Leadout Capital is an early-stage venture capital fund founded in 2018 by Ali Rosenthal and based in Portola Valley, California. The firm focuses on backing 'non-obvious', resilient founders with strong founder-market fit, investing in software-driven companies at the pre-seed and seed stages.
Their most common stage is seed (45% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $13.0M (across 19 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
17
Fund Size
$57.7M
Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
0
Team
Ali Rosenthal
Founder & Managing Partner
Steve Brownlie
General Partner
Dion Dong
Venture Partner
Yun-Fang Juan
Venture Partner
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
20 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Meadow AI | Seed | — | Jan 2025 |
 Creatify | Series A | $15.5M | Jan 2025 |
 Latii | Seed | $5M | Oct 2024 |
 ENDVR | Seed | $6M | Feb 2023 |
 Axiom Cloud | Series A | $7.4M | Jan 2023 |
 SYKY | Series A | $9.5M | Jan 2023 |
 Lovewick | Pre-Seed | $1M | Feb 2022 |
 Pavilion | Series A | $45M | Jan 2022 |
| Lovewick | Pre-Seed | $1M | Jan 2022 |
 Momentum | Seed | $5M | Nov 2021 |
 AtoB | Series B | $75M | Nov 2021 |
 The Vendry | Seed | $6.5M | Sep 2021 |
 Cloudsmith | Series A | $15M | Sep 2021 |
 Near Space Labs | Unknown | $13M | Sep 2021 |
 Near Space Labs | Unknown | $13M | Sep 2021 |
 theCut | Seed | $4.5M | Sep 2021 |
| Near Space Labs | Series A | $13M | Jan 2021 |
| WWalrus.ai | Seed | $4M | Jan 2020 |
 Laws of Motion | Seed | $5M | — |
| Pavilion | Seed | $2.4M | — |
Top Co-Investors
Gaingels6 shared
Corazon Capital3 shared
Wireframe Ventures3 shared
Crosslink Capital3 shared
Toyota Ventures3 shared
Ulu Ventures2 shared
Neo2 shared
Right Side Capital Management2 shared
Techstars2 shared
Operator Partners1 shared
Elevation Capital1 shared
WGI Group1 shared
Primary Venture Partners1 shared
Founder Collective1 shared
New Era Capital Partners1 shared
T. Rowe Price1 shared
Nine Four Ventures1 shared
Act One Ventures1 shared
Inovia Capital1 shared
Basis Set Ventures1 shared
Last updated: 20 October 2026