Audacious Ventures
1015 Carolina Street, San Francisco, California, 94107, United States
Overview
Partnering with the most ambitious founders in technology and helping them achieve their most audacious goals
- Total investments
- 21
- Lead investments
- 5
- Investments · 12mo
- 4
- Active investors
- 2
Investment portfolio
- Saris
Participated · Series A · May 2026
Saris builds an agentic workflow platform purpose-built for financial services, training institution-specific AI agents to execute complex tasks under human supervision and integrate with existing banking systems. Its platform automates up to 70% of consumer, mortgage, and commercial lending tasks and claims cost reductions of up to 35%, enabling institutions to more than double output without adding headcount. Saris emphasizes maintaining human oversight while reducing manual, repetitive work in lending, compliance, and operations. The company partners with platforms like Fiserv, Encompass, and MeridianLink and plans to deepen those integrations as it scales. Funding from the recent Series A will support broader deployment and expansion of the team that trains and deploys its agents.
- General Legal
Led · Seed · Mar 2026
General Legal launched in January 2026 to rebuild the law firm model around AI and human attorneys, aiming to automate repetitive legal work while preserving human legal judgment for strategy and negotiation. The firm signs clients via an engagement letter, embeds lawyers into customers’ workflows (including Slack), and offers features like a free legal health check to surface risks before fundraising or enterprise deals. The company reports reaching $1 million ARR within two months of launch. CEO Ryan Walker and co-founders Javed Qadrud-Din and J.P. Mohler all previously worked at Casetext; Walker helped build CoCounsel before Casetext was acquired for roughly $650 million. General Legal emphasizes transparent pricing and faster turnaround by using AI behind the scenes so attorneys can focus on higher-value legal work. The startup is using its YC backing and seed capital to scale its AI-native law firm model and expand access to proactive legal guidance for founders.
- Maxima
Participated · Series A · Nov 2025
Founded in 2024, Maxima provides specialized AI agents that embed into every step of the record-to-report cycle, pulling data from existing ERPs to prepare journal entries, perform reconciliations, and flag anomalies before accountants log in. The system acts as an intelligence layer rather than a replacement ERP, delivering up to 80% faster closes, 95% automation of manual work, and 100% auditability for customers such as Scale AI, SpotOn, and Rippling. By removing repetitive grunt work, Maxima frees accounting teams to concentrate on review, analysis, and strategic decision-making without adding headcount. The platform is purpose-built for SOX-ready, real-time close and has been recognized on Redpoint’s AI64 list. Co-founder and CEO Yogi Goel, along with co-founders Akshaya Srivatsa and Jack Liao, draw on deep operational experience from EY, Citigroup, Barclays, Rubrik, Meta, Twitter, and Netflix. Maxima targets a market in which 140 U.S. public companies restated financials in the first ten months of 2024, highlighting the urgency for accurate, automated solutions.
- Logic
Participated · Seed · Oct 2025
Logic is an AI decision-automation company that turns natural-language process descriptions into production-ready web apps, APIs, or tool integrations. Aimed at repetitive, rule-based tasks such as product moderation, purchase-order processing, and fraud detection, the platform allows non-technical business users to create and update automations instantly. Since its 2024 founding, Logic has automated more than 2 million decisions and is currently processing over 200,000 decisions each month across sectors like retail, fintech, and public safety. Key features include auto-generated testing, version control with instant rollback, and SOC 2 Type II enterprise security. Customers such as Garmentory report scaling product reviews from 1,000 to 5,000 SKUs daily and achieving record financial quarters after adoption. The company emerged from a year-long beta, removing its waitlist and making the product generally available in October 2025. Logic has raised $4.3 million in seed funding to support further product rollout and market expansion.
- Convoke
Participated · Seed · Aug 2025
Convoke offers a platform that ingests internal files, proprietary databases, and external research, organizing them into an easily searchable ontology for drug developers. On top of this unified data layer, customers build custom AI agents and workflows that transform raw information into key outputs such as manuscripts, competitive-intelligence briefs, and submission-ready regulatory documents. By automating traditionally manual, repetitive tasks, the software helps biopharma companies cut development ‘white space,’ accelerate decision-making, and reduce reliance on expensive external vendors. Current users span small biotech firms to top-20 pharmaceutical companies across functions such as competitive intelligence, medical affairs, and portfolio strategy. The company positions itself as an “information factory” aimed at enabling a “self-driving” biopharma organization, ultimately shortening the time it takes to bring new medicines to market. Founded by Alex Telford, Maged Ahmed, and Vikas Velagapudi, Convoke has secured $8.6 million in total funding to pursue this vision and continues to see rapid customer adoption as industry pressures mount to do more with less.