Morado Venture Partners

This venture capital firm invests in consumer-oriented internet businesses, focusing on cloud infrastructure, marketplaces, commerce, and more, with a focus ...

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Updated: Dec 29, 2025 ·

About

Morado Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in startups, seed-stage, and growth capital investments. The firm seeks to invest in consumer-oriented internet business models-cloud infrastructure; mobile and app infrastructure; marketplaces; commerce; connected sensors; consumer internet; platform; SaaS; and social applications. Morado focuses on companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, with some investments in other West Coast cities and the New York City area. Typical investments are made in the amount of 150k.

Financial History

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Investments Made

Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
Jun 1, 2025	LawZero	$30.0M Seed	—	AIX Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, C2 Investment, Coelius Capital, DTCP, Flex Capital, Greylock, Innovation Endeavors, IVP, Maven Ventures, Point72 Ventures, StageOne Ventures, The Hit Forge, Y Combinator, Amjad Masad, Balaji Srinivasan, Bob Muglia, Dylan Field, Georges Harik, Jeff Bezos, Mattia Astori, Peter Sonsini, Shane Neman, Stanley Druckenmiller, Tobias Lutke, Yann LeCun
Nov 1, 2024	Dannce.ai	$3.0M Seed	—	AIX Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Hardware Club, LDV Capital, Anna Patterson
Nov 1, 2023	EthXY	$2.0M Seed	—	Altos Ventures, Capital Factory, Flex Capital, Long Journey Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, The Hit Forge, Tribe Capital, Othman Laraki, Scott Banister, William Boebel
Sep 1, 2023	Proof of Play	$33.0M Seed	—	040 Capital, Accel, Adverb Ventures, Alchemy Ventures, Ambush Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, AngelList, Awesome People Ventures, Batalion Capital, BEENEXT, Blockchain.com Ventures, BlockTower Capital, Bow Capital, Broadstone, C2 Investment, Capital Factory, Craft Ventures, DBL Partners, Dragonfly Capital Partners, Dreamers VC, Matthew Brimer, Form Capital, Founder Collective, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Global Founders Capital, Goat Capital, Greenoaks Capital, Greylock, Haun Ventures, HawksHead Capital, IDEO CoLab Ventures, Index Ventures, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Kleiner Perkins, La Famiglia, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Luv Ventures, M34 Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, Northzone, Hans Tung, Not Boring Capital, Ben Huh, Pantera Capital, Pareto Holdings, Pear VC, Pharos Capital Group, Picus Capital, Pioneer Fund, Polychain Capital, Polygon, Redpoint Ventures, REMUS Capital, Robot Ventures, Scalar Capital, Seven Seven Six, SID Venture Partners, Slow Ventures, Sound Ventures, Spark Capital, The Hit Forge, Tiger Global Management, Timespan Ventures, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, Trammell Venture Partners, Union Square Ventures, Spencer Noon, Visionaire Ventures, VoLo Earth Ventures, Y Combinator, Aaron Levie, Akshay Kothari, Aleksander Leonard Larsen, Anselm Bauer, Anthony Pompliano, Balaji Srinivasan, Benjamin Guenther, Bobby Goodlatte, Chris Kurdziel, Cory Levy, Courtney Guertin, Dylan Field, Ethan Beard, Fernando Martinelli, Frederic Kerrest, Griffin Johnson, Howie Liu, Itamar Lesuisse, Jeremy Stoppelman, Jess Sloss, Joe Stump, John Collison, Julian Koh, Justin Mateen, Kevin Lin, Kevin O'Leary, Mark Cuban, Max-Josef Meier, Max Mullen, Michael Dunworth, Narendra Rocherolle, Neha Narkhede, Nick van Eck, Paul Stamatiou, Reggie James, Ricky Engelberg, Sam Blond, Scott Belsky, Sebastian Schuon, Sebastien Borget, Shishir Mehrotra, Stani Kulechov, Tegan Kline, William Boebel, William Hockey
