# Team Ignite Ventures

> Team Ignite Ventures is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence. See 295 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: California City, United States
- Total investments: 295
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/team-ignite-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/teamignitevc
- Website: https://venture.angellist.com/team-ignite/syndicate

Team Ignite Ventures is a VC fund in California City focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Investing, Mentoring, and Fueling the Future of Entrepreneurship

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$6.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $400k–$1.5M |
| Series A | $17M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 93 | 32% |
| Software | 90 | 31% |
| SaaS | 40 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 38 | 13% |
| Financial Services | 33 | 11% |

222 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 150 | 51% |
| Pre-Seed | 99 | 34% |
| Series A | 7 | 2% |
| Series B | 7 | 2% |
| Series C | 3 | 1% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 193 | 65% |
| Canada | 11 | 4% |
| India | 5 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 2% |
| France | 4 | 1% |

20 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brian Bell | Founder & Managing Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-bell-221d |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| JustAI | Just words makes it simple to create self-optimized content variations for emails and advertisements. | $17M | Series A | Jun 23, 2026 |  |
| Herd Security | Herd Security is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting banking customers from the rising threat of AI-driven voice phishing (vishing) and social engineering scams. Leveraging advanced voice detection and AI technologies, Herd Security provides banks with real-time insights into potential vishing attacks, including those targeting high-risktransactions like wire fraud and elderly fraud. Designed to defend against the growing sophistication of AI-generated deepfake voice fraud, Herd Security offers security teams the tools and intelligence they need to safeguard customers’ sensitive information and financial assets. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing security infrastructures, empowering organizations to stay one step ahead of evolving social engineering threats. | $3M | Seed | May 06, 2026 |  |
| Resolv | Resolv is an AI-powered energy efficiency incentive platform that streamlines the rebate application process for homeowners, contractors, and incentive providers. The platform uses AI to understand projects and find available incentives and guides through the application process with auto-filled forms, enabling homeowners to save money onenergy-efficient products and contractors to streamline their operations. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Apr 16, 2026 |  |
| Nabu | Nabu unifies the entire customs declaration process on a single AI-powered platform. It automates operations to save time and reduce errors. The platform helps businesses make critical decisions more efficiently. | $3.5M | Seed | Mar 27, 2026 |  |
| Autosana | Autosana offers an AI-powered mobile app quality assurance platform that automates end-to-end testing using natural language instructions. Teams can describe test scenarios without writing code, and Autosana generates and runs the tests across iOS and Android environments. The tool integrates with CI/CD pipelines, adapts to interface changesthrough self-healing tests, and provides session replays for visual verification and debugging. It supports app frameworks like React Native, Flutter, Swift, and Kotlin, aiming to reduce the time and effort spent on manual or brittle automated testing. | $2.7M | Seed | Feb 17, 2026 |  |
| Santé | Santé provides liquor stores with custom inventory management, e-commerce, and industry-specific tools. | $7.6M | Seed | Feb 12, 2026 |  |
| Collective OS | We built Collective OS is a data partnership platform for professional service firms, empowering Partners to flex their capabilities through seamless sharing of talent, clients, case studies, and opportunities. Partner up, cross-sell, and collaborate with those firms to round out the breadth of your firm's offering. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Jan 28, 2026 |  |
| Thunder Compute | Thunder is a Cloud computing to democratize access to GPUs and solve the ongoing GPU shortage. Decentralized peer-to-peer GPU cloud computing | $4.5M | Seed | Jan 20, 2026 |  |
| NextLM | NextLM is a creator of a real-time decision inference engine intended to assist human study and comprehend online consumer behavior. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2026 |  |
| Upper | Transforming cross-border e-commerce in Latin America | $630K | Pre-Seed | Dec 31, 2025 |  |

10 of 295 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 82 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Team Ignite Ventures invest in?

Team Ignite Ventures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 295 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 Team Ignite Ventures's check size?

Team Ignite Ventures typically joins rounds of $1M–$6.3M at Seed, $400k–$1.5M at Pre-Seed and $17M–$25M 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 Team Ignite Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Team Ignite Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Team Ignite Ventures?

The team at Team Ignite Ventures includes Brian Bell (Founder & Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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