2045 ventures

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Updated: Jan 22, 2026 ·

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At 2045 Ventures, we invest in what's next. We partner with bold founders who are building transformative solutions to drive progress and shape the future.

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Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
Sep 1, 2024	Air Company	$69.0M Series B	—	Afore Capital, Alpaca VC, Alumni Ventures, Aux21 Capital, Golden Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Lightspeed Venture Partners, M13, Makers Fund, Multicoin Capital, Sterling Equity, Trucks Venture Capital, Kevin Lin
Feb 1, 2024	Hadrian	$92.0M Series B	—	11k Ventures, 1435 Capital Management, 2048 Ventures, 305 Ventures, 8090 Industries, 8VC, Afore Capital, Also Capital, Altai Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Atomic, Ballistic Ventures, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Bolt, Caffeinated Capital, Cherry Ventures, Construct Capital, Countdown Capital, Cubit Capital, Daft Capital, Drive Capital, E1 Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Floodgate, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Goat Capital, Good Growth Capital, Lux Capital, One Way Ventures, Paradox Capital, Picus Capital, Prime Movers Lab, Ravelin Capital, Saga, SpaceFund, Stash Ventures, Stellar Capital, Techstars, The Hit Forge, Tribe Capital, Virginia Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Zigg Capital, Alex Adelman, Austin Ogilvie, Dylan Taylor, Emil Lee, Gokul Rajaram, Harry Hurst, Joao Otavio Oliverio, Joshua Reeves, Justin Mateen, Kirill Silkin, Koen Koeppen, Leonardo DiCaprio, Louis Beryl, Mark Cuban, Mattia Astori, Natasha Ahmed, Rob Meyerson, Sahin Boydas, Sam Altman, Sohila Zadran, Sung ho Choi, Thomas Tull, Vineet Jain, Vivek Patel, William Miller, Zachary Hargreaves
Aug 1, 2023	Textual	$20K Seed	—	1435 Capital Management, 305 Ventures, 8090 Industries, Afore Capital, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Bolt, Good Growth Capital, SpaceFund, Techstars, Tribe Capital, Dylan Taylor, Kirill Silkin, Sung ho Choi
Jun 1, 2023	Typeface	$100.0M Series B	—	Climate Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Apr 1, 2023	Orbit Fab	$29.0M Series A	—	1435 Capital Management, 305 Ventures, 500 Global, 8090 Industries, Afore Capital, Antiportfolio Ventures, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Bolt, Divergent Capital, Good Growth Capital, Lightbank, Long Journey Ventures, SpaceFund, Techstars, Tribe Capital, Weekend Fund, Ali Moiz, Chris Smoak, Dylan Taylor, Kirill Silkin, Scott Banister, Sung ho Choi, Vivek Garipalli
Feb 1, 2023	Typeface	$65.0M Series A	—	Climate Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Feb 1, 2023	The Believer Company	$55.0M Series A	—	Afore Capital, Alpaca VC, Alumni Ventures, Aux21 Capital, Golden Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Lightspeed Venture Partners, M13, Makers Fund, Multicoin Capital, Sterling Equity, Trucks Venture Capital, Kevin Lin, Andreessen Horowitz, Ashby Monk, BCF Ventures, Cleveland Avenue, Dune Ventures, Ingeborg Investments, Lauren Loktev, LOUD Capital, Mitch Garber, Revolution, Sixty8 Capital
Nov 1, 2022	ARTA	$90.0M Series A	—	Accel, Afore Capital, Alpaca VC, Alumni Ventures, Asylum Ventures, Aux21 Capital, B Capital Group, Berkeley Angel Network, Coinbase Ventures, Commerce Ventures, DST Global, FTAC Ventures, Golden Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Intuit Ventures, Kindred Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, M13, Makers Fund, Merak Ventures, Multicoin Capital, Shailendra Singh, Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India & SEA), Penny Jar Capital, Point72 Ventures, Quona Capital, Sarona Ventures, Serena Ventures, Seven Seven Six, Sterling Equity, Trucks Venture Capital, Venture Highway, Y Combinator, Aaron Harris, Alex Lieberman, Andre Iguodala, Baris Gultekin, Claire Hughes Johnson, Gokul Rajaram, Justin Timberlake, Kelvin Beachum Jr., Kevin Lin, Kunal Shah, Mohit Saxena, Peter Kight, Rohit Gupta, Ryan Shea