Mar 1, 2023	Lambda	$44.0M Series B	—	AI4ALL, Alumni Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Avalanche VC, Blockchain Capital, Bond, Coelius Capital, FirstHand Alliance, Future Africa, Gigascale Capital, Greylock, Initialized Capital, Innovation Endeavors, LGF, Madrona Ventures, Tiffany Luck, Point72 Ventures, Radical Ventures, StageOne Ventures, Y Combinator, Amjad Masad, Bob Young, Jaan Tallinn, Karim Atiyeh, Mengxi Lu, Oliver Cameron, Surahbi Gupta
Jan 1, 2023	Product Science	$18.0M Seed	—	8-Bit Capital, Alkeon Capital, AME Cloud Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Benchmark, BoxOne Ventures, Buckley Ventures, Caffeinated Capital, Composite Ventures, David Namdar, Matt Ocko, Earl Grey Capital, Endeavor Venture Funds, FirstHand Alliance, Goat Capital, Greylock, GSV Ventures, Hardware Club, Ignition Partners, LAUNCH, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lowercarbon Capital, Maven Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Pario Ventures, Runa Capital, Sequoia Capital, Shaan's All Access Fund, Tribe Capital, Aaron King, Aaron Rankin (Sprout Social), Adam Michalski, Bill Tai, Chris Fanini, Daniel Kan, Emmett Shear, Immad Akhund, Jason Hunt, Jay Jamison, Kenny Van Zant, Kyle Vogt, Matt Mazzeo, Mikhail Seregine, Oleg Rogynskyy, Peter Sellis, Ted Serbinski, Vikas Gupta, Viral Bajaria, Vishal Rao
Nov 1, 2022	The Gist	$7.0M Seed	—	A Capital, Aleph VC, AME Cloud Ventures, Cardumen Capital, Coelius Capital, Cyberstarts VC, Eight Roads Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Graph Ventures, Greylock, Liquid 2 Ventures, NFX, Point72 Ventures, StageOne Ventures, SV Angel, Abrahami Avishai, Ariel Maislos, Benny Schnaider, Frederic Kerrest, Georges Harik, Immad Akhund, Jaan Tallinn, Michael Ma, Ronny Conway, Ryan Carlson
Sep 1, 2022	GrubMarket	$120.0M Series F	—	040 Capital, BITKRAFT Ventures, Craft Ventures, Gradient Ventures, Hans Tung, Tiger Global Management, Vivek Patel
Sep 1, 2022	Somewear Labs	$14.0M Series A	—	7BC Venture Capital, AME Cloud Ventures, Amplify.LA, Andreessen Horowitz, Aperture Venture Capital, AV8 Ventures, Bam Ventures, B Capital Group, Bling Capital, Bonfire Ventures, BootstrapLabs, ENIAC Ventures, EVE Atlas, Fika Ventures, Forgepoint Capital, FundersClub, Gaingels, Good Growth Capital, Greycroft, Hardware Club, Ingeborg Investments, iNovia Capital, Kohala Ventures, KW Angel Fund, Lobby Capital, Multicoin Capital, Aaron Jacobson, Scott Sandell, New Enterprise Associates, Newlin, Pantera Capital, Pfizer Venture Investments, Pitbull Ventures, Rebel Fund, Redpoint Ventures, Revolution, S28 Capital, SignalFire, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Soma Capital, TechSquare Labs, Techstars, Two Sigma Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Y Combinator, Zintinus, Adam Gross, Anthony Pompliano, Ashish Bhatia, Clark Landry, Dan Wright, Frederic Kerrest, George Still, Gokul Rajaram, Grant Newlin, Harris Barton, Hoda Eydgahi, Jon Runyan, Ryan Chan, Sam Palmisano, Scot Wingo, Thomas Noonan, Thomas Tull, Trevor Wright, Will Szczerbiak
Jun 1, 2022	Shield AI	$90.0M Series E	—	Alumni Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Coelius Capital, Greylock, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Moonshots Capital, Point72 Ventures, Snowpoint Ventures, StageOne Ventures, Georges Harik, Jaan Tallinn
Jun 1, 2022	DAOLens	$5.0M Seed	—	83North, 8-Bit Capital, AME Cloud Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Balderton Capital, Benchmark, Caffeinated Capital, David Namdar, Exponent Founders Capital, Greylock, Hardware Club, Ignition Partners, Iluminar Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, Marathon Venture Capital, Pareto Holdings, Picus Capital, Sequoia Capital, Solana Ventures, SRB Ventures, Tribe Capital, Alfonso De los Rios, Balaji Srinivasan, Edvard Engesæth, Kenny Van Zant, Liam Casey, Lisa Cuesta, Lluís Cañadell, Matt Mazzeo, Pablo Viguera, William Hockey
