Venture capital firm

Riot Ventures

Early-stage venture fund in Los Angeles backing founders scaling machine-related emerging technologies

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Riot Ventures is an early-stage venture fund based in Los Angeles. Its investment theme is machines: software that thinks and acts alone, devices that talk to each other, sensors and ways for machines to move.

What Riot Ventures does

Early-stage investing: backs ambitious founders scaling emerging technologies.
Autonomy and AI: software that acts independently.
Connected machines: data links between machines over the internet.
Security: protecting machines, their data and the systems they control.
Robotics and hardware: manufacturing, construction automation and hardware engineering tools.

Clients

Technology founders in areas such as metal 3D printing, restaurant point-of-sale, defence autonomy, CT scanning and drug discovery. Investments led by a co-founder include Toast, Desktop Metal, Shield AI and Lumafield.

Key facts

Based in: Los Angeles, United States
Stage: Early-stage venture
Theme: Machines and emerging technology

Summary written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Oct 2026.

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Riot Ventures is ranked on 1 TrustList ranking at #44.

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Venture capital firm · 1 ranking

#44of 64
Los angeles
Its profile: “Riot Ventures is an early-stage venture fund based in Los Angeles.”
Of the top 58 here, 10 also cover partners and 9 also cover growth stage; 20 also work in New York City and 9 also work in San Francisco.
Behind Pontifax AgTech, ahead of Rivenrock Capital.

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