Sterling Road is a venture capital firm in San Francisco that prefers to invest in B2B startups. Founded in 2017 by Ash Rust in San Francisco, California, the firm invests in pre-seed and seed rounds. The notable investment portfolio of Sterling Road includes Brainbase, Hopthru, Compaas, and Breinify. Sterling Road typically invests $150k. As of February 2020, Sterling Road has made five investments. Their most recent investment was on Aug 20, 2019, when Brainbase raised $3M. Brainbase is a service that helps companies manage and monetize their intellectual property. Sterling Road has raised a single venture fund, Sterling Road 2.
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Funded Companies
Breinify is an artificial Intelligence company offering an automated marketing platform for e-commerce companies, founded by Diane Keng and Philipp Meisen.
A company providing an API for global consumer finance information
Brainbase is a Los Angeles-based company founded by Nate Cavanaugh, Karl Johan Vallner and Nikolai Tolkatshjov.
Associated investment funds
People
Ash Rust
Founder and Managing Partner
Further reading
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
Brainbase
Breinify
Compaas
Hopthru