About Handshake Ventures
Handshake Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2017. It is primarily based out of Palo Alto, United States. As of Nov 2025, Handshake Ventures has invested in 19 companies. 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 Retail. Most recently it participated in the $***** Series A round of Lative Overall, Handshake Ventures portfolio has seen 4 acquisitions, namely StreamElements, Era and Hitch. A lot of funds co-invest with Handshake Ventures, with names like WestWave Capital sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Handshake Ventures has team of 3 people including 1 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed, Series A & 1 more
Portfolio Acquisitions
Deals in last 12 months
Handshake Ventures' List of Top Investments
Handshake Ventures has a portfolio of 19 companies. Their most notable investments are in LUUM and Zaymo.Their portfolio spans across United States, Canada, Ireland and 1 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Retail and 10 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A and 1 more. Here is the list of top investments by Handshake Ventures:Monetization solutions for live streaming. Its cloud-based platform offers monetization, audience management, and community growth tools, that assists streamer in driving their content value. It also provides a chatbot and loyalty system for engaging viewers with effects and items to purchase with the currency they get by watching the stream. It is also in plans to launch a revenue system.
Key facts about StreamElements
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: Tel Aviv (Israel)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $111M
- Employee Count: 46 as on Sep 30, 2026
- Investors: SoftBank Vision Fund, PayPal and 9 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Sep 22, 2021, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
2. 1QBit
1QB Information Technologies (1QBit) is a quantum computing software company which has created a hardware-agnostic platform (can be integrated with both classical and quantum computers) for performing quantum computation. Provides an API endpoint which the industry partners can integrate into their existing applications. Partnered with D-Wave Systems, its software reformulates optimization problems into the quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) format necessary to compute with D-Wave's quantum annealing processors. The company is primarily focused on applications such as computational finance, the energy industry, and the life sciences.
Key facts about 1QBit
- Founded Year: 2012
- Location: Vancouver (Canada)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $45M
- Employee Count: 51 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Gen 1 Capital, CME Group and 17 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Conventional Debt, Jun 29, 2018, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. Savant Labs
Provider of an automation platform for business analytics with agentic AI. The platform offers end-to-end automation of analytics processes, including data preparation, blending, and cleaning. It provides connectors for various data sources and no-code analytics tools. The platform also features AI agents for data enrichment, insight generation, and personalized alerts. It enables real-time collaboration and centralized governance.
Key facts about Savant Labs
- Founded Year: 2021
- Location: San Carlos (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $29.5M
- Employee Count: 66 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Dell Technologies Capital, WestWave Capital and 7 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Dec 13, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. Era
Cloud based time series database based log management software solution provider. It provides a database architecture built on the decoupled storage and computing with zero-schema data storage and flexible indexing by using machine learning technology. The platform is using machine learning and artificial intelligence technology.
Key facts about Era
- Founded Year: 2019
- Location: Seattle (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $22.3M
- Employee Count: 6 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Foundation Capital, Global Founders Capital and 5 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Apr 20, 2021, $*****
- Highlight: Acquired
5. Beautiful.ai
Provider of AI-powered presentation software with smart slide and template features. It offers tools for creating, editing, and sharing presentations. The platform provides features such as AI-driven slide generation, customizable themes, and collaborative editing capabilities. It also integrates with other platforms, including presentation software and collaboration tools.
Key facts about Beautiful.ai
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Stage: Series C
- Total Funding till date: $61M
- Employee Count: 101 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: First Round Capital, Shasta Ventures and 3 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Mar 18, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Handshake Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Handshake Ventures has invested in 19 companies over the last 7 years, with an average of 2 new investments annually in the last 5 years. In 2025, it made 1 investment. Its most recent first time investment was in Anello Photonics and most recent follow-on round was in Lative.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2024 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2023 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2022 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Handshake Ventures' Investments by Stage
Handshake Ventures has made 6 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $4.2M, 4 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $7.3M and 1 investment in Series B stage.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 6 |
Series A | 4 |
Series B | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Handshake Ventures' Investments by Sector
Handshake Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Retail, High Tech, Consumer and Vertical SaaS. Notably, it has invested in 17 Tech companies, 16 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 13 Software companies and at least 7 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 7 |
Retail | 4 |
High Tech | 3 |
Consumer | 2 |
Vertical SaaS | 2 |
Others | 5 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Handshake Ventures' Investments by Geography
Handshake Ventures has made most investments in United States (10), followed by Ireland where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 10 |
Ireland | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Handshake Ventures' recent investments
Handshake Ventures has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Handshake Ventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Nov 14, 2025 | Ireland | Series A | 6628 | [+5] | |
Nov 18, 2024 | United States | Series B | 5759 | [+11] | |
Jan 18, 2024 | Ireland | Seed | 7074 | [+3] | |
Aug 16, 2023 | United States | Seed | 4100 | ||
Jul 24, 2023 | United States | Series A | 3894 | [+1] |
Acquired companies in Handshake Ventures' Portfolio
4 companies from Handshake Ventures' portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was StreamElements in Aug 2026 by Razer for $*****.Here are Handshake Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Aug 03, 2026 | - | - | 6657 | |
Oct 18, 2022 | Apr 24, 2019 | Series A | 3853 | |
Oct 05, 2022 | - | - | 9776 | |
Jun 03, 2022 | - | - | 1672 |
Team profile of Handshake Ventures
Handshake Ventures has a team of 3 members located in United States. Handshake Ventures' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of Handshake Ventures
Over the past 7 years, 73 investors have co-invested in Handshake Ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Handshake Ventures: Legacy Ventures, Lockheed Martin and 16 others have invested in rounds before Handshake Ventures. There is 1 company where Legacy Ventures has invested before Handshake Ventures and 1 company where Lockheed Martin has invested before Handshake Ventures.
- Top Co-investors of Handshake Ventures: 43 investors entered a company along with Handshake Ventures. These include investors like WestWave Capital (3 companies).
- Invested after Handshake Ventures: A total of 12 investors have invested in Handshake Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Dell Technologies Capital (1 company), Village Global (1 company) and Vertex Ventures (1 company).
Recent News related to Handshake Ventures
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Irish sales planning platform Lative secures $7.5M fundingSilicon Republic•Nov 14, 2025•Lative, Act Venture Capital, Senovo, Enterprise Ireland and 5 others
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Anello Photonics Raises in Series B FundingFinSMEs•Nov 18, 2024•Lockheed Martin, Anello Photonics, Catapult Ventures, Madisongroup and 13 others
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Lative Secures $3 Million in Funding to Revolutionize Sales Analysis and PlanningBNN•Jan 18, 2024•Lative, Elkstone, Enterprise Ireland, Handshake Ventures and 2 others
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Zaymo Raises $700K Pre-Seed RoundTechBuzz•Aug 17, 2023•Zaymo, Handshake Ventures, Peak Sustainability Ventures
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Fitted Raises $8.5M in Series A Funding RoundACCESSWIRE•Jul 26, 2023•Fitted, Capital Eleven, EPIC Ventures, Handshake Ventures
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Savant Labs Raises $11M in FundingFinSMEs•Feb 28, 2023•Savant Labs, Cota Capital, WestWave Capital, Bloomberg Beta and 2 others
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Directus Raises $7M in Series A FundingFinSMEs•Nov 12, 2022•Directus, True Ventures, Handshake Ventures
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LUUM Precision Lash Closes Funding Round with Strategic and Institutional InvestorsBusiness Wire•Jul 12, 2022•LUUM, Ulta, Foundation Capital, Artifact and 4 others
