Silicon Valley Connect

ActiveVenture Capital

Updated: Dec 5, 2025 ·

Financial History

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Investments Made

Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
Jul 1, 2025	Billee Technologies	$9.0M Seed	—	RET Ventures, Rubicon VC, Tiger Global Management, Ron Pragides
Apr 1, 2025	Potato	$7.0M Seed	—	ACME Capital, Alumni Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, Draper Associates, Floodgate, Generative Ventures, Hustle Fund, LGF, Lightbank, Maveron, Pioneer Square Labs, Preface Ventures, Stash Ventures, The Fintech Fund, Viola Ventures, Working Capital Fund, Gloria Baeuerlein, Jeff Hammerbacher, Justin Mateen, Koen Bok, Paul Veugen, Russell Smith, Sean Behr, Shervin Pishevar, Stewart Butterfield, Tuomas Artman
Feb 1, 2025	Teneo Protocol	$3.0M Seed	—	ACME Capital, Cowboy Ventures, Draper Associates, Floodgate, Generative Ventures, LGF, Lightbank, Maveron, Stash Ventures, The Fintech Fund, Viola Ventures, Gloria Baeuerlein, Justin Mateen, Koen Bok, Paul Veugen, Russell Smith, Shervin Pishevar, Stewart Butterfield, Tuomas Artman
Oct 1, 2024	Hello Patient	$6.0M Seed	—	8VC, Acrew Capital, AirAngels, Alumni Ventures, Amplify Partners, Coughdrop Capital, Fifty Years, FirstMark Capital, Flex Capital, G20 Ventures, Kearny Jackson, Max Ventures, NextView Ventures, Preston-Werner Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Adam Lisagor, Andrew Berman, Chris Schaepe, Russell Fradin, Russ Fradin
Sep 1, 2024	Torq	$70.0M Series C	—	Accel, Acrew Capital, Across Capital Partners, BackBone Ventures, B Capital Group, Bessemer Venture Partners, Boldstart Ventures, C2 Investment, CRV, Cyberstarts VC, Evolution Equity Partners, Flourish Ventures, Greylock, Menlo Ventures, monashees, Notable Capital, Obvious Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Propel Venture Partners, Quona Capital, REMUS Capital, S28 Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Signal Peak Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Team8, Tekton Ventures, Trajectory Ventures, TY, U&I Ventures, WndrCo LLC, Alice Lloyd George, Ameet Patel, Arash Ferdowsi, Drew Houston, George Hu, Roland Brack, Shlomo Kramer
Sep 1, 2024	Arcjet	$4.0M Seed	—	Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, B Capital Group, Fellows Fund, Greylock, Hoxton Ventures, Next47, Oren Yunger, Obvious Ventures, Rebel Fund, REMUS Capital, Roble Ventures, S28 Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Seedcamp, Shield Capital, Signal Peak Ventures, Team8, Tekton Ventures, TY, WndrCo LLC, Y Combinator, Alice Lloyd George, Arash Ferdowsi, Drew Houston, George Hu, James Isilay, Jonathan Siegel, Michael Stoppelman, Nitay Joffe, Ott Kaukver, Peter Kazanjy, Shane Curran, Tom Blomfield, Wayne Crosby
Mar 1, 2024	Superlinked	$10.0M Seed	—	AlleyCorp, Atomico, Broadway Angels, Felicis Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, Hack VC, Index Ventures, Jlabs, Kleiner Perkins, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Motier Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Plug & Play Ventures, Scale Asia Ventures, Soma Capital, Stellar Capital, Theory Ventures, TQ Ventures, Two Bear Capital, Unconventional Ventures, Chafic Kazoun, Colin Carrier, Ido Leffler, Karim Atiyeh, Kevin Lin, Loic Le Meur, Manish Patel, Ron Pragides, Sam Shank, Shervin Pishevar
Jan 1, 2024	Torq	$42.0M Series B	—	Accel, Across Capital Partners, BackBone Ventures, B Capital Group, Bessemer Venture Partners, C2 Investment, CRV, Cyberstarts VC, Flourish Ventures, Greylock, Insight Partners, Menlo Ventures, monashees, NFX, Notable Capital, Obvious Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Propel Venture Partners, Quona Capital, REMUS Capital, S28 Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Signal Peak Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Team8, Tekton Ventures, Trajectory Ventures, TY, WndrCo LLC, Alice Lloyd George, Ameet Patel, Arash Ferdowsi, Drew Houston, George Hu, Roland Brack