May 1, 2022	TENYX	$15.0M Seed	—	7GC & Co, AI4ALL, Alumni Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Angel investor, Builders, Coelius Capital, Converge Venture Partners, Friedom Partners, FTX Ventures, GoAhead Ventures, Greylock, GSR Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Lakeside Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, MizMaa Ventures, Liza Landsman, Sheila Lirio Marcelo, Outsized Ventures, Point72 Ventures, Possible Ventures, Scalebridge Capital, Signia Venture Partners, Spark Capital, SparkLabs Group, StageOne Ventures, Sunfish Partners, The General Partnership, True North Cos., Visionaire Ventures, XYZ Venture Capital, Adeel Hussain, Dustin Moskovitz, Dylan Field, Elia Montanari, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ishani Patel, Jason Haider, Mike Vernal, Othman Laraki, Preetha Parthasarathy, Siddharth Singhal, Vikas Sabnani
Apr 1, 2022	Crusoe Energy Systems	$350.0M Series C	—	8-Bit Capital, AME Cloud Ventures, Atomico, Bain Capital Crypto, Bain Capital Ventures, Benchmark, Caffeinated Capital, David Namdar, G2VP, Greylock, Tom Hulme, Hardware Club, Ignition Partners, Insight Partners, Lowercarbon Capital, Oak HC/FT, Pareto Holdings, Sequoia Capital, Tribe Capital, Kenny Van Zant, Matt Mazzeo
Mar 1, 2022	Muni Tienda	$20.0M Series A	—	040 Capital, 7BC Venture Capital, Bam Ventures, BrandProject, Broom Ventures, Canary Ventures, City Light Capital, Craft Ventures, Eunoia Capital Partners, FirstMark Capital, Imaginary Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, M13, Notable Capital, Predictive VC, Rubicon VC, Sequoia Capital, Serena Ventures, Shift One, Streamlined Ventures, Stride VC, Tiger Global Management, VMG Partners, Evan Moore, Felipe Villamarin, Gwyneth Paltrow, Justin Mateen, Sri Batchu, Vivek Patel
Mar 1, 2022	Socket	$5.0M Seed	—	Framework Ventures, Platinum Software Development Company, Sound Ventures, Anthony Pompliano, Stani Kulechov, Aaron Levie, Abstract Ventures, A* Capital (A Star Capital), Accel, AME Cloud Ventures, Amjad Masad, Andreessen Horowitz, Arash Ferdowsi, Balaji Srinivasan, B Capital Group, Bee Partners, Blue Bear Capital, Blu Venture Investors, Bob Young, Bradley Horowitz, C2 Investment, Charlie Cheever, Christina Cacioppo, Coatue, Coelius Capital, Contrary Capital, Cyberstarts VC, Decibel Partners, Dig Ventures, Drew Houston, Dylan Field, Elad Gil, Felicis Ventures, Frederic Kerrest, Georges Harik, Greg Brockman, Greylock, Guillermo Rauch, Index Ventures, Infinite Niches, Jaan Tallinn, Jawed Karim, Jetstream, John Collison, Jonathan Wasserstrum, Julia Hartz, Kevin Hartz, Kyle Vogt, LGF, Marc Benioff, Mark Cuban, Melissa Tan, N49P Ventures, Negev Capital, Next Play Ventures, Oliver Friedrichs, Openview Venture Partners, Pantera Capital, Paradigm, Peter Sonsini, Point72 Ventures, Prithvi Ventures, Radical Ventures, Rain Capital, Rand Hindi, Sahin Boydas, Sam Altman, Seed Club Ventures, Sequoia Capital, StageOne Ventures, Sweater Ventures, The Hit Forge, Tobias Lutke, Union Square Ventures, UP.Partners, Weekend Fund, WorkLife Ventures, Y Combinator
Feb 1, 2022	Hyphen	$24.0M Series A	—	040 Capital, Addition, Amasia, Andreessen Horowitz, Craft Ventures, Geek Ventures, Gradient Ventures, Hans Tung, Notable Capital, Tiger Global Management, Elies Campo, Thomas Floracks, Vivek Patel
Nov 1, 2021	Spect	$4.0M Seed	—	AIX Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Hardware Club, LDV Capital, Anna Patterson
