Sound Ventures
VC Fund
Beverly Hills, United States
Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm. The company seeks to invest in the technology sector.
- Total investments:
- 265
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 11%
- Fund size:
- $50M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Sound Ventures invests in
Stages Sound Ventures invests in
Countries Sound Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.4M–$10M
- Series A
- $9M–$30M
- Series B
- $17M–$105M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 60 (23%)
- FinTech 29 (11%)
- Financial Services 27 (10%)
- Artificial Intelligence 26 (10%)
- Blockchain 21 (8%)
Stage
- Series A 63 (24%)
- Seed 62 (23%)
- Series B 45 (17%)
- Series C 19 (7%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 17 (6%)
Country
- United States 148 (56%)
- Canada 5 (2%)
- Israel 4 (2%)
- United Kingdom 3 (1%)
- Mexico 2 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Maaria Bajwa
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Ashton Kutcher
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 140 | Find email | |
Effie Epstein
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Guy Oseary
Co-Founder
|
Co-Founder | Total investments: 54 | Find email | |
|
Kelly Donnelly
Sound Ventures
|
Sound Ventures | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Factory functions within integrated development environments, command line interfaces, and continuous integration pipelines. The technology allows for the delegation of technical tasks, including code refactors, system migrations, and incident responses. These digital agents also perform automated code reviews and facilitate the maintenance of builds during the development process. Integration extends to communication platforms and project management software, allowing users to trigger actions from various interfaces. The system supports the parallelization of agents to manage software updates and maintenance across multiple operating systems. | $200M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 15, 2026 | ||
| Stability AI is an artificial intelligence-driven visual art startup that designs and implements open AI tools. The company focuses on creating open models for various media types, including image, video, 3D, and audio, with applications also targeting enterprise-level needs. Stability AI fosters a vibrant community involving experts and partnersworldwide, enhancing collaboration in developing AI tools. | $76M / Series B / Aug 25, 2026 | ||
| Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees. | $60M / Series B / Jun 25, 2026 | ||
| Polsia is an autonomous software platform that acts as a complete "business-in-a-box" for entrepreneurs. The platform replaces human employees by deploying nine specialized AI agents to manage daily operations. These virtual workers automatically handle critical business tasks like coding, marketing, sales, and customer service. Bylinking these roles together, it allows founders to launch and run an entire company on autopilot. Ultimately, it eliminates the need for solo creators to hire staff or pay for multiple software tools. | $30M / Series A / May 25, 2026 | ||
| Anomaly is pioneering a new paradigm in healthcare—Precision Payments—to improve payment accuracy and streamline payments for payers and providers, a $300B+ problem. | $17M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 13, 2026 | ||
| Day.ai eliminates the complicated, manual interfaces of Legacy CRM, and keeps you connected to what your customers want. Day.ai combines the features of a Meeting Assistant, CRM, and Knowledge Base into a single unified solution that replaces the manual, complicated interfaces of legacy CRM and keeps you connected to what customers want. | $20M / Series A / Feb 02, 2026 | ||
| WitnessAI is building the guardrails that make AI safe, productive, and usable. It allows enterprises to innovate and enjoy the power of generative AI, without losing control, privacy, or security. | $58M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 13, 2026 | ||
| General Counsel AI is web-based legal AI copilot for in-house counsel | $60M / Series B / Nov 12, 2025 | ||
| XMTP is an open, crypto-native communication protocol that connects communities, applications, and users. It was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas. | $20M / Series B / Jul 17, 2025 | ||
| Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees. | $18M / Series A / Jun 18, 2025 | ||
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FAQ
What does Sound Ventures invest in?
Sound Ventures invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 265 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Sound Ventures invest in?
Sound Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$10M at Seed, $9M–$30M at Series A and $17M–$105M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Sound Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Sound Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Sound Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Sound Ventures?
The team at Sound Ventures includes Maaria Bajwa (Principal), Ashton Kutcher (General Partner) and Effie Epstein (Managing 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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