# Rainfall Ventures

> Rainfall Ventures is a VC fund in Los Angeles backing Software and Internet. See 133 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 133
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last fund: Jan 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rainfall-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/rainfall
- Website: https://www.rainfall.com

Rainfall Ventures is a VC fund in Los Angeles focused on Software and Internet. Rainfall is an early-stage investor founded in 2011 and committed to partnering with world-class founders to help them change industries. Rainfall invests globally and follows a generalist strategy, pursuing opportunities across sectors with an emphasis on FinTech, No-Code, SaaS, Dev Tools, Gaming, and Digital Health with additional investments inWeb3 and AI.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$7.5M |
| Series A | $5.5M–$42M |
| Series B | $20M–$140M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 16 | 12% |
| Internet | 14 | 11% |
| E-Commerce | 13 | 10% |
| FinTech | 11 | 8% |
| Financial Services | 10 | 8% |

165 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 63 | 47% |
| Series A | 21 | 16% |
| Series B | 13 | 10% |
| Series C | 8 | 6% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 3% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 72 | 54% |
| Israel | 8 | 6% |
| Brazil | 2 | 2% |
| Canada | 2 | 2% |
| India | 1 | 1% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kyle Sullivan | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kyle-sullivan |
| Matthew Fagan | General Counsel & Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthew-fagan-a08b |
| Ron Rofe | Founder & General Partner | 63 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ron-rofe |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Stendr | Stendr specializes in AI-driven air defense systems made to fend off contemporary drone threats. With vertically integrated hardware and software, it highlights NATO-aligned European sovereignty by combining several sensors into a real-time operational view. | $5.4M | Pre-Seed | Apr 15, 2026 |  |
| Zed | Zed offers a credit-led neobank service tailored to young professionals in Southeast Asia. It provides a Titanium Mastercard credit card with no interest, no annual fees, and no foreign transaction fees. Through the Zed mobile app, users can create unlimited virtual cards, monitor transactions in real time, and quickly lock or delete cards toprevent fraud. Zed’s underwriting does not rely solely on traditional credit scores; instead, it assesses current and future earnings to assign credit limits. The service emphasizes transparency, control over spending, and a streamlined application and payment process. | $16.5M | Series A | Dec 09, 2025 |  |
| Lexington Bakes | Lexington Bakes is a luxury bakeshop serving up Consciously Baked™ Luxe Treats.From delicately rich fudge brownies to cheerfully bright buttery blondies and sinfully decadent cookies, our unique and extraordinary treats are handmade in Los Angeles with our guiding principle of Radical Ingredient Transparency™.We believe the best ingredients arenatural and ethically sourced with kindness and respect for people and the planet. We want you to know exactly what's in your next bite, so you can have your dessert and feel good about it too.Founded by designer, writer, and self-taught pastry chef Lex Evan. | $1M | Seed | Jul 15, 2025 |  |
| Deft Robotics | Deft Robotics is a systems integrator of wheeled humanoid robots for automotive, appliance, and electronics manufacturers. |  | Seed | Mar 01, 2025 |  |
| Curri | Curri is a construction materials provider that develops a last-mile delivery app that connects supply stores to customers.The Y Combinator-backed logistics startup company delivers construction supplies and materials with an “Uber-like” last-mile delivery model. App users arrange an order, open the Curri app, and enter pickup and dropofflocations to book the service. Curri’s drivers then pick up the supplies and ensure the order is correct before fulfilling the delivery. It offers live updates via the app to let customers follow and share the status of their deliveries. It also provides proof-of-delivery signatures and photos for tracking, regulatory, and compliance purposes.The Los Angeles, California-based company was founded in 2018 by Matt Lafferty and Brian Gonzalez. | $42M | Series B | Jun 06, 2023 |  |
| Unito | Unito is taking on a major problem that people are passionate about solving: they make it easier to collaborate across teams. They don't make users learn new tools and change the way they work. By connecting work management tools, they allow managers, cross-functional teams, departments, and entire companies to benefit from seamlesscollaboration and improved communication. The app syncs projects across a number of tools like Trello, Asana, JIRA, GitHub, Wrike, Zendesk & Hubspot. This is a hard problem of semantics, synchronization, and APIs. | $20M | Series B | Oct 26, 2022 |  |
| Antic | Antic develops a digital assets platform that builds foundations of a shared ownership economy by helping people collaborate, coordinate and earn together as a group, enabling users to own digital assets collectively and empower groups to purchase together what they could not alone, seamlessly. | $7M | Seed | Sep 15, 2022 |  |
| Antic | Antic’s scalable infrastructure is intended for any business seeking the addition of a co-ownership layer to their offerings. Its infrastructure freely enables businesses and individuals to do whatever they want with whatever they own - sell it, provide access to it, add additional co-owners to it and more.With original, seamless co-sharingfunctionalities like ad-hoc multi signature wallets and group decision making to retrieve assets, Antic’s new approach makes any digital asset or IP accessible to all parties interested in joining, unlocking new revenue streams for every co-owner. | $7M | Seed | Sep 15, 2022 |  |
| Unstoppable Domains | Unstoppable Domains launches domains secured by blockchains and builds uncensorable websites. The company offers NFT domains that give people control of their digital identity and its usernames can be used to log into more than 150 Web3 applications, shorten crypto wallet addresses, and build a decentralized Web3 identity. | $65M | Series A | Jul 27, 2022 |  |
| Arist | Arist is a tool that helps enterprise L&D and HR teams rapidly create, deliver, and analyze message-based courses, which are bite-size learning experiences delivered in the flow of SMS, Slack, and MS Teams.Along with saving over $200/employee/year with more efficient training, Arist helps companies create and track clear behaviorchange and performance improvement outcomes while delivering learning with an NPS of >90 and adoption rates that are 5x higher than traditional learning tools. | $12M | Series A | Jul 12, 2022 |  |

10 of 133 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BoxGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxgroup) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Tusk Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tusk-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Insight Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/insight-partners) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Sound Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sound-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Rainfall Ventures invest in?

Rainfall Ventures invests primarily in Software, Internet and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 133 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 Rainfall Ventures's check size?

Rainfall Ventures typically joins rounds of $1M–$7.5M at Seed, $5.5M–$42M at Series A and $20M–$140M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Rainfall Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Rainfall Ventures?

Public channels for Rainfall Ventures 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 Rainfall Ventures?

The team at Rainfall Ventures includes Kyle Sullivan (Partner), Matthew Fagan (General Counsel & Principal) and Ron Rofe (Founder & General Partner). 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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