Firebolt Ventures
About Firebolt Ventures
Firebolt Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on all things software — enterprise B2B applications and infrastructure layers, fintech, and consumer — headquartered across Palo Alto and San Francisco. It helps extraordinary founders build enduring companies.
The firm partners with founders early, backs them through every stage, and shares the operator network, market intelligence, and pattern recognition built across 400+ investments. It also runs CXO, CTO, and CISO Councils, and counts current or former executives at Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and OpenAI among its LPs.
Notable outcomes include Groq's $20 billion NVIDIA licensing deal, Circle's $8.06 billion IPO, Statsig's $1.1 billion acquisition by OpenAI, and Bridge's $1.1 billion acquisition by Stripe. Current portfolio companies span OpenAI, Cursor, Deel, Whatnot, Supabase, Vercel, Postman, and Mercury.
People
- Cherian Mathew, Founder & Partner