Sunshine Lake is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm backing pre-seed and seed founders globally, including U.S. and European companies. The firm emphasizes first-check investing around exceptional founders shaped by extreme origins and breakout moments, with attention to talent and economic or technological shifts. Its investment activity and portfolio point to AI-enabled software, FinTech, SaaS, data, enterprise software, HealthTech, insurance and Insurtech, with portfolio companies including Deel, Headway, Kalshi and Assured.