# Yes VC

> Yes VC is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 87 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 87
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 15%
- Fund size: $11M
- Last fund: May 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/18449758/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/yesvc
- Website: https://yes.vc/

Yes VC is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. We invest in great companies in the pre-seed and seed stages.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$15M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.5M–$2M |
| Series A | $7M–$40M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 9% |
| E-Commerce | 6 | 7% |
| Apps | 5 | 6% |
| Internet | 5 | 6% |

113 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 33 | 38% |
| Pre-Seed | 13 | 15% |
| Series A | 12 | 14% |
| Series B | 5 | 6% |
| Series C | 3 | 3% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 40 | 46% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 3% |
| India | 2 | 2% |
| Canada | 2 | 2% |
| Finland | 2 | 2% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Beth Malin | Head of Operations; Head of Operations | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beth-malin-7e74 |
| Caterina Fake | General Partner | 43 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caterina-fake |
| David Pickerell | Investor | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-pickerell |
| Julie Liao | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julie-liao |
| Jyri Engestrom | Investor and Partner | 32 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jyri-engestrom |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| XFuel | XFuel is a fuel company that provides green and clean fuels to distributors and consumers. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Palma de Mallorca, Baleares. | $20M | Series A | Jan 27, 2026 |  |
| Snappr | Snappr is a photography network developing web and mobile-based platforms to make photography accessible to anyone. Its platform provides real-time matching of customer jobs to pre-vetted top professional photographers. It also provides the Snapper Photo Analyzer, an AI portrait photo-analysis tool to connect professional photographers withbusinesses and consumers who need quality photography for an amazing price.Snappr was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $28M | Series B | Oct 08, 2025 |  |
| Digitt | Digitt creates equitable financial tools to combat predatory lending. Digitt's mission is to eliminate the predatory interest rates that banks charge on credit cards. Digitt offers low-interest rates ranging from 20% to 42% per year, allowing customers to pay less interest and pay off their debt faster. Customers using Digitt will know exactlyhow much they must pay each month and when they will be debt-free. | $10M | Series A | Aug 20, 2025 |  |
| Gameto | Gameto is a biotechnology company whose mission is to redefine female reproductive health by developing therapies that improve lives.Women’s health is a vastly underserved therapeutic area. Most conditions have few treatment options, and those available often cause frequent complications and offer limited clinical benefit. Gameto aims to changethat.Gameto is committed to using cutting-edge scientific advances to deliver better solutions to patients. Using cellular engineering, they have developed a platform to produce female reproductive cell lines. They use proprietary combinations of transcription factors to reprogram hiPSCs into engineered ovarian and endometrium cell lines that mimic the functions of endogenous cells, producing and responding to all hormones. Their team of cellular engineers is using this platform to advance a portfolio of cellular therapeutics for female reproductive diseases. Gameto's first program, Fertilo, is a therapeutic for IVF and egg freezing, aiming to make the process shorter, safer and more effective. Additional applications of our platform include, an organoid of the female reproductive system, Deovo, and a cell-based therapeutic to ameliorate the health consequences of primary ovarian insufficiency and menopause, Ameno. | $33M | Series B | May 29, 2024 |  |
| Steady Energy | Steady Energy aims to decarbonize the energy-intensive heating industry starting with residential and district heating. | $10.9M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 21, 2024 |  |
| Flexnode | Flexnode offers a novel and sustainable data computing, storage, and networking lifecycle solution. | $9M | Seed | Feb 27, 2024 |  |
| Upscalers | We are a community of entrepreneurs / investors joining forces to co-invest in the world's most promising tech startups |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 17, 2024 |  |
| NewOrbit Space | NewOrbit Space is a satellite manufacturing company. We engineer Earth's lowest orbiting satellites, at altitudes of 180km (3x lower than conventional LEO satellites) we enable better imagery resolution and telecommunication services from space. | $7.5M | Seed | Dec 01, 2023 |  |
| ForteAI | ForteAI is a user-centric ML research and product lab revolutionizing CVs, job search, and recruiting with universal AI assistance.ForteAI is developing a machine-learning model that engages with all talent & skill development aspects. We strive to collaborate with individuals and organizations as valuable global AI partner to enhance skills,gain insights, recruit talent, and develop careers.Our mission is to contribute to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) by empowering individuals and organizations, aiming to become a global AI partner with a primary focus on skills development. We are closely aligned with the ever-evolving AI landscape, recognizing its potential to revolutionize the nurturing and utilization of skills across diverse sectors worldwide. | $328.4K | Private Equity | Nov 25, 2023 |  |
| ReOrbit | Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, ReOrbit is a fast-growing European space technology company that manufactures sovereign satellites and connected systems for national security. Our technologies provide independent control of critical space assets and enable secure communications for both military and civilian use. Throughlong-term partnerships and knowledge transfer, we ensure our customers achieve and maintain strategic autonomy.With offices across multiple countries, we bring together a diverse team of experts who bring extensive industry experience and technical excellence to our operations. As we continue to expand, we are opening new locations worldwide and are always on the lookout for talented, ambitious individuals to join our journey. | $7.4M | Seed | Aug 30, 2023 |  |

10 of 87 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Yes VC invest in?

Yes VC invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 87 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 Yes VC's check size?

Yes VC typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$15M at Seed, $1.5M–$2M at Pre-Seed and $7M–$40M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Yes VC participates in.

### How do I contact Yes VC?

Public channels for Yes VC 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 Yes VC?

The team at Yes VC includes Beth Malin (Head of Operations; Head of Operations), Caterina Fake (General Partner) and David Pickerell (Investor). 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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