Seven Stars

What Seven Stars does

Seven Stars is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2025 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with a $40 million debut fund. The firm invests at the pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages, with a concentrated thesis in AI-native companies spanning consumer, healthcare, and infrastructure applications. Disclosed portfolio holdings include AIUC, Corgi, Dialogue AI, Doctronic, Keychain, Longeye, Origin Lab, Pomo, Sage Care, Tavus, and Voya Energy, plus six stealth-mode companies, with recent activity including Doctronic's $40M Series B (March 2026), Flashpass's $4.25M seed (April 2026), and Origin Lab's $8M seed (May 2026).

The firm is led by three partners: founder Steven Lee (previously at SV Angel), Partner & Head of Operations Oscar Wong (ex-Google-YouTube, ex-Gold House Ventures), and Partner & Head of AI Zhou Yu (ex-SignalFire, ex-Stitch Fix, ex-Google, ex-Grow Therapy). The partnership has established corporate partner programs with Anthropic, OpenAI, AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, providing portfolio companies with cloud and model credits. The firm was featured in Fortune Term Sheet on June 11, 2025, at fund close.

Seven Stars' business model follows standard venture capital economics: 2% annual management fees on committed capital and 20% carried interest on fund profits. With a 1-10 person team and a $40M fund, current operating revenue is derived solely from management fees, while the bulk of economic value depends on realized exits from the concentrated AI portfolio. The firm's core differentiation is a thesis-driven AI focus combined with operator-grade diligence and corporate partner support for portfolio companies.

Name

Seven Stars

Legal name

Seven Stars

Website

https://sevenstars.vc

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Seven Stars is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2025 with a $40M fund focused on pre-seed to Series A investments in AI-native companies, led by three partners with prior operating experience at Google, SV Angel, and Stitch Fix.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Venture Capital

NAICS

Other Investment Pools and Funds (5259), Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (523940), All Other Financial Investment Activities (52399)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282), Asset-Backed Securities (6189)

akta.pro primary industry

Micro-VC & Angel Funds (FSANAAAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Early-Stage Venture Capital (Series A/B) (FSANAAAB)

Keywords

• Venture capital
• Seed investing
• AI startup funding
• Early-stage investment
• Startup advisory

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Early-stage venture capital fund returns: As a venture capital firm, Seven Stars earns returns from its $40M fund through capital gains on equity stakes in portfolio companies. Returns are realized via exits (IPO, M&A) or secondary sales of pre-seed, seed, and Series A equity investments concentrated in a small number of companies. Typical VC model: management fees + carried interest on fund performance.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Seven Stars is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests concentrated capital from a $40M fund into a small number of pre-seed, seed, and Series A AI startups. Portfolio companies receive fundraising advisory, a curated hiring network, an AI advisor network with frontline operators, and access to more than $2M in partner-program savings (Anthropic, OpenAI, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure). The fund focuses on AI-native consumer and enterprise software across healthcare, infrastructure, marketing, vertical AI, and applied research.

Product overview

Seven Stars is an early-stage venture capital firm (not a software product company) offering a unified platform-plus-modules service architecture to founders of AI-native companies. The core offering centers on three integrated service pillars: Fundraising Advisory (investor introductions, financing strategy, term sheet negotiations), Hiring Network & Support (candidate sourcing and closing support), and an Advisory Network & Founder Community (frontline AI advisors and quarterly peer events). On top of these, Seven Stars layers Partner Programs & Founder Benefits providing more than $2M in savings. Their investment portfolio includes the named companies AIUC, Corgi, Dialogue AI, Doctronic, Keychain, Longeye, Origin Lab, Pomo, Sage Care, Tavus, and Voya Energy, plus 6 undisclosed stealth-mode companies, with concentrated capital deployed at Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A stages.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Seven Stars VC Fund A $40M early-stage venture capital fund making concentrated investments at Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A in AI-native consumer and enterprise software startups. Seven Stars works collaboratively alongside VC firms and angels as co-investors.
• Fundraising Advisory Advisory service for portfolio founders covering introductions to investors, financing strategy, and complex term sheet negotiations. Seven Stars reports advising hundreds of founders on $5B+ in financings over the past decade.
• Hiring Network & Support A curated candidate network built over 13 years in Silicon Valley that surfaces exceptional candidates from top companies and universities and supports founders in closing key leadership roles.
• Advisory Network & Founder Community Provides portfolio founders with access to AI advisors who have frontline experience as executives and researchers at Google, Nubank, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI, plus quarterly founder events that bring together portfolio founders and peers from fast-growing companies.
• Partner Programs & Founder Benefits Portfolio companies receive access to more than $2M in savings across products, services, and partner programs, including offerings from Anthropic, OpenAI, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and other corporate partners.

