Peak State Ventures

Peak State Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in the Future of Work

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Updated: Feb 17, 2026 ·

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Investments Made

Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
Oct 1, 2025	SiC Systems	$3.0M Seed	—	Altair Capital Management, Alumni Ventures, Amino Capital, Array Ventures, Ascend Vietnam Ventures, B Capital Group, Brainstorm Ventures, Canvas Ventures, Chapter One Ventures, Climate Capital, Dreamers VC, f7 Ventures, Flex Capital, Foundation Capital, FreeSky Capital, Frontier Ventures, Gaingels, Ideas & Capital, Infinite Niches, LombardStreet Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, Mindset Ventures, Modern Venture Partners, Plug & Play Ventures, Safar Partners, Sequoia Capital, UpHonest Capital, Virginia Venture Partners, Adam D'Angelo, Christopher Nguyen, Clark Landry, Eric Bunting, Faizan Khan (Unchained Capital), Gokul Rajaram, Jed Ng, Jeff Morris, Kintan Brahmbhatt, Marat Kichikov, Sahin Boydas, Scott Banister, Siqi Chen, Sue Xu
Sep 1, 2025	Evolve Platform	$1.0M Seed	—	Altair Capital Management, Alumni Ventures, Amino Capital, Array Ventures, Ascend Vietnam Ventures, B Capital Group, Brainstorm Ventures, Canvas Ventures, Chapter One Ventures, Climate Capital, Dreamers VC, f7 Ventures, Flex Capital, Foundation Capital, FreeSky Capital, Frontier Ventures, Gaingels, Ideas & Capital, Infinite Niches, LombardStreet Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, Mindset Ventures, Modern Venture Partners, Plug & Play Ventures, Safar Partners, Sequoia Capital, UpHonest Capital, Virginia Venture Partners, Adam D'Angelo, Christopher Nguyen, Clark Landry, Eric Bunting, Faizan Khan (Unchained Capital), Gokul Rajaram, Jed Ng, Jeff Morris, Kintan Brahmbhatt, Marat Kichikov, Sahin Boydas, Scott Banister, Siqi Chen, Sue Xu
Aug 1, 2025	Central	$9.0M Seed	—	10100, First Round Capital, Fuel Capital, Pioneer Fund, Predictive VC, Soma Capital, Y Combinator, Kulveer Taggar, Oliver Jung
Jul 1, 2025	Helical Fusion	$16.0M Series A	—	Altair Capital Management, Alumni Ventures, Amino Capital, Array Ventures, Ascend Vietnam Ventures, B Capital Group, Brainstorm Ventures, Canvas Ventures, Chapter One Ventures, Climate Capital, Dreamers VC, f7 Ventures, Flex Capital, Foundation Capital, FreeSky Capital, Frontier Ventures, Gaingels, Ideas & Capital, Infinite Niches, LombardStreet Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, Mindset Ventures, Modern Venture Partners, Plug & Play Ventures, Safar Partners, Sequoia Capital, UpHonest Capital, Virginia Venture Partners, Adam D'Angelo, Christopher Nguyen, Clark Landry, Eric Bunting, Faizan Khan (Unchained Capital), Gokul Rajaram, Jed Ng, Jeff Morris, Kintan Brahmbhatt, Marat Kichikov, Sahin Boydas, Scott Banister, Siqi Chen, Sue Xu
Jan 1, 2025	Landeed	$5.0M Venture Round	—	Alt Capital, Flexcap, Saga, Third Prime, Y Combinator, Aaron King, Frederic Kerrest, Kulveer Taggar, Kunal Shah, Matt Brezina, Oliver Jung
Dec 1, 2024	Hamming AI	$4.0M Seed	—	Alloy Fund, Felicis Ventures, Founders Fund, Mischief Venture Capital, Olima Ventures, Soma Capital, Y Combinator, Jean Pigozzi, Justin Mateen, Kulveer Taggar, Michael Stoppelman, Oliver Jung, Ran Makavy
