# LvlUp Ventures

> LvlUp Ventures is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 722 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 722
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lvlup-vc/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/lvlupvc?lang=en
- Website: https://www.lvlup.vc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LvlUpVC/

LvlUp Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on backing and accelerating top startups across every stage to create category-defining companies.LvlUp has over 1,500 core and extended team members across every major startup hub globally and reviews thousands of startup funding and acceleration applications every year. The firm is one of theworld’s largest and most recognized venture ecosystems (Forbes, 2024), creating dozens of Fortune 500, institutional, and government startup programs and investment partnerships representing trillions of dollars in market value.We leverage our deep advantages in industry expertise, bottom-up investment approach, and expansive ecosystem to: (1) accelerate startups at the early-stage through a novel bespoke approach that has produced top-quartile companies, (2) directly invest in mature seed startups that have shown defining vision and early traction, and (3) opportunistically accelerate small cap to publicly traded startups with great intrinsic value & competitive advantages to unlock newfound growth.Expanding the limits of the startup & venture capital since its founding, LvlUp Ventures is the first and only VC firm to have accelerated mid-market & publicly-traded companies, is the creator of the VC super application, and pioneered the bespoke acceleration model that scales over 50 companies with less than a 5% failure rate every year.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 170 | 24% |
| Software | 128 | 18% |
| Health Care | 57 | 8% |
| Manufacturing | 54 | 7% |
| Food and Beverage | 54 | 7% |

386 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 372 | 52% |
| Seed | 235 | 33% |
| Non-equity Assistance | 38 | 5% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 28 | 4% |
| Series A | 11 | 2% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 383 | 53% |
| United Kingdom | 38 | 5% |
| Canada | 24 | 3% |
| India | 20 | 3% |
| Nigeria | 12 | 2% |

49 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aaron Golbin | Managing Partner | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aaron-golbin |
| Adam Ned | Principal | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-ned-364b |
| AJ Smith | Co-Founder | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aj-smith |
| Akshat Sharma | Venture Capital | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akshat-sharma-946e |
| Benjamin Kromnick | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benjamin-kromnick |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Intervieux | Intervieux is a recruitment technology platform that helps companies conduct interviews, and streamline the hiring process. |  | Seed | Jul 24, 2026 |  |
| Brokerwise | BrokerWise is an AI-native operations platform for commercial real estate brokerages. It provides intelligent support, knowledge management, workflow automation, and operational visibility through AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), integrations, and communication workflows. BrokerWise helps brokerage teams modernize fragmentedprocesses and scale execution with enterprise-grade AI infrastructure. | $1K | Pre-Seed | Jul 10, 2026 |  |
| Noderails | Noderails is a crypto payment infrastructure platform for payments, subscriptions, automate payouts, and process invoices. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 10, 2026 |  |
| Sera AI | Sera AI provides voice AI agents that automate customer support, cart recovery, sales calls, appointment booking, and customer engagement. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 10, 2026 |  |
| LendlyX | A fintech platform verifies borrower-submitted photos, documents, rehab budgets, and property evidence before capital is exposed, then returns reason-coded results and an audit trail inside the lender’s existing workflow. |  | Seed | Jul 10, 2026 |  |
| GeoDepth AI | GeoDepth AI is an platform that unifies structured and unstructured data to help organizations detect patterns, and generate insights. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 10, 2026 |  |
| Prosperous Research Systems | Prosperous Research Systems develops contactless brain computer interface technology for human machine interaction and accessibility. |  | Seed | Jul 10, 2026 |  |
| Clooza | Clooza is a creator commerce platform that helps artists, and creators discover audiences, monetize content, and manage events. |  | Seed | Jul 03, 2026 |  |
| Bunyaad | Bunyaad is a real estate technology platform that provides digital infrastructure, workflow automation, and operational tools. |  | Seed | Jul 03, 2026 |  |
| Herbal Accession | Herbal Accession is a wellness company that offers plant based skincare, herbal remedies, and botanical products. |  | Seed | Jul 02, 2026 |  |

10 of 722 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Antler Australia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-australia) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Brisbane Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brisbane-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Evolution VC Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evolution-corporate-advisors-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Fulcrum Venture Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fulcrum-venture-accelerator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [TEDCO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maryland-technology-development-corporation) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Perth Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/perth-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does LvlUp Ventures invest in?

LvlUp Ventures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Health Care startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 722 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact LvlUp Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at LvlUp Ventures?

The team at LvlUp Ventures includes Aaron Golbin (Managing Partner), Adam Ned (Principal) and AJ Smith (Co-Founder), among 13 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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