# Spot VC

> Spot VC is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Developer Tools. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Spot VC is a VC fund focused on Artificial Intelligence and Developer Tools.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Spot VC. Shizune tracks 1 team members at Spot VC. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/spot-vc?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.9M–$19M |
| Pre-Seed | $500k–$9M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 9 | 53% |
| Developer Tools | 6 | 35% |
| Software | 5 | 29% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 18% |
| Developer Platform | 3 | 18% |

40 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 82% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 18% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 15 | 88% |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jay Reno | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jay-reno-635c |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Luel | Luel develops AI training data marketplace that supplies training datasets to connect AI enterprises and content contributors. | $31M | Seed | May 15, 2026 |  |
| Moritz | If you’re tired of spending $ X0k+ and months on ESOP, contracts, compliance, fundraising, cross-border work, employment, or tech, we built Arcline for you. Arcline’s 50+ AI-native lawyers works at startup speed and price. So you can sell, raise, hire, and launch in hours, not months.Arcline lawyers are trained at top schools (Harvard,Stanford, Oxford) and leading firms (Cooley, Goodwin, Fenwick). Trusted by founders backed by YC, Sequoia, a16z, Founders Fund.We’re delivering the same top tier legal help to you, without the usual delay or cost. Think of us as your fractional in-house legal team, ready to deploy when needed. | $9M | Pre-Seed | May 05, 2026 |  |
| s2.dev | s2.dev is a serverless API system providing unlimited, durable, real-time data streams for developers. | $3.9M | Seed | Feb 25, 2026 |  |
| Manufact | MCP Use provides open-source developer tools and infrastructure for the model context protocol. | $6.3M | Seed | Feb 12, 2026 |  |
| General Legal | General Legal is an AI-native law firm for the fastest growing companies. | $11.5M | Seed | Feb 04, 2026 |  |
| Foundry Robotics | Foundry Robotics is an AI driven robotics company rebuilding manufacturing with advanced assembly automation and production systems. | $19M | Seed | Jan 16, 2026 |  |
| Mantis biotech | Mantis biotech builds a unified biomedical device testing and regulatory platform | $7.4M | Seed | Dec 19, 2025 |  |
| Miniswap | Miniswap offers a marketplace for tabletop wargaming miniatures. | $3.5M | Seed | Dec 16, 2025 |  |
| Channel3 | Channel3 provides a universal, API-driven product catalog that enables developers to search, deduplicate, and monetize product data. | $6M | Seed | Dec 10, 2025 |  |
| Multifactor | Multifactor provides secure identity management with authentication, authorization, and auditing using strong cryptography. It provides a secure account-management and access-sharing platform designed for both humans and AI agents. The service functions as a “vault” for passwords, passkeys, 2FA codes, and other authentication materials, enablingusers to store all their login credentials in one secure place. | $15M | Seed | Dec 04, 2025 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 16 deals together
- [Pioneer Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pioneer-fund) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Saga Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/saga-ventures-management) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Ritual Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ritual-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Spot VC invest in?

Spot VC invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 17 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 Spot VC's check size?

Spot VC typically joins rounds of $3.9M–$19M at Seed and $500k–$9M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Spot VC participates in.

### How do I contact Spot VC?

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 Spot VC?

The team at Spot VC includes Jay Reno (Co-Founder & 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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