First Rays Venture Partners
First Rays Venture Partners supports visionary early-stage founders. The firm invests in future-forward ideas that will disrupt the enterprise stack and makes initial investment in Seed, Pre-Series A, and Series A stage startups focusing on B2B enterprise software. It specializes in helping startups to find early customers in AI, enterprises, or developer communities and focuses on B2B themes of AI, Cloud-Edge-Data orchestration, and automation in the enterprise stack. Per Crunchbase, First Rays Venture Partners has made 34 investments, 12 as lead investor across 24 portfolio companies, with 4 exits.
Investing activity
First Rays Venture Partners has made 34 investments according to Crunchbase across 24 portfolio companies, and has led 12 rounds and seen 4 exits.
First Rays Venture Partners appears in 1 AI deal tracked by the AI Lounge deals desk. The rounds are mostly Seed, with a median round size of $7M. The most recent is ChatSee (Seed, $6.5M, Jun 2026).
First Rays Venture Partners most often invests alongside True Ventures and Seven Hill Ventures, and the companies it backs on AI Lounge are mostly in AI.
Deals
Frequently asked questions about First Rays Venture Partners
What AI companies has First Rays Venture Partners invested in?
First Rays Venture Partners's AI investments include ChatSee. The 1 round on AI Lounge are listed on this page with amounts, dates and co-investors.
Where is First Rays Venture Partners based?
First Rays Venture Partners is based in San Jose, California, United States.
What stage does First Rays Venture Partners invest at?
In the rounds tracked on AI Lounge, First Rays Venture Partners has invested at Seed, with a median round of $7M.
Who does First Rays Venture Partners co-invest with?
First Rays Venture Partners's most frequent co-investors on AI Lounge are True Ventures (1 deal) and Seven Hill Ventures (1 deal).
How can founders reach First Rays Venture Partners?
Founders on AI Lounge can see First Rays Venture Partners's contact details in AI Investor Contacts (paid plans), check for a warm introduction through members who worked with the firm under Warm Paths, and add First Rays Venture Partners to their Investor Pipeline to track the conversation.