Nov 1, 2023	Radar Treasury	$2.0M Seed	—	ACME Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Cowboy Ventures, Draper Associates, Jenny Fielding, Katie Hunt, Scott Hartley, Everywhere Ventures (The Fund), Floodgate, Generative Ventures, Konvoy Ventures, LGF, Lightbank, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Maveron, Okta Ventures, Stash Ventures, The Fintech Fund, Viola Ventures, Gloria Baeuerlein, Justin Mateen, Koen Bok, Paul Veugen, Russell Smith, Shervin Pishevar, Stewart Butterfield, Tuomas Artman
Sep 1, 2023	Mariana Oncology	$180.0M Series B	—	10X Capital, Access Biotechnology, AirAngels, Atlas Venture, Awesome People Ventures, Backstage Capital, Max Klement, Cambridge Innovation Capital, Darling Ventures, Forbion, Menlo Ventures, QEY Capital, Vitalize Venture Group, Baron Davis, Bobby Goodlatte, Cecilia Stallsmith, Niklas Jansen, Nik Sharma, Scott Belsky, Shane Neman, Siqi Chen
Jul 1, 2023	Whop	$17.0M Series A	—	ACME Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Angel investor, Archetype, Bain Capital Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Blisce, Bond, Bow Capital, Caffeinated Capital, Chapter One Ventures, Coatue, CoinFund, Compound, Cowboy Ventures, Craft Ventures, Dispersion Capital, Draper Associates, Dreamers VC, Electric Capital, Floodgate, Founders Fund, Fubu, Generative Ventures, Goat Capital, Graph Ventures, Griffin Gaming Partners, Helium-3 Ventures, LGF, Lightbank, Lowercarbon Capital, Maveron, Menlo Ventures, North Island Ventures, Paradigm, Pareto Holdings, Polychain Capital, Reform Ventures, REMUS Capital, Roosh Ventures, Sound Ventures, Stash Ventures, The Fintech Fund, The Hit Forge, Thirty Five Ventures, Toyota Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Viola Ventures, Volition Capital, Yes VC, Andre Iguodala, Balaji Srinivasan, Bill Tai, Cory Levy, Gloria Baeuerlein, Griffin Johnson, Jeff Morris, Justin Mateen, Kevin O'Leary, Koen Bok, Mark Cuban, Mark Pincus, Matt Bellamy, Paul Veugen, Peter Jones, Prescott Watson, Rashaun Williams, Russell Smith, Scott Belsky, Shervin Pishevar, Steve Lee, Stewart Butterfield, Tuomas Artman, William Mougayar
May 1, 2023	Groopit	$8.0M Seed	—	Broadway Angels, Tapas Capital, WestRiver Group
Mar 1, 2023	DragonflyDB	$21.0M Series A	—	Andreessen Horowitz, Atomico, Bessemer Venture Partners, Broadway Angels, Felicis Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, Hack VC, Jlabs, Kleiner Perkins, Norwest Venture Partners, Plug & Play Ventures, Quiet Capital, Soma Capital, Theory Ventures, TQ Ventures, Unconventional Ventures, Chafic Kazoun, Colin Carrier, Frederic Kerrest, Gokul Rajaram, Ido Leffler, Karim Atiyeh, Kevin Lin, Loic Le Meur, Manish Patel, Ron Pragides, Ryan Carlson, Sam Shank, Shervin Pishevar
Feb 1, 2023	CommandK	$3.0M Seed	—	AngelList, Ballistic Ventures, Battery Ventures, Citi Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Insight Partners, Kickstart Fund, Lightspeed India Partners, Mango Capital, MATR Ventures, Mischief Venture Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Rajan Anandan, Robot Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, WGI Group, Akshay Kothari, Frederic Kerrest, Shivon Zilis, William Hockey
Jan 1, 2023	Lindy	$35.0M Series B	—	Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Battery Ventures, Bond, Coatue, Foundation Capital, Greylock, Menlo Ventures, Plaid, TMV, Anshu Sharma, Arash Ferdowsi, Armando Mann, Frederic Kerrest, George Hu, Mathilde Collin, Ron Pragides, Ryan Carlson
Nov 1, 2022	WellTheory	$7.0M Seed	—	RET Ventures, Rubicon VC, StartHer, Tiger Global Management, Sarah Drinkwater
Nov 1, 2022	Privacy Dynamics	$6.0M Seed	—	Adverb Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Broadway Angels, Freestyle Capital, Greylock, Haystack, LGF, Moxxie Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Renegade Partners, Root Ventures, Scribble Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Sweater Ventures, Aston Motes, Christian Reber, Gokul Rajaram, Grant Miller, Jeff Seibert, Moshe Lifschitz, Wayne Chang
Oct 1, 2022	Canary Technologies	$30.0M Series B	—	Alumni Ventures, Brighton Park Capital, DataPower Ventures, ff Venture Capital, F-Prime Capital Partners, Insight Partners, Magma Partners, RET Ventures, Rubicon VC, Space Capital, Spark Capital, Tiger Global Management, Gokul Rajaram, Ron Pragides
