Sterling Road
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Sterling Road is a venture capital firm that invests in pre-seed stage B2B startups. Sterling Road was founded in 2017 in San Francisco, California.
- Total investments:
- 39
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 5%
- Fund size:
- $20M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Sterling Road invests in
Stages Sterling Road invests in
Countries Sterling Road invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
4 more contacts available
Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$6.2M
- Pre-Seed
- $4k–$3M
- Series A
- $8M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 10 (26%)
- SaaS 6 (15%)
- Artificial Intelligence 6 (15%)
- Medical 4 (10%)
- Health Care 4 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 13 (33%)
- Pre-Seed 10 (26%)
- Series A 8 (21%)
- Funding Round 3 (8%)
- Convertible Note 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 24 (62%)
- United Kingdom 2 (5%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
- Nigeria 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ash Rust
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 10 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Hydra Host
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Hydra Host is a tool that provides cross-cloud capabilities to deploy and host apps across public cloud and private cloud providers. In addition to cross-cloud capabilities, Hydra offers high-level advisory, as well as expert implementation work with bespoke service engagements catered to client priorities. Whether security, resilience, orscale-focused. | $100M / Series A / Jun 15, 2026 | |
Quanto
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Quanto is an AI-powered bookkeeping and tax preparation platform designed to automate financial management for small businesses. By streamlining bookkeeping, tax compliance, and financial reporting, Quanto helps business owners save time, reduce errors, and gain real-time financial insights. Our mission is to empower entrepreneurs with seamless,automated financial solutions so they can focus on growing their businesses. | Pre-Seed / Dec 08, 2024 | |
Oria XR
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Oria XR is an innovative startup dedicated to revolutionizing medical training through the power of Virtual Reality (VR) and extended reality (XR) technologies. Our mission is to empower medical professionals and engineers with cutting-edge technology and unparalleled training experiences, ensuring they have the skills and confidence needed toexcel in their fields. At Oria XR, we believe in setting the gold standard in medical training and support. | $12.9K / Pre-Seed / Jul 26, 2024 | |
Starcloud
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Starcloud is building a network of megawatt-scale data centers in space, scaleable to gigawatt capacity. Falling launch costs allow Starcloud to take advantage of the abundant energy, passive cooling, and high-speed connectivity in space. | $2.4M / Pre-Seed / Mar 11, 2024 | |
MiChro
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MiChro is an innovative app that empowers users to achieve optimal health. By leveraging cutting-edge principles of chronobiology, MiChro provides personalized recommendations tailored to each user’s health conditions, lifestyle, and goals.Our app integrates advanced data analytics and machine learning to continuously evolve, deliveringactionable insights into nutritional status and dietary habits. This ensures users can make sustainable, long-term improvements to their health while enjoying a seamless, engaging experience.Current nutrition apps often fail to deliver the personalization users need. They rely on tedious manual entry, overlook individual restrictions and preferences, and lack interactivity—leading to poor user retention and limited impact. MiChro revolutionizes the nutrition app experience with its intuitive design, personalized features, and dynamic engagement, ensuring every user feels supported on their health journey.Join us in redefining health empowerment through personalized nutrition and advanced technology.Key words: Personalized Nutrition, Chronobiology, HealthTech, AI-powered Health, Nutritional Optimization, Machine Learning for Health, Health Empowerment, Lifestyle Medicine | $4K / Pre-Seed / Feb 10, 2024 | |
Aster
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Clinic enablement software for women's health providers, keeping them private and independent and helping to reduce poor health outcomes. | $2.4M / Pre-Seed / Jan 30, 2024 | |
Puzzle Financial
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Puzzle Financial is a modern data platform for startups | $30M / Nov 15, 2023 | |
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Puzzle Financial
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Puzzle Financial is a modern data platform for startups | $30M / Series A / Nov 15, 2023 | |
ChowCentral
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ChowCentral is an online food delivery platform that delivers food from different restaurants to customers. | Sep 06, 2023 | |
Hype
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Pico’s Audience Relationship Management platform is built for an emerging class of small and midsize businesses creating close-knit communities around content and identity. They range from local newsrooms and trade publications to fan clubs, non-profits, and much more. | $10M / Series A / Apr 05, 2023 | |
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FAQ
What does Sterling Road invest in?
Sterling Road invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 39 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 Sterling Road's check size?
Sterling Road typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$6.2M at Seed, $4k–$3M at Pre-Seed and $8M–$30M 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 Sterling Road participates in.
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Who are the partners at Sterling Road?
The team at Sterling Road includes Ash Rust (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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