Masha Bucher
Founder and General Partner @ Day One Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Masha Bucher (née Drokova) is a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, has been included in ‘100 raising-star VCs’ by Business Insider, and was named by Business Insider as a top 50 PR Pro in tech.Masha is the Founder and General Partner at Day One Ventures. The fund invests in companies with customer-focused culture and spearheads their communications.They have backed companies like Superhuman, DuckDuckGo, Remote, Truebill, Yumi, DoNotPay, MSCHF, Terran Orbital, Arcadia and others.Before launching Day One, Masha was an angel investor and founder of a PR studio that worked with companies like Houzz, HotelTonight and Gett. She also was VP of Communications at Acronis, a data protection company, where she managed PR activities across 18 countries and previously served as Head of Communications at VC firm Runa Capital.Masha studied at Stanford’s VC Unlocked program and holds a master's degree in Business and Public Administration from MSU. She has obtained notable recognition over the years, including being the subject of a 2012 Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary and clinching a win in the 2006 All-Russian Olympiads for social science. Masha has a deep love for art and collects contemporary art.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Masha Bucher invests in
Stages Masha Bucher invests in
Countries Masha Bucher invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 3 (30%)
- Software 3 (30%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (30%)
- Transportation 2 (20%)
- Human Resources 2 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (40%)
- Series A 2 (20%)
- Series B 2 (20%)
- Angel 1 (10%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (10%)
Country
- United States 3 (30%)
- Spain 1 (10%)
- Canada 1 (10%)
- United Kingdom 1 (10%)
Investments
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Artisan AI
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Artisan AI creates digital workers, called Artisans. The company's first Artisan, Ava, automates the entire outbound sales process and can be set up with a 10-minute conversation. Ava creates TCPs, and prospects with her database of over 270,000,000 contacts, crafts & sends highly bespoke email sequences, and books meetings into yourcalendar. And, you can manage all features & settings by talking to Ava via Slack. | $25M / Series A / Apr 09, 2025 | |
Sauna by Wordware
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Wordware allows users to create and host their entire LLM stack for AI application development. It offers tools for building, training, and deploying language models. The platform simplifies the integration of various components necessary for AI solutions. Users can manage their applications and data within a unified environment. | $30M / Seed / Nov 21, 2024 | |
Starpath Robotics
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Starpath Robotics builds spacecraft propellant that reduces the deep space transport cost. | $12M / Seed / Aug 20, 2024 | |
Zamp
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Zamp is the sales tax technology provider of solution that eliminates the need for you to manage the software. | $4M / Seed / May 10, 2023 | |
Hofy
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Our platform enables your business to bring out-of-the-box home offices and on-site services to one employee or thousands – in just a couple of clicks. | $15M / Series B / Sep 28, 2022 | |
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Hofy
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Our platform enables your business to bring out-of-the-box home offices and on-site services to one employee or thousands – in just a couple of clicks. | $12.7M / Series A / Oct 19, 2021 | |
Remote
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Talent is everywhere — and opportunity should be too. Remote’s mission is to create opportunity everywhere, empowering businesses to hire, manage, and pay the best talent, while allowing individuals to connect with the companies and roles that best suit their skills. | $150M / Series B / Jul 13, 2021 | |
Delphia
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Delphia is building the world's first investment adviser that allows people to invest their data alongside their money in order to improve their investment returns. Delphia is able to forecast the growth and profitability for thousands of companies simultaneously through a series of machine learning models. When Delphia's modeldisagrees with the market, we adjust the weights of our diversified equity portfolio to reflect the confidence we have in our predictions. | $15.4M / Seed / Dec 04, 2019 | |
Reby
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Reby is a European multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of public sharing transport infrastructure. Today, Reby is the Southern Europe leader in the micromobility field, with over 15 agreements with public administrations. The company was founded by four entrepreneurs (Pep Gómez,Kiran Thomas, Cristina Castillo, and Guillem Pagès) in 2018 as a micromobility operator, winning the first public tender in Europe for kickscooters, in the city of Zaragoza (Spain). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company increased its R&D efforts, expanding into the MaaS (mobility-as-a-service) economy and the investment banking/franchising business for public administrations (through PPPs), public utility companies, as well as SMEs. | Angel / May 25, 2019 | |
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Delphia
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Delphia is building the world's first investment adviser that allows people to invest their data alongside their money in order to improve their investment returns. Delphia is able to forecast the growth and profitability for thousands of companies simultaneously through a series of machine learning models. When Delphia's modeldisagrees with the market, we adjust the weights of our diversified equity portfolio to reflect the confidence we have in our predictions. | $4.1M / Pre-Seed / Jun 13, 2018 |
Co-Investors
TrueSight Ventures
4 deals together
Fusion Fund
3 deals together
The Twenty Minute VC
2 deals together
Activum
2 deals together
Balerion Space Ventures
2 deals together
Black Jays
2 deals together
About Day One Ventures
Day One Ventures is a venture capital firm that backs customer-obsessed companies and spearheads their communications. This enables the Day One team to become actively involved in its portfolio companies and plays a real, tangible role in helping them grow. The firm invests across industries from pre-seed to seed - and occasionally series A, andinvests between $100k and $5 million.Day One Ventures was founded by Masha Drokova, who is an angel investor, entrepreneur, communications executive, and Forbes 30 Under 30 Honoree.
Day One Ventures Contacts
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Drake Rehfeld
Principal
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Masha Bucher
Founder and General Partner
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Masha Bucher
Founder and General Partner
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Natalie Issa
Head of Communications
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What does Masha Bucher invest in?
Masha Bucher invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Masha Bucher last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Masha Bucher closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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