# Authentic Ventures: portfolio, investments and team > Authentic Ventures is a vc firm based in United States. 2 investments on record, latest Jul 2025. Portfolio, stages, co-investors and team. Source: https://millionrounds.com/fund/authentic-ventures (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article) United States · [Investor](https://millionrounds.com/investors) # Authentic Ventures Filed with the SEC to raise a fund in Aug 2025, closing $27M. Last cheque observed Jul 2025. Email VC firm Quiet New fund $27M, Aug 2025 Pre-seed Seed Series A AI Enterprise Software Fintech Follow Authentic Ventures and see its new cheques in your feed. [Start following](https://millionrounds.com/login?join=1&why=follow&next=%2Ffund%2Fauthentic-ventures) Cheques on record **0%** of best year **0** **cheques in 12 months**, 2 on record Since the last cheque **484** days **00** hrs **00** min **00** sec Median round **$6.3M** Rounds led **0 of 2** Pitch Authentic Ventures ## 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-seed Seed Series A - **Sectors:** AI Enterprise Software Fintech - **Based in:** Oakland, United States - **Cold pitches:** Not accepted ## The record Every round we can evidence, newest first **2 appearances** - **2025** 2 rounds - **Jul** **[Cerebrium](https://millionrounds.com/company/cerebrium)** Seed · ZA · Disrupt Africa **$8.5M** With 2 others - **May** **[Carrot](https://millionrounds.com/company/carrot)** Seed · NG · Disrupt Africa **$4.2M** With 2 others 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 registration **2 named** AH **Amel Hassan Abdelwahid** Chief Compliance Officer and Director of Finance i Form ADV LL **Lindsay Lincoln Macarthur Lee** Founder and Managing Member of Authentic Ventures Investment Manager, LLC and All General Partners Listed in Section 7.a i Form 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 **$201M** assets it manages Oct 2026 **Registered** investment adviser full 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. *Venture* 76 investors $67M - Authentic Growth Partners I, L.P. *Venture* 29 investors $21M - Authentic Ventures III, L.P. *Venture* 14 investors $20M - Authentic Ventures I, L.P. *Venture* 23 investors $17M - Authentic Strategic Partners 5 LLC *Venture* 16 investors $12M - Authentic Growth Partners II, L.P. *Venture* 27 investors $3.7M - Authentic Strategic Partners 7 LLC *Venture* 8 investors $3.3M - Authentic Strategic Partners 8 LLC *Venture* 1 investor $2.8M - Authentic Strategic Partners 9, LLC *Venture* 10 investors $849K - Authentic Strategic Partners 11, LLC *Venture* 3 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-](https://millionrounds.com/company/gametime)[content-image content-image](https://millionrounds.com/company/amira-learning) content- content- content- content- content- content-image content-image content-image content-image content-image content-image content-image content-image content-image content-image content-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. New fund on file **$27M** raised in Aug 2025 From its SEC filing, not a journalist: a firm that has just raised has money to deploy. ## The cheque Pre-seed Seed Series A Median round joined **$6.3M** the round, not its cheque Led 0 of 2 rounds **0%** - **Sole investor:** Never alone - **Last cheque:** Jul 2025 Rounds by stage said on their site - Seed said *2* - Pre-seed said *-* - Series A said *-* Cheques by month Led Joined Dec 2023 Nov 2026 **Pitching Authentic Ventures?** Put them on your fundraising board with this record on the card, and follow them to hear when they write a new cheque. Add to your CRM *→* ## Recently backed The latest companies Authentic Ventures put money into. [**Cerebrium** $8.5M · Jul 2025](https://millionrounds.com/company/cerebrium)[**Carrot** $4.2M · May 2025](https://millionrounds.com/company/carrot) ## Quick answers about Authentic Ventures ### 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. ### How active is Authentic Ventures? 2 investments on record, 0 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Jul 2025. ### What has Authentic Ventures invested in recently? Its most recent investments on record: Cerebrium (Seed, Jul 2025) and Carrot (Seed, May 2025). ### How big are Authentic Ventures's cheques? The median round it joins is $6.3M. ### Is Authentic Ventures investing now? No investments in the last 12 months; the latest was in Jul 2025. ### What kind of investor is Authentic Ventures? Authentic Ventures is a VC firm based in Oakland, United States. ### How much does Authentic Ventures manage? About $201M, as regulatory assets under management (Oct 2026). ### Has Authentic Ventures raised a new fund? Its latest fund filing with the SEC was in Aug 2025, reporting $27M raised. ## Raising now? Find the investors who back rounds like yours, and keep every conversation on one fundraising board. Find similar investorsOpen your CRM Built from the rounds we watched, its filings and its own website, refreshed every night. [How we count](https://millionrounds.com/methodology) · [Report a correction](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?slug=authentic-ventures) · [Is this your firm? Claim it](https://millionrounds.com/claim?org=authentic-ventures)