Oct 1, 2022	Abingdon Software Group	$20.0M Seed	—	Afore Capital, Alpaca VC, Alumni Ventures, Aux21 Capital, Golden Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Lightspeed Venture Partners, M13, Makers Fund, Multicoin Capital, Sterling Equity, Trucks Venture Capital, Kevin Lin
Mar 1, 2022	FreeWill	$30.0M Series B	—	Altalurra Ventures, Backstage Capital, Chingona Ventures, Deciens Capital, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Gaingels, Ganas Ventures, M13, Mindset Ventures, OVO Fund, Plug & Play Ventures, QED Investors, Rabo Ventures, Supply Change Capital, TSVC Capital, Ulu Ventures, Vamos Ventures, Vitalize Venture Group, Austin Ogilvie, Guilherme Bonifacio
Mar 1, 2022	Firstbase	$50.0M Series B	—	Accomplice VC, Afore Capital, Alpaca VC, Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Aux21 Capital, Banana Capital, Contrary Capital, Forum Ventures, Golden Ventures, Gradient Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, M13, Makers Fund, Multicoin Capital, NFX, Quiet Capital, Race Capital, Rally Ventures, Relay Ventures, R-Squared Ventures, Sinai Ventures, Sterling Equity, Trucks Venture Capital, Vine Ventures LP, Visionaire Ventures, Emil Michael, Farzad Nazem, Gary Lauder, Gil Hirsch, Kevin Lin, Leore Avidar, Marc Benioff, Noosheen Hashemi, Ran Makavy, Tirto Adji
Mar 1, 2022	PathMatch	$2.0M Seed	—	Altalurra Ventures, Backstage Capital, Chingona Ventures, Debut Capital, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Gaingels, Ganas Ventures, M13, OVO Fund, Precursor Ventures, Revolution, Supply Change Capital, TechNexus Venture Collaborative, Ulu Ventures, Vamos Ventures, Vitalize Venture Group, Zeal Capital Partners
Mar 1, 2022	Palladius	$15.0M Series A	—	MiLA Capital
Mar 1, 2022	Lightforge Games	$15.0M Series A	—	Afore Capital, Alpaca VC, Alumni Ventures, Animoca Brands, Arkitekt Ventures, Aux21 Capital, BITKRAFT Ventures, Convective Capital, CRV, Fabric Ventures, Founders Fund, Golden Ventures, Greylock, Hashed, Innovation Endeavors, Intel Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, M12, M13, Makers Fund, MizMaa Ventures, Multicoin Capital, Section 32, Sterling Equity, Trucks Venture Capital, Adam Gries, Andrew Nutter, Chris Murphy, Chris Wang, Chuck Eesley, Eoghan McCabe, Evan Brown, Greg Tseng, James Park, Kevin Lin, Mark Cuban, Mark Pincus, Michael G. Rubin, Sebastien Borget, Shane Neman
Dec 1, 2021	AcadArena	$4.0M Seed	—	1k(x), Active Capital, Afore Capital, Alpaca VC, Alumni Ventures, Animoca Brands, Aux21 Capital, Bankless Ventures, BITKRAFT Ventures, Chapter One Ventures, Cortical Ventures, Craft Ventures, Matt Ocko, Golden Ventures, Gumi Cryptos Capital, Hashed, Haystack, Hustle Fund, Incisive Ventures, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Innovation Endeavors, Kindred Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Long Journey Ventures, M13, Madrona Ventures, Makers Fund, Mechanism Capital, Multicoin Capital, Scalar Capital, Sterling Equity, Threshold Ventures, Tribe Capital, Trucks Venture Capital, Furqan Rydhan, Jeff Morris, Matt Gibstein, Scott Belsky, Sebastien Borget, Siqi Chen
Dec 1, 2021	Umamicart	$6.0M Seed	—	500 Global, Afore Capital, Alpaca VC, Alumni Ventures, Anthemis Group, Aux21 Capital, Awesome People Ventures, Banana Capital, Ali Tamaseb, Electric Capital, Scott Hartley, First Star Ventures, FJ Labs, Golden Ventures, Gradient Ventures, Infinite Niches, Innovation Endeavors, Iterative, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, M13, Makers Fund, Multicoin Capital, Nonlinear, Paradigm, Pareto Holdings, Picus Capital, Precursor Ventures, Rumbo Ventures, Social Capital, Sterling Equity, Trucks Venture Capital, Adam D'Angelo, Andy Coravos, Anthony Pompliano, Charlie Feng, Dylan Field, Eric Wu, Guilherme Bonifacio, Jen Rubio Butterfield, Julia DeWahl, Kevin Lin, Nate Matherson, Scott Belsky, Tonio DeSorrento, Tushar Garg
