Resolute Ventures

Resolute Ventures is a U.S. seed-stage venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, California, specialising exclusively in seed- and pre-seed-stage rounds across consumer, enterprise software, and adjacent early-stage technology sectors. The firm was founded in 2012 by Managing Partner and Founder Mike Hirshland (a co-founder of Polaris Venture Partners' Dog Patch Labs and former general partner at Polaris Partners; prolific Boston-to-SF early-stage investor) alongside Raanan Bar-Cohen (former Managing Director at Automattic parent of WordPress, previously at America Online) as Partner. Resolute is known for its prolific seed-stage deal volume, founder-friendly culture, and distinctive ''first believer'' positioning where the fund actively leads or participates in founders' earliest institutional rounds, typically writing initial check sizes in the USD 500,000 to USD 2 million range. The firm has raised multiple institutional funds: Resolute I at USD 22 million (2013), Resolute II at USD 50 million (2015), Resolute III at USD 75 million (2018), Resolute IV at USD 115 million (2021), and subsequent vehicles, with aggregate AUM in the USD mid-hundreds of millions range. Notable portfolio companies include Chime (fintech, IPO 2025), Carta, Cloudability (acquired by Apptio), Front, Flexport (early), Trulia (IPO), Literati, HomeLight, Tonal, and many other U.S. consumer- and enterprise-technology start-ups.