# Scribble Ventures

> Scribble Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 194 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Portola Valley, United States
- Total investments: 194
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last fund: May 2025
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/scribble-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/scribblevc
- Website: https://www.scribble.vc/

Scribble Ventures is an early-stage investment fund that focuses on Pre-Seed through Series A.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$9.2M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.4M–$3.8M |
| Series A | $10M–$35M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 39 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 19 | 10% |
| Information Technology | 16 | 8% |
| SaaS | 10 | 5% |
| Human Resources | 9 | 5% |

162 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 65 | 34% |
| Series A | 33 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 10 | 5% |
| Series B | 8 | 4% |
| Series D | 1 | 1% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 84 | 43% |
| Mexico | 2 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Elizabeth Weil | Founder and Managing Director | 36 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elizabeth-weil |
| Elizabeth Weil | Founder and Managing Director | 46 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elizabeth-bailey-weil |
| John Smothers | Partner | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-smothers |
| Ron Pragides | Limited Partner | 221 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ron-pragides |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Elio Labs | Elio Labs develops an optical computing technology to improve sensing capabilities across diverse cellular environments. | $21M | Series A | Jul 23, 2026 |  |
| Hostie | Hostie is an AI-first customer experience platform designed for restaurants, automating guest inquiries, reservations, and takeout orders. We proudly partner with some of the world’s top restaurants, including Flour + Water, Nisei, Slanted Door, ILIS, and more. Co-founded by a product designer-turned-restaurateur and an AI engineer, Hostie blendshospitality expertise with cutting-edge technology to enhance restaurant operations. | $12M | Series A | Jul 08, 2026 |  |
| Hostie | Hostie is an AI-first customer experience platform designed for restaurants, automating guest inquiries, reservations, and takeout orders. We proudly partner with some of the world’s top restaurants, including Flour + Water, Nisei, Slanted Door, ILIS, and more. Co-founded by a product designer-turned-restaurateur and an AI engineer, Hostie blendshospitality expertise with cutting-edge technology to enhance restaurant operations. | $12M | Series A | Jul 08, 2026 |  |
| Hostie | Hostie is an AI-first customer experience platform designed for restaurants, automating guest inquiries, reservations, and takeout orders. We proudly partner with some of the world’s top restaurants, including Flour + Water, Nisei, Slanted Door, ILIS, and more. Co-founded by a product designer-turned-restaurateur and an AI engineer, Hostie blendshospitality expertise with cutting-edge technology to enhance restaurant operations. | $12M | Series A | Jul 08, 2026 |  |
| Critical Energy | Critical Energy is an energy based firm that generate electricity with the help of heat through modular and geothermal power plant. | $19M | Seed | Jun 17, 2026 |  |
| Laurence | Laurence is a hedge fund for ads, automating performance marketing using quantitative models | $5.3M | Seed | May 15, 2026 |  |
| Noon | Noon operates in the product design software, developing an AI-native tool for digital product teams. It focuses on bridging design and engineering workflows by integrating live code from a company's codebase and design system into a collaborative canvas. | $44M |  | Apr 01, 2026 |  |
| Swarm Aero | Swarm Aero is an aerospace and defense company that develops large-scale unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms to operate in coordinated drone swarms for defense, logistics, and sensing missions. The company builds large uncrewed aircraft and supporting software that allow multiple drones to collaborate and perform tasks as a coordinated networkrather than as independent vehicles. These systems use onboard computing, sensors, and artificial intelligence to enable autonomous flight behaviors and collective decision-making among groups of drones. The technology platform includes aircraft hardware, swarm coordination software, and command-and-control tools that allow operators to deploy and manage large numbers of drones. A swarm node architecture integrates edge computing and distributed sensors on each vehicle so that drones can communicate with one another, share environmental data, and adapt their behavior during missions. Through this system, operators can translate mission objectives into coordinated flight patterns and task assignments executed by the swarm.Swarm Aero’s aircraft and software systems support applications such as intelligence gathering, environmental monitoring, cargo delivery, communications relay, disaster response, and security operations. The platform is designed to enable operations in environments where communications may be limited or conditions change rapidly, allowing autonomous drones to coordinate actions and adjust routes in real time. | $35M | Series A | Mar 11, 2026 |  |
| Swarm Aero | Swarm Aero is an aerospace and defense company that develops large-scale unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms to operate in coordinated drone swarms for defense, logistics, and sensing missions. The company builds large uncrewed aircraft and supporting software that allow multiple drones to collaborate and perform tasks as a coordinated networkrather than as independent vehicles. These systems use onboard computing, sensors, and artificial intelligence to enable autonomous flight behaviors and collective decision-making among groups of drones. The technology platform includes aircraft hardware, swarm coordination software, and command-and-control tools that allow operators to deploy and manage large numbers of drones. A swarm node architecture integrates edge computing and distributed sensors on each vehicle so that drones can communicate with one another, share environmental data, and adapt their behavior during missions. Through this system, operators can translate mission objectives into coordinated flight patterns and task assignments executed by the swarm.Swarm Aero’s aircraft and software systems support applications such as intelligence gathering, environmental monitoring, cargo delivery, communications relay, disaster response, and security operations. The platform is designed to enable operations in environments where communications may be limited or conditions change rapidly, allowing autonomous drones to coordinate actions and adjust routes in real time. | $35M | Series A | Mar 11, 2026 |  |
| Guild.ai | Our mission is simple: to make building with AI as open and collaborative as open source. We’re creating tools for the next generation of intelligent systems—built for developers who value craft, reliability, scale, and community. By opening up the AI development process, we’re enabling teams to move faster, ship with confidence, and learn fromeach other as they build what’s next. | $30M | Series A | Mar 03, 2026 |  |

10 of 194 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Scribble Ventures invest in?

Scribble Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 194 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 Scribble Ventures's check size?

Scribble Ventures typically joins rounds of $2M–$9.2M at Seed, $1.4M–$3.8M at Pre-Seed and $10M–$35M 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 Scribble Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Scribble Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Scribble Ventures?

The team at Scribble Ventures includes Elizabeth Weil (Founder and Managing Director), Elizabeth Weil (Founder and Managing Director) and John Smothers (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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