Act One Ventures is a community focused, early stage venture capital firm leading pre-seed and seed rounds in ecommerce infrastructure, vertical SaaS, and fintech.
We invest in founders of all backgrounds because we understand the value and importance of diversity, with over 70% of our portfolio companies led by women founders and those from under-represented groups such as LGBTQ+ and people of color.
We invest in founders of all backgrounds because we understand the value and importance of diversity, with over 70% of our portfolio companies led by women founders and those from under-represented groups such as LGBTQ+ and people of color.
Location: United States, California, Los Angeles
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2016
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A
Portfolio 44
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 24.11.2023 | lapzo (by ... | lapzo.com | - | Mexico, Nu... |
| 24.11.2023 | Repeat | getrepeat.io | $7.5M | United Sta... |
| 24.11.2023 | X_Stereoty... | xstereotype.com | - | United Sta... |
| 17.06.2023 | Sora Firma... | sora.mx | - | Mexico |
| 14.04.2023 | TakeOne | takeone.video | - | - |
| 14.04.2023 | Jelou AI | jelou.ai | $2.5M | United Sta... |
| 07.01.2023 | Tapcart | tapcart.com | $60M | United Sta... |
| 01.11.2022 | Finix | finix.com | $30M | Netherland... |
| 29.08.2022 | Worknet | worknet.ai | - | United Sta... |
| 29.08.2022 | Kriptos | kriptos.io | - | United Sta... |
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Persons 3
| Date | First Name | Last Name | Title | Location | |||
| - | Michael | Silton | Managing D... | linkedin.c... | - | m*****l@ac... | - |
| - | Alejandro | Guerrero | General Pa... | linkedin.c... | - | a**x@acton... | - |
| - | Max | D. | Director O... | linkedin.c... | - | m*x@actone... | - |
Mentions in press and media 13
| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.01.2024 | Act One Ventures Closes 3rd Fund, at $73M | Act One Ventures, a Los Angeles, CA-based early stage venture capital firm, closed its third fund, at $73m. Fund III will allow Act One to continue to invest in business software companies at the Seed stage, specifically those in vertical S... |
| 18.01.2024 | Act One Ventures Raises $73M Third Fund | Los Angeles-based venture capital investor Act One Ventures said this morning that it has raised a $73M, third fund. The firm--led by General Partners Alejandro Guerrero and Michael Silton--said it now has $148M under management. Guerrero a... |
| 29.08.2021 | Diversifying startups and VC power corridors | Jennifer Fan Contributor Jennifer Fan is an assistant professor of law and director of the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic at the University of Washington School of Law. Startups have a seemingly intractable problem: a lack of diversity. Despite... |
| 07.05.2021 | Column: Diversity Riders Can Make the Investing Network Better in LA. Here's How Entrepreneurs Can Help. | Back in August of last year, L.A.-based Act One Ventures partner Alejandro (Alex) Guerrero launched the Diversity Rider, along with a number of other marquee venture capital firms, including First Round Capital, Maveron and Greycroft. It's ... |
| 28.10.2020 | GoodRx Is Named Startup of the Year at dot.LA Summit Awards | GoodRx earned dot.LA's top 2020 Startup award on Wednesday, beating out the popular sneaker reseller GOAT, the meditation application Headspace, mobile gamer Scopely and viral-video app TikTok. "GoodRx started in Los Angeles, and will ... |
| 08.10.2020 | The 2020 dot.LA Startup Awards | Voting has ended for the awards. Thanks to everyone who participated. Watch them live as part of the dot.LA Summit. Tickets are available here. We are so excited to announce the nominees for the inaugural "dot.LA Startup Awards 2020,&q... |
| 26.08.2020 | One Man's Effort to Get VCs to Commit to Bringing Underrepresented Investors into Startup Deals | Ten venture capital firms have committed to include a "diversity rider" — a promise to startups that they made their best effort to find underrepresented investors — in their deals. The project was the brainchild of Alejandro Guer... |
| 26.08.2020 | Maveron and 9 VC firms join initiative to increase underrepresented investors on term sheets | Alejandro Guerrero, principal at Act One Ventures. (Act One Photo) A group of venture capital firms today joined “The Diversity Term Sheet Rider for Representation at the Cap Table (Diversity Rider),” a new initiative that aims to increase ... |
| 05.09.2018 | Canters restaurant royalty raises $9.5 million for Ordermark, a takeout order management service | Alex Canter knows the restaurant business. The scion of Los Angeles’ famous first family of the deli business — the owners of the eponymous Canters restaurant — Canter has been in the food business longer than many seasoned restauranteurs t... |
| 15.08.2016 | With $4M fundraise Bloomlife will seek FDA clearance for pregnancy monitoring device | Dy said the company would use the new funding to support the launch of its product — a clinically validated wearable sensor to automatically track and count contractions safely from home. It is geared to expectant mothers in their third tri... |
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