# XO Ventures

> XO Ventures is a VC fund in West Hollywood backing Software and Machine Learning. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: West Hollywood, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/28131700/
- Website: https://xo.ventures

XO Ventures is a VC fund in West Hollywood focused on Software and Machine Learning. XO Ventures provides funding and resources for entrepreneurs and XO team members to bring their e-commerce ideas to life. It supports the entrepreneurs' development of the idea, testing, experimentation, and customer acquisition for the MVP. The firm was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in West Hollywood, California.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 1 | 33% |
| Machine Learning | 1 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 1 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 33% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Orq.ai | Orq.ai enables companies to integrate and operate their products using the power of Large Language Models through a single collaboration platform. The platform centralizes prompt management, streamlined experimentation, feedback collection, and real-time insight into performance and costs. It's compatible with all major Large Language Modelproviders, ensuring transparency and scalability in LLM Ops, ultimately leading to shorter customer release cycles and reduced costs for both experiments and production environments.For more information, please visit https://orq.ai | $5.8M | Seed | Dec 03, 2025 |  |
| Orq.ai | Orq.ai enables companies to integrate and operate their products using the power of Large Language Models through a single collaboration platform. The platform centralizes prompt management, streamlined experimentation, feedback collection, and real-time insight into performance and costs. It's compatible with all major Large Language Modelproviders, ensuring transparency and scalability in LLM Ops, ultimately leading to shorter customer release cycles and reduced costs for both experiments and production environments.For more information, please visit https://orq.ai | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Mar 12, 2024 |  |
| Equip | We are Equip, a young Amsterdam-based (VC-funded) FinTech start-up. Our mission is to enable financial peace of mind by making the tools, information and actionable insights people need to navigate all of life's financial decisions accessible to anyone. In summary, we are developing a financial coaching platform offered by employers to theiremployees. | $2.2M | Pre-Seed | May 09, 2023 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Curiosity VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/curiosity-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Spacetime](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spacetime-f35f) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [xdeck](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xdeck-gmbh) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Galion.exe](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/galion-exe) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Golden Egg Check Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/golden-egg-check-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does XO Ventures invest in?

XO Ventures invests primarily in Software, Machine Learning and Information Technology startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in The Netherlands. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did XO Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for XO Ventures closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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