Nov 1, 2021	Rescale	$55.0M Series C	—	8VC, Altalurra Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Awesome Ventures, Backstage Capital, Adeyemi Ajao, Chingona Ventures, DST Global, Eclipse Ventures, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, First Round Capital, foobar.vc, Founders Fund, Gaingels, Ganas Ventures, General Atlantic, Giant Ventures, Han Hua, Hitachi Ventures, Jetstream, K2 Global, Khosla Ventures, LGF, Liquid 2 Ventures, M13, Scott Sandell, Operator Collective, OVO Fund, Prelude Ventures, Quiet Capital, Saga, Scribble Ventures, Shine Capital, Softbank Group, Supply Change Capital, Third Prime, Trajectory Ventures, Ulu Ventures, Vamos Ventures, Vitalize Venture Group, Walden Catalyst Ventures, Y Combinator, Akshay Kothari, Anthony Pompliano, Dylan Field, Emil Michael, Eric Wu, Jason Citron, Jawed Karim, Leonardo DiCaprio, Manu Ginobilli, Nicholas Francis, Pedro Arnt, Rich Miner, Ron Pragides, Sam Altman, Scott Belsky, Steve Lee, Tim Griffin, Tom Blomfield
Oct 1, 2021	Suma Wealth	$2.0M Seed	—	AAF Management Ltd., Altalurra Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Backstage Capital, Blockchain Capital, Blockchain.com Ventures, Blockchain Founders Fund, Chingona Ventures, Concrete Rose Capital, Debut Capital, Elefund, Engineering Capital, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Gaingels, Ganas Ventures, gener8tor, Heavybit, Initialized Capital, Javelin Venture Partners, KRM Interests LLC, Liquid 2 Ventures, Listen, M13, Monochrome Capital, OCA Ventures, OMERS Ventures, OVO Fund, Precursor Ventures, Supply Change Capital, Techstars, Third Point Ventures, Ulu Ventures, Unpopular Ventures, Vamos Ventures, Village Global, Vitalize Venture Group, Zeal Capital Partners, Christopher Langford, John Ives, Louis Beryl, Mark Ghermezian, Randy Garg
Jul 1, 2021	AcadArena	$230K Seed	—	Active Capital, Afore Capital, Alpaca VC, Alumni Ventures, Aux21 Capital, Chapter One Ventures, Cortical Ventures, Golden Ventures, Hustle Fund, Incisive Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Lightspeed Venture Partners, M13, Madrona Ventures, Makers Fund, Multicoin Capital, Sterling Equity, Trucks Venture Capital, Furqan Rydhan, Jeff Morris, Matt Gibstein, Siqi Chen
Apr 1, 2021	Hadrian	$10.0M Seed	—	1435 Capital Management, 305 Ventures, 8090 Industries, Accel, Afore Capital, Also Capital, Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Ballast Point Ventures, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Bolt, Caffeinated Capital, Cherry Ventures, Construct Capital, Countdown Capital, Cubit Capital, Daft Capital, E1 Ventures, Floodgate, Flucas Ventures, Founders Fund, Good Growth Capital, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Heavybit, Invariantes Fund, LombardStreet Ventures, Lux Capital, Paradox Capital, Pareto Holdings, Phenomen Ventures, Picus Capital, Plaid, Quiet Capital, Ravelin Capital, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Saga, Silverton Partners, SpaceFund, SQN Venture Partners, Starbridge Venture Capital, Stash Ventures, Stellar Capital, Sterling Equity, Techstars, The Hit Forge, William Guo, Tribe Capital, Virginia Venture Partners, Austin Ogilvie, Dylan Taylor, Harry Hurst, Joao Otavio Oliverio, Jordan French, Justin Mateen, Kirill Silkin, Koen Koeppen, Mark Cuban, Mattia Astori, Richard Cooperstein, Rob Meyerson, Sahin Boydas, Scott Belsky, Sohila Zadran, Sung ho Choi, Vineet Jain, William Miller
Mar 1, 2021	Baraka	$1.0M Seed	—	Altalurra Ventures, Backstage Capital, Chingona Ventures, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Gaingels, Ganas Ventures, M13, OVO Fund, Supply Change Capital, The Community Fund, Ulu Ventures, Valar Ventures, Vamos Ventures, Vitalize Venture Group
