Active: new fund Apr 2025 Verified 4 Nov 2026
Optimist Ventures
Investor in companies in complex sectors across stages, with an interest in the future of labor and AI.
- Type
- VC firm
- Location
- New York, New York, United States
- Stages
- Growth, Any stage
- Sectors
- AI, Insurtech
- Fund size / AUM
- $10M Optimist Ventures Fund I (Form D offering, 2025)
- Latest fund or filing
- 15 Apr 2026
- Website
- optimist.vc
Fund filings (SEC Form D)
- Latest fund on file
- Optimist Ventures Fund I
- Filed
- 15 Apr 2026 (amendment)
- Fund size
- $10M (total offering)
- Fund vehicles filed in the last 12 months
- 1 (includes feeder and parallel vehicles)
See this fund's filings on SEC EDGAR
Contacts on file
For Optimist Ventures, the paid file holds: 1 named decision-maker with roles; firm contact email (domain checked).
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Notable investments
Foundational Insurance GroupTenstorrent
Sources
- www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2063734/000206373426000001/
- adviserinfo.sec.gov/firm/summary/337808
- www.optimist.vc/
- www.optimist.vc/portfolio_current
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