Aug 1, 2022	Talon Cyber Security	$100.0M Series A	—	20VC, 645 Ventures, Accomplice VC, AngelList, Aster Capital, Asymmetric Capital Partners, Ballistic Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Clearvision Ventures, Declaration Partners, Evolution Equity Partners, Felix Capital, Karim Faris, Hitachi Ventures, Insight Partners, Lightspeed India Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, MoreVC, Next47, Okta Ventures, Rajan Anandan, Point Judith Capital, Red Dot Capital Partners, Sandwith Ventures, Scale Asia Ventures, Sorenson Ventures, Strategic Cyber Ventures, SYN Ventures, Team8, Tekfen Ventures, The Hit Forge, Underdog Labs, Alexander Weiss, Daniel Gorfine, Howard Love, Justin Label, Sam Kassoumeh, Troy Paredes, Yuval Shahar
Jul 1, 2022	Spotnana	$75.0M Series B	—	Atomico, Broadway Angels, Felicis Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, Hack VC, Jlabs, Kleiner Perkins, Norwest Venture Partners, Plug & Play Ventures, Soma Capital, Theory Ventures, TQ Ventures, Unconventional Ventures, Chafic Kazoun, Colin Carrier, Ido Leffler, Karim Atiyeh, Kevin Lin, Loic Le Meur, Manish Patel, Sam Shank, Shervin Pishevar
Jun 1, 2022	Atreo.io	$4.0M Seed	—	ACME Capital, Cowboy Ventures, Draper Associates, Floodgate, Generative Ventures, LGF, Lightbank, Maveron, Stash Ventures, The Fintech Fund, Viola Ventures, Gloria Baeuerlein, Justin Mateen, Koen Bok, Paul Veugen, Russell Smith, Shervin Pishevar, Tuomas Artman
Jun 1, 2022	Hadrian	$11.0M Seed	—	3VC, ACME Capital, Addition, Bessemer Venture Partners, Cherry Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, Draper Associates, FirstMark Capital, Floodgate, Generative Ventures, LGF, Lightbank, Maveron, Picus Capital, Reimann Investors, Stash Ventures, The Fintech Fund, Viola Ventures, World Fund, Adrian Aoun, Gloria Baeuerlein, Gokul Rajaram, Greg Brockman, Justin Mateen, Koen Bok, Mike Vernal, Paul Veugen, Russell Smith, Shervin Pishevar, Stefan Jeschonnek, Stewart Butterfield, Tuomas Artman
May 1, 2022	Coinshift	$15.0M Series A	—	AirAngels, Andreessen Horowitz, AngelList, Blockchain Founders Fund, Chapter One Ventures, DFJ, Dream Machine, Electric Ant, Elephant Partners, First Round Capital, Index Ventures, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Lightspeed India Partners, Lowercarbon Capital, Montauk Ventures, NFX, Not Boring Capital, Oak HC/FT, Primary Venture Partners, RET Ventures, Rubicon VC, Seven Seven Six, Shaan's All Access Fund, SRB Ventures, The Hit Forge, Tiger Global Management, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, Weekend Fund, WorkLife Ventures, Adar Zango, Alex Adelman, Daniel Pourasghar, Dylan Field, Eric Wu, Evan Moore, Jeff Morris, Julian Shapiro, Neil Parikh, Nick Caldwell, Reggie James, Richard Laxer, Ron Pragides, Sri Batchu, Trevor McFedries
May 1, 2022	Palette	$6.0M Seed	—	Accel, Alven, Andreessen Horowitz, Anthemis Group, Atomico, Bain Capital Ventures, Ballistic Ventures, Bond, Broadway Angels, Coatue, Cool Climate Collective, Craft Ventures, CRV, Emergence Capital, Essence VC, Felicis Ventures, Flex Capital, Flybridge Capital Partners, Founders Fund, Ganas Ventures, Greylock, Karim Faris, Haystack, Hyde Park Venture Partners, Kima Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, LocalGlobe, Luv Ventures, Mango Capital, Aaron Jacobson, Nine Four Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Otherwise Fund, Polymath Capital Partners, Prototype Capital, Red Beard Ventures, RTP Global, Sarona Ventures, Scribble Ventures, Seedcamp, Seed Club Ventures, Tech Square Ventures, TMV, Transmedia Capital, True Ventures, Twenty Two Ventures, Ulu Ventures, Underscore VC, Vibe Capital, Y Combinator, Alex Pattis, Andrew Gazdecki, Arash Ferdowsi, Armando Mann, Ben Lang, Ben Tossell, Casey Neistat, David Peterson, Dheeraj Pandey, Elad Gil, George Hu, Gina Bianchini, Helen Liang, Henry Kravis, Jon Hallett, Julia DeWahl, Mathilde Collin, Nkechi Iregbulem, Raphael Vullierme, Ron Pragides, Sahin Boydas, Sam Corcos, Shishir Mehrotra, Zachary Sims
May 1, 2022	Lang.ai	$11.0M Series A	—	Atomico, Broadway Angels, Felicis Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, Hack VC, Jlabs, Kleiner Perkins, Norwest Venture Partners, Plug & Play Ventures, Soma Capital, Theory Ventures, TQ Ventures, Unconventional Ventures, Chafic Kazoun, Colin Carrier, Ido Leffler, Karim Atiyeh, Kevin Lin, Loic Le Meur, Ron Pragides, Sam Shank, Shervin Pishevar

