Toy Ventures
VC Fund
Berkeley, United States
Toy Ventures is an operator led early stage venture fund.
- Total investments:
- 54
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 2%
Last updated:
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Industries Toy Ventures invests in
Stages Toy Ventures invests in
Countries Toy Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$6.4M
- Series C
- $20M–$150M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $2.5M–$32M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 13 (24%)
- Software 12 (22%)
- Financial Services 12 (22%)
- E-Commerce 8 (15%)
- Cryptocurrency 8 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 17 (31%)
- Series C 8 (15%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 8 (15%)
- Series A 7 (13%)
- Series B 6 (11%)
Country
- United States 48 (89%)
- Latvia 1 (2%)
- Mexico 1 (2%)
- Colombia 1 (2%)
- Pakistan 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Lingtong Sun
Co-Founder
|
Co-Founder | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Ramnik Arora
Co-Founder
|
Co-Founder | Total investments: 16 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| InnoVein is a venture-backed medical device company focusing on cardiac and arterial approaches. The company develops and offers an implantable valve that can regularize blood flow in the veins of the elderly suffering from venous insufficiency disease. InnoVein was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Carlos, California. | $2.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 06, 2023 | ||
| Photon Commerce cuts the costs of payment processing by 25% by unlocking line item level data from invoices, receipts, and payments. Fintech and eCommerce leaders double their acquisition of customers and merchants, while gaining visibility, understanding, and predictive power into customer purchases. | Seed / Jan 10, 2023 | ||
| Frontrunner is a decentralized sports prediction market where users can buy shares of sports propositions and trade them like they would stocks. Unlike traditional sportsbooks where users place a bet and wait, Frontrunner gives users full control over their portfolios, allowing them to dynamically buy and sell positions as the odds change. Byleveraging the power of free markets and the blockchain, we create fully transparent markets and liquid positions which fundamentally change the way that people invest in their sports knowledge and beliefs. The vision is to bring DeFi concepts like AMMs, margin trading, and perpetuals to a marketplace of sports derivatives, creating parity between financial and sports betting markets. | $4.8M / Seed / Dec 14, 2022 | ||
| WeaveGrid operates with utilities and owners of electric vehicles (EV) to allow and speed up transportation electrification. Using machine learning, optimization, and predictive analytics, the company's software solution solves several EV-grid integration challenges for utilities in a systems-oriented manner; helps integrate renewable energyresources on the grid; and saves utility customers' money on their bills. | $35M / Series B / Nov 15, 2022 | ||
| Flexport is a full-service global freight forwarder and logistics platform using modern software to fix the user experience in global trade.The platform arranges goods to be transported and tracks the inventory in real-time in orders carried by ocean, air, and road freight, enabling logistics companies to optimize transportation routes andinventory management. It is a licensed customs brokerage and freight forwarder built around a modern web application. Its freight service includes an online dashboard for businesses to easily understand, purchase, manage, and track the services required for global trade. Its team of logistics experts lets focus on core business by ensuring goods arrive at fulfillment/distribution centers on time and at the lowest cost. Flexport's mission is to fix the user experience in global trade and bring the world free trade through technology.The company was founded in 2013 by Ryan Petersen and is based in San Francisco, California. | Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 20, 2022 | ||
| Clarity Movement transforms how governments, communities, and businesses understand and respond to air pollution with IoT-based air quality monitoring technology. Our turn-key air quality monitoring solution supplements existing regulatory monitors with networks of hundreds to thousands of continuously-calibrated air quality sensors, making airquality management more accessible, cost-effective, and actionable than ever before. Founded in 2014, we have now deployed our next-generation, highly-accurate indicative air quality monitoring networks in more than 60 countries around the world — empowering our customers to build healthier communities with better data. | $9.6M / Series A / Jul 24, 2022 | ||
| Making it easy to create and manage hedge funds for talented retail investors and traditional emerging managers alike. | $3.6M / Seed / Jun 29, 2022 | ||
| Drip provides the thrill of live commerce to NFTs, and physical collectibles. | $23M / Series A / May 17, 2022 | ||
| Eridan is building the world’s first digital sampling radio for 4G, 5G, and beyond. Eridan's unique transceiver architecture produces all sub-6GHz cellular signals at full transmit power, eliminating the need for linear power amplifiers. This fully digital wireless signal generation approach consumes 5-10x less power to transmit the sameamount of data. | $46M / Series B / May 12, 2022 | ||
| Possible Finance is a technology company that provides financial tools needed to manage day-to-day lives. With the help of a mobile app, technology, and data, it provides a friendlier alternative to payday loans that are less expensive, easier to repay, and repairs credit. Applying takes under a minute and anyone can apply since there is no creditcheck.Possible Finance was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. | $20M / Series C / May 03, 2022 | ||
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FAQ
What does Toy Ventures invest in?
Toy Ventures invests primarily in FinTech, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series C stage. Most of the 54 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Toy Ventures invest in?
Toy Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$6.4M at Seed, $20M–$150M at Series C and $2.5M–$32M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Toy Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Toy Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Toy Ventures?
Public channels for Toy Ventures include 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 Toy Ventures?
The team at Toy Ventures includes Lingtong Sun (Co-Founder) and Ramnik Arora (Co-Founder). 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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