United States · 
What does Authentic Ventures invest in?
Authentic Ventures invests most often at Seed (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as AI, Enterprise Software and Fintech.
Authentic Ventures highlights
- 01
2 rounds on record
- 02
Mostly Seed: 100% of its rounds
What they do
Authentic Ventures ranks among the top early stage VC firms, backing bold founders in AI, enterprise software, and fintech from Seed through Series B.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries A
- Sectors
- AIEnterprise SoftwareFintech
- Based in
- Oakland, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first2 appearances
- 2025
2 rounds
- Jul
- May
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration2 named
AHAmel Hassan AbdelwahidChief Compliance Officer and Director of FinanceiForm ADV
LLLindsay Lincoln Macarthur LeeFounder and Managing Member of Authentic Ventures Investment Manager, LLC and All General Partners Listed in Section 7.aiForm ADV
We also hold 5 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$201Massets it managesOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- Authentic Ventures Investment Manager, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 304938
Funds on its Form ADV
13 private funds, $151M in gross assets · filed Jul 2024
- Authentic Ventures II, L.P.Venture76 investors$67M
- Authentic Growth Partners I, L.P.Venture29 investors$21M
- Authentic Ventures III, L.P.Venture14 investors$20M
- Authentic Ventures I, L.P.Venture23 investors$17M
- Authentic Strategic Partners 5 LLCVenture16 investors$12M
- Authentic Growth Partners II, L.P.Venture27 investors$3.7M
- Authentic Strategic Partners 7 LLCVenture8 investors$3.3M
- Authentic Strategic Partners 8 LLCVenture1 investor$2.8M
- Authentic Strategic Partners 9, LLCVenture10 investors$849K
- Authentic Strategic Partners 11, LLCVenture3 investors$817K
And 3 more on the filing.
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
2 of 13 we have independently watched raise
content-content-image content-imagecontent-content-content-content-content-content-image content-imagecontent-image content-imagecontent-image content-imagecontent-image content-imagecontent-image content-imagecontent-image content-image
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.