Mar 1, 2021	Bevy	$40.0M Series C	—	42Phi Ventures, Accel, ACME Capital, Acre Venture Partners, Alpha Edison, Altalurra Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Backstage Capital, Chingona Ventures, Collab Capital, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Gaingels, Ganas Ventures, Haystack, Jett Fein, Include Venture Partners, Insight Partners, M13, M34 Capital, NewMe Accelerator, New Voices Fund, NFX, Openview Venture Partners, OVO Fund, Plug & Play Ventures, RareBreed Ventures, Reign Ventures, Serena Ventures, Seven Seven Six, Share Ventures, SNR, Soma Capital, Supply Change Capital, TechSquare Labs, Tribe Capital, Twenty Two Ventures, Ulu Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Vamos Ventures, Vitalize Venture Group, Y Combinator, Zeev Capital, Aaron Skonnard, Baron Davis, Bradley Horowitz, Charlie Songhurst, Dennis Steele, Eric Rea, George Ruan, Matt Brezina
Nov 1, 2020	Encantos	$6.0M Seed	—	645 Ventures, 75 & Sunny, Afore Capital, Altalurra Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Backstage Capital, Banana Capital, Black Jays Investments, Bowery Capital, BoxGroup, Brainchild, C2Ventures, Chaac Ventures, Chingona Ventures, Craft Ventures, Creandum, Curie.Bio, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, FirstMark Capital, G20 Ventures, Gaingels, Ganas Ventures, Glasswing Ventures, IA Ventures, ICONIQ Capital, Infinite Niches, Intel Capital, Khosla Ventures, Kohala Ventures, L'ATTITUDE Ventures, Lazerow Ventures, M13, Math Capital, Mayfield, Operator Partners, OVO Fund, Pareto Holdings, Passion Capital, Pelion Venture Partners, Point72 Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Reform Ventures, Samsung NEXT Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Scribble Ventures, Seven Seven Six, Shine Capital, SoftBank Capital, Spark Capital, Supply Change Capital, Thirty Five Ventures, TitletownTech, Trajectory Ventures, True Ventures, Ulu Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Vamos Ventures, Vitalize Venture Group, XSeed Capital, Ben Porterfield, Carmelo Anthony (Melo7 Tech Partners), Chris Ahearn, Elie Seidman, Gregory Waldorf, Hugh Browne, Jennifer Lum, Kim Perell, Moshe Lifschitz, Neill Occhiogrosso, Pau Gasol, Peter Read
Oct 1, 2020	Suma Wealth	$1.0M Seed	—	125 Ventures, 14W, Altalurra Ventures, Audrey Capital, Backstage Capital, BBG Ventures, Blockchain Founders Fund, Bond, BoxGroup, Chingona Ventures, Debut Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, Jenny Fielding, Scott Hartley, Future Perfect Ventures, Gaingels, Ganas Ventures, gener8tor, General Catalyst, GenNx360, GE Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, High Line Venture Partners, Hoxton Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, Listen, Lux Capital, M13, MiLA Capital, Monochrome Capital, Oak HC/FT, OCA Ventures, OVO Fund, Precursor Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Supply Change Capital, Target Global, Teamworthy Ventures, Ulu Ventures, Unpopular Ventures, Vamos Ventures, Village Global, Vitalize Venture Group, Zeal Capital Partners, Anne Wojcicki, Fatih Isbecer, Gokul Rajaram, Jeremy Yap, Julie McDermott, Mark Ghermezian
Aug 1, 2020	Firstbase	$2.0M Seed	—	01 Advisors, 2.12 Angels, A Capital, Accomplice VC, Afore Capital, Alpaca VC, Alumni Ventures, Anderson Angels, Aux21 Capital, Backend Capital, Bascom Ventures, Basecamp Fund, B Capital Group, Bling Capital, Daft Capital, Flucas Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, Forum Ventures, Founders Committee, Golden Ventures, Gradient Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Infinite Niches, Innovation Endeavors, Jetstream, Kleiner Perkins, KRM Interests LLC, Lightspeed Venture Partners, LOI Venture, Long Journey Ventures, M13, Makers Fund, Modern Venture Partners, Moxxie Ventures, Multicoin Capital, NextView Ventures, Parkway VC, Pioneer Fund, Prototype Capital, Scribble Ventures, Shrug Capital, SignalFire, Sound Ventures, Sterling Equity, SV Angel, Techstars, Trucks Venture Capital, Tusk Venture Partners, Twenty Two Ventures, Weekend Fund, Y Combinator, Alain Hanover, Alex Sok, Alper Kiresepi, Anna Patterson, Don Hutchison, Howard Charney, Joshua Reeves, Kevin Lin, Kevin Weil, Louis Beryl, Mark Cuban, Matt Mazzeo, Michael Ma, Moshe Lifschitz, Nkechi Iregbulem, Peter Hunn, Ronny Conway, Rudra Peram, Scott Banister, Sumon Sadhu, Tom Williams, Tyler Willis, Yagiz Sozmen, Zach Segal

