Nava Ventures
710 Sansome Street, Floor 2, San Francisco, CA, 94111, United States
Overview
Nava Ventures is a venture capital company that works with companies that endeavor to create new markets and change industries. It was founded in 2021 and is located in San Francisco, California.
- Total investments
- 16
- Lead investments
- 12
- Investments · 12mo
- 5
- Active investors
- 4
Sector focus
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Cyclops
Led · Series A · Jul 2026
Cyclops offers an all-in-one stablecoin platform purpose-built for payments companies, providing orchestration and full-stack integrations to enable stablecoin settlement, pay-ins, payouts and treasury optimization via a single API. The company emphasizes end-to-end integrations with leading providers across the stablecoin stack and proprietary technology layered on top to simplify payments use cases. Cyclops claims product and license redundancy in major markets, with dozens of partners and over 100 global licenses. Its founding team includes payments veterans Alex Wilson and Pat Duffy and international technology lawyer David Johnson, who shaped the company’s approach to global licensing. Operational metrics disclosed at the time of the raise include a merchant network of 300,000, 350% month-over-month volume growth, and a headcount of 31 with plans to double by year end. The company plans to use the Series A proceeds to accelerate product development, expand local teams and licensing, and scale its go-to-market efforts.
- Omen AI
Led · Series A · Jun 2026
Omen AI builds compact spectrometer sensors and signal-processing software to provide real-time monitoring of fluid health, detecting bacterial growth and chemical indicators of failing pumps and seals. The company began with customers in heavy equipment and Caterpillar dealerships before shifting significant focus to data centers after demand for on-premises coolant monitoring emerged. Omen is working with about a dozen data center customers, including TensorWave, as it refines and scales its offering. Founded in 2024 by CEO Zach Laberge, the startup has raised $40 million to date, including a $31 million Series A. Its technology aims to reduce long rack shutdowns by spotting contamination early and identifying wear through detection of elements like copper, chromium, and silicon. Omen positions recent advances in optics and signal processing as enabling affordable hardware at scale for this monitoring approach.
- Wirestock
Led · Series A · May 2026
Originally a distributor for photographers and designers across stock marketplaces, Wirestock pivoted in 2023 to become a data supplier for AI, offering curated and custom datasets of images, video, design assets, and 3D/gaming content. The platform has signed up more than 700,000 artists and designers and reports it supplies data to six of the largest foundation model makers. Wirestock reported an annual run-rate revenue of $40 million and has paid out $15 million to contributors; it employs about 60 people. The company uses a mix of AI and human reviews and requires applicants to complete a quality-check task before joining as contributors. Wirestock is exploring additional modalities such as audio and music and is building enterprise software and expanding teams in research, engineering, and product to scale its data-supply business. The firm shifted some internal teams to focus on annotation, labeling, and enterprise sales to meet custom dataset requests from AI customers.
- True Footage
Participated · Series C · Apr 2026
True Footage builds a full-stack residential valuation solution combining proprietary software, data science, and in-house appraisal services, anchored by its flagship platform TrueTracts. The platform provides appraisers with market analysis, time and feature adjustments, trend insights, and AI-driven analytics designed to improve consistency, compliance, and efficiency. The company has processed millions of appraisals and employs hundreds of appraisers across 33 states, serving roughly 300 mortgage lenders including seven of the top ten U.S. lenders. Founded in 2021 and based in Austin, Texas, True Footage emphasizes integrating advanced analytics directly into the appraisal workflow rather than selling standalone tools. The company plans to expand its valuation services across major consumer brands, government entities, and the broader mortgage ecosystem while deepening integrations with other real estate technology platforms. Financially, True Footage has raised more than $105 million in total, including the recently announced $40 million Series C.
- Union.ai
Participated · Series A · Feb 2026
Founded in 2020, Union.ai has evolved from the enterprise platform for the Flyte orchestrator into a full-stack AI development environment covering orchestration, model training, inference, and observability. Its flagship open-source projects include Flyte, now at over 80 million downloads, and Pandera, a data validation framework topping 100 million downloads. The company reports that more than 3,500 organizations rely on its infrastructure to build and deploy AI systems. By unifying data, models, and compute, Union.ai aims to eliminate the brittleness of legacy pipelines and boost developer velocity in AI workflows. Recent plans focus on accelerating product development, expanding engineering and field teams, and deepening investment in its open-source community. The Bellevue-based firm’s momentum is reinforced by surging demand for AI orchestration solutions and its clear commercial traction tied to open-source adoption. Its $38.1 million Series A financing bolsters the balance sheet for these growth initiatives.