MaC Venture Capital
VC Fund
Los Angeles, United States
MaC Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on finding ideas, technology, and products that can become infectious. The firm invests in technology companies that benefit from shifts in cultural trends and behaviors in an increasingly diverse global marketplace. MaC VC is the result of the merger between successful Los Angeles and Bay Area-based Seed funds, Cross Culture Ventures, and M Ventures.
- Total investments:
- 328
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 37%
- Fund size:
- $150M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries MaC Venture Capital invests in
Stages MaC Venture Capital invests in
Countries MaC Venture Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 9 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$8.8M
- Pre-Seed
- $120k–$4M
- Series A
- $5M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 44 (13%)
- Artificial Intelligence 35 (11%)
- Health Care 22 (7%)
- Information Technology 21 (6%)
- Financial Services 19 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 154 (47%)
- Series A 45 (14%)
- Pre-Seed 24 (7%)
- Series B 14 (4%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 10 (3%)
Country
- United States 184 (56%)
- Nigeria 4 (1%)
- Kenya 3 (1%)
- United Kingdom 3 (1%)
- Canada 2 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Michael Palank
Managing General Partner
|
Managing General Partner | Total investments: 26 | Find email | |
Charles King
Co-Founder & Special General Partner
|
Co-Founder & Special General Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Danny Brown
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Haley Farnsworth
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Marlon Nichols
Co-founder & Managing General Partner
|
Co-founder & Managing General Partner | Total investments: 69 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| FriskAI sits between your agents and the tools they use, capturing every agent action. We turn raw agent behavior into behavioral understanding and automatic anomaly detection. | $3.6M / Pre-Seed / Aug 11, 2026 | ||
| Pure Poker is a privately held fintech and software company that develops a legal, compliant, rake-free real-money online poker platform. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company replaces the traditional casino "house" model with a trusted, identity-verified social gaming network. | $8M / Seed / Jul 15, 2026 | ||
| Coval is a simulation and evaluation platform for AI agents, enabling engineers to deploy reliable assistants across chat and modalities. | $28M / Series A / Jun 24, 2026 | ||
| Critical Energy is an energy based firm that generate electricity with the help of heat through modular and geothermal power plant. | $19M / Seed / Jun 17, 2026 | ||
| Swsh is a social app that aims to strengthen true friendships rather than superficial relationships with followers. | $4M / Seed / Jun 16, 2026 | ||
| Cypher AI is an AI-powered platform built for scientists that provides intelligent digital infrastructure for life sciences R&D, enabling research teams to create, organize, and share custom AI tools with zero coding required. This platform streamlines scientific workflows by automating data analysis, visualization, protocol generation, andrecording, turning messy lab scripts into shareable web apps. | $2M / Seed / May 27, 2026 | ||
| Pipe operates a global trading platform for recurring revenue streams, connecting companies to institutional investors to trade in real time. It makes recurring revenue streams tradable for their annual value offering more cash flow for scaling companies | $16M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 09, 2026 | ||
| Autoscience merges science and tech to automate vehicles, improving safety, efficiency, and performance. It integrates AI, robotics, and materials science to transform transportation. | $14M / Seed / Mar 18, 2026 | ||
| Swarm Aero is an aerospace and defense company that develops large-scale unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms to operate in coordinated drone swarms for defense, logistics, and sensing missions. The company builds large uncrewed aircraft and supporting software that allow multiple drones to collaborate and perform tasks as a coordinated networkrather than as independent vehicles. These systems use onboard computing, sensors, and artificial intelligence to enable autonomous flight behaviors and collective decision-making among groups of drones. The technology platform includes aircraft hardware, swarm coordination software, and command-and-control tools that allow operators to deploy and manage large numbers of drones. A swarm node architecture integrates edge computing and distributed sensors on each vehicle so that drones can communicate with one another, share environmental data, and adapt their behavior during missions. Through this system, operators can translate mission objectives into coordinated flight patterns and task assignments executed by the swarm.Swarm Aero’s aircraft and software systems support applications such as intelligence gathering, environmental monitoring, cargo delivery, communications relay, disaster response, and security operations. The platform is designed to enable operations in environments where communications may be limited or conditions change rapidly, allowing autonomous drones to coordinate actions and adjust routes in real time. | $35M / Series A / Mar 11, 2026 | ||
| See all 328 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does MaC Venture Capital invest in?
MaC Venture Capital invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 328 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 MaC Venture Capital invest in?
MaC Venture Capital typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$8.8M at Seed, $120k–$4M at Pre-Seed and $5M–$30M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not MaC Venture Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds MaC Venture Capital took part in.
How do I contact MaC Venture Capital?
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Who are the partners at MaC Venture Capital?
The team at MaC Venture Capital includes Michael Palank (Managing General Partner), Charles King (Co-Founder & Special General Partner) and Danny Brown (Partner), among 9 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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