45 investors have funded 10 Artificial Intelligence companies head-officed in Sacramento, across 53 rounds (Feb 2016 – Jul 2025). They are ranked by how many Sacramento companies in this market they have actually backed.
"In Sacramento" describes the companies, not the investor: most of the money in any city comes from somewhere else, and the Where the money comes from section below shows exactly where it came from here.
Ranked by companies backed in this market and city, then by round count. "Led" counts rounds recorded with this investor as lead.
| # | Investor | Based in | Stages here | Companies | Rounds | Led | Latest | Portfolio total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Y Combinator | Mountain View, United States | Seed | 2 | 3 | 1 | Jan 2024 | 5,648 |
| 2 | Accel | Palo Alto, United States | SeedSeries ASeries B | 1 | 3 | 1 | Jan 2022 | 1,133 |
| 3 | Greylock Partners | Menlo Park, United States | Series ASeed | 1 | 2 | — | Jun 2022 | 471 |
| 4 | Craft Ventures | San Francisco, United States | Series ASeries B | 1 | 2 | 2 | Jan 2022 | 197 |
| 5 | Alzheimer's Drug Discovery | New York City, United States | Series C | 1 | 2 | — | Aug 2021 | 23 |
| 6 | Wildcat Capital Management | New York City, United States | Series CSeries B | 1 | 2 | 1 | May 2018 | 17 |
| 7 | Lightspeed Venture Partners | Menlo Park, United States | Series A | 1 | 1 | — | Jun 2022 | 860 |
| 8 | Founders Fund | San Francisco, United States | Series A | 1 | 1 | 1 | May 2021 | 543 |
| 9 | SV Angel | San Francisco, United States | Series A | 1 | 1 | — | Jun 2022 | 734 |
| 10 | Global Founders Capital | Berlin, Germany | Seed | 1 | 1 | — | Dec 2022 | 563 |
| 11 | Bain Capital Ventures | Boston, United States | Series A | 1 | 1 | — | Jun 2022 | 395 |
| 12 | BoxGroup | New York City, United States | Series A | 1 | 1 | — | Jun 2022 | 395 |
| 13 | Coatue | New York City, United States | Series A | 1 | 1 | 1 | Jun 2022 | 312 |
| 14 | SVB | Santa Clara, United States | Series A | 1 | 1 | 1 | May 2021 | 359 |
| 15 | Emergence Capital | San Francisco, United States | Series A | 1 | 1 | 1 | Jul 2025 | 131 |
| 16 | Pelion Venture Partners | Salt Lake City, United States | Series B | 1 | 1 | — | Jun 2025 | 118 |
| 17 | Kakao Ventures | Seongnam-si, South Korea | Seed | 1 | 1 | — | Dec 2019 | 116 |
| 18 | Sound Ventures | United States | Seed | 1 | 1 | — | Oct 2020 | 116 |
| 19 | Johnson & Johnson Innovation | New Brunswick, United States | Series C | 1 | 1 | — | May 2018 | 102 |
| 20 | Atinum Investment | Seoul, South Korea | Seed | 1 | 1 | — | Dec 2019 | 85 |
| 21 | SoftBank | Tokyo, Japan | Seed | 1 | 1 | — | Dec 2022 | 77 |
| 22 | 1984 Ventures | San Francisco, United States | Series A | 1 | 1 | — | Jul 2025 | 59 |
| 23 | Fusion Fund | Palo Alto, United States | Seed | 1 | 1 | 1 | Dec 2019 | 57 |
| 24 | Shrug Capital | San Francisco, United States | Seed | 1 | 1 | — | Oct 2020 | 72 |
| 25 | LAUNCH Accelerator | San Francisco, United States | Seed | 1 | 1 | 1 | Mar 2024 | 64 |
| 26 | UMC Capital | Taipei, Taiwan | Seed | 1 | 1 | — | Dec 2019 | 45 |
| 27 | Harlem Capital Partners | New York City, United States | Seed | 1 | 1 | — | Dec 2022 | 48 |
| 28 | Essence VC | Seattle, United States | Series A | 1 | 1 | — | Jul 2025 | 40 |
| 29 | GDP Venture | Jakarta, Indonesia | Seed | 1 | 1 | — | Dec 2019 | 30 |
| 30 | Dentsu | Tokyo, Japan | Seed | 1 | 1 | — | Dec 2022 | 35 |
| 31 | Offline Ventures | Mill Valley, United States | Series B | 1 | 1 | — | Jun 2025 | 29 |
