Yellow Rocks!
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Yellow Rocks! is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Yellow Rocks! invests in fast-growing early-stage companies with a clear global expansion strategy. The fund is focused on companies that are leveraging disruptive technologies and that are ready to reach $1B.Yellow Rocks! is based in San Francisco & Lisbon and we consider ourselves geo-agnostic. We truly believe that brilliant founders canbe found anywhere irrespective of geographical location. That being said right now we are focused on startups from the US and Europe.Yellow Rocks! is formed by successful serial entrepreneurs and investors with a deep understanding of fundraising and company’s development. GPs have a 10+ years of track record in well known organizations (World Bank, IFC, Google, EPAM), universities (MIT, Harvard, Stanford) and startup ecosystems (Y Combinator, TheEngine, TechStars, MassChallenge, 500 startups). Our team is distributed around different countries including the USA, Portugal and Armenia.
- Total investments:
- 41
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 15%
Last updated:
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Industries Yellow Rocks! invests in
Stages Yellow Rocks! invests in
Countries Yellow Rocks! invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $50k–$3.5M
- Pre-Seed
- $40k–$1.7M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 11 (27%)
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (20%)
- SaaS 6 (15%)
- Information Technology 4 (10%)
- Gaming 3 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 23 (56%)
- Pre-Seed 8 (20%)
- Funding Round 1 (2%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (2%)
Country
- United States 19 (46%)
- United Kingdom 3 (7%)
- The Netherlands 2 (5%)
- Cyprus 1 (2%)
- Singapore 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sergei Bogdanov
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 14 | Find email | |
Valerie Bertele
Partner, Head of San-Francisco office
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Partner, Head of San-Francisco office | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Roman Beloded
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Sasha Polovinkina
Analyst
|
Analyst | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full-Funnel Dashboards with Advanced Attribution Built Just for You | $3.5M / Seed / Mar 02, 2026 | ||
| CopySight enables enterprise and entertainment studios to use AI-generated content confidently by ensuring copyrightability, identifying IP infringement risks, and safeguarding the creation process.At CopySight, our core mission is to protect creators' intellectual property. In today’s landscape, hiring us is one of the most ethical waysbusinesses can work with generative AI. | $3M / Seed / Feb 21, 2026 | ||
| Social Links provides open-source intelligence (OSINT) tools and data-extraction solutions tailored for investigations, threat intelligence, fraud detection, and due diligence. Its products aggregate and structure data from different open sources, including social media, messengers, blockchains, and the dark web, to help users build digitalprofiles and reveal relationships among entities. The company offers both a real-time API (SL OSINT API) for in-house integration and a visual investigation platform (SL Crimewall) that supports automation, link analysis, ML-driven processing, and collaborative case management. Social Links enables organizations to streamline their investigative workflows and gain deeper insight into complex digital footprints. | $3M / Seed / Nov 24, 2025 | ||
| We help freelancers find remote jobs and gigs faster with AI. Unlock the latest job search strategies with our AI-powered platform. | $2.4M / Seed / Nov 20, 2025 | ||
| Chatfuel is an AI-native operating system for private healthcare and wellness SMBs. It helps service teams shift from manual engagement to scalable revenue growth by reimagining the entire sales cycle. Trained on over 150 billion customer conversations, Chatfuel empowers more than 18,000 businesses to automate and optimize their sales process -from first lead to loyal customer -in as little as 30 seconds. In clinics and wellness centers, a multistage sales process often demands the business owner’s constant involvement, increasing the risk of client drop-off. Chatfuel solves this with a plug-and-play AI agent that captures leads directly from Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and TikTok campaigns, qualifies them, schedules appointments, sends reminders, and manages follow-ups - all automatically. Official Partner of Meta. | $1.5M / Seed / Oct 20, 2025 | ||
| Litero AI is the ethical academic writing copilot for students and educators. It helps them research, write, and polish their work collaboratively with AI — saving time, reducing stress, and building confidence. | $800K / Pre-Seed / Jul 21, 2025 | ||
| LovOn is a provider of an AI-powered bonding platform for couples | $850K / Pre-Seed / May 29, 2025 | ||
| Native Commerce is a world-class retail & logistics platform designed to help modern retailers operate, scale, and deliver exceptional customer experiences, all from one connected system.Built by experienced operators who’ve run retail at scale, the platform unites eCommerce, warehouse management, and delivery into a single ecosystem that’sfast to deploy, easy to run, and proven to grow with your business.With deep expertise spanning retail operations, technology, and eCommerce strategy, Native Commerce helps brands turn complex operations into a competitive advantage.Trusted by leading brands including Carrefour, CityDrinks, Circle K, Heimkaup, and Cerise, Native Commerce powers retail operations across the UK, Europe, and the Middle East, and is expanding into emerging markets worldwide. | $2.2M / Seed / Apr 23, 2025 | ||
| Sizl is reshaping the food delivery landscape by providing on-demand meals that are cooked and delivered within 30 minutes. By leveraging the dark kitchen model, Sizl operates with its dedicated delivery team and proprietary software (ERP system and user-centric mobile apps). All these cool features really stand-out and appeal to the customers,marking Sizl as an avant-garde in the sector. | $3.5M / Seed / Apr 08, 2025 | ||
| We are helping the $70 Bln trade show and expo market to uncover additional 20% revenue from digital advertising powered by events’ B2B intent data and brand trust. Much like it was done with Retail Media, which is now a $140B market on its own. | $750K / Pre-Seed / Mar 01, 2025 | ||
| See all 41 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Yellow Rocks! invest in?
Yellow Rocks! invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 41 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 Yellow Rocks!'s check size?
Yellow Rocks! typically joins rounds of $50k–$3.5M at Seed and $40k–$1.7M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Yellow Rocks! participates in.
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Who are the partners at Yellow Rocks!?
The team at Yellow Rocks! includes Sergei Bogdanov (Managing Partner), Valerie Bertele (Partner, Head of San-Francisco office) and Roman Beloded (General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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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