About Audacious Ventures
Audacious Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2020. It is primarily based out of Auckland, New Zealand. As of Sep 2026, Audacious Ventures is an active investor, having invested in 48 companies, with 6 new investments in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Seed round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to High Tech and FinTech. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series A round of Lightfield Overall, Audacious Ventures portfolio has seen 5 unicorns and 4 acquisitions including key companies like Multiverse, Decagon and ReflectionAI. A lot of funds co-invest with Audacious Ventures, with names like Liquid 2 Ventures sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Audacious Ventures has team of 6 people including 5 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed, Series A & 3 more
Portfolio Soonicorns
Deals in last 12 months
Audacious Ventures' List of Top Investments
Audacious Ventures has a portfolio of 48 companies, including 5 unicorns. Their most notable investments are in Planette and General Legal.Their portfolio spans across United States, Canada, Colombia and 3 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, FinTech, FinTech and 11 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A and 3 more. Here is the list of top investments by Audacious Ventures:1. Multiverse
AI-powered upskilling and apprenticeship platform. It is focused on helping organisations adopt AI, data, and digital technologies at scale. It identifies skill gaps across teams and delivers structured apprenticeship and training programmes tailored to business needs. Learners are supported through a combination of expert coaching, AI-powered guidance, and on-the-job application, ensuring practical skill development in real workplace environments. It enables companies to measure business impact through productivity gains, efficiency improvements, and return on learning investment.
Key facts about Multiverse
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: London (United Kingdom)
- Annual Revenue: £50M - £100M as on Mar 31, 2025
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series D
- Total Funding till date: $485M
- Employee Count: 1,298 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Founders Circle Capital, Salesforce Ventures and 57 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, May 15, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. Decagon
AI-powered customer experience platform. It enables businesses to build, manage, and optimize intelligent virtual agents across voice, chat, and email channels to deliver personalized, scalable customer support and concierge-style interactions. It enables organizations to create AI-driven concierge experiences that can handle customer interactions across multiple communication channels, including voice, chat, and email, while maintaining consistent and personalized experiences.
Key facts about Decagon
- Founded Year: 2023
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series D
- Total Funding till date: $476M
- Employee Count: 532 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Bond Capital, Forerunner Ventures and 27 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Jan 28, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. WorkOS
Cloud based solutions for secure access control. The product offers APIs with pre built features and integrations. The features of the single sign on, scalable audit logging, app logins integration with the operating system, user management, directory sync, multi factor authentication, authkit, fine grained authorization, and more.
Key facts about WorkOS
- Founded Year: 2019
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $99M
- Employee Count: 140 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: First Round Capital, Greenoaks and 31 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Jun 01, 2022, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. ReflectionAI
Developer of autonomous coding systems. It utilizes artificial intelligence and reinforcement learning to build tools that automate coding tasks. The platform provides a coding agent API that helps automate rote engineering work. It leverages reinforcement learning and large language models to create AI systems that help in writing, debugging, and optimizing code. It is an open-weight alternative to closed-model AI labs by focusing on enterprise-grade, self-hostable frontier AI models and autonomous coding systems.
Key facts about ReflectionAI
- Founded Year: 2024
- Location: Brooklyn (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $2.13B
- Employee Count: 254 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Disruptive, GIC and 20 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Oct 09, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
5. Nominal
Provider of a unified industrial data stack for hardware engineering. The platform offers tools and infrastructure for engineers to test and operate technology. It provides edge and cloud applications for a connected view of reality. The platform captures telemetry, logs, video, and simulation results. It enables trend analysis, performance monitoring, and automated reporting. The system supports secure cloud, private environments, and on-premise deployments.
