Karman Ventures
VC Fund
Santa Monica, United States
Karman Ventures is a VC fund in Santa Monica focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Karman is a venture firm backing AI-native companies building in the world’s most critical industries. We invest as early as pre-seed and as late as pre-IPO, with a focus on being fast, flexible, and founder-friendly. Our LPs are founders, operators, and late-stage investors who have built and backed some of the most iconic companies of our generation. We bring that collective experience and network together with one goal: to put it to work for the founders we partner with.
- Total investments:
- 261
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 1%
- Fund size:
- $5.2M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Karman Ventures invests in
Stages Karman Ventures invests in
Countries Karman Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $3M–$9M
- Pre-Seed
- $500k–$3.5M
- Series A
- $7M–$38M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 61 (23%)
- Artificial Intelligence 58 (22%)
- Information Technology 33 (13%)
- Transportation 20 (8%)
- SaaS 17 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 99 (38%)
- Series A 52 (20%)
- Pre-Seed 33 (13%)
- Series B 30 (11%)
- Series C 16 (6%)
Country
- United States 174 (67%)
- Canada 8 (3%)
- Mexico 5 (2%)
- United Kingdom 4 (2%)
- Egypt 2 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Amr Alshihabi
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
David Clark
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
David Clark
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
William Barnes
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 16 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghost is a consumer hardware and software company building a private, local-first computing system for personal artificial intelligence. | $11M / Seed / Oct 05, 2026 | ||
| Photon provides dependable, low-latency communications infrastructure and agent execution. designed to grow in response to actual consumer need. | $4.5M / Seed / Oct 01, 2026 | ||
| Bluecore Energy is a maritime nuclear energy startup that builds compact, zero-emission small modular reactors (SMRs) on floating barges to democratize access to clean energy. The company develops portable, water-cooled power systems designed to scale and meet the energy demands of heavy maritime operations, coastal communities, and major ports. | $50M / Seed / Sep 03, 2026 | ||
| Fambot is an AI powered chief of staff platform for parents designed to streamline day to day family logistics. The service connects to family emails, calendars, and chats to decode newsletters and coordinate schedules automatically. It then compiles important deadlines and events into a clear daily plan delivered directly via text message. | $3.5M / Pre-Seed / Sep 01, 2026 | ||
| Henry is a software company that develops AI-powered workflow automation tools for commercial real estate professionals. Its platform automates underwriting, market research, comparable property analysis, transaction tracking, buyer identification, and pitch deck creation. The platform also builds and maintains proprietary property and transactiondatabases, generates Excel-based underwriting models, and integrates with existing workflows to support investment sales, acquisitions, and brokerage teams throughout the deal process. | $16.5M / Series A / Jul 29, 2026 | ||
| Bluecore Energy is a maritime nuclear energy startup that builds compact, zero-emission small modular reactors (SMRs) on floating barges to democratize access to clean energy. The company develops portable, water-cooled power systems designed to scale and meet the energy demands of heavy maritime operations, coastal communities, and major ports. | $10M / Pre-Seed / Jul 21, 2026 | ||
| Infinity Constellation is an AI-focused startup holding company and incubator that builds and launches service-based businesses leveraging artificial intelligence. Their mission is to empower visionary founders to create the next generation of impactful, tech-enabled companies, emphasizing long-term growth and sustainable value creation. | $24M / Series A / Jun 08, 2026 | ||
| Hark is an AI lab focused on creating advanced personal intelligence through the combination of foundation models and specialized hardware. The company develops an AI interface through custom hardware and autonomous computing, integrated with multimodal models and highly personalized memory. | $700M / Series A / May 20, 2026 | ||
| Luel develops AI training data marketplace that supplies training datasets to connect AI enterprises and content contributors. | $31M / Seed / May 15, 2026 | ||
| BizScout is an online platform of Off market deals for verified buyers and sellers. | $5M / Seed / Apr 14, 2026 | ||
| See all 261 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Karman Ventures invest in?
Karman Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 261 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 Karman Ventures invest in?
Karman Ventures typically joins rounds of $3M–$9M at Seed, $500k–$3.5M at Pre-Seed and $7M–$38M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Karman Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Karman Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Karman Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Karman Ventures?
The team at Karman Ventures includes Amr Alshihabi (General Partner), David Clark (General Partner) and David Clark (General 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 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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