Nov 1, 2024	Circleback	$3.0M Seed	—	Day One Ventures, DST Global, Emergence Capital, Felicis Ventures, Flex Capital, Friends & Family Capital, Global Founders Capital, Greenoaks Capital, Matrix, Otherwise Fund, Spark Capital, Summit Partners, SV Angel, Theory Forge Ventures, Y Combinator, Azeem Azhar, Ben Tossell, Kulveer Taggar, Mathilde Collin, Oliver Jung, Paul Graham, Paul Stahura, Siqi Chen, Thijn Lamers
Sep 1, 2024	Central	$500K Seed	—	Y Combinator, Kulveer Taggar, Oliver Jung
Apr 1, 2024	Duro	$8.0M Seed	—	040 Capital, 645 Ventures, Bennett Siegel, Amplify.LA, Animo Ventures, Bonfire Ventures, Flexcap, Primary Venture Partners, Vera Equity, Andrew Gluck, Reshma Saujani, Scott Belsky
Apr 1, 2024	AgentHub	$500K Seed	—	Y Combinator, AIIM Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, At One Ventures, Eric Wu, Mike Hennessey, Sunil Paul, Tensility Venture Partners
Jan 1, 2024	Metatable.ai	$25K Seed	—	Altair Capital Management, Alumni Ventures, Amino Capital, Array Ventures, Ascend Vietnam Ventures, B Capital Group, Brainstorm Ventures, Canvas Ventures, Chapter One Ventures, Climate Capital, Dreamers VC, f7 Ventures, Flex Capital, Foundation Capital, FreeSky Capital, Frontier Ventures, Gaingels, Ideas & Capital, Infinite Niches, LombardStreet Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, Mindset Ventures, Modern Venture Partners, Plug & Play Ventures, Safar Partners, Sequoia Capital, UpHonest Capital, Virginia Venture Partners, Adam D'Angelo, Christopher Nguyen, Clark Landry, Eric Bunting, Faizan Khan (Unchained Capital), Gokul Rajaram, Jed Ng, Jeff Morris, Kintan Brahmbhatt, Sahin Boydas, Scott Banister, Siqi Chen, Sue Xu
Aug 1, 2023	Kombai	$5.0M Seed	—	Altair Capital Management, Alumni Ventures, Amino Capital, Array Ventures, Ascend Vietnam Ventures, B Capital Group, Brainstorm Ventures, Canvas Ventures, Chapter One Ventures, Climate Capital, Dreamers VC, f7 Ventures, Flex Capital, Foundation Capital, FreeSky Capital, Frontier Ventures, Gaingels, Ideas & Capital, Infinite Niches, LombardStreet Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, Mindset Ventures, Modern Venture Partners, Plug & Play Ventures, Safar Partners, Sequoia Capital, UpHonest Capital, Virginia Venture Partners, Adam D'Angelo, Christopher Nguyen, Clark Landry, Eric Bunting, Faizan Khan (Unchained Capital), Gokul Rajaram, Jed Ng, Jeff Morris, Kintan Brahmbhatt, Marat Kichikov, Sahin Boydas, Scott Banister, Siqi Chen, Sue Xu
May 1, 2023	OkayKer	$700K Seed	—	Altair Capital Management, Alumni Ventures, Amino Capital, Array Ventures, Ascend Vietnam Ventures, B Capital Group, Brainstorm Ventures, Canvas Ventures, Chapter One Ventures, Climate Capital, Dreamers VC, f7 Ventures, Flex Capital, Foundation Capital, FreeSky Capital, Frontier Ventures, Gaingels, Ideas & Capital, Infinite Niches, LombardStreet Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, Mindset Ventures, Modern Venture Partners, Plug & Play Ventures, Safar Partners, Sequoia Capital, Unchained Capital, Inc., UpHonest Capital, Virginia Venture Partners, Adam D'Angelo, Christopher Nguyen, Clark Landry, Eric Bunting, Gokul Rajaram, Jed Ng, Jeff Morris, Kintan Brahmbhatt, Marat Kichikov, Sahin Boydas, Scott Banister, Siqi Chen, Sue Xu
