Pioneer Fund

Pioneer Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 that makes early-stage investments across a wide range of sectors, including consumer products and services, financial services, information technology, advanced manufacturing, blockchain, life sciences, gaming, artificial intelligence and machine learning, construction technology, education technology, fintech, agriculture technology, advertising technology, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, legal technology, oncology, pet technology, real estate technology, ride-hailing, SaaS and supply chain technology. The firm benefits from a network of more than 420 Y Combinator alumni, enabling it to identify and support YC-backed startups.

Lior Abraham

Venture Partner

Wayne Anderson

Venture Partner

Jon Armstrong

Venture Partner

Tamara Bain

Venture Partner

Kate Bambino

Venture Partner

Lena Belogolova

Venture Partner

Bryan Beshore

Venture Partner

Rajiv Bhat

Venture Partner

Amitav Chakravartty

Venture Partner

Bryant Chou

Venture Partner

Andrew DSouza

Venture Partner

Michael Dilworth

CFO and Partner

Kshitij Dixit

Venture Partner

Cobi Druxerman

Venture Partner

Luqui Díaz

Venture Partner

Steli Efti

Venture Partner

James Fong

Venture Partner

Taro Fukuyama

Venture Partner

Jarret Glasscock

Venture Partner

Jason Gray

Managing Partner

Alanna Gregory

Venture Partner

Ranvir Gujral

Venture Partner

Joshua Halickman

Venture Partner

Taylor Halliday

Venture Partner

Michael Heinrich

Venture Partner

Nancy Hua

Venture Partner

Albert Huang MD

Venture Partner

Faiz Jalia

Analyst

Steven Johnston

Venture Partner

Beth Kolko

Venture Partner

Jackie Kong

Venture Partner

Kwin Hultman Kramer

Venture Partner

Greg Kress

Venture Partner

Ashwin Kumar

Venture Partner

Tiffany Kuo

Venture Partner

Vanessa Lee

Venture Partner

Ilya Lichtenstein

Venture Partner

Evan Lodge

Venture Partner

Parthi Loganathan

Venture Partner

Richard Ma

Venture Partner

Ritik Malhotra

Venture Partner

Rohit Malhotra

Venture Partner

Matthew McDonald

Venture Partner

Dave Messina

General Partner

Will Mitchell

Venture Partner

Francesco Mosconi

Venture Partner

Anthony Nemitz

Venture Partner

Victor Ng

Venture Partner

Peter Nixey

Venture Partner

Eric Norman

Visiting General Partner

Will Olsen

Venture Partner

Jon Parker

Venture Partner

Amit Patel

Venture Partner

Puja Patel

Venture Partner

David Rabie

Venture Partner

Saad Rizvi

Venture Partner

Juan Salcedo

Venture Partner

Matt Schiller

Venture Partner

William Schlacks

Venture Partner

Robert Schultz

Venture Partner

Jonathan Schwartz

Venture Partner

Martin Shen

Venture Partner

Bradley Siegler

Venture Partner

Vikram Somasundaram

Venture Partner

Laks Srini

Venture Partner

Thomas Steinacher

Venture Partner

Steven Stewart

Venture Partner

Evan Stites-Clayton

Venture Partner

Brad Stronger

Venture Partner

Alexander Strunkin

Venture Partner

Ted Suzman

General Partner

Tim Suzman

General Partner

Jonathan Tang

Venture Partner

Bryan Wilcox

Venture Partner

Kitch Wilson

Venture Partner

Ray Wu

Venture Partner

Andrew Yaroshevsky

Venture Partner

Richard Yu

Venture Partner

Winston Zhang

Venture Partner

Ti Zhao

Venture Partner

Past deals in Business Intelligence

Further AI

Seed Round in 2025
Further AI is a technology company that specializes in AI-driven workflow automation. Its platform assigns tasks such as quote generation, policy checking, and renewal processing to AI teammates, enabling businesses to enhance efficiency and minimize errors.

