Day One Ventures

Owner

Palo Alto

Owner.com provides an all-in-one platform that helps independent restaurants succeed online, positioning itself as a Shopify-HubSpot-style solution for the sector. It has generated tens of millions in revenue, served millions of guests, and

Posh

New York

Create and discover events.

Netic

San Francisco

We help essential service industries grow on autopilot. Essential services power the real economy. Every one of us interacts with these industries repeatedly throughout our lives. But these large businesses face real-world constraints—human labor, external volatility, compliance, logistics, and physical infrastructure. Their operations are complex and often rely on outdated systems and manual workflows, and they can’t access the frontier technologies that drive digital-first businesses. In a world where startups mostly build for startups, we serve the large enterprises in real industries and end users that keep America running. We're a small team of relentless builders, ex-founders, and immigrants from top CS schools and tech companies who thrive on solving hard problems and making a tangible impact. We are backed by the best investors and founders of our generation.

Superpower

San Francisco

Superpower runs a membership-based health program centered on biomarker insights, with transparent pricing and no hidden fees. It offers 24/7 support and resources, plus HSA/FSA-eligible plans, delivering flexible, proactive health manageme

Pillar

New York

Pillar is a unified risk management platform for the physical world, consolidating data analysis, portfolio construction, execution, management, and accounting into system. It has built risk strategies for private equity firms, hedged FX fo

Starpath Space

Los Angeles

Starpath designs and manufactures robotic propellant production factories for the Moon and Mars, aiming to cut deep-space transport costs and enable a multi-planet human presence. Its Starlight team seeks to dramatically lower space-rated s

Highlight

San Francisco

The company markets itself as an on-screen personal assistant and aims to make users 10x faster at their jobs, positioning its product as a tool to streamline work and speed up daily tasks through on-screen assistance.

Pilgrim

Redwood City

Pilgrim develops, validates, and deploys battlefield-ready biotechnology, turning breakthrough science into decisive capabilities for operators at the edge.

Zuma

San Francisco

Zuma provides Kelsey, an AI leasing assistant for multifamily resident lifecycle, helping operators automate leasing and resident tasks. It blends agentic AI with humans-in-the-loop to preserve brand voice, accuracy, and empathy, and runs 2

AstroForge

Huntington Beach

AstroForge is a Huntington Beach-based deep-space asteroid mining company founded by Matt Gialich and Jose Acain, veterans of NASA, SpaceX, and Virgin Orbit, aiming to tap resources existing in space and operate in the deep-space asteroid m