True Ventures
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
True Ventures is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Founded in 2005, True Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups. With more than $3.8 billion under management, True provides seed and Series A financing to entrepreneurs in some of today's growing markets. With more than 40 team members including special advisors, operations professionals, and founders-turned-investors, True represents one of the largest and most experienced teams dedicated to the ecosystem. The True team believes creativity flourishes when founders are supported fully and empowered to pursue brave ideas. To that end, the True Platform offers programs that inspire professional and personal growth. To date, True has helped more than 350 companies launch and scale their businesses, creating over 85,000 jobs worldwide. True was awarded Venture Firm of the Year by the National Venture Capital Association in 2018. To learn more, visit www.trueventures.com.
- Total investments:
- 762
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 37%
- Fund size:
- $885M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries True Ventures invests in
Stages True Ventures invests in
Countries True Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.2M–$9M
- Series A
- $2M–$25M
- Series B
- $5M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 124 (16%)
- Artificial Intelligence 63 (8%)
- Information Technology 54 (7%)
- Internet 45 (6%)
- SaaS 41 (5%)
Stage
- Seed 219 (29%)
- Series A 185 (24%)
- Series B 100 (13%)
- Series C 48 (6%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 30 (4%)
Country
- United States 330 (43%)
- United Kingdom 10 (1%)
- Canada 6 (1%)
- Finland 6 (1%)
- Switzerland 5 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Amy Tusman
Executive Assistant
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Executive Assistant | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Gus Coldebella
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Jeffrey Veen
Design Partner and Head of Platform
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Design Partner and Head of Platform | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Rohit Sharma
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 44 | Find email | |
Adam D'Augelli
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 49 | Find email | |
| See all 26 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basecamp Research is a market leader in mapping biodiversity for AI-based design of biological systems. We match and refine novel proteins for our partners' exact industrial, therapeutic or diagnostic applications using BaseGraph™, a new generation of AI design that is powered by the first-ever high-resolution map of global geneticbiodiversity. Understanding the full genetic, evolutionary, and environmental context of each protein allows Basecamp Research to design tailored proteins for specific applications without the need for expensive and time-consuming directed evolution campaigns. We're a team of explorers, scientists and policy experts driven by our ambition to protect and learn from nature's diversity, whilst delivering life-changing breakthroughs to those who need them most. | $140M / Series C / Sep 23, 2026 | ||
| Enveda Biosciences is a biotechnology company building new medicines from plants. It harnesses the complexity of the natural world to tackle today’s biggest healthcare challenges. With the help of the advancements in knowledge graphs, machine learning, and metabolomics, they discover the next generation of small molecules. Its technologiessystematize the discovery of small molecules and novel targets for complex diseases. By probing novel chemical space and mechanisms of action, they are breaking the status quo for challenging diseases with a need for effective treatments, such as fibrosis or neurodegeneration.Enveda, launched in 2019, is based in San Francisco, California. | $311M / Series E / Sep 23, 2026 | ||
| Aristotle is an educational technology company that builds a personal AI tutor for middle and high school students. The platform uses a voice-first, Socratic method that listens to learners and guides them toward reasoning through problems rather than simply giving away answers. | $5M / Seed / Sep 16, 2026 | ||
| Molten Salt Solutions develops a technology platform to commercialize molten salt synthesis and purification technology. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico. | $7M / Seed / Aug 31, 2026 | ||
| MedZERO is the world's first mobile lending platform dedicated to serving the healthcare industry. Designed to meet a growing problem, medZERO helps people pay for ever-increasing portions of their healthcare costs. An employer benefit, medZERO enables employees to pay out-of-pocket medical bills without incurring high credit card interest or401k loan fees.MedZERO is a mobile application that provides employees of participating businesses immediate access to funds to pay medical costs with zero interest and zero fees. Payments are made with a pre-paid virtual MasterCard and repayment is completed over 12 months directly from payroll deductions.MedZERO was developed through a joint venture between Portland, Oregon-based Sortis Holdings (SOHI) and Kansas City, Missouri-based Mobile Capital Group. Sortis Holdings’ wholly owned subsidiary Sortis Financial provides a national loan servicing platform and Mobile Capital Group brings a payments technology that supports millions of lending transactions used by some of the nation’s largest payroll providers. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 02, 2026 | ||
| Channel Robotics is a developer of AI-powered miniature robotic systems for advanced endoscopic surgery. | $4.6M / Seed / Jun 18, 2026 | ||
| ChatSee develops AI agent observability and reliability software for enterprise customers. | $6.5M / Seed / Jun 12, 2026 | ||
| Flux Cyber is a serial startup builder and innovator operating in stealth mode. | $5M / Seed / Jun 10, 2026 | ||
| The LLM Gateway for Fast Growing Teams. The secure AI gateway companies use to control model access, route every request, protect sensitive data, manage token spend, and keep AI apps online. | $5.1M / Pre-Seed / Jun 10, 2026 | ||
| Polsia is an autonomous software platform that acts as a complete "business-in-a-box" for entrepreneurs. The platform replaces human employees by deploying nine specialized AI agents to manage daily operations. These virtual workers automatically handle critical business tasks like coding, marketing, sales, and customer service. Bylinking these roles together, it allows founders to launch and run an entire company on autopilot. Ultimately, it eliminates the need for solo creators to hire staff or pay for multiple software tools. | $30M / Series A / May 25, 2026 | ||
| See all 762 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does True Ventures invest in?
True Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 762 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 True Ventures invest in?
True Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$9M at Seed, $2M–$25M at Series A and $5M–$50M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not True Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds True Ventures took part in.
How do I contact True Ventures?
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Who are the partners at True Ventures?
The team at True Ventures includes Amy Tusman (Executive Assistant), Gus Coldebella (Partner) and Jeffrey Veen (Design Partner and Head of Platform), among 26 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 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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