Browser Use

Seed Round in 2025
Browser Use is a technology company specializing in web accessibility software for AI agents. It enables AI agents to interact with websites by extracting interactive elements, managing multiple browser tabs, and supporting custom actions. The company's software combines visual understanding with HTML extraction, allowing developers to build capable web-based AI agents using various large language models.

Henry

Seed Round in 2025
Henry is an AI copilot for commercial real estate brokers that integrates internal and external data to quickly generate deal decks.

Suger

Series A in 2025
Suger is a technology company that provides a management platform specifically designed for Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses to facilitate sales on multiple cloud marketplaces, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Red Hat, Snowflake, and Databricks. The platform offers comprehensive features for managing product listings, offers, contracts, metering, and billing across these marketplaces. Suger’s solution automates the lifecycle management of contracts, including renewals, plan changes, and upselling, which helps businesses streamline their operations and enhance their B2B sales processes. By enabling companies to efficiently navigate the complexities of multi-cloud environments, Suger supports them in accelerating their sales efforts without limitations.

Circleback

Seed Round in 2024
Circleback is a software development company specializing in enhancing meeting productivity through AI-powered auto-summaries and actionable insights.

Hamming AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Hamming AI is an experimentation platform that helps teams build reliable AI products.

Henry

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Henry is an AI copilot for commercial real estate brokers that integrates internal and external data to quickly generate deal decks.

Agentnoon

Seed Round in 2024
Agentnoon provides an AI-based organizational design and workforce planning platform. The SaaS solution centralizes headcount data from HRIS, payroll, and ATS systems to serve as a single source of truth for people data, enabling planning, budgeting, forecasting, and insights. It supports creating organizational plans, managing headcount, and forecasting costs, with quick onboarding and fast implementation. The platform integrates with a wide range of systems to reduce errors and improve hiring decisions. It includes visibility into salaries, benefits, performance, and compensation data to support responsible growth toward business goals. By consolidating data and workflows in one tool, it helps organizations optimize headcount budgets and make informed staffing decisions, while offering accessible customer support and concise onboarding timelines.

ProhostAI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
ProhostAI specializes in developing an AI-driven operating system for vacation rental hosts and property managers. Their platform automates and streamlines key aspects of the business, including guest communication, maintenance requests, and financial management. By integrating these functionalities into a single interface, ProhostAI aims to boost efficiency, lower operational costs, and elevate the experience for both property managers and guests.

Octolane AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Octolane AI is a technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence-powered customer relationship management (CRM) software. Its platform processes real-time data from diverse sources such as healthcare and sales, enabling businesses to cleanse, analyze, and cross-check vast datasets for informed decision-making.

Guide Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Guide Labs is a software development company that specializes in creating interpretable models. These models are designed to explain their reasoning in a clear, understandable manner, making them easy to steer, debug, and align. The company's primary goal is to help developers and businesses solve errors more efficiently by providing reliable explanations for model behavior, thereby saving time and effort.

Patchwork

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Patchwork is a technology company that specializes in providing AI-powered communication tools for businesses. Its unified communication platform is designed to streamline team and workforce management, enabling users to swiftly share meeting notes, updates, and other relevant information within groups. The platform aims to enhance productivity and efficiency by replacing traditional communication tools like Slack.

Danswer

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Danswer is an AI-powered assistant that integrates with a company's tools and documents, facilitating swift retrieval of any required information.

CircleBack

Venture Round in 2024
CircleBack, Inc. is a technology company based in Vienna, Virginia, focused on improving contact data accuracy for business consumers. Founded in 2008, the company develops mobile contact intelligence applications that streamline the management of address books across various devices. Its flagship product, CircleBack, uses a patented data engine to provide real-time updates on connections, such as job changes and new contact information, directly to users' mobile address books and customer relationship management systems. Additionally, CircleBack offers tools like ContactSaver, which converts email signatures into contacts for Gmail, and ScanBizCards, enabling users to digitize business cards. The Cleanup Suite helps refine contact lists by removing duplicates. CircleBack aims to enhance productivity by ensuring that professionals and businesses can maintain accurate and up-to-date connections.

