# Sound Ventures

> Sound Ventures is a VC fund in Beverly Hills backing Software and FinTech. See 228 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beverly Hills, United States
- Total investments: 228
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 11%
- Fund size: $243M
- Last fund: May 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sound-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/sound_ventures_
- Website: https://www.soundventures.com

Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm. The company seeks to invest in the technology sector.

## Contacts

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

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.2M–$10M |
| Series A | $10M–$30M |
| Series B | $15M–$110M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 42 | 18% |
| FinTech | 24 | 11% |
| Financial Services | 23 | 10% |
| Internet | 19 | 8% |
| Health Care | 19 | 8% |

208 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 54 | 24% |
| Seed | 51 | 22% |
| Series B | 31 | 14% |
| Series C | 14 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 13 | 6% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 116 | 51% |
| Canada | 5 | 2% |
| Israel | 3 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 1% |
| Mexico | 2 | 1% |

14 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Maaria Bajwa | Principal | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maaria-bajwa |
| Ashton Kutcher | General Partner | 133 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashton-kutcher |
| Effie Epstein | Managing Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/effie-epstein |
| Guy Oseary | Co-Founder | 54 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guy-oseary |
| Kelly Donnelly | Sound Ventures | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kelly-donnelly |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Warp | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | General Counsel AI is web-based legal AI copilot for in-house counsel | $60M | Series B | Nov 12, 2025 |  |
| General Counsel AI | General Counsel AI is web-based legal AI copilot for in-house counsel | $60M | Series B | Nov 12, 2025 |  |
| XMTP | 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 | 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 |  |
| Warp | 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 |  |

10 of 228 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 25 deals together
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- [Thrive Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thrive-capital) — VC Fund, 12 deals together

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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 228 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 Sound Ventures's check size?

Sound Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.2M–$10M at Seed, $10M–$30M at Series A and $15M–$110M 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 Sound Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Sound Ventures?

Public channels for Sound 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 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 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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