# Storm Ventures

> Storm Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 252 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 252
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 28%
- Fund size: $220M
- Last fund: Dec 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/storm-ventures
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/stormventures
- Website: http://stormventures.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/StormVentures

Storm Ventures is a $600m (TAM) VC firm 100% focused solely on early-stage enterprise investments. We've been founders ourselves, of enterprise companies including Airespace (acquired by Cisco) and EchoSign (acquired by Adobe). We've had to go without pay as CEOs ourselves to make payroll. We've gone from $0 to $100m in ARR andlived all the stages in between. We've here to help, and add some strategic capital and insights. And not be in the way when we're not needed.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$7M |
| Series A | $4M–$18M |
| Series B | $7.5M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 56 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 32 | 13% |
| Enterprise Software | 29 | 12% |
| SaaS | 27 | 11% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 26 | 10% |

182 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 78 | 31% |
| Series B | 55 | 22% |
| Seed | 34 | 13% |
| Series C | 28 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 12 | 5% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 120 | 48% |
| South Korea | 5 | 2% |
| Germany | 3 | 1% |
| India | 1 | 0% |
| Canada | 1 | 0% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pascale Diaine | Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pascale-diaine |
| Alex Mendez | Managing Director | 27 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-mendez |
| Arun Penmetsa | Partner | 16 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arun-penmetsa |
| Jacco van der Kooij | Sales Architect/Mentor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jacco-vanderkooij |
| Kevin Melia | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-melia |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Actualyze AI | ActualyzeAI is a company focused on helping enterprises manage and gain control over AI adoption. It provides tools for visibility, governance, and oversight so organizations can scale AI usage without reducing team productivity. | $7M | Seed | Aug 03, 2026 |  |
| CarbonSix | CarbonSix develops AI-powered robotics technologies for manufacturing automation, with a focus on tasks that involve high product variation and changing production conditions. Its platform uses imitation learning to enable industrial robots to learn from human demonstrations and perform complex manipulation tasks that are difficult to automateusing conventional programming methods. The company combines robotics hardware and AI software to improve robot adaptability while meeting industrial quality and reliability requirements. Its solutions are designed for manufacturing environments where flexible automation is needed for assembly and other variable production processes. | $40M | Series A | Jul 01, 2026 |  |
| AB180 | AB180 is a marketing technology company that develops software for app growth, user acquisition, engagement, attribution, and monetization. The company provides a full-stack AI platform that helps businesses measure marketing performance, optimize customer acquisition, improve user retention, and maximize revenue across mobile apps, games, anddigital services. Its product portfolio includes Airbridge, a mobile measurement partner (MMP) and attribution platform; DeepLink Plan, a deep linking and user journey optimization solution; and Airflux, an AI-powered monetization platform for mobile games. Together, these products enable businesses to measure cross-platform marketing performance, predict customer lifetime value (LTV), detect ad fraud, automate in-app advertising and purchase optimization, and deliver personalized user experiences.AB180 also provides AI-driven analytics, customer engagement, and marketing automation solutions that integrate with enterprise platforms and advertising ecosystems. Its technologies leverage machine learning to optimize marketing campaigns, improve conversion rates, automate monetization experiments, and generate actionable insights from user behavior. In addition to its proprietary products, the company is a strategic implementation and consulting partner for platforms such as Amplitude and Braze, helping organizations deploy and optimize data-driven growth strategies. | $13.7M | Series C | Jul 01, 2026 |  |
| InScope | InScope build the future of Accounting, Financial Reporting and Audits. | $14.5M | Series A | Feb 20, 2026 |  |
| Opaque Systems | Opaque is a startup that helps organizations analyze encrypted data in the cloud. Opaque Systems offers a service for secure data analytics and machine learning in the cloud. Opaque commercializes the open source MC2 Platform, which leverages a novel combination of two key technologies layered on top of state-of-the-art cloud security—securehardware enclaves and cryptographic fortification. | $24M | Series B | Feb 12, 2026 |  |
| Synthpop | Synthpop is a healthcare SaaS development company. | $15M | Series A | Feb 03, 2026 |  |
| Compa | Compa provides a software platform that supplies compensation data and analytical tools for corporate pay decision processes. The company offers real-time market compensation information drawn from internal systems and a secure network to support benchmarking of employee cash, offers, equity, and skills-based pay. It also delivers AI-drivenanalysis agents that help interpret market trends, assess pay strategy, and support compensation planning workflows. Compa’s platform connects with human capital and applicant tracking systems to automate data integration and reduce manual work. The service emphasizes structured insights that align compensation strategy with market conditions and organizational policies. | $35M | Series B | Jan 26, 2026 |  |
| Tote.ai | Tote.ai presents an AI-native point-of-sale system that unifies pump-to-checkout shopping, streamlines operations, and supports associates. | $22.6M |  | Aug 18, 2025 |  |
| AirMDR | AirMDR uses an AI-powered virtual security analyst for investigating threats, triaging incidents, and executing responses. This innovation significantly enhances the speed and precision of incident investigation and response, while simultaneously reducing costs and alleviating the workload of human security analysts. With a primary focus on an AIvirtual analyst, customers elevate their threat detection and intelligence capabilities, ensuring uninterrupted 24/7 incident response. | $10.5M | Seed | Jul 09, 2025 |  |
| CarbonSix | CarbonSix develops AI-powered robotics technologies for manufacturing automation, with a focus on tasks that involve high product variation and changing production conditions. Its platform uses imitation learning to enable industrial robots to learn from human demonstrations and perform complex manipulation tasks that are difficult to automateusing conventional programming methods. The company combines robotics hardware and AI software to improve robot adaptability while meeting industrial quality and reliability requirements. Its solutions are designed for manufacturing environments where flexible automation is needed for assembly and other variable production processes. | $4.3M | Seed | May 15, 2025 |  |

10 of 252 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Storm Ventures invest in?

Storm Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 252 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 Storm Ventures's check size?

Storm Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$7M at Seed, $4M–$18M at Series A and $7.5M–$50M 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 Storm Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Storm Ventures?

Public channels for Storm 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 Storm Ventures?

The team at Storm Ventures includes Pascale Diaine (Partner), Alex Mendez (Managing Director) and Arun Penmetsa (Partner), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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