Somersault Ventures
Dover, DE, United States
Overview
Somersault Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in startups at the seed to series B stages, mainly in B2B software, marketplaces, EdTech, FinTech, and entertainment. They’re a remote-first team operating out of Dubai, London, and San Francisco. They have diverse experience in finance, operations, and product and would be happy to become one of the founders’ early partners in a long value-creation journey. They target investing the first institutional Somersault Ventures Fund in global companies where at least one of the founders has a CEE background and/or is affiliated with UC Berkeley.
- Total investments
- 12
- Lead investments
- 2
- Investments · 12mo
- 4
- Active investors
- 3
Sector focus
- EdTech
- FinTech
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Foresight
Participated · Series A · Mar 2026
Foresight provides a predictive project delivery platform designed for high-complexity, capital-intensive infrastructure programs such as hyperscale data centers and advanced industrial facilities. The platform establishes baseline schedules in days, continuously validates real-world progress against plan, integrates execution signals across stakeholders and forecasts risk early to enable intervention. The company says its system helps asset owners and operators protect capital, accelerate time-to-revenue and deliver infrastructure with greater certainty. Foresight plans to use the Series A proceeds to deepen product capabilities, grow engineering and go-to-market teams and accelerate international expansion. It also intends to extend the platform into adjacent infrastructure sectors, including power, defense and advanced manufacturing. Foresight was founded in 2018 and operates from London, New York and Tel Aviv, and is led by Co-Founder and CEO Igor Shifrin and Co-Founder and Executive Chairman Dr. Atif Ansar.
- Hauler Hero
Participated · Series A · Feb 2026
Founded in 2020, New York-based Hauler Hero has built a unified software suite that modernizes operations for waste haulers by integrating customer relationship management, billing, routing, and real-time fleet oversight. The platform now ingests images from third-party truck cameras to verify pickups, reduce billing disputes, and improve quality control. To further automate workflows, the company is rolling out three AI agents: Hero Vision (issue and revenue detection), Hero Chat (customer support), and Hero Route (dynamic route optimization). Since launch, Hauler Hero says it has facilitated 35 million trash pickups and, since its late-2024 seed round, has doubled headcount, revenue, and customer count. The company is also gaining traction with municipal customers, partly driven by industry consolidation after Routeware and Wastech merged in 2024. With its latest capital, management plans to commercialize the AI agents, deepen municipal offerings, and continue product expansion. Hauler Hero has raised more than $27 million in venture funding to date.
- Ridepanda
Participated · Equity · Oct 2025
Ridepanda operates an e-bikes-as-an-employee-benefit platform that enables companies to subsidize electric bike and scooter subscriptions for their workforce. Founded in 2020 by Chinmay Malaviya and Charlie Depman, the company targets enterprise customers seeking to boost wellness, retention, and ESG performance. Employees access a curated fleet of e-bikes and scooters through monthly subscriptions, while employers track impact metrics such as reduced single-occupancy car trips. Ridepanda more than doubled its business in 2025 and now serves high-profile organizations including Amazon, Google, Goodwin Law, and the County of San Mateo. The platform positions the firm as a U.S. leader in micromobility benefits. With fresh capital, management plans to expand its enterprise sales team, speed product development, and further scale the service. No specific revenue or user figures were disclosed, but the rapid growth and marquee client list highlight strong commercial traction.
- LightYX
Participated · Series A · Sep 2025
LightYX builds an electro-optical system that projects construction plans onto floors, ceilings, and walls with 1/16-inch (under 2 mm) accuracy and scans/adapts plans in real time. The company fuses optical engineering, real-time vision, and AI-based plan recognition and holds several registered patents on its technology. Its system has been deployed in several hundred projects, covering more than 25 million square feet of layouts, and the company works with dozens of U.S. contractors and subcontractors and partners with construction distributors. LightYX has received six grants from the Israel Innovation Authority totaling $3.3 million since inception. The company plans to use new funding to scale rapidly in the U.S. and Europe, accelerate product development, build new partnerships, and deepen customer relationships. LightYX is targeting over 3x growth in 2026.
- Skarbe
Participated · Seed · Jun 2025
Skarbe builds an AI sales assistant that connects to email and calendar to suggest next steps, draft follow-ups in a user’s tone, and track deal and contact activity. The product automatically captures meeting insights, nudges users about overdue action items, and organizes communication into a streamlined chat-style interface for meeting prep and prioritized to-do lists. Positioning its approach as “vibe sales,” Skarbe aims to replace heavy CRM admin so founders can sell alongside building. The company plans to add automated lead qualification that can draft and send follow-ups or reply to leads with founder approval, launch a mobile app, and train personalized LLMs based on Mistral within each user’s private workspace. Skarbe already supports 100+ languages, serves 2,500+ users, and is available via a freemium trial. Founders Mikita Martynau and Alex Talyuk bring scale and AI startup experience, and Ilya Korzun moved from early angel to COO to lead operations and finance.