Explore what we’re building at trueventures.ai

Early stage capital for brilliant Founders since 2005.

First to
believe.

Funding the relentless pursuit of the unprecedented.

EXPLORE AI PLAYGROUND
Portfolio
Veza
Sailplane
Solo.io
Sweetgreen
Sandbar
Feroot
Moderne
Duo Security
Enveda
Hatch
PayNearMe
Ring
Handshake
Ernesta
Madison Reed
Fitbit
Bluesky
Audos
Tenkara
Goodreads
Splice
Modern Animal
Peloton
MakerBot
Exits

We wrote the
first check.

Duo Security
Peloton
Veza
HashiCorp
Ring
Fitbit
Goodreads
BrightRoll
Bandcamp
MakerBot
Sweetgreen
Blue Bottle Coffee
Duo Security
Peloton
Veza
HashiCorp
Ring
Fitbit
Goodreads
BrightRoll
Bandcamp
MakerBot
Sweetgreen
Blue Bottle Coffee
20
Years
$3.8B
Committed Capital
1,050+
Founders
500+
Companies
59
Returning Founders
Why True

Founders first.
Always.

We show up for you.
In your best moments.
At the worst times.
We stay by your side.

OpenAI

True spoiled me for founder-friendly VCs 17 years ago and I haven’t met their match since.

BF
Brian Fioca
Founder, OpenAI
Bluesky

True is someone who leads with genuine curiosity, takes the long view, and deeply understands what it means to build a company around a mission.

JG
Jay Graber
Founder, Bluesky
Peloton / Ernesta

True Ventures has been with us every step of the way. Knowing we can return to the firm for later stage financing has given us the space to be creative, without limits.

JF
John Foley
Founder, Peloton / Ernesta
Pendulum

True helped us lay a strong foundation, not only financially but through the lens of a business coach.

CC
Colleen Cutcliffe
Founder & CEO, Pendulum
Pipedream / BrightRoll

I can’t think of another venture capital firm that engages so fully with the community. True consistently walks the walk of being founder-centric.

TS
Tod Sacerdoti
Founder, Pipedream / BrightRoll
Daydream

The best VC event I’ve attended. True really does this better and different than any other VC.

JB
Julie Bornstein
Founder & CEO, Daydream
Lex

Being in the CEO Summit room has changed the trajectory of my life. What an incredible group.

NB
Nathan Baschez
Founder, Lex
How We Help

The answer is
in the room.

True is where Founders go to move faster. Our platform produces measurable outcomes at the pace this moment demands. AI tooling, founder-to-founder knowledge sharing, and a community that actually shows up. No other firm is operating this way.

True AI Office Hours

Pick a True partner persona. Run a live session. Structured feedback in minutes. Powered by Polsia.

Move Faster Together

CEO summits where the conversation is honest. Founder working sessions on the decisions that matter right now.

When You Raise Again

Narrative strategy. Data room prep. Warm intros to the leads you actually want.

One Investment. The Whole Team.

Most firms assign you a partner. We give you all of us. No attribution.

True Founders don't attend events. They share classified playbooks. How one team went from human-written code to 0% in a month. How another replaced their GTM team with 8 agents in a weekend. How a third built a CRM from scratch in 6 hours. These conversations are not recorded. They're not published. You have to be in the room.

Founder Impact

True Ventures’ AI portfolio program has been invaluable. Cross-portfolio knowledge sharing, intros to companies further along, pattern-matching.

HD
Hans Dockter
Gradle

In the last two-plus months the True team has stepped up so much to push us founders to think at the edges and be better. It’s different than any other firm.

MY
McGee Young
WattCarbon

This is exactly the kind of portfolio support that stands out. Bringing companies together to share what’s actually working creates real leverage for all of us.

DS
Diti Sood
Bolo.ai

I spent the weekend using the Rohit AI persona for pitch deck feedback. Came back Monday with a completely reworked narrative.

I
Ilya
Juma

Super fun playing with this. I’m A/B testing the Adam D’Augelli clone by asking him the same questions. He is insanely responsive relative to most VCs I’ve worked with, but the clone does respond faster.

AP
Austin Petersmith
Howie

I love what you all are doing with your AI drive lately. So vibrant. Your documentation is really making an impact.

SR
Sam Ramji
Sailplane

Being in the CEO Summit room has changed the trajectory of my life. What an incredible group. I got a TON out of it.

NB
Nathan Baschez
Lex

I tried this and it was so useful that I immediately sent it to a handful of friends.

PA
Pulkit Agrawal
Chameleon

Their next company starts here, too.

These repeat founders have built multiple companies with True.

John Foley
John Foley
Peloton Ernesta
Kevin Rose4x True founder
Kevin Rose
Digg Zero
Tony Conrad
Tony Conrad
Sphere about.me
Brian Fioca
Brian Fioca
Multiple companies with True
Tod Sacerdoti
Tod Sacerdoti
BrightRoll Pipedream
The Team

Full-time believers.
Full-team investors.

No attribution. No silos. When we invest in you, you get all of us.

What We Believe

Focus on People

Companies pivot. Founders endure.

We back you. In the moments when you don't know if you can keep going, in the best times and the worst. That's what partnership means.

Maximize Risk

Consensus is expensive. Conviction is rare.

We fund the ideas that sound impossible until they're inevitable. We don't want safe bets. We want the idea you can't stop thinking about. The one that rewrites the rules.

Alignment

To “true” a wheel is to bring it into alignment.

It's our name and our investment model. Through pivots, setbacks, and the moments that test everything.

Our Perspectives

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Newsletter

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