learn more about Oyster, visit www.withoyster.com. | $3.6M | Seed | Dec 13, 2022 |  |
| Oyster Technologies | Oyster is redesigning personal insurance from the ground up. We are building a modern insurance technology platform for personal insurance, empowering consumers and merchants to complete the entire insurance journey from checkout to claim settlement in a unified platform. Our mission is to modernize the multi-trillion P&C insurance industrywith more transparent and accessible insurance products for everyone. | $3.6M | Seed | Dec 13, 2022 |  |
| Super Seguros | Super Seguros is an insurance company that developed radical insurance products. The company's automated assessment technology allows its users to buy a policy today and covered tomorrow. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito Federal. | $7.2M | Series A | Jul 06, 2021 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Interlace Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/interlace-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kearny Jackson](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kearny-jackson) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [New Stack Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-stack-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Nexus Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nexus-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Polymath Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polymath-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Position Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/position-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Andreessen Horowitz

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in seed, start-ups, early, mid-stage, growth, and late-stage. It prefers to invest in the social media business and technology sector with a focus on software, back-end infrastructure, the infrastructure of the Internet, cloud computing, enterprise software and services,consumer, business Internet, mobile-Internet, consumer Internet, cloud computing, data storage, social network browsers data-storage, consumer electronics, networking functions, software related biology, biotech, and medicine companies at the intersection of computer science and life sciences with a focus on digital therapeutics, cloud technology in biology, and computational medicine.

5 contacts available at Andreessen Horowitz.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Chen | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-chen |
| Anish Acharya | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anish-acharya |
| David George | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-george-2 |
| Emily Bennett | investing partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emily-bennett |
| Gabriel Vasquez | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gabriel-vasquez-db03 |

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## FAQ

### What does Joe Schmidt IV invest in?

Joe Schmidt IV invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Insurance startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 8 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 Joe Schmidt IV's check size?

Joe Schmidt IV typically joins rounds of $3.6M–$3.6M at Seed and $7.2M–$38M 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 Joe Schmidt IV participates in.

### When did Joe Schmidt IV last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Joe Schmidt IV closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 8 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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