Founded in San Francisco in 2009, we have spent fifteen years building conviction in enterprise software and cloud infrastructure.
Akave Capital is a San Francisco-based venture fund with $240M AUM, investing at Series A and B in enterprise software and cloud infrastructure since 2009. We were founded on the conviction that the companies running the world's operations — banks, hospitals, manufacturers, governments — need fundamentally better tools, and that early-stage capital paired with deep operational knowledge is the right way to back the founders building them.
We invest only in B2B software because enterprise relationships compound in ways consumer markets do not. Contracts are long, net retention separates great companies from average ones, and the buyers are rational. Every check we have written since 2009 has been into this category — we do not chase consumer deals and never have.
We lead rounds and take board seats in the infrastructure layer being built above the hyperscaler — security, orchestration, observability, compliance, and developer experience. Our portfolio includes Tectrix, Veracode Systems, Heliosync, and Fluxguard. We have been allocating to this category since 2015 and believe the category-defining companies are still being formed.
We lead rounds, take board seats, and stay for the long hold — typically seven to ten years. That means we are selective: we write $8–18M checks and only back teams where we can genuinely contribute to go-to-market, recruiting, or the next financing. We are not passive capital.
We do not wait for social proof. If we believe a market is real and the team is exceptional, we move without needing other firms to validate the thesis first. Many of our best investments looked wrong at the time of the check. That is not an accident — it is the strategy.
We tell founders what we think, even when they do not want to hear it. Honesty in a board meeting is more useful than encouragement. We share our network, our mistakes, and our read on market conditions because founders make better decisions with real information.
Enterprise software does not follow consumer timelines. Deals take months. Deployments take quarters. Revenue recognition is complicated. We are structured for that — our fund life and our team's patience are built around a seven-to-ten-year relationship with the companies we back.
Our partners have built and sold enterprise software. We know what the first enterprise contract feels like, what a renewal conversation actually involves, and what a security review can do to a deal timeline. That experience is what we bring to board meetings — not just capital.
Five partners with deep backgrounds in enterprise software, infrastructure, and venture investing.
Meet the Team