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Firsthand Alliance

498 Seventh Avenue, 12th Floor, New York, NY, 10018, United States

Overview

FirsthandVC partners with seasoned founders at the inception stage to build the next wave of transformative companies. Specializing in autonomous business software, we provide more than capital—we connect founders with a unique network of industry leaders and accomplished entrepreneurs to accelerate their journey from vision to success.

Total investments
24
Lead investments
2
Investments · 12mo
3
Active investors
3

Sector focus

  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Knox

    Participated · Series A · Mar 2026

    Knox operates the largest managed federal cloud and a multi-cloud federal boundary across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud to enable SaaS vendors to obtain FedRAMP authorization rapidly. The company offers a pre-authorized environment that it says reduces first-year FedRAMP costs by about 90% and can achieve authorization in 90 days. Knox holds Authorizations to Operate (ATOs) across 15 federal civilian and defense agencies and serves customers including Adobe, Celonis, OutSystems, Armis, and BigID. Its platform targets both federal and commercial production environments by applying government-grade security and compliance at scale. The company intends to use the Series A proceeds to expand federal authorization capacity and accelerate customer onboarding into authorized environments.

  • Medida

    Participated · Seed · Dec 2025

    Founded in July 2024, Medida has developed a computer-vision and artificial-intelligence platform that lets contractors capture millimeter-level measurements with a simple smartphone scan, eliminating the need for on-site surveyors. The system is already being used mainly for doors and windows and is now being extended to kitchens, flooring, and bathrooms. After just nine months in the U.S. market, the product is deployed across 35 states and is generating $3 million in annual recurring revenue. Management projects the company will reach profitability in the first quarter of 2026. Medida estimates that measurement errors and on-site visits cost U.S. suppliers hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, positioning its solution as a major cost and time saver in a $2.5 trillion renovation industry. The company employs 12 people and operates from offices in Tel Aviv and New York.

  • EVE

    Led · Seed · Nov 2025

    EVE connects directly to Gmail and Outlook to analyze live email and calendar data, automatically flagging new opportunities, forgotten leads, and drafting context-aware follow-ups without any manual CRM data entry. The platform claims to help B2B small businesses recover 20–30 % of revenue typically lost in day-to-day communication gaps. While still in stealth, more than 500 small businesses joined its waitlist, and early users such as Leadature report closing 25 % more deals within three months using the same headcount. EVE’s always-on dashboard gives teams visibility into what is moving, stalled, or missed across all inboxes, effectively acting as a live revenue operating system. Target verticals include consulting, construction, distribution, recruiting, brokerage, and event management—industries where email volume tightly correlates with revenue. Future product releases will extend into multi-channel lead tracking, upsell detection, and churn prediction to create a fully autonomous revenue engine. The company is led by CEO and co-founder Vadim Rogovskiy and is headquartered in San Francisco.

  • Olto

    Participated · Seed · Jul 2025

    Olto builds an AI-native demo engineer that integrates with a customer’s CRM and live product to create context-aware, prospect-specific demo environments and interactive product tours. The platform overlays intelligent, prospect-specific data across real interfaces using a custom entity resolution engine and a flexible orchestration layer that leverages multiple LLMs. Designed for the entire GTM motion, Olto aims to replace manual, inconsistent demo preparation and reduce maintenance overhead of legacy demo tools. Early production customers include Demandbase, Eightfold.ai, Qventus, and Jiminny, and customers report improved win rates and up to a 70% reduction in demo preparation time. The founding team includes former Amazon executives Kintan Brahmbhatt and Jean-Baptiste Chaput, with Pranav Midha as founding engineer, and the company emphasizes applying consumer personalization instincts to B2B sales demos. Headquartered in San Francisco, Olto positions itself to accelerate sales cycles and scale personalized demo delivery across revenue motions.

  • ai.work

    Participated · Seed · Jun 2025

    ai.work builds an AI Worker platform that provides autonomous, policy-aware agents to automate internal enterprise service workflows. The platform is platform-agnostic and autonomously orchestrates multi-agent workflows across diverse systems with native integrations into ServiceNow, Slack, JIRA, Google Workspace, Salesforce and Microsoft 365. ai.work launches customizable, domain-trained AI Workers for IT, Operations, Legal, HR, Procurement, Travel and Finance designed to resolve requests and handle busywork. In pre-launch testing the company reports task time reductions of up to 65% and potential cost reductions of 50%, and it cites early deployments or pilots at WalkMe, DealHub and Vertice. Founded in 2024 by Maor Ezer and Nir Nahum, ai.work emphasizes enterprise security, control and ready implementation to replace antiquated ticketing and help-desk workflows. The company is offering pilots to enterprises as it scales commercial deployments of autonomous employees across teams.

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