About SmartGateVC
SmartGateVC is a venture capital firm founded in 2017. It is primarily based out of Glendale, United States. As of Nov 2025, SmartGateVC is an active investor, having invested in 20 companies, with 2 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 Enterprise Infrastructure. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of Cordance Medical A lot of funds co-invest with SmartGateVC, with names like Upfront Ventures sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. SmartGateVC has team of 17 people including 2 partners.Key Metrics
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SmartGateVC's List of Top Investments
SmartGateVC has a portfolio of 20 companies. Their most notable investments are in Britive and Aim Stack.Their portfolio spans across United States and Armenia. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Enterprise Infrastructure and 8 other sectors, across stages such as Seed stage. Here is the list of top investments by SmartGateVC:Developer of an AI platform for meeting assistance and voice solutions. The platform offers features such as noise cancellation, accent conversion, and real-time transcription. It provides tools for meeting summaries, action item tracking, and CRM integration. The platform also offers voice isolation and translation capabilities for call centers and developers.
Key facts about Krisp Technologies
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: Berkeley (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $15.5M
- Employee Count: 397 as on Sep 30, 2026
- Investors: Storm Ventures, Sierra Ventures and 11 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Feb 16, 2021, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Provider of an AI-based decision-making tool for healthcare professionals. The platform assists with anomaly detection, monitoring, and enhanced decision-making. The company's vision provides intelligent image analysis for monitoring biological agents at any scale. Its self-service software also helps with real-time tracking of product quality assurance, tracking operational cost reductions and also offers initial IT consulting, self-service software development, end-user training, and education.
Key facts about Modicus Prime
- Founded Year: 2020
- Location: La Porte (United States)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $8M
- Employee Count: 18 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Frist Cressey Ventures, Silverton Partners and 7 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, May 06, 2026, $*****
3. Britive
Provider of a privileged access management platform. The features of the product include API protection, secure cloud access, monitoring and analytics, malicious activity detection, etc. It also provides integration over AWS, Azure, Salesforce, ORACLE, etc.
Key facts about Britive
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: Glendale (United States)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $36M
- Employee Count: 16 as on Jan 31, 2025
- Investors: Liberty Global, Pelion Venture Partners and 9 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Mar 23, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. Podcastle
AI-enabled platform for converting text to a podcast. Users can convert their favorite news and articles to podcasts. The platform uses AI and a machine learning speech converter. The voice of the podcast is human-like. The solution is available for Google Chrome.
Key facts about Podcastle
- Founded Year: 2020
- Location: Middletown (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $22.3M
- Employee Count: 45 as on Apr 30, 2026
- Investors: Mosaic Ventures, Sierra Ventures and 9 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Feb 02, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Developer of a non-invasive medical device to open the blood-brain barrier. It offers a low-power ultrasound technology-based device to improve drug delivery for patients with brain cancers, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Epilepsy.
Key facts about Cordance Medical
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: Mountain View (United States)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $8M
- Employee Count: 14 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: R42 Group, Shanda and 11 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Nov 24, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
SmartGateVC's Year-on-Year Investment Trends
SmartGateVC has invested in 20 companies over the last 8 years, with an average of 1 new investment annually in the last 5 years. In 2025, it made 2 investments. Its most recent first time investment was in Cordance Medical and most recent follow-on round was in Expper Technologies.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2020 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2018 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
SmartGateVC's Investments by Stage
SmartGateVC has made 13 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $6.28M.SmartGateVC's Investments by Sector
SmartGateVC has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Enterprise Infrastructure, Life Sciences and Consumer. Notably, it has invested in 19 Tech companies, 15 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 14 Software companies and at least 7 companies focusing on Saas.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 7 |
High Tech | 5 |
Enterprise Infrastructure | 4 |
Life Sciences | 3 |
Consumer | 2 |
Others | 6 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
SmartGateVC's Investments by Geography
SmartGateVC has made most investments in United States (13).SmartGateVC's recent investments
SmartGateVC has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by SmartGateVC:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Nov 24, 2025 | United States | Seed | 3052 | [+5] | |
Nov 04, 2025 | United States | Seed | 5719 | [+9] | |
Jan 18, 2022 | United States | Seed | 1288 | [+5] | |
Oct 07, 2021 | United States | Seed | 9451 | - | |
Sep 10, 2020 | United States | Seed | 6374 | [+3] |
Team profile of SmartGateVC
SmartGateVC has a team of 17 members including 2 Partners, 1 Venture Partner and 4 Principals located in United States and Armenia. SmartGateVC's team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Here is a list of top team members in SmartGateVC:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Partner | San Francisco | - | ||
Partner | Los Angeles | - | - | |
Venture Partner | Los Angeles | - | - | |
Principal | Glendale | - | ||
Principal | Los Angeles | - | ||
Principal | Yerevan | - | ||
Principal | Armenia | - |
Co-investors of SmartGateVC
Over the past 8 years, 71 investors have co-invested in SmartGateVC's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before SmartGateVC: National Science Foundation, HHS and 6 others have invested in rounds before SmartGateVC. There is 1 company where National Science Foundation has invested before SmartGateVC and 1 company where HHS has invested before SmartGateVC.
- Top Co-investors of SmartGateVC: 24 investors entered a company along with SmartGateVC. These include investors like Upfront Ventures (1 company).
- Invested after SmartGateVC: A total of 39 investors have invested in SmartGateVC's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Alumni Ventures (2 companies), Granatus Ventures (1 company) and Silverton Partners (1 company).
Recent News related to SmartGateVC
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Cordance Medical Secures $8M Seed Funding for Brain Disease Treatment PlatformPR Newswire•Nov 24, 2025•pvta.com, Cordance Medical, Angel Physicians Fund, SmartGateVC and 5 others
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Pitching access management on the fly, Los Angeles-based Britive raises $5.4 millionTechCrunch+•Sep 10, 2020•Britive, Upfront Ventures, One Way Ventures, SmartGateVC
