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Conviction portfolio
Conviction has 36 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding, with 11 investments in the last 12 months.
About this page
It is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, US, founded in 2022. It led 1 of the 16 rounds it joined. Its most recent investment on record is Watney's $80M Series A round in September 2026, alongside Abstract Ventures, Hummingbird VC, Grant Gordon and 3 others. By category, its portfolio leans toward AI agents (11) and Developer tools and cloud (7). It has co-invested with Sequoia, Greylock and IVP, most often Sequoia (6 rounds).
About Conviction
Funds raised
| Fund | Fund # | Size | Announced |
|---|---|---|---|
| II | $230M | Forbes | |
| Ifirst fund | $100M | sarahguo.com |
What Conviction invests in
- AI agents · 11 · 31%
- Developer tools and cloud · 7 · 19%
- Consumer and social · 6 · 17%
- Health and bio · 6 · 17%
- Robotics and hardware · 5 · 14%
- Education · 3 · 8%
- Media and content · 3 · 8%
- Manufacturing and industrial · 2 · 6%
Conviction recent investments
| Company | Round | Date | Alongside |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series A · $80M | Abstract Ventures, Hummingbird VC (lead), Grant Gordon +3 | ||
| Seed · $26M | Accel | ||
| Seed · $7.9M | A* Capital, Y Combinator, Index Ventures | ||
| Series B+ · $1B | HOF Capital, Dream Ventures, Apandion Capital +6 | ||
| Seed · $71M | Ribbit Capital (lead), Index Ventures (lead) | ||
| Series B+ · $1.5B · lead | Verified Capital, Altimeter Capital (lead), Wellington Management (lead) +9 | ||
| Series A · $50M | Dorm Room Fund, BoxGroup, Sunflower Capital +5 | ||
| Series B+ · $200M | Coatue, Evantic Capital, Kleiner Perkins +4 |
How Conviction invests
Conviction portfolio companies
WWatney$80MSeries A · Sep 2026
KKeenable AI$26MSeed · Aug 2026
IIntelligence$7.9MSeed · Aug 2026
VValar Atomics$1BSeries B+ · Aug 2026
EEnigma$71MSeed · Jul 2026
BBaseten$1.5BSeries B+ · Jun 2026
AAdaptive Innovations$50MSeries A · Jun 2026
HHarvey$200MSeries B+ · Mar 2026
LListen Labs$69MSeries B+ · Jan 2026
SSolaSeries A · Aug 2025
OOpenEvidence$210MSeries B+ · Jul 2025
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TTownbacker
RRetrobackerRRowspacebacker
TTrajectorybacker
OOnyx Securitybacker
CCartesiabacker
CCollatebackerSStackBlitzbacker
SSierrabacker
TTinkerbacker
HHeyGenbacker
CContextual AIbacker
AAdaptive ComputerbackerAAltabacker
DDaybacker
PPikabacker
- TThe Intelligence Companybacker
OOrchidbackerMMithrilbacker
LLatentbacker
SScubabacker
WWarp Sciencesbacker
WWatchtower Labsbacker
SServalbacker
| Company | Round with Conviction | Total raised | Latest raise |
|---|---|---|---|
Robotics and hardware |
Series A · $80M | $80M | Sep 17, 2026 Series A |
AI agents |
Seed · $26M | $26M | Aug 25, 2026 Seed |
Consumer and social |
Seed · $7.9M | $7.9M | Aug 10, 2026 Seed |
Climate and energy |
Series B+ · $1B | $1.6B | Aug 3, 2026 Series B+ |
Robotics and hardware |
Seed · $71M | $71M | Jul 31, 2026 Seed |
AI infrastructure and compute |
Series B+ · $1.5B · lead | $2.08B | Jun 22, 2026 Series B+ |
Health and bio |
Series A · $50M | $50M | Jun 2, 2026 Series A |
AI agents |
Series B+ · $200M | $1.15B | Sep 21, 2026 Series B+ |
Data and analytics |
Series B+ · $69M | $96M | Jan 16, 2026 Series B+ |
AI agents |
Series A | $500K | Aug 18, 2025 Series A |
Foundation models and research |
Series B+ · $210M | $985M | Sep 24, 2026 Series B+ |
AI agents |
backer · source | $200M | Mar 12, 2026 Series B+ |
AI agents |
backer · source | $181M | Oct 19, 2026 Series B+ |
Consumer and social |
backer · source | $21M | Aug 28, 2026 Series A |
HR and recruiting |
backer · source | $50M | Feb 26, 2026 round |
Education |
backer · source | $100M | Nov 2, 2026 Series A |
AI agents |
backer · source | $113M | Jul 29, 2026 Series B+ |
AI agents |
backer · source | $191M | Oct 28, 2025 Series B+ |
Health and bio |
backer · source | $125M | Jun 3, 2026 Series A |
Developer tools and cloud |
backer · source | $105M | Jan 22, 2025 Series B+ |
| backer · source | $1.58B | May 4, 2026 Series B+ | |
Developer tools and cloud |
backer · source | undisclosed | — |
Education |
backer · source | $60M | Jun 20, 2024 Series A |
| backer · source | $100M | Aug 1, 2024 Series A | |
AI agents |
backer · source | $7M | Apr 22, 2025 Seed |
Commerce and retail |
backer · source | $56M | Oct 22, 2026 Series A |
Sales and marketing |
backer · source | $20M | Feb 2, 2026 Series A |
Media and content |
backer · source | $135M | Jun 5, 2024 Series B+ |
| TThe Intelligence Company | backer · source | undisclosed | — |
Health and bio |
backer · source | undisclosed | — |
AI infrastructure and compute |
backer · source | undisclosed | — |
AI agents |
backer | $80.5M | Apr 10, 2026 round |
AI agents |
backer | $34M | Oct 14, 2026 Pre-seed |
Health and bio |
backer | $215M | Oct 22, 2026 Series A |
Defense and security |
backer | $35M | Oct 21, 2026 Seed |
AI agents |
backer | $272M | Oct 29, 2026 Series B+ |
Most frequent co-investors
SSequoia6 shared rounds · last Aug 3, 2026
GGreylock4 shared rounds · last Jun 22, 2026
IIVP4 shared rounds · last Jun 22, 2026
KKleiner Perkins4 shared rounds · last Mar 26, 2026
SSpark Capital3 shared rounds · last Jun 22, 2026
- 001A3 shared rounds · last Jun 22, 2026
BBoxGroup3 shared rounds · last Jun 2, 2026
AAndreessen Horowitz3 shared rounds · last Mar 26, 2026
EElad Gil3 shared rounds · last Mar 26, 2026
CCoatue3 shared rounds · last Mar 26, 2026
VValor Equity Partners2 shared rounds · last Sep 17, 2026
YY Combinator2 shared rounds · last Aug 10, 2026
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BBase10 Partners34 companies · 6 deals in 12 mo
VVillage Global34 companies · 3 deals in 12 mo
EEmergence Capital33 companies · 12 deals in 12 mo
BBOND41 companies · 7 deals in 12 mo
Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (AI agents).
How this is counted
Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-11, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.
Venture funds Conviction raised, from the list of new VC funds compiled by Shai Goldman (Brex). Each size links to the article that states it, or to that list where no article was found. All new funds: new VC funds.
Share is of the 16 rounds on Recent Funding that name Conviction. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.
Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists Conviction, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/conviction (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.
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