# Adit Ventures

> Adit Ventures is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and FinTech. See 36 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 36
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 47%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/company/adit-ventures
- Website: https://www.aditventures.com

Adit Ventures is a VC fund in New York focused on Artificial Intelligence and FinTech. Founded in 2014, Adit Ventures is a venture capital investment firm with over 1250 LPs, $400MM in AUM, five offices across the US, and exits in Airbnb, DocSend, GoPro, Lemonade, Palantir, SharesPost, SoFi, Snap, and Lyft. Adit’s acquires shares in category-leading, high-growth private companies via direct investments in primary rounds or earlyemployees/investors seeking liquidity. Adit’s ability to source and offer these exclusive opportunities to the firm’s investor-partners stems from the global network of relationships the team has developed over their 150+ years of combined investment experience. Adit uses its proprietary ten-step investment process to identify high-value investment opportunities in dynamic and sustainable businesses. Adit invests for growth. In making investment decisions, Adit seeks to capitalize on long-term secular trends and themes in the global economy where we see dynamic areas of growth. Not only does Adit believe these sectors provide the best opportunity for capital appreciation, but also that they enable the firm to make a positive impact on the world by advancing innovation and improving quality of life. Adit is firmly committed to generating a healthy return on our invested capital in alignment with our investors, our goals, and our principles. Adit invests across the entire lifecycle. Adit is currently positioned to invest across the entire company life cycle (Seed to Pre-IPO). This allows the firm to capture more value by pushing investment entry before inflection points of growth and enhances the firm’s visibility and breadth of deal flow across the venture landscape.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3M–$8M |
| Series A | $7.5M–$20M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $49M–$639M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 17% |
| FinTech | 5 | 14% |
| Software | 5 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 11% |
| Blockchain | 3 | 8% |

54 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 28% |
| Series A | 5 | 14% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 8% |
| Series B | 2 | 6% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 2 | 6% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 16 | 44% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 6% |
| Israel | 1 | 3% |
| Sweden | 1 | 3% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 3% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel McCooey | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-mccooey |
| Eric Lazear | Chief Operating Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-lazear-bd43 |
| Eric Munson | Principal / Co-founder | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-munson-2 |
| Jonathan Cholak | Managing Director | 16 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-cholak |
| Julie Klugman | EA and Head of Investor Relations | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julie-klugman |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cornelis Networks | Cornelis Networks develops purpose-built fabrics for scientific, commercial, and government organizations. It delivers high-performance fabrics that accelerate computing, data analytics, and artificial intelligence workloads. The company supports over 500 global customer installations serving government, academic institutions, and commercialenterprises in its relentless pursuit of technological and scientific advancements. | $29M | Series B | Nov 14, 2022 |  |
| Champ | Through the application of its secure, patent-pending technology, CHAMPtitles ends the reliance on legacy systems to manage U.S. automobile titles. CHAMPtitles partners with each party in the vehicle title ecosystem to reduce their costs in handling titles, turning the burdensome administrative process of issuing a vehicle title into a profitableactivity. | $12.9M | Series B | Sep 22, 2022 |  |
| Aanika Re | Aanika Re is an insurance vehicle owned by Aanika Biosciences. |  | Seed | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| Aanika Biosciences | Aanika Biosciences is a biotechnology company that provides food security services for large agricultural and food companies. The company combines IT and synthetic biology to develop novel solutions to a wide array of challenges. They use synthetic biology to ensure the integrity of supply chains and reduce potential losses. It helps companies gainvaluable insights about their supply chains and their customers make better consumption choices and create a more sustainable world.Aanika Biosciences was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, USA. |  | Convertible Note | Jul 26, 2022 |  |
| Playter | Funding the community of startups and scaleups by helping them convert any invoice into Buy Now, Pay Later. | $55M |  | Jun 22, 2022 |  |
| Playter | Funding the community of startups and scaleups by helping them convert any invoice into Buy Now, Pay Later. | $55M |  | Jun 22, 2022 |  |
| Playter | Funding the community of startups and scaleups by helping them convert any invoice into Buy Now, Pay Later. | $5M | Seed | Jun 22, 2022 |  |
| Playter | Playter is the ultimate B2B platform for flexible payment terms, allowing any businesses to spread the cost of their payable invoices over 3, 6, 9 or 12 months. | $5M | Seed | Jun 22, 2022 |  |
| Kaleidoco | Kaleidoco is a technology company built for Web3 experiences. | $7M | Seed | Jun 15, 2022 |  |
| Haystacks.AI | Haystacks.AI uses real estate data, and numerous sources of ancillary data, to augment investment decisions in the single-family RE market. | $3M | Seed | Mar 22, 2022 |  |

10 of 36 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fin Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fin-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [1818 Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1818-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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- [Hyperplane](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyperplane-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Avenue Capital Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avenue-capital-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Adit Ventures invest in?

Adit Ventures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 36 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 Adit Ventures's check size?

Adit Ventures typically joins rounds of $3M–$8M at Seed, $7.5M–$20M at Series A and $49M–$639M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Adit Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Adit Ventures?

Public channels for Adit Ventures include LinkedIn 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 Adit Ventures?

The team at Adit Ventures includes Daniel McCooey (Managing Director), Eric Lazear (Chief Operating Officer) and Eric Munson (Principal / Co-founder). 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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