Leap Forward Ventures, LLC
Leap Forward Ventures invests in startups making real-world systems more intelligent, adaptable, and cleaner. We help exceptional founders scale themselves and their companies when it is time to grow fast.
In the firm's own words, from its website.
1 additional team member, 18 additional co-investors and affiliates, 26 additional investments, funds and LPs, 2 verified contacts (1 general firm email, 1 firm phone)
Every relationship, signal and contact on this record, with the source on each.
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What matters now
- 3 dealswith Collaborative Fund Management
Invests most often alongside Collaborative Fund Management (3 shared deals) and Y Combinator (2 shared deals).
pair last observed on record 16 Sep 2026, not a deal date · The firms it syndicates with are the likeliest to see the same deals and to fill out its rounds.
Measuredshared rounds and portfolio companies on recordFor Founders building a round, co-investorsCo-investors →
People to know
View all people- Managing DirectorWhy: Managing directorNo route on file yet
Relationship network
55 connected entities1 observed round
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.
Click any name or line for the rounds and sources behind it. Line weight is rounds together; dashed lines are inferred.
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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 Leap Forward Ventures, LLC: 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
29 companies on record, 1 new in 12 months
Investments on record
What these amounts mean“This investor” is the amount disclosed for this investor alone; it is unknown unless a source said it. The round size is the whole round.Acquired, Public, Exited and Active are what the firm’s own portfolio card says, read on the date shown when you hover the chip; they are not deal dates. A company with no chip is one whose card states no outcome: DFX does not assume it is active.| Company | Round | Role | Partner | Round size | This investor | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alga Biosciences | portfolio listing | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact Firm website |
| Anode | portfolio listing | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact Firm website |
| Arcticar, Inc. | portfolio listing | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact Firm website |
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
- Sectors
- climate, energy, hardware, industrial
- Stages
- not stated or not yet read
- Geography
- not stated
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
Team
6 current, 0 departed
Decision makers
- John David Rusenko Jr · Managing DirectorWhy this person: Managing director; Named with investment responsibility
Who else at this firm · 2 people, grouped by function
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
How the team is orderedPartners who lead rounds first (rounds led, then deals attributed, then seniority), then the rest of the investment team, then investor relations, finance and operations. A person named by two sources under two spellings is shown once.- Managing Director
- Advisor
- Advisor
Contacts
1 general firm 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
What these amounts meanGAV is the gross asset value the adviser reported on Form ADV for the vehicle, never the fund’s committed size and never dry powder. Form D sold is the amount sold as of the latest filing, never a final close.| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leap Forward Ventures Fund I, L.P. | Fund | unknown | Unknown | $10.9M Mar 29, 2024 | 24 | $0 of $25.0M | Feb 3, 2023 |
Limited partners
Known LPs and allocators
What these amounts and dates areEach commitment is counted once across the pension tape and the allocator graph. A commitment date prints only when the source printed one; otherwise the row carries the report date. A foundation’s 990-PF line is a holding at fair value, never a commitment. Rows without a fund on the venture graph are commitments to this manager.Relationships across DFX
21 co-investors · on 1 other DFX graph
Co-investors
- 2026-09-163 shared deals · recurring
- 2026-09-292 shared deals · recurring
- 2026-09-162 shared deals · recurring
Across DFX and the capital chainon 1 other DFX graph ShowHide
- The same institution is held on RIA and Wealth, matched by identifier. See which records
Leap Forward Ventures, LLC is the same institution as 1 record in RIA and Wealth.
The joined record opens with the product, beside every other relationship on this page.
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Evidence and history
2 dated events, 26 observations from 2 sources
Timeline
- May 10, 2023Leap Forward Ventures, LLC first filed Form ADV (ERA, venture capital fund adviser exemption)
- May 10, 2023Leap Forward Ventures Fund I, L.P. first reported on Form ADV by Leap Forward Ventures, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $9,612,327
Identity and regulatory footprint
Address, phone, Form ADV filing and ownersForm ADV filed Mar 29, 2024 · 1 private fundsShowHide
- Headquarters
- Larkspur, CAadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- unknownadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- unknownadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- leapforward.vc
- SEC adviser type
- Exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- unknown
- Latest Form ADV
- Mar 29, 2024
- Private funds reported
- 1 (1 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets, adviser total
- $10.9Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
Classification history
Classification history
Every classification this record has carried1 on recordShowHide
- Sep 12, 2026Micro VC (probable, 80%)Venture manager, reported GAV $10.9M across 1 vehicle
Evidence
Every observation behind this profile, with its source, date and class
| Fact | Value | Effective | Class | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEC adviser type | Exempt reporting adviser | Mar 29, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| First Form ADV filing | 2023-05-10 | Mar 29, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Adv history loaded | adv-hist-1 | Sep 12, 2026 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Latest Form ADV filing | 2024-03-29 | Mar 29, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Venture share of reported funds | 1 | Mar 29, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Business phone | Mar 29, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV | |
| Contact page url | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Description | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Description | Sep 15, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Headquarters | Larkspur, CA | Mar 29, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Office address | Mar 29, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV | |
| Legal form | Limited Liability Company | Mar 29, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Portfolio page | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Portfolio page | Sep 15, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Private funds reported | 1 | Mar 29, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Private fund gross assets (reported) | $10.9M | Mar 29, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Stated sectors | Climate, energy, hardware, industrial “sector words on the home page” | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | |
| Stated sectors | Climate, energy, hardware, industrial “sector words on the home page” | Sep 15, 2026 | Fact | |
| Team page | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Team page | Sep 15, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Venture funds reported | 1 | Mar 29, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV |
| Website | Mar 29, 2024 | Fact | Form ADV | |
| Site title | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact | ||
| Site title | Sep 15, 2026 | Fact |
How this is scored
Scores, classification basis and filing advisersMicro VC, probableShowHide
Venture manager, reported GAV $10.9M across 1 vehicle
- importance
- gav: 0.01 · funds: 0.08 · people: 0.08 · investments: 0.55 · co investors: 0.53
- active deployment
- investments 12m: 0.13 · fund raising 18m: 0 · people joined 12m: 0 · vintage within 3y: 0 · latest investment at: 2026-02-02
- emerging manager
- fund count: 1 · reported gav: $10.9M · first adv filing: 2023-05-10 · years since first filing: 3.4
Fits, record history and connections
scored matches for this investor, every identity change, every edge
Record history
- Adviser's first ADV filing2023-05-10source 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.