Key facts about Nominal
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: Los Angeles (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $182M
- Employee Count: 259 as on Jul 31, 2026
- Investors: Summit Partners, Human Capital and 10 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Feb 13, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Audacious Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Audacious Ventures has invested in 48 companies over the last 6 years, with an average of 3 new investments annually in the last 5 years. In 2025, it made 4 investments, while as of Sep 2026, it has made 3 investments in this year. Its most recent first time investment was in Lightfield and most recent follow-on round was in Vartana.Year | No. of Investments | ||
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1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 3 | 0 | 3 |
2025 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
2024 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
2023 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
2022 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
2021 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Audacious Ventures' Investments by Stage
Audacious Ventures has made 12 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $7.17M, 6 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $24.4M, 1 investment in Series B stage with an average round size of $44M, 1 investment in Series C stage with an average round size of $8M and 1 investment in Unattributed stage with an average round size of $4M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 12 |
Series A | 6 |
Series B | 1 |
Series C | 1 |
Unattributed | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Audacious Ventures' Investments by Sector
Audacious Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence - Industry Applications, Vertical SaaS and High Tech. Notably, it has invested in 46 Tech companies, 44 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 40 Software companies and at least 27 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 17 |
FinTech | 6 |
Artificial Intelligence - Industry Applications | 4 |
Vertical SaaS | 4 |
High Tech | 3 |
Others | 11 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Audacious Ventures' Investments by Geography
Audacious Ventures has made most investments in United States (18), followed by Canada where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 18 |
Canada | 1 |
Mexico | 1 |
United Kingdom | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Audacious Ventures' recent investments
Audacious Ventures has made 3 investments in 2026 so far. Lightfield and Saris AI are the latest among them.Here are the most recent investments by Audacious Ventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Sep 10, 2026 | United States | Series A | 1176 | [+5] | |
May 28, 2026 | Canada | Series A | 4840 | [+3] | |
Mar 26, 2026 | United States | Seed | 6505 | [+10] | |
Dec 2025 | United States | Seed | 2250 | [+4] | |
Nov 18, 2025 | United States | Series A | 5330 | [+5] |
Unicorns in Audacious Ventures' Portfolio
Audacious Ventures has 5 unicorns in its portfolio - Avoca, Nominal, ReflectionAI and others. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is Avoca. It became a unicorn in 2026.Here is a list of unicorns in Audacious Ventures' portfolio:
Tracxn Score | Company | Short Description | Founded year | Sector | Location | Company Stage | First Investment/ Acquisition Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
50 | Provider of an AI-based customer assistant solutions for local businesses | 2022 | New York City | Series B | ooioedv | ||
63 | Provider of a unified industrial data stack for hardware engineering | 2017 | Los Angeles | Series B | aetmyus | ||
66 | Developer of autonomous coding systems | 2024 | Brooklyn | Series B | nqpurmb | ||
71 | AI-powered customer experience platform | 2023 | San Francisco | Series D | gwfiju{ | ||
75 | AI-powered upskilling and apprenticeship platform | 2016 | London | Series D | ceigpfl |
Acquired companies in Audacious Ventures' Portfolio
4 companies from Audacious Ventures' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Bestever in Jun 2026 by Samba for $*****.Here are Audacious Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 22, 2026 | - | - | 9015 | |
Sep 08, 2025 | Oct 25, 2023 | Seed | 7388 | |
Jun 24, 2025 | Jan 20, 2022 | Seed | 6871 | |
Mar 15, 2024 | Nov 23, 2020 | Series A | 5604 |
Team profile of Audacious Ventures
Audacious Ventures has a team of 6 members including 5 Partners and 1 Principal located in United States and United Kingdom. Audacious Ventures' team sits on the board of 2 companies.Here is a list of all team members in Audacious Ventures:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
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Partner | San Francisco | |||
Partner | San Francisco | - | ||
Partner | San Francisco | - | ||
Partner | Guildford | - | ||
Partner | Burlingame | - | - | |
Principal | San Francisco | - |
Co-investors of Audacious Ventures
Over the past 6 years, 177 investors have co-invested in Audacious Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Audacious Ventures: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Index Ventures and 27 others have invested in rounds before Audacious Ventures. There are 2 companies where Lightspeed Venture Partners has invested before Audacious Ventures and 2 companies where Index Ventures has invested before Audacious Ventures.
- Top Co-investors of Audacious Ventures: 124 investors entered a company along with Audacious Ventures. These include investors like Liquid 2 Ventures (3 companies).
- Invested after Audacious Ventures: A total of 24 investors have invested in Audacious Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include StepStone Group (1 company), Founders Circle Capital (1 company) and D1 Capital Partners (1 company).
Recent News related to Audacious Ventures
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Saris has raised $28,800,000.00 in new Series A fundingintelligence360•Jun 16, 2026•Saris AI, Homebrew, Service Ventures, Audacious Ventures and 1 other
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Saris raises $28.8M Series A for AI workflows in bankingTechStartups.com•May 28, 2026•Saris AI, 8VC, Btechconsortium, Audacious Ventures and 3 others
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NewMod General Legal Hits $11.5m Funding in 3 MonthsArtificial Lawyer•Mar 26, 2026•General Legal, Audacious Ventures
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AI accounting startup Maxima raises $41 million in Kleiner Perkins-backed roundThe Star Online•Nov 18, 2025•Maxima, Audacious Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint Ventures and 1 other
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Marketing Ignition raises $8M to transform go-to-market strategies with AIYourStory•Feb 17, 2025•Ignition, Audacious Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, Airbnb and 2 others
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Tezi Raises $9 Million Seed to Develop AI Agent for HR RecruitingGlobal Village Space•Jul 31, 2024•8VC, Audacious Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, PrimeSet and 3 others
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Audacious Ventures raises $150 million for new fundThe Business Journals•Apr 02, 2024•Audacious Ventures
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Techstars Seattle startup Planette raises $2.4M for AI-boosted climate prediction techGeekWire•Feb 15, 2024•Planette, Audacious Ventures, Jetstream, Dash Fund and 2 others