Financial History

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Leadership Team

Key people at Silicon Valley Connect.

Ellen Levy

Managing Director

Leadership Team

Key people at Silicon Valley Connect.

Ellen Levy

Managing Director

Deep Dive

High-Level Overview

Silicon Valley Connect is a venture capital firm and ecosystem connector focused on bridging global founders with Silicon Valley’s innovation networks and capital. Its mission centers on accelerating the growth of early-stage startups by providing access to investors, mentorship, and strategic resources. The firm’s investment philosophy emphasizes networked innovation—leveraging deep connections across Silicon Valley to help startups scale rapidly and globally. Key sectors include technology, enterprise software, artificial intelligence, and future-of-work innovations. Silicon Valley Connect plays a pivotal role in the startup ecosystem by lowering barriers for international founders seeking entry into the world’s most dynamic innovation hub.

Origin Story

Silicon Valley Connect was founded to address the growing need for global entrepreneurs to access Silicon Valley’s capital, expertise, and networks. Ellen Levy, Managing Director and a recognized leader in innovation ecosystems, has been instrumental in shaping the firm’s direction. The firm evolved from a focus on connecting startups with investors to a broader mandate of fostering “networked innovation,” supporting founders at the prototype and early revenue stages. Its roots are in building bridges between emerging markets and Silicon Valley, helping startups navigate the complexities of scaling in a highly competitive environment.

Core Differentiators

Networked Innovation Model: Silicon Valley Connect specializes in connecting startups with a curated pool of investors, mentors, and ecosystem partners, enabling rapid scaling and access to global markets.
Global Reach: The firm actively works with founders and organizations outside the U.S., providing entry points into Silicon Valley’s innovation ecosystem.
Strategic Support: Beyond capital, Silicon Valley Connect offers hands-on guidance, introductions to key stakeholders, and access to programs focused on growth and leadership development.
Focus on Early-Stage Startups: The firm targets startups at the prototype and early revenue stages, helping them refine their business models and secure follow-on funding.
Proven Track Record: Silicon Valley Connect has facilitated numerous successful introductions and funding rounds, with a growing portfolio of startups that have gone on to achieve significant milestones.

Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

Silicon Valley Connect is riding the trend of globalization in venture capital, where startups from emerging markets increasingly seek access to Silicon Valley’s resources. The timing is critical as the world becomes more interconnected, and innovation is no longer confined to a single region. Market forces such as the rise of remote work, digital transformation, and the increasing importance of AI and automation are working in the firm’s favor. By connecting startups with Silicon Valley’s ecosystem, Silicon Valley Connect helps drive innovation and economic growth on a global scale, influencing how startups scale and how investors diversify their portfolios.

Quick Take & Future Outlook

Looking ahead, Silicon Valley Connect is poised to expand its global footprint, deepening its network and broadening its impact on the startup ecosystem. As the demand for cross-border collaboration grows, the firm’s ability to connect founders with Silicon Valley’s resources will become even more valuable. Trends such as the democratization of venture capital, the rise of remote-first startups, and the increasing importance of AI and automation will shape Silicon Valley Connect’s journey. The firm’s influence is likely to grow as it continues to bridge the gap between global founders and Silicon Valley’s innovation ecosystem, reinforcing its role as a key player in the future of venture capital.

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High-Level Overview

Origin Story

Core Differentiators

Networked Innovation Model: Silicon Valley Connect specializes in connecting startups with a curated pool of investors, mentors, and ecosystem partners, enabling rapid scaling and access to global markets.
Global Reach: The firm actively works with founders and organizations outside the U.S., providing entry points into Silicon Valley’s innovation ecosystem.
Strategic Support: Beyond capital, Silicon Valley Connect offers hands-on guidance, introductions to key stakeholders, and access to programs focused on growth and leadership development.
Focus on Early-Stage Startups: The firm targets startups at the prototype and early revenue stages, helping them refine their business models and secure follow-on funding.
Proven Track Record: Silicon Valley Connect has facilitated numerous successful introductions and funding rounds, with a growing portfolio of startups that have gone on to achieve significant milestones.