Quantifiable outcome

• $5B+ in founder financings advised over the past decade
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered partner program / corporate partner and partner program / cloud infrastructure partner.

• Anthropicpartner program / corporate partnerGTM or Marketing PartnerAnthropic is a corporate partner providing product/service benefits to Seven Stars portfolio companies, contributing to more than $2M in partner-program savings accessible to founders.
• OpenAIpartner program / corporate partnerGTM or Marketing PartnerOpenAI is a corporate partner providing product/service benefits to Seven Stars portfolio companies, contributing to more than $2M in partner-program savings accessible to founders.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)partner program / cloud infrastructure partnerTechnology or IntegrationAWS is a cloud-infrastructure partner providing benefits to Seven Stars portfolio companies, contributing to more than $2M in partner-program savings accessible to founders.
• Google Cloudpartner program / cloud infrastructure partnerTechnology or IntegrationGoogle Cloud is a cloud-infrastructure partner providing benefits to Seven Stars portfolio companies, contributing to more than $2M in partner-program savings accessible to founders.
• Microsoft Azurepartner program / cloud infrastructure partnerTechnology or IntegrationMicrosoft Azure is a cloud-infrastructure partner providing benefits to Seven Stars portfolio companies, contributing to more than $2M in partner-program savings accessible to founders.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Amplify Partners: Seed-stage firm investing in technical founders building foundational and applied AI/ML companies. Closely comparable thesis and stage focus.
• Conviction: AI-focused early-stage venture firm founded by Sarah Guo, investing in AI-native applications and infrastructure at seed and Series A. Direct competitor for AI founder mindshare and deals, with a similar thesis-driven specialization.
• AIX Ventures: AI-focused early-stage fund backed by leading AI researchers and operators, investing at pre-seed and seed in AI-native companies. Direct peer in the specialized AI seed category.
• Zetta Venture Partners: Early-stage venture firm focused exclusively on AI-first companies, with a track record of leading seed rounds in enterprise AI. Direct peer in AI-only seed investing.
• Pear VC: Pre-seed and seed VC partnering with founders at company conception, with deep AI founder community and platform programs. Direct peer in early-stage AI investing with similar platform-benefit structure.
• Eniac Ventures: Seed-stage VC investing in AI-native and technical founders; co-investor with Seven Stars on Origin Lab's $8M seed. Direct peer with overlapping deal flow in AI seed.

Broad incumbents

• SV Angel: Founder Steven Lee's former firm; SV Angel is a long-established seed-stage venture firm that writes many small checks and provides founder introductions. Most directly comparable model to Seven Stars' concentrated, founder-first seed approach.
• Gold House Ventures: Partner Oscar Wong's former firm; Gold House Ventures invests early in companies led by Asian/Pacific Islander and other underrepresented founders. Adjacent early-stage VC with shared operating DNA from the same leadership.
• SignalFire: Partner Zhou Yu's former firm; SignalFire is a data-driven early-to-growth VC with a strong AI/data science operating team. Comparable on stage and AI-thesis overlap, though larger and broader in stage range.

Emerging players

• South Park Commons: Founder community and pre-seed/seed investment platform for technical and AI builders; comparable founder-first, community-led early-stage model with strong AI founder pipeline.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/SevenStars_VC

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments19 records

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