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DreamIt Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($500K–$1.5M Checks)

VC
Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaWebsite

DreamIt Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania investing in Security, Healthcare, Real Estate. The firm typically writes $500K–$1.5M checks and has 40 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$500K–$1.5M
Portfolio
40 companies on record
Partners
6 listed
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sectors
Security, Healthcare, Real Estate, SaaS, EdTech, Fintech
HQ
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
AUM
Not in our records

Last verified: 2026-10-27

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$500K – $1.5M

Portfolio

40+ companies

Team

6 partners

Investment Thesis

Early-stage investor focused on transformative cybersecurity startups that show evidence of product-market fit. The firm’s cyber specialization makes it a good route once the startup can demonstrate early traction in production LLM security.

How DreamIt Ventures invests

DreamIt Ventures is a vc firm based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Security, Healthcare, Real Estate, SaaS, EdTech.

DreamIt Ventures typically writes checks of $500K–$1.5M per investment.

DreamIt Ventures has backed 40 companies in our records, including AiStrike, Aurva, Bricklayer AI.

Partners & Team

MS

Mel Shakir

Partner

SK

Steve Kim

PinCam Project Manager

U

Unknown

Partner

Cybersecurity
DS

Darren Sandberg

Managing Partner

DH

Drew Hunt

Director

DB

David Bookspan

Founder

Industry Focus

Invests In

Security
Healthcare
Real Estate
SaaS
EdTech
Fintech

Portfolio Companies (40)

4

AI

AiStrike

Securetech·Active

AiStrike addresses cloud investigation and response through automation and AI.

AU

Aurva

Securetech·Active

Aurva is a modern runtime data security platform for the AI era.

BR

Bricklayer AI

Securetech·Active

Bricklayer AI is the first multi-agent LLM-based AI solution that brings autonomous AI specialists and human experts into a single collaborative and effective security team.

CH

ChaosTrack

Securetech·Active

ChaosTrack is an AI-driven cyber response platform built to solve a core problem in incident response.

EV

EVE Security

Securetech·Active

Eve Security solves the new control gap created by autonomous AI agents taking unsafe actions across enterprise systems.

FA

Facesign

Securetech·Active

FaceSign is an AI-native step-up authentication platform that stops the attacks MFA and call centers can’t.

AC

Accuknox

Securetech·Active

AccuKnox is a Zero Trust Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP). Developed in partnership with Stanford Research Institute, AccuKnox is built to scale runtime protection for complex cloud native applications that are rapidly developed, deployed, and iterated.

AC

Acsense

Securetech·Active

Acsense is an IAM resiliency platform that bulletproofs your Cloud IAM by ensuring rapid point-in-time recovery against ransomware, misconfigurations, and human error.

3

DA

Daxa

Securetech·Active

Daxa provides a multi-cloud data security platform that empowers security teams to intuitively discover high-risk data.

FO

Formotiv

Securetech·Active

Formotiv provides real-time predictive behavioral analytics of end-user intent detecting fraudulent data entry or manipulation.

How to pitch DreamIt Ventures
  • •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • •Lead with your fit in Security, Healthcare, Real Estate — the sectors they actively back.
  • •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $1.5M check.
  • •warm intro preferred
  • •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Mel Shakir, Partner.
  • •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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