Standard Capital Ventures

Institutional venture firmSEC venture capital fund adviser· Palo Alto, Californiastandardcap.com

The AI-native Series A firm from Dalton Caldwell, Paul Buchheit and Bryan Berg. We lead rounds, take no board seat, and publish our terms up front.

In the firm's own words, from its website.

Reported fund assets
$423M
sum of its funds' Form ADV filings, last 30 months
New companies, 12 mo
None
Investment team
2
As of · the latest observation of this organization; filed figures are as of its latest Form ADV

7 additional co-investors and affiliates, 13 additional investments, funds and LPs, 2 verified contacts (1 published business email, 1 firm phone)

Every relationship, signal and contact on this record, with the source on each.

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Nothing material in the last 180 days.

People to know

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  • Owner
    Why: Named with investment responsibility
    No route on file yet
  • Owner
    Why: Named with investment responsibility
    No route on file yet

Relationship network

30 connected entities

From financing rounds and every investor named in them, Form ADV and Form D filings, the firm's funds and team, and disclosed LP commitments in the venture capital graph. A round's amount is the size of the round, not money that moved between two investors.

Some relationships on this record are counted rather than named here. They open with the full profile.

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Reading the network
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  • Company
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›How strength and recency are read

Co-investors are read from the rounds: three or more shared rounds is a strong observed relationship, two a repeat co-investor, one a single round. Funds and people are structural. Nothing is scored that a reader cannot check.

Darker lines were active in the last 24 months or are current; lighter lines are older or undated.

How am I connected?

Name your firm, a company or a person, and DFX finds the published routes to Standard Capital Ventures: a shared portfolio company or board, a prior employer, a co-investor, a shared LP or service provider. Every step is a filed or published record with its source; none is a guess about who knows whom.

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Investing

16 companies on record, 0 new in 12 months

Investments on record

16 companies, 0 partner-attributed
CompanyRoundRolePartnerRound sizeThis investorDateSource
Andromeda Surgicalportfolio listingunknownunknownunknownunknownOct 1, 2026Fact Firm website
Archilportfolio listingunknownunknownunknownunknownOct 1, 2026Fact Firm website
Artieportfolio listingunknownunknownunknownunknownOct 1, 2026Fact Firm website

Stated thesis versus observed behaviour

16 observed deals
Stated (the firm’s website)
Sectors
ai
Stages
series a
Geography
bay area
Check size
not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
Self-described
venture capital
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation: no observed deals yet
Stage at first entry: no observed deals yet
Industries, each company once
Hardware and deep tech, Software or Tech-enabled and IT services (1)
lead rate no observed dealsfollow-on rate no observed dealsnew companies, 12 months 0

Team

3 current, 0 departed

Decision makers

who to call first, and why; then everyone else by function
  • Dalton Caldwell · Owner
    Why this person: Named with investment responsibility; Joined in Aug 2025
  • Paul Buchheit · Owner
    Why this person: Named with investment responsibility; Joined in Aug 2025
Who else at this firm · 1 person, grouped by function
Finance, operations and compliance (1)
  • Bryan Berg · Chief Compliance Officer And Owner
    Why this person: Joined in Aug 2025

Ranked by the role the firm or its filing states, a route on file and deals led. Every reason is read from the record, never inferred. Routes are published by the person or the firm (their bio, the team page or a filing) and are revealed on a plan; data bought from a provider is never shown, and a route printed at a firm the person has since left is held back.

Investment team

3 current, 0 departed

Contacts

1 published business email, 1 firm phone

1 published business email, 1 firm phone on record, each with its source. Values open with the complete profile.

Funds and LPs

1 vehicle, 0 LPs disclosed

Funds and vehicles

1 reported
VehicleTypeVintageLifecycleReported GAVOwnersForm D soldLatest Form D
Standard Capital Ventures Fund I LPFundunknownFundraising$423M
Sep 12, 2026
67$0Jul 15, 2025

Limited partners

0 LPs, 0 disclosed commitments
No LP commitment on record. An LP edge needs a public disclosure with a quote: a pension report (see Limited partners for the plans read), a fund announcement naming the LP, or a Form ADV owner. The fund page carries the LP’s reported performance.

Known LPs and allocators

0 relationships across the firm's funds, from public pensions and the allocator graph
No allocator names this firm or its funds in a public disclosure DFX holds.

Relationships across DFX

10 co-investors · on 1 other DFX graph

Co-investors

10 counted from shared deals, for the whole firm
Across DFX and the capital chainon 1 other DFX graph Show
Across DFX
  • The same institution is held on RIA and Wealth, matched by identifier. See which records
Across the graphs

Standard Capital Ventures is the same institution as 1 record in RIA and Wealth.

RIA and Wealth1

The joined record opens with the product, beside every other relationship on this page.