Nov 1, 2021	CyCognito	$100.0M Series C	—	Accel, Amplify Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital Ventures, Battery Ventures, BITKRAFT Ventures, Elron Ventures, General Catalyst, Harpoon, Hoxton Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, March Capital, Menlo Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Scheinman Angel Fund, Sequoia Capital, Sierra Ventures, Sorenson Ventures, SV Angel, Tenaya Capital, Thomvest Ventures, UpWest, Vertex Ventures, Wing Venture Capital, Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures), Edith Harbaugh, Eric Wu, Scott Belsky, Sudheesh Nair
Sep 1, 2021	Flexcavo	$6.0M Seed	—	Accel, Bascom Ventures, Fabric Ventures, General Catalyst, Global Founders Capital, Greenoaks Capital, Index Ventures, IVP, La Famiglia, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Luv Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Northzone, Picus Capital, Raine Ventures, Redstone, VR Ventures, Anselm Bauer, Benjamin Guenther, Hanno Renner, Maximilian Tayenthal, Max-Josef Meier, Patrick Andrae, Reiner Mauch, Rubin Ritter, Sebastian Schuon
Aug 1, 2021	DigiSure	$13.0M Seed	—	Accel, Audrey Capital, Battery Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Catapult Capital, Cowboy Ventures, Matt Ocko, Maveron, Moderne Ventures, Saturn Partners, ThirdLove, True North Cos., True Ventures, Uncork Capital, Visionaire Ventures, Winklevoss Capital, Jay Adelson, Philip Kaplan, Rashaun Williams
Aug 1, 2021	Shield AI	$210.0M Series D	—	AME Cloud Ventures, Coelius Capital, Greylock, Point72 Ventures, StageOne Ventures, Georges Harik, Jaan Tallinn
Jul 1, 2021	Lambda	$15.0M Series A	—	AME Cloud Ventures, Amplify.LA, AngelList, Coelius Capital, Greylock, Invariantes Fund, Point72 Ventures, SeaX Ventures, StageOne Ventures, Ariel Shtarkman, Jaan Tallinn, Kevin Lin
Jun 1, 2021	Figma	$200.0M Series E	—	A Capital, Kevin Hartz, AirAngels, Andreessen Horowitz, Animoca Brands, Anorak Ventures, Atomic, Bascom Ventures, Base Partners, Bee Partners, Benchmark, Blue Bear Capital, C2 Investment, Cedar Capital Group, Climate Capital, Coatue, CoinFund, Contrary Capital, CRV, Daffy, Davidovs VC, Dreamers VC, Earthshot Ventures, Eclipse Ventures, Electric Capital, Endeavor8, Ensemble VC, Fabric Ventures, Founders Fund, Fuel Capital, Future Shape, General Catalyst, Greylock, Brian Bendett, Harrison Metal, Index Ventures, IVP, Kapor Capital, Kleiner Perkins, LGF, Ligature, LombardStreet Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Next Play Ventures, Obvious Ventures, Otherwise Fund, Outcast Ventures, Pathbreaker Ventures, Pillar VC, Raine Ventures, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, S2G Ventures, Scalar Capital, Sequoia Capital, Slow Ventures, SOSV, SRB Ventures, The Hit Forge, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, UpHonest Capital, UP.Partners, Vayner RSE, Wing Venture Capital, Aaron Levie, Amjad Masad, Arash Ferdowsi, Augusto Marietti, Balaji Srinivasan, Ben Porterfield, Bradley Horowitz, Colin Carrier, Daniel Kan, DJ Patil, Do Kwon, Drew Houston, Dylan Field, Elad Gil, Felix Jahn, Greg Brockman, Jack Chou, Jeremy Stoppelman, Jonathan Wasserstrum, Julia Hartz, Kevin Colas, Kyle Vogt, Marc Benioff, Maximilian Tayenthal, Max Mullen, Max Ventilla, Mike Krieger, Ryan Shea, Sahin Boydas, Sam Altman
Apr 1, 2021	Crusoe Energy Systems	$130.0M Series B	—	8-Bit Capital, AME Cloud Ventures, Bain Capital Crypto, Bain Capital Ventures, Benchmark, Caffeinated Capital, Chicago Ventures, David Namdar, Founders Fund, G2VP, Greylock, Hardware Club, Ignition Partners, Lowercarbon Capital, Oak HC/FT, Pareto Holdings, Sequoia Capital, Tribe Capital, Kenny Van Zant, Matt Mazzeo
Apr 1, 2021	Aleo	$28.0M Series A	—	01 Advisors, 8-Bit Capital, AME Cloud Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Benchmark, Caffeinated Capital, Coral (Coral Defi), Greylock, Hardware Club, Haun Ventures, Ignition Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Lazerow Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lowercarbon Capital, Pareto Holdings, Sequoia Capital, Tribe Capital, Kenny Van Zant, Matt Mazzeo

