Position Ventures
182 Howard St Unit 231, San Francisco, CA, 94105, United States
Overview
Position Ventures invests in early-stage startups and positions them for success by helping founders nail their positioning and communications strategy.
- Total investments
- 9
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 3
- Active investors
- 0
Investment portfolio
- Lemma
Participated · Seed · Aug 2026
Lemma builds production monitoring infrastructure for autonomous AI agents by capturing structured traces of agent executions, including LLM calls, tool usage, inputs and outputs, retrieval steps, timing data, and errors. Its platform analyzes those traces to identify recurring semantic failures, prioritize issues, and surface alerts. The company aims to detect silent failures where agents appear to succeed technically but produce incorrect outcomes. Lemma was founded by Jerry Zhang and Cole Gawin and participated in Y Combinator’s Fall 2025 cohort. It recently raised $2.3 million in a pre-seed round to accelerate development of its monitoring and failure-detection tools. Initially, Lemma plans to focus on supporting startups that are already running AI agents in production.
- Nova
Participated · Seed · May 2026
Nova develops agentic AI that automates complex, mission-critical SAP workflows, beginning with the S/4HANA migration wave. The company positions migration as an initial wedge into a larger opportunity spanning development, testing, documentation, modernization, production issue resolution, and daily operations for SAP customers. Coverage highlights significant early traction and investor interest, with a seed led by Accel and Position Ventures as an early backer. Nova announced a $31.5 million Series A led by Chemistry to accelerate product deployment and customer adoption. Leadership cited in reporting includes Emma Qian, Sam Yang, and Prof. Dr. Alexander Zeier. Public statements emphasize targeting enterprises undergoing large-scale SAP modernization to reduce technical debt and avoid business disruption.
- Anvil Robotics
Participated · Seed · Apr 2026
Anvil Robotics builds modular, open-source robot designs and sells prebuilt kits and customizable robots that the company describes as 'Legos' for physical AI teams. It controls the full stack—design, parts procurement and its own factory in Taiwan—which allows it to ship units within 1–2 days via air freight. The company began shipping in September and has delivered over 100 robots to more than 50 customers, with unit prices typically between $5,000 and $10,000 and a least expensive model at $1,900. Anvil reports it has reached seven-figure revenue to date, with most current revenue coming from hardware sales. Customers include research labs and industrial users such as Nvidia's GEAR lab and Path Robotics. The company plans to expand its revenue mix by releasing additional software, data tools and services.
- Patlytics
Participated · Seed · Apr 2024
Patlytics offers an end-to-end AI platform purpose-built for patent workflows, covering invention harvesting, application drafting, infringement analysis, invalidity contentions, and portfolio management. The company reports measurable customer impacts such as an 80% reduction in project time, more than $30,000 saved per claim chart, and up to 15 hours recovered per patent application. Patlytics is trusted by over 40% of Am Law 100 firms and a number of corporate IP teams and ranked practices. Following the $40 million Series B, bringing total funding to about $65 million, the company plans to develop an AI-native collaboration suite, domain-specific autonomous AI Agents, and deeper chem-bio capabilities. Patlytics is expanding globally with a new London office and a recently appointed Head of EMEA. The company is headquartered in New York.
- CreatorDAO
Participated · Seed · Aug 2022
CreatorDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization led by CEO Michael Ma that provides creators with capital, mentorship, professional tools, and a community invested in their growth. The DAO crowdsources investment decisions and rewards contributions such as mentorship and collaboration. CreatorDAO invests in creators in exchange for a percentage of their future earnings, which flows back to the community treasury. Top creators including Paris Hilton, The Chainsmokers, Shawn Johnson, Andrew East, Joma Tech, and Swaggy Wolfdog — representing 50MM+ audience members — have signed on to share time, expertise, and/or earnings. The company said it will use the proceeds from its recent fundraise to accelerate growth and expand operations and business reach. The organization operates from Los Angeles and focuses on accelerating creators’ careers through shared access to capital, technology, and community.
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