Dec 1, 2022	HUSSLUP	$3.0M Seed	—	Altair Capital Management, Alumni Ventures, Amino Capital, Array Ventures, Ascend Vietnam Ventures, B Capital Group, Brainstorm Ventures, Canvas Ventures, Chapter One Ventures, Climate Capital, Dreamers VC, f7 Ventures, Flex Capital, Foundation Capital, FreeSky Capital, Frontier Ventures, Gaingels, Ideas & Capital, Infinite Niches, LombardStreet Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, Mindset Ventures, Modern Venture Partners, Plug & Play Ventures, Safar Partners, Sequoia Capital, Techstars, UpHonest Capital, Virginia Venture Partners, Adam D'Angelo, Christopher Nguyen, Clark Landry, Eric Bunting, Faizan Khan (Unchained Capital), Gokul Rajaram, Jed Ng, Jeff Morris, Kintan Brahmbhatt, Marat Kichikov, Sahin Boydas, Scott Banister, Siqi Chen, Sue Xu
Mar 1, 2022	Yubi	$140.0M Series B	—	Altair Capital Management, Alumni Ventures, Amino Capital, Array Ventures, Ascend Vietnam Ventures, B Capital Group, Brainstorm Ventures, Canvas Ventures, Chapter One Ventures, Climate Capital, Dreamers VC, f7 Ventures, Flex Capital, Foundation Capital, FreeSky Capital, Frontier Ventures, Gaingels, Ideas & Capital, Infinite Niches, Insight Partners, LombardStreet Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, Mindset Ventures, Modern Venture Partners, Plug & Play Ventures, Safar Partners, Sequoia Capital, Silverton Partners, UpHonest Capital, Virginia Venture Partners, Adam D'Angelo, Christopher Nguyen, Clark Landry, Eric Bunting, Faizan Khan (Unchained Capital), Gokul Rajaram, Jed Ng, Jeff Morris, Kintan Brahmbhatt, Marat Kichikov, Sahin Boydas, Scott Banister, Siqi Chen, Sue Xu
Mar 1, 2022	Athenian	$6.0M Seed	—	20VC, 468 Capital, B Capital Group, Craft Ventures, Crowberry Capital, Daphni, Eight Roads, Felix Capital, Frst, Kima Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, LombardStreet Ventures, Mischief Venture Capital, Pareto Holdings, Point Nine Capital, #SecretFund, Spark Capital, Susa Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Alexandre Cognard, Didier Valet, Florian Douetteau, Julius Genachowski, Ken Howery, Michael Pennington, Paul Forster, Zack Kanter
Feb 1, 2022	Reforge	$60.0M Series B	—	Adverb Ventures, AIIM Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Ascension Ventures, At One Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, BlueRun Ventures, Dream Machine, Electric Ant, Flucas Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, Greylock, Grotech Ventures, H.I.G. Capital, Jetstream, Tensility Venture Partners, Trust Fund, Weekend Fund, Y Combinator, Balaji Srinivasan, Eric Wu, Jeremy Cai, Mike Hennessey, Nik Sharma, Sahin Boydas, Sunil Paul
Jan 1, 2022	Stonks	$5K Seed	—	Cathay Innovation, D.F.A. Capital, Draper Associates, Haun Ventures, Khosla Ventures, LAUNCH, LombardStreet Ventures, Point Nine Capital, QueensBridge Venture Partners, #SecretFund, Shkuri Ventures, SMOK Ventures, Supercharge Capital, Kurt Bilafer, Ron Pragides, Stephen Garden, Zack Kanter
Jan 1, 2022	Fleet Device Management	$5.0M Seed	—	01 Advisors, AngelList Syndicator, Blu Venture Investors, CapitalX, Coalition Operators, CRV, Cyberstarts VC, FirstMark Capital, FJ Labs, Intel Capital, Lightbank, Logos Labs, LombardStreet Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, Moonfire Ventures, Not Boring Capital, Point Nine Capital, Prototype Capital, SciFi VC, #SecretFund, SNR, YL Ventures, Augusto Marietti, Christian Reber, Cristina Cordova, David Kalt, Dylan Field, Eric Ries, Fareed Mosavat, George Kurtz, Gerhard Eschelbeck, Gokul Rajaram, Jan Deepen, Job Van Der Voort, Johnny Boufarhat, Julia Kagan, Julian Shapiro, Koen Bok, Nico Waisman, Omkhar Arasaratnam, Paul Yacoubian, Scott Belsky, Stefan Jeschonnek, Zack Kanter
