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title: "Portfolio | Darwinian's Investment Thesis and Company Archive"
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summary: "Darwinian Ventures presents its selective investment portfolio of early-stage startups spanning AI sales development, agentic GTM infrastructure, vertical AI, and fintech, backed alongside top-tier investors like Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst, and 8VC. The portfolio includes active investments from 2022–2025 across seed to Series B stages, as well as advisory relationships and archived positions."
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# Portfolio | Darwinian's Investment Thesis and Company Archive

FIG. P1 This phylogeny is the Darwinian Ventures investment portfolio: companies we have backed as selective investors, not a list of client engagements. We are highly selective investors, partnering with top early-stage founders and startups to contribute to the next wave of market leaders. We see hundreds of deals annually from our top-tier investment and accelerator partners, as well as our own extensive client and founder networks. Our approach combines vision, execution, and capital to help startups scale quickly, dominate their categories, and achieve billion-dollar valuations. By leveraging our expertise in go-to-market strategy, growth infrastructure, and talent acquisition, we help ambitious founders turn bold ideas into category-defining ventures. For client outcomes, testimonials, and recorded service work, see Results . Darwinian portfolio Revenue AI GTM data infrastructure Vertical workflow AI Capital & archive Nooks Valley Sellible AI RevIntel DealLoop Mega AI Potion Tie Landbase Chatsimple Ridero Oway Matey AI Preciser Maira SquareDash Seesnap Unshackled Ventures Elev8 PulsarApps FIG. P3 name vintage stage sector Theme Founder Note 2022 Series A MarTech / AdTech Agentic GTM Infrastructure Michael Diesu Identity resolution and MarTech infrastructure company, formerly Revenue Roll, backed by Innovating Capital, Stage 2 Capital, and Hawke Ventures. 2023 Series B AI / Sales Automation AI Sales Development Dan Lee AI sales development platform founded by Dan Lee and backed by Kleiner Perkins, Lachy Groom, and Tola Capital. 2023 Seed Logistics / Freight AI Vertical & Legal AI Phillip Nadjafov YC S24 freight and logistics company backed by General Catalyst and Soma Capital. 2023 Seed AI / Sales Booking AI Sales Development Zayd Ali AI sales booking company in the autonomous and assisted sales execution theme. 2023 Series A Fintech / Restoration Other Matt Fruge Fintech and restoration workflow company backed by FINTOP Capital, Hustle Fund, and i2BF Global. 2023 Fund Venture Capital Capital Network Nitin Pachisia Capital network position connected to immigrant-founder venture investing. 2023 Inactive Construction SaaS Other Mark Filaroski Dormant construction SaaS position retained in the archive for completeness. 2023 Inactive Gen-AI Video / Sales AI Sales Development Kanad Bahalkar Wound-down gen-AI video and sales position retained in the archive for completeness. 2024 Pre-seed AI Voice / Order-to-Cash AI Sales Development Peter Hauge Jensen AI voice and order-to-cash automation company led by Peter Hauge Jensen, previously of Nexcom and Creditro. 2024 Seed AI / Sports Analytics Vertical & Legal AI Shirley Chen AI sports analytics company built around specialized data workflows and founder-led customer development. 2024 Seed AI / Conversational Sales Agentic GTM Infrastructure Hao Zheng Conversational sales AI company serving businesses with automated customer and revenue workflows. 2024 Advisory Unverified Other Sammy Advisor-only relationship retained in the internal archive. 2024 Advisory AI / Apps Other Mina El Swamy Advisor relationship for an AI apps company, retained in the archive. 2025 Series A AI / GTM Automation Agentic GTM Infrastructure Daniel Saks Agentic GTM automation company founded by Daniel Saks of AppDirect, with Sound Ventures, Picus Capital, and 8VC in the investor base. 2025 Advisory Legal AI / Criminal Defense Vertical & Legal AI Jared White Legal AI company serving criminal defense workflows, with Timespan Ventures, Neo, and Streamlined Ventures in the investor base. 2025 Pre-seed AI / Sales Training AI Sales Development Preet Raj AI sales training company in the sales development portfolio theme. 2025 Pre-seed AI / Revenue Intelligence AI Sales Development Shane Mahi Earliest-stage revenue intelligence company in the sales development theme. 2025 Pre-seed AI / RE Agent Assistant Vertical & Legal AI Andrew McGrath AI assistant for real estate agents, mapped to the vertical AI portfolio theme. 2026 Pre-seed AI / Meeting Intel AI Sales Development Suraj Srivats AI meeting intelligence company backed by South Park Commons and founder angels. 2026 Pre-seed AutoTech / Leasing Agentic GTM Infrastructure Brock Thompson AutoTech leasing workflow company in the agentic GTM infrastructure theme.