# MGV

> MGV is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 78 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 78
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/maschmeyer-group-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/mg_ventures
- Website: http://www.mgv.vc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maschmeyergroupventures

MGV is an early-stage venture capital fund that focuses on opportunistic investments in North America, Latin America, and Israel. The fund backs a limited number of founders per year in order to provide the highest level of counsel and advocacy. MGV brings unmatched, scalable sales support with genuine mentorship and guidance to early-stagestartups, with the unique-to-seed intention that the portfolio companies realize their full potential. MGV looks for founders with infinite drive, humility, the capacity for leadership, and most importantly, the energy that motivates the people around them.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for MGV. Shizune tracks 10 team members at MGV. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/maschmeyer-group-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.4M–$6M |
| Pre-Seed | $125k–$1.6M |
| Series A | $8M–$13M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 18 | 23% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 11 | 14% |
| Health Care | 10 | 13% |
| Insurance | 9 | 12% |
| InsurTech | 8 | 10% |

96 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 40 | 51% |
| Pre-Seed | 13 | 17% |
| Series A | 5 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 43 | 55% |
| Canada | 3 | 4% |
| Mexico | 2 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| David Jee | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-jee |
| Carsten Maschmeyer | Founding Partner | 83 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carsten-maschmeyer |
| Danny Leonard | Sales Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/danny-leonard |
| Kevin Lynch | Venture Capitalist | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-lynch-8 |
| Kevin Lynch | Investor | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-lynch |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Braven | We automate, optimize, and enhance various operational processes. This includes tasks such as document processing, fraud detection, customer support, risk assessment, compliance monitoring, and transaction management. By integrating AI into these workflows, institutions can reduce manual effort, increase processing speed, and improve accuracy,resulting in more efficient operations and better customer experiences. | $4.6M | Seed | Jun 16, 2026 |  |
| Pocket | Pocket is an AI powered front office that operates system for medical clinics. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Mar 30, 2026 |  |
| Woz | Woz is an AI platform where anyone can create and grow software enterprises without knowing any code. | $6M | Seed | Oct 15, 2025 |  |
| Cascade Space | Cascade Space offers tools and ground station services for designing and analyzing communication systems in deep space missions. | $5.9M | Seed | Jul 24, 2025 |  |
| Asepha | Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions. | $4M | Seed | Jun 06, 2025 |  |
| District Cover | District Cover takes a data-driven approach to understanding city-based businesses' risk profiles and creates tailored insurance policies for small businesses. We exist to ensure brokers and small businesses can rely on consistent access to insurance solutions that empower continued growth. Our proprietary, non-admitted commercial insuranceproduct provides a new solution as existing options become harder to get, less relevant, and more expensive. | $7M | Seed | Jul 23, 2024 |  |
| Essential | Essential is a next-gen software platform boosting field service efficiency with autonomous workflows, starting in fire and life safety. |  | Pre-Seed | May 15, 2024 |  |
| Authentic Insurance | Authentic is a community based insurance platform that offers captive insurance services for small businesses. | $11M | Series A | Mar 26, 2024 |  |
| Buildstock | Buildstock is a B2B construction materials marketplace & Fintech software company, focused on connecting buyers of materials directly with materials suppliers for bulk purchasing of base building materials, in the high rise & industrial market. While also offering access to real time lending for procurement & factoring for PurchasingOrders of suppliers; improving, cost of materials, time efficiency, data accuracy & cashflow innovation. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Feb 22, 2024 |  |
| Buildstock | Buildstock is a B2B construction materials marketplace & Fintech software company, focused on connecting buyers of materials directly with materials suppliers for bulk purchasing of base building materials, in the high rise & industrial market. While also offering access to real time lending for procurement & factoring for PurchasingOrders of suppliers; improving, cost of materials, time efficiency, data accuracy & cashflow innovation. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Feb 22, 2024 |  |

10 of 78 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Precursor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/precursor-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does MGV invest in?

MGV invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 78 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 MGV's check size?

MGV typically joins rounds of $2.4M–$6M at Seed, $125k–$1.6M at Pre-Seed and $8M–$13M 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 MGV participates in.

### How do I contact MGV?

Public channels for MGV 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 MGV?

The team at MGV includes David Jee (Principal), Carsten Maschmeyer (Founding Partner) and Danny Leonard (Sales Partner), among 10 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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