# Surface Ventures

> Surface Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 61 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 61
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 51%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/surfacevc
- Website: http://rtpseed.vc

Surface Ventures is a seed and pre-seed venture capital firm focused on partnering with B2B software companies.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Surface Ventures. Shizune tracks 3 team members at Surface Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/rtp-seed?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$5.4M |
| Pre-Seed | $500k–$2.5M |
| Series A | $8M–$24M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 21 | 34% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 13 | 21% |
| SaaS | 7 | 11% |
| Analytics | 7 | 11% |
| Health Care | 6 | 10% |

76 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 28 | 46% |
| Pre-Seed | 22 | 36% |
| Series A | 6 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 2% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 2% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 38 | 62% |
| Canada | 3 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gyan Kapur | Co-Managing Partner | 25 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gyan-kapur |
| Dimitri Boguslavsky | Co-founder and Managing Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dimitri-boguslavsky |
| Yash Rohera | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yash-rohera |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Octozi | AI agents to accelerate clinical development workflows for the pharma industry. | $3M | Seed | Jul 07, 2026 |  |
| BotGauge | BotGauge is a Gen AI-powered low-code test automation platform. With BotGauge, users can write test case scenarios in English and automate them with AI assistance. | $2M | Seed | Feb 10, 2026 |  |
| Poetiq | Poetiq develops an AI meta-system that builds self-improving reasoning agents on top of existing large language models. The system discovers task-specific reasoning strategies, optimizes multi-step knowledge extraction, and synthesizes fragmented information into reliable answers. It focuses on recursive self-improvement, allowing agents to learnfrom solved tasks to perform better on new ones. Poetiq applies this approach to benchmarks like ARC-AGI and real-world workflows, improving accuracy and cost across models from multiple providers. The company works with partners to address complex AI reasoning and retrieval challenges in practical applications. | $45.8M | Seed | Jan 30, 2026 |  |
| EmbodyX | EmbodyX builds Physical AI that powers the industrial world | $2M | Pre-Seed | Sep 15, 2025 |  |
| Solvin AI | The world's first AI teammate that autonomously solve bugs | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Aug 27, 2025 |  |
| Elvity | Elvity is an AI Data Engineer that builds and maintains pipelines for you so. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Jul 18, 2025 |  |
| CloudRift | Software layer to turn data center into fully-fledged cloud offering. Rent GPU capacity directly from the data center owner/operator with no middlemen. Integrate the GPU rental console into your data center portal to sell directly to end users. | $2.8M | Seed | Mar 24, 2025 |  |
| BuildBetter | Understand and talk to your users. | $5M | Seed | Jan 01, 2025 |  |
| DocJuris | DocJuris platform empowers legal, sales, and procurement teams to negotiate and close contracts with speed and precision. DocJuris empowers new procurement teams and with technology that streamlines indirect and direct purchasing contracts while maintaining open collaboration with stakeholders at all stages. | $8M | Series A | Oct 01, 2024 |  |
| Altimate AI | Altimate AI's DataPilot offers data incident assistance and prevention by securely connecting your data to LLMs (PII-free). It’s a collection of AI agents - natively integrated in the favorite tools of data teams - to generate data documentation, data quality tests, data contracts, and better versions of existing queries. |  | Seed | Sep 23, 2024 |  |

10 of 61 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Surface Ventures invest in?

Surface Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 61 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 Surface Ventures's check size?

Surface Ventures typically joins rounds of $2M–$5.4M at Seed, $500k–$2.5M at Pre-Seed and $8M–$24M 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 Surface Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Surface Ventures?

Public channels for Surface 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 Surface Ventures?

The team at Surface Ventures includes Gyan Kapur (Co-Managing Partner), Dimitri Boguslavsky (Co-founder and Managing Partner) and Yash Rohera (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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