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Overview

Darkmode Ventures is an early stage venture fund with a “builders for builders” ethos.

Total investments
8
Lead investments
1
Investments · 12mo
4
Active investors
3
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Investment portfolio

  • Soffi

    Participated · Seed · Jun 2026

    Soffi builds a collaborative development environment that creates a live version of a customer’s product connected to their codebase, design system, and data. Teams can open any branch as a one-click preview with no local setup, collaborate directly on running interfaces, and ship changes back as production-ready code. Under the hood, Soffi reads the codebase to build a working knowledge base of the product, design system, and architecture so changes are grounded in what is actually shipping and how the product is used. The company emerged from stealth and over the past eight months has partnered with product organizations ranging from AI startups to large enterprises. Led by founder and CEO Cris Dobbins, Soffi plans to use its newly raised capital to accelerate product development, expand enterprise adoption, and grow its team. The announcement did not disclose revenue, users, or a valuation.

  • Fakto

    Participated · Equity · May 2026

    Fakto builds AI agents that ingest the full corpus of supplier contracts, invoices and pricing grids to extract clauses, compare signed terms to billed amounts and flag deviations. The platform operates in two modes: defensive (recovering overbilled amounts) and offensive (unlocking unexploited contractual value such as volume tiers or consolidation opportunities). Fakto targets large enterprises with more than €500M in revenue in sectors with dense contracting (retail, construction, logistics, manufacturing) and already serves three French groups with revenues between €1B and €40B. In a cited pilot over €40M of fuel spend, Fakto identified 2.5% contract deviations within days after ingesting over 30,000 invoices and unstructured price grids, with one supplier showing a systematic 14% deviation. The company sells a SaaS subscription indexed to covered spend and plans to expand to the U.K. in H2 2026 and the U.S. in early 2027, supported by recent funding and planned tech hires.

  • Dreambase

    Participated · Seed · Apr 2026

    Dreambase builds an AI-native analytics platform that connects to Supabase in seconds and automates analytics through specialized AI data agents that query data, build pipelines, surface patterns and deliver recommendations. Its product suite includes Supabase Report Cards for database health assessments, production-ready dashboards with a natural-language AI assistant, AI-generated reports with supporting visualizations, a semantic Topics layer for reusable KPIs, and an Analyst Agent tuned for Postgres best practices. Users access the platform via MCP, CLI or the Dreambase UI. The company plans to deepen core capabilities and broaden integrations with systems that complement Supabase. Dreambase was co-founded by Andy Keil and Kyle Ledbetter and will deploy its newly raised seed capital to expand operations and accelerate development.

  • Daytona

    Participated · Series A · Feb 2026

    Daytona is an infrastructure startup that provides on-demand, composable computers—called sandboxes—designed specifically for AI agents rather than human operators. Each sandbox lets an agent configure CPU, memory, storage, GPU, networking and OS on the fly, then start, pause, fork or snapshot execution in milliseconds. This architecture enables agents to explore multiple decision branches, persist state across failures and safely run code or reinforcement-learning workloads at scale. Early traction has been strong: the company hit a $1 million forward revenue run rate in less than three months and doubled that figure six weeks later. Customers already range from YC startups to Fortune 100 enterprises, with users such as LangChain, Turing, Writer and SambaNova relying on the platform for code execution and RL tasks. Daytona is currently a 20-person team headquartered in New York and is racing to add hardware capacity, open new regions, and grow sales and marketing through grassroots developer events.

  • Adopt AI

    Participated · Seed · May 2025

    Adopt AI is an Agentic AI company that enables applications to execute complex actions and automate workflows through natural-language conversational interfaces. Its core products are Agent Builder, a no-code builder that automatically learns an application and generates actions, and Agent Experience, an embeddable conversational interface that can execute CRUD, navigation, assist and analytical actions. The platform integrates with existing applications by fetching APIs, content, entities, URLs and other tools, and lets development teams refine workflows and test in a sandbox before deployment. Adopt AI launched from stealth alongside an Early Access Program to pilot the solution with customers and accelerate agent deployment. The company assembled AI engineers from Microsoft and Google and is led by founders Deepak Anchala, Rahul Bhattacharya and Anirudh Badam. Financially, Adopt AI closed a $6 million seed round to back its launch and go-to-market.

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