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    SciFi VC

    San Francisco, California, United StatesFounded 2017
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    SciFi VC is an early-stage, generalist venture fund founded by Max and Nellie Levchin, partnering with exceptional founders solving hard, valuable, and technical problems. The firm focuses on fintech, artificial intelligence, and science, investing in companies whose defensibility is derived from hard technical feats, network effects, and complex highly regulated industries.

    Their most common stage is series-a (55% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $18.4M (across 17 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    19

    Fund Size

    —

    Top Stage

    Series A

    Last 12 Mo

    0

    Team

    Brooks Hosfield

    Brooks Hosfield

    Partner

    Matt Therian

    Matt Therian

    Partner, Finance & Operations

    Max Levchin

    Max Levchin

    Partner

    Nellie Levchin

    Nellie Levchin

    Partner

    Mikaela Encarnacion

    Mikaela Encarnacion

    Executive Assistant

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    20 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    Somite logoSomiteSeries A$47MMay 2025
    Eureka Health logoEureka HealthSeed—Jul 2023
    Kudos logoKudosSeed$7MOct 2022
    Capchase logoCapchaseUnknown—Jul 2022
    Traba logoTrabaSeries A$20MJul 2022
    OOwnitSeed$8MFeb 2022
    Appboxo logoAppboxoSeries A$7MJan 2022
    HHighlight.xyzSeed$11MJan 2022
    Balance logoBalanceSeries A$25MAug 2021
    PPathpointSeries A$30MJun 2021
    Synctera logoSyncteraSeries A$33MJun 2021
    Settle logoSettleSeries A$15MMay 2021
    TryNow logoTryNowSeries A$12MJan 2021
    Capchase logoCapchaseSeed$4.6MSep 2020
    Emulate logoEmulateSeries C—Jun 2018
    Cellular Intelligence logoCellular IntelligenceSeries A$47M—
    Folio logoFolioSeries A$14M—
    Kudos logoKudosSeed$7M—
    ShoppingGives logoShoppingGivesSeed$5.5M—
    PPieSeries A$19.5M—

    Top Co-Investors

    Caffeinated Capital6 shared
    Founders Fund4 shared
    Khosla Ventures4 shared
    Lightspeed Venture Partners3 shared
    QED Investors3 shared
    Bling Capital3 shared
    Background Capital2 shared
    Harpoon Ventures2 shared
    Chan Zuckerberg Initiative2 shared
    Fusion Fund2 shared
    Ajinomoto Group Ventures2 shared
    TechAviv2 shared
    Patron2 shared
    Precursor Ventures2 shared
    SV Angel2 shared
    Kleiner Perkins1 shared
    Worklife1 shared
    Diagram1 shared
    Mastercard1 shared
    Scribble Ventures1 shared

    Last updated: 8 September 2026