| 32 | Plug and Play APAC | Singapore, Singapore | Seed | 1 | 1 | — | Dec 2019 | 24 |
| 33 | Wasabi Ventures | Palo Alto, United States | Seed | 1 | 1 | — | Dec 2019 | 20 |
| 34 | Outlander VC | Atlanta, United States | Series B | 1 | 1 | — | Jun 2025 | 21 |
| 35 | SNR | San Francisco, United States | Series B | 1 | 1 | 1 | Jun 2025 | 20 |
| 36 | Bain & Company | Boston, United States | Seed | 1 | 1 | — | 15 | |
| 37 | Pace Capital | New York City, United States | Series A | 1 | 1 | — | Jul 2025 | 15 |
| 38 | Blank Ventures | San Francisco, United States | Series A | 1 | 1 | — | Jun 2022 | 14 |
| 39 | Grid | Espoo, Finland | Seed | 1 | 1 | 1 | Apr 2020 | 8 |
| 40 | Deepwater Asset Management | Minneapolis, United States | Series B | 1 | 1 | — | Jun 2025 | 8 |
| 41 | Cox Exponential | San Francisco, United States | Series A | 1 | 1 | — | Jul 2025 | 4 |
| 42 | Janssen Pharmaceutica | Raritan, United States | Series A | 1 | 1 | — | Feb 2016 | 3 |
| 43 | Vspglobal | Series C | 1 | 1 | — | May 2018 | 3 | |
| 44 | SLVC | Seed | 1 | 1 | — | Dec 2019 | 3 | |
| 45 | Whittier Trust Company | South Pasadena, United States | Series C | 1 | 1 | — | May 2018 | 2 |
Head office of the investors on this page.
Rounds by stage — where in a company's life this money arrives.
Total disclosed size of each round, not one investor's share.
How active this market has been.
Artificial Intelligence companies head-officed in Sacramento that took money from these investors.
| Company | Backers | Rounds | Disclosed | Latest round |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magical getmagical.com |
8 | 9 | $257M | Series A Jun 2022 |
| BlueSpace bluespace.ai |
8 | 8 | $28M | Seed Dec 2019 |
| Coco Delivery cocodelivery.com |
7 | 7 | $513.9M | Series B Jun 2025 |
| NeuroVision neurovision.com |
6 | 8 | $49.8M | Series C Aug 2021 |
| Cline cline.bot |
5 | 5 | $135M | Series A Jul 2025 |
| SilkChart silkchart.com |
5 | 6 | $26.1M | Seed Dec 2022 |
| Scratchpad scratchpad.com |
4 | 7 | $102.8M | Series B Jan 2022 |
| Alex alexcodes.app |
1 | 1 | $500K | Seed Jan 2024 |
| Permar permar.ai |
1 | 1 | $125K | Seed Mar 2024 |
| Ai4 Technologies ai4.com |
1 | 1 | — | Seed Apr 2020 |
| Date | Investor | Company | Stage | Round size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2025 | Pace Capital | Cline | Series A | $27M |
| Jul 2025 | Emergence CapitalLED | Cline | Series A | $27M |
| Jul 2025 | 1984 Ventures | Cline | Series A | $27M |
| Jul 2025 | Essence VC | Cline | Series A | $27M |
| Jul 2025 | Cox Exponential | Cline | Series A | $27M |
| Jun 2025 | Pelion Venture Partners | Coco Delivery | Series B | $80M |
| Jun 2025 | SNRLED | Coco Delivery | Series B | $80M |
| Jun 2025 | Offline Ventures | Coco Delivery | Series B | $80M |
| Jun 2025 | Outlander VC | Coco Delivery | Series B | $80M |
| Jun 2025 | Deepwater Asset Management | Coco Delivery | Series B | $80M |
| Mar 2024 | LAUNCH AcceleratorLED | Permar | Seed | $125K |
| Jan 2024 | Y Combinator | Alex | Seed | $500K |
| Dec 2022 | Harlem Capital Partners | SilkChart | Seed | $5.2M |
| Dec 2022 | Y Combinator | SilkChart | Seed | $5.2M |
| Dec 2022 | SoftBank | SilkChart | Seed | $5.2M |
| Dec 2022 | Dentsu | SilkChart | Seed | $5.2M |
| Dec 2022 | Global Founders Capital | SilkChart | Seed | $5.2M |
| Jul 2022 | Y CombinatorLED | SilkChart | Seed | $125K |
| Jun 2022 | Greylock | Magical | Series A | $35M |
| Jun 2022 | Lightspeed Venture Partners | Magical | Series A | $35M |
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