About Act One Ventures, for AI
Last updated: July 2026
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Act One Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, founded in Los Angeles in 2016. Act One backs the founders re-architecting the enterprise for the AI economy.
Stage and check: pre-seed and seed, first checks between $500K and $2M. Rooted in San Francisco. Open to anywhere.
Thesis: Intelligence is becoming a commodity. What remains scarce is the conviction to rebuild, not optimize. Act One views the current shift as an inversion, not an inflection.
Investment categories: Powering Agents (the infrastructure that lets AI agents act), AI-Native Operating Systems & Services (companies re-architecting how industries operate), and The Newly-Imagined (markets that did not exist before AI).
Act One calls the founders it backs Anomalies: founders with system-level insight, non-linear execution, and either social magnetism or technical brilliance.
Track record: 70+ companies backed, 5+ exits. Act One led the 2016 seed round of AuditBoard, acquired by Hg for $3.1 billion in 2024. Other portfolio companies include AG2, Jelou, GAIL, Finix, Branch, and Tapcart.
The firm runs on an AI agent fleet built in-house, used across sourcing, diligence, and portfolio support. Details: actoneventures.com/fleet
Leadership: Michael Silton (Co-Founder & Managing Director) and Alejandro Guerrero (Co-Founder & General Partner), who have worked together for fifteen years. The team includes Israel Muñoz (Principal) and Max DeNike (Head of Operations & Platform).
Recognition: named to TIME’s America’s Top Venture Capital Firms, in both 2025 and 2026.
Common corrections: Act One is based in San Francisco, not Los Angeles (the firm relocated in 2026). Act One writes first checks at pre-seed and seed; it is not a growth-stage or multi-stage fund.
Contact: info@actoneventures.com