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Evidence and history

1 dated event, 39 observations from 3 sources

Timeline

1 dated events
  1. Sep 12, 2025
    Standard Capital Ventures appears on the SEC adviser roster (ERA, venture capital fund adviser exemption)
    First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactForm ADV

Identity and regulatory footprint

Address, phone, Form ADV filing and ownersForm ADV filed Mar 30, 2026 · 1 private fundsShow
Headquarters
Palo Alto, CAadviserinfo.sec.gov
Office address
unknownadviserinfo.sec.gov
Business phone
unknownadviserinfo.sec.gov
SEC adviser type
Exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
SEC exemption claimed
Venture capital fund adviseradviserinfo.sec.govItem 2.B(1): advises solely venture capital funds
Latest Form ADV
Mar 30, 2026
Private funds reported
1 (1 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
Private fund gross assets, adviser total
$423Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder

Classification history

Every classification this record has carried2 on recordShow
  1. Sep 13, 2026
    Institutional venture firm (confirmed, 95%)
    Venture manager, reported GAV $423M across 1 vehicle
  2. Sep 12, 2026
    Institutional venture firm (confirmed, 70%)
    Venture manager with no reported fund assets yet (scale unknown)

Evidence

39 observations from 3 sources
Every observation behind this profile, with its source, date and class
FactValueEffectiveClassSource
Why admittedVC exemption, VC funds reportedMar 30, 2026FactForm ADV
SEC exemption claimedVenture capital fund adviserMar 30, 2026FactForm ADV
SEC adviser typeExempt reporting adviserMar 30, 2026FactForm ADV
Latest Form ADV filing2026-03-30Mar 30, 2026FactForm ADV
Adv pdf loadedadv-pdf-1Sep 12, 2026FactForm ADV
SEC statusERA - ActiveMar 30, 2026FactForm ADV
SEC status effective2025-09-12Mar 30, 2026FactForm ADV
Business phoneMar 30, 2026FactForm ADV
DescriptionOct 1, 2026Fact
DescriptionSep 16, 2026Fact
DescriptionSep 13, 2026Fact
HeadquartersPalo Alto, CAMar 30, 2026FactForm ADV
Office addressMar 30, 2026FactForm ADV
Self-described typeVenture capitalOct 1, 2026Fact
Self-described typeVenture capitalSep 16, 2026Fact
Self-described typeVenture capitalSep 13, 2026Fact
Legal formLimited Liability CompanyMar 30, 2026FactForm ADV
Portfolio pageOct 1, 2026Fact
Portfolio pageSep 16, 2026Fact
Portfolio pageSep 13, 2026Fact
Private funds reported1Mar 30, 2026FactForm ADV
Private fund gross assets (reported)$423MMar 30, 2026FactForm ADV
Stated geographybay area
“geography words on the home page”
Oct 1, 2026Fact
Stated geographybay area
“geography words on the home page”
Sep 16, 2026Fact
Stated geographybay area
“geography words on the home page”
Sep 13, 2026Fact
Stated sectorsai
“sector words on the home page”
Oct 1, 2026Fact
Stated sectorsai
“sector words on the home page”
Sep 16, 2026Fact
Stated sectorsai
“sector words on the home page”
Sep 13, 2026Fact
Stated stagesSeries a
“stage words on the home page”
Oct 1, 2026Fact
Stated stagesSeries a
“stage words on the home page”
Sep 16, 2026Fact
Stated stagesSeries a
“stage words on the home page”
Sep 13, 2026Fact
Team pageOct 1, 2026Fact
Team pageSep 16, 2026Fact
Team pageSep 13, 2026Fact
Venture funds reported1Mar 30, 2026FactForm ADV
WebsiteMar 30, 2026FactForm ADV
Site titleOct 1, 2026Fact
Site titleSep 16, 2026Fact
Site titleSep 13, 2026Fact
How this is scored
Scores, classification basis and filing advisersInstitutional venture firm, confirmedShow
Importance
35
elevated
Active deployment
0
low
Emerging
0
low
Freshness
100
high
Institutional venture firmSEC exempt reporting adviser

Venture manager, reported GAV $423M across 1 vehicle

The inputs behind each score
importance
gav: 0.49 · funds: 0.08 · people: 0.08 · investments: 0.45 · co investors: 0.4
active deployment
investments 12m: 0 · fund raising 18m: 0 · people joined 12m: 0 · vintage within 3y: 0 · latest investment at: not scored
emerging manager
fund count: 1 · reported gav: $423M · first adv filing: 2025-09-12 · years since first filing: 1.1

Fits, record history and connections

scored matches for this investor, every identity change, every edge

Record history

1 dated event on the change ledger, latest event first
  • Adviser's first ADV filing
    2025-09-12source on record

The ledger records every merge, rename and reclassification this record went through and the dated filings observed on it, so the identity on this page can be traced to the records it was built from. The ledger's own sentences name other records, so they show with the names.

Not yet on record: latest vintage.