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    GoAhead Ventures

    Menlo Park, California, United StatesFounded 2015
    www.goaheadvc.com/enLinkedIn
    AIFintechEnterprise SoftwareRobotics & AutomationGamingHealthcareCybersecurityDefense & SpaceCrypto & Web3

    GoAhead Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley managing over $250M in AUM. The firm uses a streamlined, fast-decision investment process — including a trademark open video-pitch funnel — to invest in people-first, pre-seed and seed-stage startups across all technology sectors.

    They made 2 investments in the last 12 months. Their most common stage is seed (47% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $6.0M (across 16 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    17

    Fund Size

    $250M

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    2

    Team

    CS

    Clancey Stahr

    Managing Partner

    PB

    Phil Brady

    Managing Partner

    T"

    Takeshi "TK" Mori

    Managing Partner

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    19 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    Möbius Industries logoMöbius IndustriesPre-Seed$3.8MOct 2025
    Cookiy AI logoCookiy AIPre-Seed$7MOct 2025
    Cookiy AI logoCookiy AIUnknown$7MJan 2025
    Roofer.com logoRoofer.comSeed$7.5MJan 2024
    Aivinya logoAivinyaPre-Seed—Jan 2023
    Aikido Finance logoAikido FinanceSeries A—Nov 2021
    Cake AI logoCake AISeed$3.7MJul 2021
    Pathrise logoPathriseSeries A$5.5MMay 2021
    Rainway logoRainwaySeed$3.5MJan 2019
    FFanchestSeed$4MDec 2017
    MediaOcean logoMediaOceanUnknown$21.4MAug 2017
    Collectly logoCollectlySeed$1.9MJul 2017
    TERRANOVA logoTERRANOVASeed$7M—
    Telo Trucks logoTelo TrucksPre-Seed$1.4M—
    Healia logoHealiaSeries A$14M—
    Lyrid logoLyridSeed$1.1M—
    Omnisearch logoOmnisearchPre-Seed$450K—
    Aikido Finance logoAikido FinanceSeed——
    Material logoMaterialSeed$7.1M—

    Top Co-Investors

    Outlander VC3 shared
    Western Technology Investment2 shared
    Y Combinator2 shared
    UpHonest Capital2 shared
    Enterprise Ireland2 shared
    Hive Ventures1 shared
    IT-Farm Corporation1 shared
    Granatus Ventures1 shared
    Index Ventures1 shared
    Cabra VC1 shared
    Lightspeed Venture Partners1 shared
    One Way Ventures1 shared
    W Health Ventures1 shared
    AARP1 shared
    Pillar VC1 shared
    Reflect Ventures1 shared
    Two Lanterns Venture Capital1 shared
    OCA Ventures1 shared
    Scrum Ventures1 shared
    Lerer Hippeau1 shared

    Last updated: 7 October 2026