# Wing Venture Capital

> Wing Venture Capital is a VC fund backing Software. See 105 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 105
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 26%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wing-venture-capital
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/wing_vc
- Website: http://wing.vc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wingventurecapital

Wing Venture Capital is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Wing Venture Capital primarily invests in technology-based businesses. It emphasizes craftsmanship over volume and engages deeply with founders to help them build companies that matter. The body of work of Wing's team spans more than two decades and dozens of successful early-stage companies, 21 of which went on to achieve billion-dollar-plusoutcomes following IPOs or acquisitions. Its portfolio companies include Cohesity, Gong, Instart Logic, Juvo, Moogsoft, Palerra, Shape Security, and Snowflake.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.9M–$15M |
| Series A | $10M–$50M |
| Series B | $24M–$80M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 32 | 30% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 31 | 30% |
| Information Technology | 14 | 13% |
| Cyber Security | 11 | 10% |
| SaaS | 10 | 10% |

114 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 32 | 30% |
| Series A | 32 | 30% |
| Series B | 23 | 22% |
| Series C | 8 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 2% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 66 | 63% |
| Israel | 6 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| Italy | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Zeoli | Partner | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-zeoli |
| Clair Byrd | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clair-byrd |
| Didi Dayton | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/didi-dayton-eca7 |
| Gaurav Garg | Founding Partner | 75 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guarav-garg |
| Hilary Strain | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hilary-strain |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pixee | Pixeebot fixes vulnerabilities, hardens code, squashes bugs, and gives engineers more time to focus on the work that counts by conveniently delivering solutions as a pull request. | $15M | Seed | May 22, 2025 |  |
| Tensor9 | Tensor9 is a data security company. Tensor9 helps software and AI vendors run their products inside their customer's cloud — so sensitive customer data stays private. For vendors, this unlocks customers that can't share sensitive data. | $4M | Seed | May 14, 2025 |  |
| Classiq Technologies | Classiq Technologies, the leading quantum software company, provides an all-encompassing software platform (IDE, compiler and OS) with a single point of entry into quantum computing, from algorithm design to execution. Tailored to all levels of developer proficiency, Classiq aims to democratize access to quantum computing with software that equipscustomers to take full advantage of the quantum computing revolution. A low-code development environment that automates quantum programming ensures that a broader range of talents, including those with backgrounds in AI, ML and linear algebra, can harness quantum computing without requiring deep, specialized knowledge of how to program quantum computer hardware. Classiq also works closely with advanced computation hardware providers providing software for use with quantum computers, HPC and quantum simulators. Backed by powerful investors such as HPE, HSBC, Samsung, Intesa Sanpaolo and NTT, Classiq’s world-class team of scientists and engineers has distilled decades of quantum expertise into its groundbreaking software development platform. | $110M | Series C | May 12, 2025 |  |
| Theom | Theom is an IT company that provides an AI-native data operations center platform to discover, track, and protect enterprise data in cloud environments. Its platform delivers immediate value by uncovering risks to data loss and prioritizing corrective actions and helps enterprises to focus on growing their business by securely using data in thecloud. Its data operations center platform also puts data context, usage, and risk intelligence at the core of governance and security operations, helping teams move fast without compromising customer trust. | $20M | Series A | May 12, 2025 |  |
| Goodfire | Goodfire's mission is to advance humanity's understanding of AI by examining the inner workings of advanced AI models (or “AI Interpretability”). As an applied research lab, Goodfire bridges the gap between theoretical science and practical applications of interpretability. | $50M | Series A | Apr 17, 2025 |  |
| Hydrolix | Hydrolix is an early-stage startup with an ambition to change the economics of high density data. The company develops a query service technology intended to process petabyte-scale time series data.Hydrolix's cloud-based query service utilizes proprietary compression and indexing technology, allowing customers to process sub-secondinteractive queries at a fraction of the cost of other existing services. | $80M | Series C | Apr 03, 2025 |  |
| AttoTude | AttoTude develops interconnect technology for artificial intelligence and hyperscale data center environments. The company designs terahertz (THz) communication solutions that enable high-speed data transfer between computing systems and network components. Its technology focuses on addressing bandwidth, power consumption, scalability, andconnectivity challenges associated with large-scale AI processing and data-intensive workloads. | $50M | Series B | Apr 01, 2025 |  |
| Kay.ai | Kay.ai operates as an AI workforce for insurance operations. | $3M | Seed | Mar 25, 2025 |  |
| Utila | Utila is an enterprise-scale self-custody platform that manages your organization's crypto strategy with safe, chain-agnostic wallet infrastructure. | $18M | Series A | Mar 19, 2025 |  |
| Mimic Networks | Mimic's SaaS platform provides enterprises with detection, deflection, and rapid recovery from ransomware attacks, preventing infrastructure damage or data theft. | $50M | Series A | Feb 27, 2025 |  |

10 of 105 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Wing Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wing-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 103 deals together
- [Menlo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/menlo-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Wing Venture Capital invest in?

Wing Venture Capital invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 105 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 Wing Venture Capital's check size?

Wing Venture Capital typically joins rounds of $3.9M–$15M at Seed, $10M–$50M at Series A and $24M–$80M 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 Wing Venture Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Wing Venture Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Wing Venture Capital?

The team at Wing Venture Capital includes Chris Zeoli (Partner), Clair Byrd (Partner) and Didi Dayton (Partner), among 13 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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