lobby capital
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
lobby capital is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Early stage venture capital investment firm.
- Total investments:
- 21
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 81%
Last updated:
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Industries lobby capital invests in
Stages lobby capital invests in
Countries lobby capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 6 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $3M–$14M
- Series A
- $10M–$17M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (33%)
- Software 6 (29%)
- Machine Learning 3 (14%)
- SaaS 2 (10%)
- Analytics 2 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 11 (52%)
- Seed 8 (38%)
- Funding Round 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 13 (62%)
- Egypt 1 (5%)
- Canada 1 (5%)
- Israel 1 (5%)
- Australia 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Buddy Arnheim
Founding Partner
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Founding Partner | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
Collin Wallace
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 13 | Find email | |
David Hornik
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 42 | Find email | |
Eric Carlborg
Founding partner
|
Founding partner | Total investments: 21 | Find email | |
Kevin H. Johnson
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gaia Dynamics company utilizes advanced artificial intelligence to streamline intricate procedures related to tariff classification, regulatory compliance, and supply chain optimization. Gaia Dynamics provides customs brokers, consultants, and brands with the necessary tools to effortlessly navigate global trade. | $7M / Seed / Sep 16, 2026 | ||
| Apate.ai is an AI-powered fraud prevention and intelligence platform designed to fight scam operations proactively. It uses artificial intelligence bots to detect scam calls and messages at their source, engage scammers in real-time, and disrupt their fraudulent activities before they reach real victims. The platform not only protects individualsand businesses from financial loss but also extracts valuable intelligence from scammer interactions, including tactics, attack vectors, and sensitive data like bank account and cryptocurrency wallet details. | $11.4M / Seed / Aug 31, 2026 | ||
| Stack is developing a set of tools to assist machine learning teams in perfecting their datasets by detecting data anomalies, evaluating annotations at scale, and protecting data with version control. | $16M / Series A / May 06, 2026 | ||
| Apera AI builds a Robot Vision Intelligence Software for manufacturing when speed and precision matters. | Series A / Mar 29, 2025 | ||
| Vantage Discovery is an engine for harnessing the power of generative AI embeddings to deliver astoundingly insightful search results, a platform for enabling new experiences for discovering and contextualizing content and products, a service for implementing production-ready solutions in hours, not weeks. | $16M / Series A / Jun 01, 2024 | ||
| Kolena is an ML testing platform that allows ML teams to rigorously test their model behavior. With Kolena, ML teams can identify and track failure modes to help engineering, sales, and customers better understand model performance and identify gaps. Kolena is the creator of a machine learning testing and analytics platform used to ensure thequality of machine learning and related technologies. Clients can use the company's platform to streamline and rectify machine learning and analytics projects by providing a testing infrastructure for machine learning software models and updates. | $15M / Series A / Sep 26, 2023 | ||
| Apera AI builds a Robot Vision Intelligence Software for manufacturing when speed and precision matters. | $7.7M / Seed / Aug 24, 2023 | ||
| Faros AI connects the dots between your engineering data sources – ticketing, source control, CI/CD, and more – giving unprecedented visibility and insight into your engineering processes. | $20M / Series A / Jun 27, 2023 | ||
| Ownify is rebuilding the path to homeownership to make it achievable for the next generation of homebuyers. Our fractional ownership platform allows first-time buyers to buy their home "brick by brick". Zero debt & no surprises. At the same time, we offer real estate investors fractional ownership in single-family homes, combiningrental income, home price appreciation, and social impact investing. | $7M / Seed / May 15, 2023 | ||
| What if developers don't need any static credentials to access cloud infrastructure? Today’s modern enterprises are facing credential sprawl problems - where the number of credentials to manage is growing exponentially. Developers, admins are often targets of social engineering attacks.Procyon provides Cloud Privilege Access Managementplatform for AWS, GCP and Azure. With the Procyon solution, a user never sees any credentials, so there is nothing to steal, nothing to remember. Procyon solution leverages TPM and biometrics to provide passwordless access to cloud infra. The self service portal enables developers for just-in-time access. Security teams have clear visibility into who accessed what and when. Procyon believes that productivity shouldn’t compromise security. | $6.5M / Seed / Feb 14, 2023 | ||
| See all 21 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does lobby capital invest in?
lobby capital invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 21 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 lobby capital invest in?
lobby capital typically joins rounds of $3M–$14M at Seed and $10M–$17M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not lobby capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds lobby capital took part in.
How do I contact lobby capital?
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Who are the partners at lobby capital?
The team at lobby capital includes Buddy Arnheim (Founding Partner), Collin Wallace (General Partner) and David Hornik (Founding Partner), among 6 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 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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