Risotto

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Risotto develops an AI-powered IT help desk platform that automates support requests and enhances security, enabling businesses to streamline tech support operations and improve resolution times.

Thorntale

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Thorntale is a technology company specializing in data storytelling software. It offers an online presentation platform designed to simplify data visualization and narrative creation. The software provides pre-designed templates and supports multiple presentation formats, allowing users to directly connect charts and tables to their data sources, enhancing the storytelling process.

Suger

Seed Round in 2023
Suger is a technology company that provides a management platform specifically designed for Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses to facilitate sales on multiple cloud marketplaces, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Red Hat, Snowflake, and Databricks. The platform offers comprehensive features for managing product listings, offers, contracts, metering, and billing across these marketplaces. Suger’s solution automates the lifecycle management of contracts, including renewals, plan changes, and upselling, which helps businesses streamline their operations and enhance their B2B sales processes. By enabling companies to efficiently navigate the complexities of multi-cloud environments, Suger supports them in accelerating their sales efforts without limitations.

VectorShift

Seed Round in 2023
VectorShift specializes in creating and implementing custom generative AI workflows. It develops an AI automation platform that allows businesses to efficiently design and deploy AI solutions tailored to their specific needs. These solutions can range from automating responses to requests for proposals to generating customer support chatbots, helping businesses enhance productivity and customer service.

MediSearch

Seed Round in 2023
MediSearch is a technology company that develops a search engine platform. This platform is designed to deliver direct, science-based answers to medical questions, empowering users to make informed decisions about their health and well-being. It offers a user-friendly interface, expert-curated information, and reliable sources, making it a trusted resource for those seeking health or bioscience insights.

Avoca

Seed Round in 2023
Avoca develops a client communication platform that enables business owners to focus on their core skills by providing AI-driven reception services for inbound and outbound communications.

Taiv

Seed Round in 2023
Taiv Inc. is a Winnipeg-based company that specializes in designing targeted content and advertisements for businesses. Founded in 2018, the company operates a web application that enables users to modify content or schedule advertisements effectively. Taiv's innovative approach allows it to replace generic commercials on live television with more relevant advertisements, particularly benefiting bars and restaurants. By combining proprietary hardware and software, Taiv enhances the advertising experience during commercial breaks, allowing businesses to promote special events and products more effectively, thereby increasing customer engagement and sales.

NuMind

Seed Round in 2023
NuMind develops a natural language processing tool that enables users to design unique machine learning models for tasks such as sentiment analysis, topic detection, and content control. Its platform allows users to import data, explore data, train, test, deploy models, and monitor them in production without requiring specialized knowledge.

Dialect

Seed Round in 2023
Dialect is a platform that provides assistance to the enterprise data warehouse. Questa runs business teams with query, visualization, and action of data with natural language. Questa was founded in 2022 and was headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Pivo

Seed Round in 2022
Pivo is a financial platform designed to democratize access to financial services for small and medium-sized businesses across Africa. By providing a comprehensive suite of tools tailored for the supply chain sector, Pivo enables clients to efficiently access various financial services from a single hub. This approach fosters a more streamlined and effective means for businesses to engage with borderless financial solutions, ultimately enhancing their operational capabilities and growth potential.

Freshpaint

Series A in 2022
Freshpaint is a data platform that specializes in collecting and analyzing customer data to enhance marketing efforts. The company’s software allows for seamless integration of customer data from websites and applications into various marketing and analytics tools, enabling teams to automate the collection of behavioral data, such as clicks and page views. This automation reduces the workload on engineering teams, allowing them to concentrate on product development. Freshpaint's platform aids product, data, and growth teams in accessing the insights needed to improve user engagement and retention. Co-founded by Michael Malis and Steven Fitzsimmons, Freshpaint aims to streamline the management of customer data for more effective marketing strategies.

