# MaC Venture Capital

> MaC Venture Capital is a VC fund backing Software. See 284 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 284
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last fund: Oct 2024
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mac-venture-capital
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/MaCVentureCap
- Website: http://macventurecapital.com/

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 LosAngeles and Bay Area-based Seed funds, Cross Culture Ventures, and M Ventures.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$8.8M |
| Pre-Seed | $770k–$4M |
| Series A | $6M–$40M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 35 | 12% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 26 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 22 | 8% |
| Health Care | 18 | 6% |
| Financial Services | 17 | 6% |

225 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 130 | 46% |
| Series A | 38 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 20 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 14 | 5% |
| Series B | 11 | 4% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 151 | 53% |
| Nigeria | 4 | 1% |
| Kenya | 3 | 1% |
| Canada | 2 | 1% |
| Mexico | 2 | 1% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Michael Palank | Managing General Partner | 26 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adrian-fenty |
| Charles King | Co-Founder & Special General Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-king |
| Danny Brown | Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/danny-brown-6e4c |
| Haley Farnsworth | Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/haley-farnsworth-b946 |
| Marlon Nichols | Co-founder & Managing General Partner | 62 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marlon-c-nichols |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pure | 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 | 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 | 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 | Swsh is a social app that aims to strengthen true friendships rather than superficial relationships with followers. | $4M | Seed | Jun 16, 2026 |  |
| Cypher AI | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Taya | Taya provides AI-powered wearable jewelry designed as a necklace to capture and organize personal memories confidentially. | $5M | Seed | Mar 11, 2026 |  |
| Antioch | Antioch transforms robotics development and validation workflows from hardware-in-the-loop to pure software, seamlessly integrating with existing CI/CD and development workflows. | $8.5M | Seed | Mar 04, 2026 |  |

10 of 284 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 26 deals together
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 16 deals together
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- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
- [Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-fund) — VC Fund, 10 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does MaC Venture Capital invest in?

MaC Venture Capital invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 284 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 MaC Venture Capital's check size?

MaC Venture Capital typically joins rounds of $2M–$8.8M at Seed, $770k–$4M at Pre-Seed and $6M–$40M 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 MaC Venture Capital participates in.

### How do I contact MaC Venture Capital?

Public channels for MaC Venture Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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 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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