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Storm Ventures

325 Sharon Park Drive #654, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, United States

Overview

Storm Ventures is a $600m (TAM) VC firm 100% focused solely on early-stage enterprise investments. We've been founders ourselves, of enterprise companies including Airespace (acquired by Cisco) and EchoSign (acquired by Adobe). We've had to go without pay as CEOs ourselves to make payroll. We've gone from $0 to $100m in ARR and lived all the stages in between. We've here to help, and add some strategic capital and insights. And not be in the way when we're not needed.

Total investments
157
Lead investments
44
Investments · 12mo
7
Active investors
10

Sector focus

  • B2B
  • Enterprise Software
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Actualyze AI

    Participated · Seed · Aug 2026

    Actualyze AI provides a hosted enterprise platform that routes every AI inference request through a governed path so organizations can apply access controls, inspections, billing, and audit trails before requests reach model providers. The platform integrates with OpenAI-compatible models, client tools, and third-party systems and is organized around four pillars: Govern, Secure, Operate, and Optimize. Actualyze ties each inference to the person, team, and application that made it, offers inline inference scanning and guardrails, and provides virtual model routing based on capability, cost, and quality with automatic failover. The company launched from stealth and is in Early Access via a Design Partner Program. Founders Rafi Khardalian and Sean Lynch previously founded Metacloud, acquired by Cisco, and the company announced a $7 million seed round backed by Storm Ventures, Canaan Partners, Morado Ventures, and AME Cloud Ventures.

  • CarbonSix

    Participated · Series A · Jul 2026

    CarbonSix develops deployment-ready robotic intelligence software and hardware, including robotic hands and manipulators, for manufacturing applications. The company emphasizes field reliability and immediate integration into production lines, and reports commercial contracts and scaling revenue as evidence of market traction. Its core business model is a proprietary "data flywheel" where tool usage in factories generates task-specific data that improves its AI models over time. The founding team includes executives and researchers with prior exits and advanced academic credentials, supporting technical and commercial credibility. CarbonSix plans to use its Series A proceeds to hire talent, scale infrastructure, and expand into global markets.

  • Storm

    Participated · Equity · Mar 2026

    Storm develops and invests in large-scale battery storage projects to support grid flexibility and renewable integration. Its current program includes two projects: a 200 MW / 800 MWh battery park in Ruien being built on a former coal-fired power plant site, and a 100 MW / 400 MWh park in Langerlo at the port of Genk-Zuid. Both projects will use lithium-ion battery units supplied and installed by Tesla. Construction on both sites has started, with commissioning targeted for summer 2027 in Langerlo and autumn 2027 in Ruien. The company secured €330 million of capital for these developments with co-investment from I4B, PMV and TINC and project financing from a banking syndicate including Belfius, ING, KBC Bank, Rabobank, Santander, Societe Generale and Triodos Bank.

  • InScope

    Participated · Series A · Feb 2026

    Founded in 2023 by former Flexport accounting leaders Mary Antony and Kelsey Gootnick, InScope applies artificial intelligence to streamline the preparation of financial statements. The software automates error-prone chores such as math verification, dollar-sign and comma formatting, and other spreadsheet-to-document transfers that typically bog down accountants. Antony says these automations can cut preparation time by as much as 20%. Over the past 12 months the company has expanded its customer base five-fold and counts top-15 accounting firm CohnReznick among its users. Although today the product focuses on busy-work elimination, the ultimate vision is to fully automate the generation of income statements, balance sheets and related filings. InScope’s founders believe their deep accounting experience gives them a unique edge in a risk-averse industry that rarely spawns startups.

  • Opaque Systems

    Participated · Series B · Feb 2026

    Opaque Systems, spun out of UC Berkeley's RISELab and headquartered in San Francisco, offers a Confidential AI platform that serves as a trust layer for enterprise AI workloads. The product delivers secure, auditable infrastructure that gives organizations runtime cryptographic proof that data privacy, model weights, and policy compliance are maintained before, during, and after computation. By solving concerns around data leakage and compliance, the platform enables customers to move AI deployments from pilot to production four to five times faster. Current users and partners include ServiceNow, Anthropic, Encore Capital, Accenture, and firms across the technology, financial services, insurance, and healthcare sectors. The company recently launched Opaque Studio, a development environment for building and deploying Confidential AI agents with runtime-verifiable guarantees. Looking ahead, Opaque plans to expand its offerings into post-quantum security, confidential AI training, and sovereign cloud environments. To date, the company has raised $55.5 million in venture funding and is valued at roughly $300 million post-money.

Team

  • Tae Hea Nahm

    Managing Director and Co-founder

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  • Sanjay Subhedar

    Co-founder and Managing Director

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  • Ryan Floyd

    Co-Founding Managing Director

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  • Arun Penmetsa

    Partner

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