Boxcar Partners — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($250K–$1.0M Checks)
Boxcar Partners is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California investing in Developer Tools, AI / ML, Enterprise. The firm typically writes $250K–$1.0M checks and has 2 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $250K–$1.0M
- Portfolio
- 2 companies on record
- Partners
- 3 listed
- AUM
- $500M
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Developer Tools, AI / ML, Enterprise
- HQ
- San Francisco, California
Last verified: 2026-11-11
Pre-Seed, Seed
$250K – $1.0M
$500M
2+ companies
3 partners
Investment Thesis
Early-stage software investor focused on technical products and AI-enabled workflows. Relevant for infrastructure that developers adopt early and scale internally.
How Boxcar Partners invests
Boxcar Partners is a vc firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Developer Tools, AI / ML, Enterprise.
Boxcar Partners typically writes checks of $250K–$1.0M per investment, backed by approximately $500M in assets under management. Our records include 2 funds raised by the firm.
Boxcar Partners has backed 2 companies in our records, including LighthouseAI, Cellevolve Bio.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Funds
Boxcar Partners II
Boxcar Partners I
Recent Activity
Raised Boxcar Partners II ($150M)
2023 · fund records
Raised Boxcar Partners I ($100M)
2021 · fund records
Portfolio Companies (2)
Other
LighthouseAI
AI software company; the source lists it as a portfolio company and notes a March 2026 Series A round
Cellevolve Bio
Biotechnology/life sciences company; the source lists it as a portfolio company and notes a November 2021 Seed round
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Developer Tools, AI / ML, Enterprise — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $1.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Louis Feinberg, Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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