Striker Venture Partners
San Francisco, CA · Invests in US; MENA · Website
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🔒 $•• – $••Thesis
Concentrated day-zero partnerships with ambitious technical founders building generational AI, cybersecurity, infrastructure software, and adjacent technical companies from inception.
Likely not a fit for
No public evidence of a broad consumer, marketplace, life sciences, climate, crypto, or late-stage mandate; opportunities outside AI, cybersecurity, infrastructure software, and adjacent technical markets should be treated as out of focus unless directly confirmed.
How they invest
- Lead or follow
- Usually leads
- Involvement
- Takes a board seat
- Fund status
- Actively deploying
- Assets under mgmt
- $165M
- Decision process
- Partnership vote
Partners & team
4 contacts on file
Portfolio
Recent activity
- Apr 2026
Elorian AI
Seed · Co-led
Striker Venture Partners in the news
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7 months ago
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Pulse 2.0
Inferact Launches With $150 Million Funding At $800M Valuation To Commercialize vLLM As Inference Demand Surges
7 months ago
The Information
Former Google, Apple Researchers Raising $50 Million for New Visual AI Startup
8 months ago
calcalistech.com
Striker Venture Partners commits up to half of its $165 million fund to Israel
8 months ago
The Times of Israel
New US venture fund bets big on Israel, promising millions for fledgling startups
8 months ago
Forbes
Brian Zhan
8 months ago
The Information
VC Fundraising Just Can’t Keep Up
9 months ago
WSJ
Exclusive | This AI Startup Wants to Remake the $800 Billion Chip Industry
9 months ago
Business Insider
This top young VC reunited with his former colleague to deploy an unusually bold strategy for investing in AI startups
9 months ago
WSJ
Exclusive | Ex-Benchmark Partner Victor Lazarte Collects $200 Million for Debut Fund
9 months ago
WSJ
New Firm Striker Venture Partners Has a Simple Formula: One Fund, 10 LPs, 10 Investments
11 months ago
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