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    Dream Machine

    San Francisco, California, United StatesFounded 2018

    Dream Machine is an opportunistic seed fund founded by Alexia Bonatsos, focused on consumer and frontier technology startups. The firm aims to help exceptional founders 'make science fiction non-fiction.'

    Their most common stage is seed (71% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $4.0M (across 14 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    13

    Fund Size

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    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    0

    Team

    AB

    Alexia Bonatsos

    former co-editor-in-chief of TechCrunch and an early reporter on WhatsApp, Uber, Instagram, Airbnb, and Pinterest

    EM

    Eva Mautino

    Managing Partner

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    14 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    Airbuds logoAirbudsSeed$5MSep 2025
    OOneRoofSeed$3.2MJan 2023
    OOneRoofSeed$1.3MOct 2021
    Somewhere Good logoSomewhere GoodSeed$3.8MMay 2021
    LOBUS logoLOBUSUnknown$6MApr 2021
    NNewnessSeed$3.5MFeb 2021
    Yolo logoYoloSeries A$8MFeb 2020
    Squad logoSquadSeed$5MAug 2019
    Powder logoPowderUnknown$1.5MMar 2019
    TTruStorySeed$3MMay 2018
    Trash logoTrashSeed$2.5M—
    PLAYBYTE logoPLAYBYTEUnknown$4M—
    Haus logoHausSeed$4.5M—
    HAUS logoHAUSSeed$4.5M—

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    Last updated: 20 October 2026