Paperplane

Seed Round in 2022
Paperplane is a technology company that assists builders, plumbers, and timber merchants manage credit risk. It uses predictive analytics to identify customers likely to default up to four weeks before any formal notice or credit report.

Integration Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Integration Labs, formerly RootFi, provides a unified data integration platform and API that lets companies read and write customers' accounting, e-commerce, and payments data across platforms. The solution supports automating accounting, underwriting credit risk, and deriving business insights by syncing data across systems with standardized data models, enabling clients to streamline AP/AR, payroll accounting, and to build new tools and applications.

Peoplebox.ai

Venture Round in 2022
Peoplebox.ai is an AI-powered platform designed to enhance employee engagement and performance management. The software provides automated engagement surveys, anonymous communication channels for employee feedback, and deep engagement insights to assist HR professionals. It enables managers to foster high-performing teams by facilitating continuous feedback and structured one-on-one interactions. A key feature of the platform is Nova, an AI coach that helps managers translate employee feedback into actionable steps through intelligent prioritization and bite-sized learning modules. By focusing on building strong human connections and ensuring employee retention, Peoplebox.ai aims to empower organizations to create engaged and productive remote teams. The company, formed by founders with backgrounds from Y Combinator and IIT, operates from offices in San Francisco and Bangalore.

TrueBiz

Seed Round in 2022
TrueBiz is a developer of an information and documentation platform designed to enhance the onboarding process for financial services providers. The company's platform automates the processing of essential company documents, such as articles of incorporation, and integrates key business signals to facilitate efficient identification. By streamlining these processes, TrueBiz aims to reduce verification delays, ultimately helping financial institutions onboard their business customers more swiftly and decrease churn associated with these delays.

NuMind

Pre Seed Round in 2022
NuMind develops a natural language processing tool that enables users to design unique machine learning models for tasks such as sentiment analysis, topic detection, and content control. Its platform allows users to import data, explore data, train, test, deploy models, and monitor them in production without requiring specialized knowledge.

Cogram

Seed Round in 2022
Cogram is an AI startup that builds an intelligent coworker for teams. Its platform integrates with virtual meetings to automatically transcribe sessions and generate concise, actionable summaries, bullet points, and task-oriented write-ups, helping teams track decisions and automate downstream work. The company focuses on advancing human–AI collaboration to boost efficiency and drive innovation across organizations and industries. Cogram has participated in Y Combinator and is backed by prominent Silicon Valley venture investors.

Axis

Venture Round in 2022
Axis develops a government data platform designed to understand the political crisis, government reshuffle, and new regulations in markets. Its platform easily finds and follows policy-makers and regulators, evaluates the information relevant to decision-making, and offers macro and sector insights.

Awesomic

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Awesomic is a platform that connects businesses with vetted designers through an AI-assisted matching system. Clients subscribe to a flat monthly plan and receive design support across branding, interface development, digital illustration, and custom visuals, with results delivered every business day. By enabling outsourcing of design tasks without hiring in-house staff or lengthy recruitment, Awesomic provides fast, ongoing access to design expertise.

Aviato

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Aviato is a platform offering real-time data insights for private markets. It helps users discover, evaluate, and connect with promising early-stage startups by providing up-to-date company intelligence.

Anakin

Seed Round in 2021
Anakin provides a competitive intelligence software platform for retailers and brands. It delivers global, real-time coverage of product assortments and pricing data from e-commerce sites across more than 100 million SKUs, enabling customers to monitor competitors' offerings and pricing at scale. The platform uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to collect, track, and categorize web data, helping retailers and brands understand competitive strategy and automate data-driven decision making.

Convictional

Series A in 2021
Founded in 2017, Convictional operates a multi-channel B2B e-commerce platform for high-growth suppliers. It offers services such as electronic data interchange, wholesale integrations, quick order, dropship automation, and order financing.

