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Rocketship.vc

104 1st Street, Los Altos, CA, 94022, United States

Overview

rocketship.vc is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in companies using models built through data science. Their proprietary Escape Velocity algorithm identifies companies with a Sustainable Growth Engine at their core. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Los Altos, California, United States.

Total investments
53
Lead investments
6
Investments · 12mo
4
Active investors
8

Sector focus

  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Hakimo

    Participated · Equity · Jul 2026

    Hakimo provides an AI-powered physical security platform that uses computer vision to monitor existing camera infrastructure and enable real-time monitoring. The platform aims to help property owners and operators reduce incident response times, lower security costs, and improve safety without requiring a hardware overhaul. Hakimo was founded by CEO Sam Joseph and is based in Menlo Park, California. The company has raised a total of $32 million to date following the $12 million growth round. Hakimo plans to use the new capital to accelerate product development, expand into additional real estate and other markets, enter new geographies, and grow its team. It also intends to broaden its platform to support non-security use cases including safety, compliance, and customer experience.

  • Zenskar

    Participated · Series A · Apr 2026

    Zenskar builds an AI-native billing and revenue automation platform designed to handle complex B2B pricing models such as usage-based tiers, prepaid credits, amendments, customer hierarchies, and multi-entity/multi-currency structures. Its architecture models contract data as objects on a graph and combines rule-based calculations with purpose-built AI agents to automate order-to-cash processes. The company offers an Agents Marketplace for finance teams to create, customize, chain, and deploy agents without engineering involvement, plus integrations like a Slack agent and an MCP that links to major AI tools. Zenskar positions its platform to replace error-prone workarounds and in-house systems used by customers with bespoke pricing or high-volume usage. The company reported 5x revenue growth in the past year and cited customer outcomes such as faster billing, earlier collections, and faster close times. Zenskar's stated vision is to enable Zero-Touch Finance by expanding its agentic capabilities and reducing manual finance operations.

  • Plutus

    Participated · Seed · Jan 2026

    Founded last year, Plutus operates a platform where individual investors can browse thematic portfolios created by independent research providers and automatically replicate them in their own brokerage accounts. These portfolios are designed for automated rebalancing and may provide tax advantages compared with passive ETFs or mutual funds. Plutus earns revenue by taking a percentage of the subscription fees that each portfolio provider sets. The startup recently received its Registered Investment Advisor license from the SEC, enabling it to formally onboard users from its waitlist. Fewer than ten employees currently staff the company, and it is actively hiring after moving into a new office in Kirkland, Washington. Co-founders Shashank Chiranewala and Mitren Chinoy previously built and sold the digital-form startup Formloge for an undisclosed amount. With its new capital, Plutus aims to scale its infrastructure and democratize institutional-grade portfolio management.

  • Lyzr AI

    Led · Series A · Oct 2025

    Lyzr AI builds AI agents for enterprise use and operates an internal agent called SivaClaw that can engage investors, draft memos, and analyze slide engagement. The company used SivaClaw to run its own capital raise, demonstrating the product by fielding questions from over 130 investors during the process. That fundraising effort resulted in a $100 million Series B at an estimated $500 million valuation and reportedly generated about $400 million in investor interest. Lyzr is roughly three years old and located in Jersey City, New Jersey. The articles do not disclose revenue, user counts, or detailed financial metrics, nor do they list specific participating investors or planned allocation of the new capital.

  • HIVED

    Participated · Series B · Jul 2025

    HIVED builds an end-to-end parcel delivery network purpose-built for e-commerce, running on a 100% electric fleet and its HIVEDmind platform that leverages AI, real-time data, and modern architecture. The platform connects retailers, warehouses, drivers, and customers through integrated routing, real-time warehouse sorting, dynamic delivery clusters, and live parcel tracking. HIVEDmind models driver behaviour and real-world conditions to forecast volumes, optimize parking and routes, and surface delivery photos, geo-coded dashboards, behavioural alerts, and fraud-pattern detection for retailers. The company claims to be the world’s only end-to-end electric logistics network and is the UK’s highest-rated parcel delivery company on Trustpilot by far. Going forward, HIVED plans to accelerate its UK rollout into several new cities, grow its engineering and data teams, and further develop its proprietary logistics intelligence. Hived is building a delivery network at scale powered entirely by electricity and integrated with platforms such as Metapack, Shopify and Shiptheory. The network offers features including dynamic delivery-window ETAs, live tracking, in-flight redirect options, customizable customer communications and merchant dashboards with carbon-saving reporting. It delivers for large retailers including ASOS and ZARA as well as fast-growing SMEs such as Candy Kittens, Vitl and Pip & Nut. Since its August 2021 seed round the company has grown revenue 30% month over month and expanded to a head office of 40 and over 1,000 drivers. Hived intends to use new funding to invest further in its team, technology and to build a new warehouse. The business operates entirely on electric vehicles and provides carbon-saving reporting to merchants. HIVED is a parcel-delivery startup that uses electric cargo bikes for last-mile urban deliveries. It operates a fleet of 20 Raleigh e-cargobikes ridden by directly employed couriers and aims to offer estimated drop-offs in 15-minute slots. The company raised $2.4 million in venture-capital and angel funding to expand operations. Currently delivering within London’s M25, HIVED plans to expand into larger U.K. cities and achieve national coverage within three years, using electric vans for longer journeys while keeping most last-mile deliveries on e-cargobikes. Founded last year by Murvah Iqbal and Mathias Krieger, the startup emphasizes avoiding the gig economy and employing riders to improve service quality. HIVED previously received launch backing from Innovate UK in June 2020 and trialed several e-cargobike models before selecting Raleigh bikes for its fleet.

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