# Xfund

> Xfund is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 92 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 92
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 5%
- Last fund: Sep 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/xfund
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/xfund
- Website: http://xfund.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Xfund

Xfund is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Xfund is the early-stage venture firm designed to back lateral thinkers. Partnering with Harvard University and others of the world’s preeminent universities, Xfund looks beyond the stereotypical technical pedigrees to seek out extraordinary people who are being systemically ignored by traditional venture capital: technically-gifted liberal artsentrepreneurs. We believe it’s our responsibility to help these unconventional, high potential founders align their ambition and passion with opportunity we help them create, to build the sort of ground-breaking companies that can create a better tomorrow. Xfund has offices in Palo Alto, California, and in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more about Xfund, please visit http://www.xfund.com.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Xfund. Shizune tracks 3 team members at Xfund. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/xfund?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.6M–$10M |
| Series A | $7M–$26M |
| Series B | $10M–$45M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 18 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 13 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 9 | 10% |
| Health Care | 7 | 8% |
| Machine Learning | 6 | 7% |

107 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 32 | 35% |
| Series A | 22 | 24% |
| Series B | 9 | 10% |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 3% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 46 | 50% |
| Canada | 3 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Peter Morris | Investment Advisory Board | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-morris-ne |
| Brandon Farwell | General Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brandon-farwell |
| Patrick Chung | Managing General Partner | 49 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrick-chung |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Onyx Odds | Onyx Odds is a predictions company, specializing in sports predictions. | $20M | Series A | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| Juno | Juno offers automation for modern tax firms, focusing on research, preparation, review, and advisory services. The software includes structured tax review features that ensure consistent checks and enhance quality control in tax preparation processes. | $12M | Seed | Apr 09, 2026 |  |
| BoldVoice | BoldVoice is a communication coaching app that helps non-native speakers improve their communication and confidence. The company's application helps foreign-born professionals and students in the US to improve their English accents via hyper-personalized content, enabling them to improve their English language pronunciation and confidence viapersonalized content from Hollywood's top accent coachesBoldVoice was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | $21M | Series A | Dec 17, 2025 |  |
| Buildcheck | Buildcheck is an AI-powered design review software that identifies errors, omissions, and coordination issues in construction drawings. Buildcheck, founded at Stanford University by Alexander Michalatos, Andrei Molchynsky, and Alex Gureev, currently serves over 50 construction businesses, including major developers and general contractors.Buildcheck's computer vision technology scans 2D construction papers from all disciplines, resulting in a 10-35x ROI by avoiding costly field issues during pre-construction. | $5.9M | Seed | Dec 09, 2025 |  |
| AirOps | AirOps is an AI-powered content operations platform that enables businesses to build scalable LLM workflows combining multiple AI models with brand data to drive content-powered growth and revenue. Founded in 2021, the company helps marketing teams execute large-scale content strategies by integrating models like GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini withworkflow automation, templates, and AI guardrails while keeping humans in the loop. | $40M | Series B | Nov 10, 2025 |  |
| Sphere Semi | Sphere Semi is a semiconductor innovator that uses AI to design analog chips, specializing in RF and mixed-signal components. | $12M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 22, 2025 |  |
| Chalk | Chalk is a data platform that powers machine learning and generative AI. Chalk's best-in-class developer experience enables data teams to declare features and their dependencies with idiomatic Python in online, streaming, and batch environments. Chalk compiles these definitions into parallel pipelines that run on a Rust-based engine. Thesepipelines use the same source code to serve temporally consistent training sets to data scientists and live feature values to models. This re-use ensures that feature values from online and offline contexts match and dramatically cuts development time. With Chalk, engineers, data scientists, and analysts can focus on their unique products while Chalk seamlessly handles data infrastructure. | $50M | Series A | May 28, 2025 |  |
| Neon Mobile | Neon Mobile is an online application that offers to pay customers for their anonymized phone call data. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | May 27, 2025 |  |
| Kovr.ai | Kovr.ai serves as a compliance copilot, allowing firms in highly regulated industries to rapidly adapt to changing regulatory frameworks and attain Authorization to Operate (ATO) readiness in minutes. | $3.6M | Seed | May 14, 2025 |  |
| Distributed Spectrum | Founded in 2020, Distributed Spectrum is a venture-backed, defense tech company working at the cutting edge of signal processing, machine learning, and embedded systems. We build software and sensors to let anyone understand critical radio signals in any mission. | $25M | Series A | Mar 19, 2025 |  |

10 of 92 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Afore Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/afore-capital) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [BDC Capital’s Women in Technology Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bdc-capital-s-women-in-technology-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Experiment Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/experiment-fund) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Felicis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/felicis-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Garage Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/garage-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Gradient](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gradient-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Xfund invest in?

Xfund invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 92 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 Xfund's check size?

Xfund typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$10M at Seed, $7M–$26M at Series A and $10M–$45M 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 Xfund participates in.

### How do I contact Xfund?

Public channels for Xfund include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 Xfund?

The team at Xfund includes Peter Morris (Investment Advisory Board), Brandon Farwell (General Partner) and Patrick Chung (Managing General Partner). 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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