Pry Financials

Seed Round in 2021
Pry Financials is a financial planning platform that offers small businesses an alternative to traditional spreadsheet methods. The company specializes in financial planning and analysis software that facilitates effective budgeting by connecting various financial components for real-time comparisons of budget versus actuals. Its platform allows users to efficiently manage hiring plans, project cash flows, and model different financial scenarios within a visual environment. By providing tools that streamline budgeting processes and enhance financial oversight, Pry Financials enables businesses to effectively manage their financial models and cash runway.

WorkClout

Seed Round in 2020
WorkClout, Inc. is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that focuses on enhancing operational efficiency for manufacturers across various industries, including commercial printing, packaging, and automotive. Incorporated in 2018 and based in Newark, Delaware, WorkClout's software provides comprehensive solutions for business intelligence, job scheduling, order management, and quality control. It enables manufacturers to track activities on the factory floor, facilitating the logging of idle time and downtime, as well as streamlining processes such as document control and visual inspections. By leveraging data analytics, WorkClout offers actionable insights aimed at improving productivity and accelerating product-to-market timelines for its clients.

Freshpaint

Seed Round in 2020
Freshpaint is a data platform that specializes in collecting and analyzing customer data to enhance marketing efforts. The company’s software allows for seamless integration of customer data from websites and applications into various marketing and analytics tools, enabling teams to automate the collection of behavioral data, such as clicks and page views. This automation reduces the workload on engineering teams, allowing them to concentrate on product development. Freshpaint's platform aids product, data, and growth teams in accessing the insights needed to improve user engagement and retention. Co-founded by Michael Malis and Steven Fitzsimmons, Freshpaint aims to streamline the management of customer data for more effective marketing strategies.

Aspire

Series A in 2019
Aspire is a finance operating system for growing businesses in Southeast Asia. The platform combines business accounts, cross-border payments, corporate cards, automated invoice processing, and expense management with integrated financial management software. It enables users to manage bank accounts, invoicing, and cash flow in a single interface and provides access to funding and financial tools to support smart decisions. The company also offers Aspire Kickstart, an incorporation service for Singaporean companies. Founded in 2018 and based in Singapore, Aspire focuses on helping startups and SMBs streamline finance operations, improve transparency, and reduce administrative overhead.

WorkClout

Pre Seed Round in 2019
WorkClout, Inc. is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that focuses on enhancing operational efficiency for manufacturers across various industries, including commercial printing, packaging, and automotive. Incorporated in 2018 and based in Newark, Delaware, WorkClout's software provides comprehensive solutions for business intelligence, job scheduling, order management, and quality control. It enables manufacturers to track activities on the factory floor, facilitating the logging of idle time and downtime, as well as streamlining processes such as document control and visual inspections. By leveraging data analytics, WorkClout offers actionable insights aimed at improving productivity and accelerating product-to-market timelines for its clients.

Convictional

Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2017, Convictional operates a multi-channel B2B e-commerce platform for high-growth suppliers. It offers services such as electronic data interchange, wholesale integrations, quick order, dropship automation, and order financing.

Aspire

Seed Round in 2018
Aspire is a finance operating system for growing businesses in Southeast Asia. The platform combines business accounts, cross-border payments, corporate cards, automated invoice processing, and expense management with integrated financial management software. It enables users to manage bank accounts, invoicing, and cash flow in a single interface and provides access to funding and financial tools to support smart decisions. The company also offers Aspire Kickstart, an incorporation service for Singaporean companies. Founded in 2018 and based in Singapore, Aspire focuses on helping startups and SMBs streamline finance operations, improve transparency, and reduce administrative overhead.

Worklytics

Seed Round in 2018
Worklytics is a company based in New York, founded in 2015, that specializes in analytics technology and services focused on workforce productivity and collaboration. It offers People Analytics to analyze how teams and departments spend time, communication patterns, technical skills, and integrates with existing HR management systems. Additionally, Worklytics provides an Employee Feedback product to map work activities, share feedback on skills, automate performance reviews, and generate comprehensive reports. The company also offers solutions for assessing employee engagement, burnout risk, retention, continuous feedback, organizational diversity, knowledge management, quality of hire, and skills analysis.
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