“Category-defining technologies underpinning the machine economy. Backs pre-seed and seed founders building the infrastructure, payments rails and AI-native tooling that machines and agents will use as end customers.”
Only three portfolio companies are named on volt.capital. Two are crypto-native and classified here (Squads on Solana, USDAI on Ethereum/EVM); Replit is a non-crypto developer tool and is left unclassified rather than forced into a sector or chain it does not belong to.
Volt Capital is a small, New York based early-stage fund run by Soona Amhaz. The thesis is compact: category-defining technologies underpinning the machine economy, which in practice means infrastructure, payments and AI-native tooling built for machines and autonomous agents as the primary user rather than humans clicking through an app.
The site names only three portfolio companies: Squads, the Solana smart-account infrastructure that also appears in several other funds in this directory; USDAI, a stablecoin-adjacent payments company; and Replit, a non-crypto coding tool that shows Volt writes outside pure crypto when the machine-economy thesis still applies. That thinness is itself information: Volt is either highly selective in what it discloses, or a genuinely small, concentrated book. Either way, there is not enough public portfolio data to pattern-match with confidence, so a founder's best evidence is the thesis language itself.
There is no public application form and the site's FAQ link, which likely explained process, returned a 404 when checked. That makes Volt one of the more opaque funds in this tier on process, even though its cheque size and thesis are clearly stated.
Key stats:
| Partner | Role | Where to find them |
|---|---|---|
| Soona Amhaz | Founder and General Partner | volt.capital |
The site did not list additional named investment staff at last check. No verified X or LinkedIn handle for the fund or the partner was found in this session; search for "Soona Amhaz" directly rather than relying on a link here.