HA

Haystack

VC
San Francisco, CAWebsite
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$250K – $1.5M

AUM

$50M

Portfolio

24+ companies

Team

2 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Pre-seed/seed venture fund backing founders early with strong community/network and product-first mindset.

Meet the Team

DQ

Debbie Quement

Chief Financial Officer

SS

Semil Shah

General Partner

pre-seed
seed
software

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
Marketplace
Consumer

Portfolio Companies (24)

Other

DO

DoorDash

Marketplace/logistics
FI

Figma

Design software
IN

Instacart

Marketplace
HA

Hashicorp

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

Enables organizations to provision, secure, and run any infrastructure for any application.

OP

Opendoor

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

Offers an online home-selling service that aims to streamline the sales process down to a few days.

CA

Carta

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

A global ownership management platform to help companies, investors, and employees manage their equity.

AP

Applied Intuition

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

Provides an ADAS and autonomous vehicle (AV) simulation and validation platform for automotive, trucking, construction, defense, and more.

IR

Ironclad

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

The digital contracting platform that in-house legal teams rely upon to unlock the power of their contracts data.

NT

nTop

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

Engineering software for advanced manufacturing.

AS

Astranis

"Discovered via firm_website (high confidence)"

Advanced satellites for high orbits.

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