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Carmen Palafox

Partner

Leadership Team

Key people at 2045 ventures.

Carmen Palafox

Partner

Deep Dive

High-Level Overview

2045 Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in U.S.-based technology startups, focusing on pre-seed and seed rounds with typical investments of $250,000 to $500,000. Their mission centers on partnering with bold founders who are building transformative solutions to drive progress and shape the future. The firm emphasizes values-aligned partnerships, supporting visionary teams with deep customer understanding and operational discipline. Key sectors of focus include FinTech, HealthTech, and ClimateTech, where 2045 Ventures leverages its team's diverse expertise to provide rapid, meaningful support. The firm plays a significant role in the startup ecosystem by backing underrepresented founders, particularly women and immigrants, thereby fostering diversity and inclusion in early-stage tech investing[1][2].

Origin Story

Founded by Carmen Palafox, a seasoned investor with over 20 years of experience in finance and venture capital, 2045 Ventures is headquartered in Culver City, California. The firm emerged from Palafox’s extensive background investing across ClimateTech, FinTech, HealthTech, and consumer sectors, and her commitment to supporting diverse founding teams. The firm’s focus on early-stage investments and underrepresented founders reflects both a strategic thesis—backed by data showing diverse teams generate higher returns—and a personal mission to elevate female, Black, Latinx, Asian, and LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs. Since its inception, 2045 Ventures has built a portfolio that is 80% led by female CEOs and 100% includes women on founding teams, demonstrating early traction in its diversity-driven investment approach[2][4].

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: Focuses on early-stage rounds under $1.5 million, securing 5-7% ownership, often as one of the first institutional investors.
Diversity and Inclusion Focus: Prioritizes startups led by immigrant, female, and underrepresented founders, with a portfolio reflecting strong gender diversity.
Sector Expertise: Deep experience in FinTech, HealthTech, and ClimateTech enables tailored support and operational guidance.
Network Strength: Leverages a broad network from Palafox’s extensive industry experience and partnerships with other top investors.
Founder-Centric Support: Tailors assistance to meet founders where they are, addressing unique early-stage challenges to accelerate growth[1][2].

Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

2045 Ventures rides the growing trend of diversity-focused investing combined with early-stage technology innovation in critical sectors like climate, health, and finance. The timing is favorable as investors increasingly recognize the value of diverse founding teams and the urgent need for solutions in sustainability and health. By backing underrepresented founders early, 2045 Ventures helps address systemic gaps in venture capital access, influencing the broader ecosystem toward more equitable and impactful innovation. Their investments contribute to shaping future technology landscapes by supporting startups that tackle pressing global challenges with fresh perspectives[1][2].

Quick Take & Future Outlook

Looking ahead, 2045 Ventures is poised to expand its influence by continuing to back diverse, visionary founders in emerging tech sectors. Trends such as increased focus on climate solutions, digital health innovation, and financial inclusion will likely shape their investment journey. As the firm scales, its role as a catalyst for diversity and early-stage innovation could deepen, potentially influencing broader venture capital norms and startup success patterns. Their commitment to values-aligned partnerships and operational support positions them well to help startups overcome early hurdles and achieve significant milestones, reinforcing their impact on the future of technology and entrepreneurship[1][2].

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High-Level Overview

Origin Story

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: Focuses on early-stage rounds under $1.5 million, securing 5-7% ownership, often as one of the first institutional investors.
Diversity and Inclusion Focus: Prioritizes startups led by immigrant, female, and underrepresented founders, with a portfolio reflecting strong gender diversity.
Sector Expertise: Deep experience in FinTech, HealthTech, and ClimateTech enables tailored support and operational guidance.
Network Strength: Leverages a broad network from Palafox’s extensive industry experience and partnerships with other top investors.
Founder-Centric Support: Tailors assistance to meet founders where they are, addressing unique early-stage challenges to accelerate growth[1][2].