# Rogue VC

> Rogue VC is a VC fund in New York backing Software, Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/92704419/admin/
- Website: http://www.roguevc.com/

Rogue VC is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and Metaverse. Incubating and investing in frontier technology and culture, backing radical founders with outlier ideas.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $200k–$12M |
| Series A | $24M–$60M |
| Series B | $30M–$56M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 16% |
| Metaverse | 3 | 16% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 16% |
| Apps | 2 | 11% |
| Gaming | 2 | 11% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 53% |
| Series A | 4 | 21% |
| Series B | 2 | 11% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 11% |
| Series C | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 47% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 11% |
| Norway | 1 | 5% |
| Croatia | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Astrocade | Astrocade AI is an AI-powered social gaming platform that allows anybody to create games and interactive experiences. | $56M | Series B | May 05, 2026 |  |
| Astrocade | Astrocade AI is an AI-powered social gaming platform that allows anybody to create games and interactive experiences. |  | Series A | May 05, 2026 |  |
| Oath Surgical | Oath Surgical is creating the surgical care of the future, one that is value-based by design, tech-powered, and led by surgeons. The first vertically integrated system that combines tech-first surgical centers with AI software. | $24M | Series A | Oct 06, 2025 |  |
| Oath Surgical | Oath Surgical is creating the surgical care of the future, one that is value-based by design, tech-powered, and led by surgeons. The first vertically integrated system that combines tech-first surgical centers with AI software. | $10M | Seed | May 14, 2025 |  |
| Antares | Designing and building fission microreactors | $30M | Series A | Oct 30, 2024 |  |
| Star Catcher | Star Catcher creates first energy grid for space. Star Catcher's orbital infrastructure will transform how satellites are powered. | $12.3M | Seed | Jul 24, 2024 |  |
| Astrocade | Astrocade AI is an AI-powered social gaming platform that allows anybody to create games and interactive experiences. | $12M | Seed | Jun 11, 2024 |  |
| Runway | Runway provides a suite of generative artificial intelligence tools that enable the creation and editing of images, videos, animations, and multimedia content using text prompts or visual inputs. The company offers models and creative tooling that support video generation from text or other media, image synthesis, and motion-aware editing within abrowser-based platform, along with APIs for integrating capabilities into external workflows. Runway’s technology includes iterative model versions such as Gen-4 and Aleph that help users direct visual style, scene continuity, and character consistency in generated sequences. Its platform also includes features for masking, compositing, motion tracking, and additional creative controls that work alongside generation models to support production workflows. Runway is positioned as an AI-driven creative toolkit for storytellers, filmmakers, and content producers seeking to prototype and produce visual content with machine learning assistance. | $141M | Series C | Jun 29, 2023 |  |
| Joro | Joro helps people track and offset their carbon footprints. |  | Seed | Dec 27, 2022 |  |
| Tribute Brand | TRIBUTE BRAND is a high-end digital fashion brand and a fashion tech house known as one of the biggest pioneers in this field and famous for its characteristic contactless & cyber aesthetics. | $4.5M | Seed | Jul 12, 2022 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Rogue Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rogue-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [NVIDIA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nvidia) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [TQ Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tq-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [The Venture Reality Fund/VRF](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venture-reality-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Black Opal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/black-opal-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Chaac Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chaac-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Rogue VC invest in?

Rogue VC invests primarily in Software, Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 19 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 Rogue VC's check size?

Rogue VC typically joins rounds of $200k–$12M at Seed, $24M–$60M at Series A and $30M–$56M 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 Rogue VC participates in.

### When did Rogue VC last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rogue VC closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 19 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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