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Leadership Team

Key people at Morado Venture Partners.

Leadership Team

Key people at Morado Venture Partners.

Deep Dive

High-Level Overview

Morado Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in seed-stage investments in technology-driven companies. Their mission centers on supporting passionate entrepreneurs who tackle complex technological challenges using both software and hardware solutions. The firm focuses on sectors including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Infrastructure, Industrial Internet, Robotics & Autonomy, Computer Vision, and Health. Morado Ventures aims to nurture early-stage, data-fueled companies with the potential to disrupt significant industries by providing strategic guidance and access to a network of seasoned professionals[1][2][3][4].

Origin Story

Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Morado Ventures was co-founded by Ash Patel, a former senior executive at Yahoo!, and Mike Marquez, with a background in corporate development at CBS Interactive and Yahoo!. The founders leveraged their extensive experience in technology leadership and investment to create a fund that actively collaborates with startups to develop and execute winning strategies. Over time, the firm has evolved to maintain a strong focus on high-growth, data-driven companies across multiple cutting-edge technology sectors[3][4].

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: Focus on early-stage, seed investments in companies combining software and hardware to solve complex problems.
Network Strength: Access to a network of seasoned professionals with deep expertise in technology and healthcare sectors.
Track Record: Over 200 investments with notable exits, emphasizing a data-driven approach and operator-first mindset.
Operating Support: Hands-on involvement in guiding founders through strategy development and execution, leveraging founders’ unique expertise[1][2][3][4].

Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

Morado Ventures rides the wave of increasing demand for data-fueled innovation in AI, robotics, health tech, and industrial internet sectors. The timing aligns with rapid advances in machine learning, automation, and data infrastructure, which are transforming traditional industries. By focusing on early-stage companies in these areas, Morado Ventures helps accelerate the commercialization of disruptive technologies, influencing the broader ecosystem by enabling startups to scale and innovate effectively[1][2][4].

Quick Take & Future Outlook

Looking ahead, Morado Ventures is poised to continue expanding its portfolio in emerging technology sectors, particularly where software and hardware intersect to solve complex challenges. Trends such as AI democratization, autonomous systems, and health technology innovation will likely shape their investment focus. Their influence is expected to grow as they deepen their operational support and network, helping startups navigate increasingly competitive and complex markets[1][2][3].

Morado Venture Partners exemplifies a venture capital firm that combines deep sector expertise with a hands-on approach to empower early-stage companies at the forefront of technological disruption.

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High-Level Overview

Origin Story

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: Focus on early-stage, seed investments in companies combining software and hardware to solve complex problems.
Network Strength: Access to a network of seasoned professionals with deep expertise in technology and healthcare sectors.
Track Record: Over 200 investments with notable exits, emphasizing a data-driven approach and operator-first mindset.
Operating Support: Hands-on involvement in guiding founders through strategy development and execution, leveraging founders’ unique expertise[1][2][3][4].

Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

Quick Take & Future Outlook

Morado Venture Partners exemplifies a venture capital firm that combines deep sector expertise with a hands-on approach to empower early-stage companies at the forefront of technological disruption.