August Capital
augustcap.com Direct investor
August Capital is a venture capital firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area, founded in 1995. It manages approximately $2 billion in aggregate capital commitments and focuses on early stage investments in the information technology sector, with opportunistic later stage investments.
August Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, United States, founded in 1995. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in information technology. Approximately $2 Billion in aggregate capital commitments under management, as it reports.
“We primarily focus on early stage investments, but also make opportunistic later stage investments which we believe have venture capital level risk/return profiles.”
— August Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Sectors
- information technology
- Founded
- 1995
- Assets under management
- approximately $2 Billion in aggregate capital commitments
Team, as August Capital publishes it
- Buddy Arnheim Investment Partner
- Eric Carlborg General Partner
- Howard Hartenbaum General Partner
- David Hornik General Partner
- John Johnston Founding Partner
- David Marquardt Founding Partner
- Vivek Mehra Partner Emeritus
- Abby Hipps General Counsel
Names and roles exactly as listed on augustcap.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 122 co-investors found.
- Lobby Capital 19 shared companies: gitlab.com, fastly.com, splunk.com, wattpad.com…
- Founders Circle Capital, LLC 5 shared companies: gitlab.com, sunbasket.com, turo.com, getmaintainx.com…
- Iconiq Capital 3 shared companies: gitlab.com, fastly.com, bill.com
- Hercules Adviser LLC 3 shared companies: fastly.com, wattpad.com, snagajob.com
- Silver Lake 3 shared companies: seagate.com, splunk.com, vmware.com
- Alpha Ascent Ventures LLC 3 shared companies: amount.com, avant.com, springlabs.com
- Hyde Park Venture Partners 3 shared companies: amount.com, avant.com, fourkites.com
- QED Investors 3 shared companies: amount.com, avant.com, kin.com
- Sapphire Ventures 3 shared companies: integralads.com, mirantis.com, sunbasket.com
- Canaan Partners 3 shared companies: beckon.com, ebates.com, turo.com
and 112 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page August Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.augustcap.com/name, is_investor
- https://www.augustcap.com/about/layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, aum
- https://www.augustcap.com/team/people
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Record 1884 · added 2026-08-29 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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