Dec 1, 2021	Cloudthread	$3.0M Seed	—	20VC, ActivumSG, AIIM Partners, Alt Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, AngelList Syndicator, Array Ventures, Atomico, At One Ventures, Cherry Ventures, Day One Ventures, Earl Grey Capital, Far Out Ventures, Floodgate, General Catalyst, Gradient Ventures, Nonlinear, Operator Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Point Nine Capital, #SecretFund, Speedinvest, Stride VC, Tensility Venture Partners, TrueSight Ventures, Tucker Seed Fund LLC, Y Combinator, Andy Chung, Azeem Azhar, Bradley Horowitz, Chris Murphy, Dennis Crowley, Eric Wu, Frederic Montagnon, Ian Hogarth, Joshua Reeves, Julien Romanetto, Leore Avidar, Marc McCabe, Mike Hennessey, Moshe Lifschitz, Nicolas Steegmann, Richard Fearn, Sunil Paul, Thibaud Elziere
Oct 1, 2021	Mosaic	$44.0M Series B	—	Andreessen Horowitz
Sep 1, 2021	Mirza	$1.0M Seed	—	040 Capital, 645 Ventures, Bennett Siegel, Animo Ventures, Backstage Capital, ENIAC Ventures, Primary Venture Partners, Vera Equity, Andrew Gluck, Jeremy Yap, Nick Green, Ron Pragides, Scott Belsky
May 1, 2021	Aryeo	$4.0M Seed	—	Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Contrary Capital, Convective Capital, Drive Capital, Founders Fund, Goodwater Capital, Hyperplane Venture Capital, IrishAngels, Motivate Ventures, NextView Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Sequoia Capital, Uncork Capital, Martin Schrimpff, 040 Capital, 645 Ventures, Andrew Gluck, Animo Ventures, Bennett Siegel, Primary Venture Partners, Reshma Saujani, Scott Belsky, Vera Equity
May 1, 2021	Sky Mavis	$8.0M Series A	—	186 Ventures, 2xN, Kevin Hartz, Altair Capital Management, Alumni Ventures, Amino Capital, Array Ventures, Ascend Vietnam Ventures, B Capital Group, Benchmark, Brainstorm Ventures, Canvas Ventures, Chapter One Ventures, Climate Capital, Coatue, Collab+Currency, Craft Ventures, Dreamers VC, Electric Capital, f7 Ventures, Flexcap, Flex Capital, Foundation Capital, Founders Fund, FreeSky Capital, Frontier Ventures, Gaingels, Goat Capital, Gumi Cryptos Capital, Haun Ventures, Ideas & Capital, Incisive Ventures, Infinite Niches, Konvoy Ventures, LombardStreet Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, Mayfield, Mindset Ventures, Modern Venture Partners, Paradigm, Plug & Play Ventures, Safar Partners, Scalar Capital, Sequoia Capital, Seven Seven Six, Signia Venture Partners, Sound Ventures, Talis Capital, The Hit Forge, Thirty Five Ventures, Tiger Global Management, TQ Ventures, UpHonest Capital, Virginia Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Adam D'Angelo, Aleksander Leonard Larsen, Andrew Steinwold, Balaji Srinivasan, Baron Davis, Ben Silbermann, Cato Sælid, Christopher Nguyen, Clark Landry, Dylan Field, Eric Bunting, Eugene Wei, Faizan Khan (Unchained Capital), Gokul Rajaram, Harry Hurst, Jason Robins, Jed Ng, Jeff Morris, Julian Wright, Julius Genachowski, Justin David Blau, Kintan Brahmbhatt, Marat Kichikov, Regan Bozman, Sahin Boydas, Scott Banister, Scott Belsky, Siqi Chen, Sue Xu, Tim Ferriss, Tobias Lutke, Xen Lategan
May 1, 2021	Console	$500K Seed	—	Aaron Levie, Adam D'Angelo, David Mytton, Karim Atiyeh

