# StratMinds

> StratMinds is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and FinTech. See 41 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 41
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 12%
- Last fund: Nov 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stratminds-vc
- Website: https://www.stratminds.vc/

STRATMINDS is a San Francisco-based Venture Capital and Advisory firm. We support exceptional entrepreneurs with an ambition to generate an outsized impact. We help them reach their full potential with early-stage investment and strategic advice. We are a thesis-driven firm, focusing on key areas of development that are disrupting the world for thebetter.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$6M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.6M–$5M |
| Series A | $4M–$35M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 9 | 22% |
| FinTech | 8 | 20% |
| Software | 7 | 17% |
| Financial Services | 7 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 17% |

53 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 16 | 39% |
| Series A | 7 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 7% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 2% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 19 | 46% |
| Spain | 4 | 10% |
| Sweden | 1 | 2% |
| Ukraine | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Richard Jhang | General Partner & CEO | 30 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-jhang |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Superapp | Superappis developing an AI-powered no-code platform designed to create applications for iOS and macOS. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Mar 05, 2026 |  |
| Portal AI | Portal AI provides customized AI applications for small and medium-sized enterprises, designed to help manage operational activities, marketing, finances, logistics, and more. | $5M | Pre-Seed | Jun 06, 2024 |  |
| Portal | Portal is a cell engineering platform firm that enables next generation cell engineering and cell analytics in research and clinical settings. | $5M | Pre-Seed | Mar 19, 2024 |  |
| Competera | Competera transforms how retailers approach pricing. By replacing linear, complex, and overengineered pricing processes and making customer behavior insights available for the pricing process, we enable businesses to understand purchasing behavior at a granular level, identifying preferences and trends; optimize pricing strategies for each productcategory, channel, and region; make data-driven decisions that drive sales, improve customer satisfaction, and increase profitability.Our solutions deliver tailored pricing recommendations that account for customer preferences, competitive dynamics, and market trends. This empowers retailers to increase sales and revenue by offering the right products at the right prices; enhance customer loyalty by enabling retailers to offer the most competitive prices across all their products while maintaining strong bottom-line metrics; optimize inventory management through precise demand forecasting and dynamic repricing; reduce operational costs through efficient pricing processes. | $3M |  | Jan 29, 2024 |  |
| ControlRooms.ai | Controlrooms.ai develops a monitor system designed for industrial mission control rooms. It provides immediate time to benefit and exhibit intuitive functionality to help advance the quality of life on Earth, enabling companies by providing earth's monitoring services. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas. | $10M | Series A | Aug 29, 2023 |  |
| ShapesXR | ShapesXR enables users to instantly create fully immersive scenes and populate them with crucial artifacts which were previously impossible for people without the time and resources to develop costly physical environments, mock-ups, or experience laboratories. | $8.6M | Seed | Aug 09, 2023 |  |
| Bit2Me | Bit2Me is the leading blockchain services suite in Spain since 2014 and one of the first blockchain companies in the world. Proud creators of Bit2Me Academy, the largest blockchain academy in Spanish in our mission to promote the mass adoption. We’ve already reached 21 services, +1M unique users, +100.000 clients, +100M euros invoiced, +250physical points of sale | $15.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 15, 2023 |  |
| Hyperspec-ai | Only 3% of US roadways are covered by the high-definition master maps that today's self-driving cars require to navigate. Without a hard tether to these maps, or beyond their bounds, autonomous vehicles simply cannot operate. Worse, the coverage of these maps is expanding at a rate of only 2% every 5 years.At Hyperspec AI we are expandingnavigable roadways for autonomous vehicles to 95%, today, by equipping each car with our onboard vision hardware that localizes and navigates with true autonomy. Our high-frequency periodic calibration corrects for drift using satellite imagery to achieve continuous precise real-time positioning at a fraction of the cost.Hyperspec AI is my third company and the second to focus on mapping and localization for autonomous vehicles. I am a serial entrepreneur with successful exits and the deep domain expertise required to lead this new generation of navigation technology. Today, my team includes top talent in computer vision, simulation, and high-performance edge computing.With $860K raised and $750K in revenue booked to date with a $1.2M backlog, we have traction and momentum. Our focus is on partnership opportunities that accelerate our time-to-market to meet the immediate industry demand. | $450K | Seed | Apr 21, 2023 |  |
| Rand App | Rand is a fintech firm that offers banking services, savings, deposits, and account opening. |  | Seed | Apr 20, 2023 |  |
| Fuelfinance | We do your spreadsheets, graphs, and automations. You get P&L, CF, Financial Projections , Plan/Fact , Unit Economics, and finally, peace of mind. All in familiar to you Google Spreadsheets. Forget about months of integrations and insane setup costs. Starting from $999/month. | $1M | Seed | Jan 13, 2023 |  |

10 of 41 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does StratMinds invest in?

StratMinds invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 41 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 StratMinds's check size?

StratMinds typically joins rounds of $500k–$6M at Seed, $1.6M–$5M at Pre-Seed and $4M–$35M 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 StratMinds participates in.

### How do I contact StratMinds?

Public channels for StratMinds include LinkedIn 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 StratMinds?

The team at StratMinds includes Richard Jhang (General Partner & CEO). 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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