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Key people at Peak State Ventures.

Leadership Team

Key people at Peak State Ventures.

Deep Dive

High-Level Overview

Peak State Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investing in the Future of Work, PropTech, and digital healthcare sectors. Their mission centers on partnering with visionary founders who are transforming industries through technology, particularly by making enterprises more data-driven and workforces more agile. The firm’s investment philosophy emphasizes backing companies that leverage technological breakthroughs to digitize and automate traditional workflows, thereby improving efficiency and competitiveness. Beyond capital, Peak State Ventures provides hands-on support, leveraging their team’s entrepreneurial and operational experience to guide startups through growth phases. Their impact on the startup ecosystem includes nurturing industry leaders like Carta, Ironclad, and Turing, which address critical workforce and operational challenges in a globalized economy[1][3][4].

Origin Story

Founded in 2017, Peak State Ventures is headquartered in New York City with an additional office in San Francisco. The firm was established by a team of experienced entrepreneurs and investors, including Bryan Ciambella, a former entrepreneur with multiple venture-backed exits and operational leadership experience at Hello Fresh in the US. The founding team’s background in startup operations and investment shaped the firm’s focus on the Future of Work and related sectors. Over time, Peak State Ventures has evolved to emphasize early-stage investments, providing both capital and strategic guidance to companies that digitize and automate offline workflows, helping them scale in a rapidly changing technological landscape[3][4][1].

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: Peak State Ventures combines financial investment with active operational support, drawing on the partners’ own entrepreneurial experience and multiple successful exits.
Network Strength: The firm’s team includes seasoned operators and investors with deep connections in tech ecosystems, enabling portfolio companies to access strategic partnerships and talent.
Track Record: With over 40 investments, including notable companies like Carta (cap table management), Ironclad (contract digitization), and Turing (global software engineering talent), Peak State has demonstrated success in backing category leaders.
Operating Support: The firm acts as an ongoing value-add partner, guiding founders through growth challenges, scaling operations, and navigating market dynamics[1][3][4].

Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

Peak State Ventures rides the wave of digital transformation in the Future of Work, a trend accelerated by globalization, remote work, and the need for agile, data-driven enterprises. The timing is critical as industries face disruption from automation, workforce globalization, and new operational models. Market forces such as talent shortages (e.g., software engineers in the US), demand for workflow automation, and the rise of remote work create fertile ground for the firm’s portfolio companies. By investing in technologies that digitize manual processes and connect global talent, Peak State Ventures influences the broader ecosystem by enabling more efficient, scalable, and innovative work environments[1][3][4].

Quick Take & Future Outlook

Looking ahead, Peak State Ventures is poised to deepen its influence in the Future of Work and adjacent sectors by continuing to back startups that address emerging workforce challenges and operational inefficiencies. Trends such as AI-driven automation, remote and hybrid work models, and data-centric enterprise decision-making will shape their investment focus. As these trends evolve, Peak State’s combination of capital and operational expertise will likely help portfolio companies capture significant market share and drive industry standards. Their ongoing role as a strategic partner positions them to remain a key player in shaping how work is organized and executed globally[1][3][4].

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High-Level Overview

Origin Story

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: Peak State Ventures combines financial investment with active operational support, drawing on the partners’ own entrepreneurial experience and multiple successful exits.
Network Strength: The firm’s team includes seasoned operators and investors with deep connections in tech ecosystems, enabling portfolio companies to access strategic partnerships and talent.
Track Record: With over 40 investments, including notable companies like Carta (cap table management), Ironclad (contract digitization), and Turing (global software engineering talent), Peak State has demonstrated success in backing category leaders.
Operating Support: The firm acts as an ongoing value-add partner, guiding founders through growth challenges, scaling operations, and navigating market dynamics[1][3][4].