Abstract Ventures
San Francisco Β· Pre-SeedβSeries A Β· 4 people tracked
Investment thesis
Seed-stage fund founded by Ramtin Naimi whose boom-bust-resurgence background runs an institutionalized super-angel network that orchestrates targeted introductions to top multi-stage funds, boosting Series A graduation.
Team Β· 4 people
from the firm's website
Ramtin Naimi built a LinkedIn scraper tracking 7,000 operators to source founders pre-funding, syndicated roughly a third of AngelList seed volume, and made early investments in Solana and Rippling.
Alex, a founding general partner and two-time founder whose SkillSlate was acquired by TaskRabbit, helped build the firm into a venture platform and keeps unusually open DMs with deck submissions.
David Kwon, a Forbes 30 Under 30 partner, leverages Stripes and Greycroft growth experience to bring later-stage pattern recognition to technical infrastructure seed deals, openly recruiting talent and leading investments.
Will Thomsen pairs venture investing with hands-on engineeringβpersonally architecting and building a proprietary data platform to modernize VC sourcing and portfolio management through alternative data and software.
What they invest in
from 147 of 217 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning Γ69SaaS Γ54Enterprise Software Γ42Developer Tools Γ29Fintech Γ29Data & Infrastructure Γ20Consumer Γ13Deep Tech Γ13
HQs:United StatesΓ54BrazilΓ2CanadaΓ1GermanyΓ1United KingdomΓ1
Investments Β· showing 200 of 217
founders shown can be your intro pathAaru develops simulation tools and products that organizations use to accelerate product innovation, inform policy, and optimize marketing strategies.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareNew York, US
Cameron Fink(Executive Officer, Director)Edward Koh(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardLogan Bartlett(Director)
Acryl Data operates DataHub Cloud, an enterprise context platform built on the open-source DataHub project that unifies data lineage, quality checks, metric definitions, and governance into a "context graph" for AI agents, humans, and dashboards.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Adaptive Security provides security awareness training, phishing attack simulation, and email security solutions designed to defend against AI-powered attacks, deepfakes, and social engineering threats.
CybersecurityEnterprise Software
Brian Long(Founder & CEO)in
Melrose is an AI operations platform for freight and logistics that reads incoming delivery orders, emails, PDFs, and EDI, then automates the operational work between a company's existing systemsβpricing quotes, order entry into the TMS, status updates, and portal management.
AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS
AirGarage provides a connected platform and operational services for parking asset management, combining IoT cameras for occupancy monitoring with data analytics and management execution for property owners.
B2B MarketplacesData & InfrastructureIoTPropTechSan Francisco, US
Jonathon Barkl(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Scott Fitsimones(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardMike Maples, Jr.(Director)Sriram Krishnan(Director)Trevor Neff(Director)Ryan Delk(Director)
Alpaca provides brokerage infrastructure APIs that enable fintechs and financial institutions to build investing applications and platforms with access to stocks, options, crypto, and other asset types.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Yoshi Yokokawa(Co-founder & CEO)inHitoshi Harada(Founder/CTO)inBen Jackson(Director)Eddie Branchaud(Director)Karen Borchert(Executive Officer, Director)
Anon builds agentic AI solutions that deploy AI agents from prototypes to production systems for SMBs and Fortune 500 companies.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
The Antifraud Company uses investigative journalists, industry experts, and AI engineers to expose corporate fraud and file whistleblower claims aimed at recovering misused taxpayer money.
AI & Machine LearningGovTechLegalTech
Sahaj Sharda(Founder)
Arcana provides fundamental and statistical factor models with portfolio analytics for equity investors, offering single-stock and portfolio-level factor decomposition, crowding and ownership data, risk attribution, and constraint-based portfolio optimization.
Data & InfrastructureFintechSaaS
Atom Computing develops gate-based quantum computers using optically-trapped neutral atoms.
Deep TechHardwareQuantum Computing
Ben Bloom(Founder & CEO)in
Blooma provides intelligent automation software for commercial real estate (CRE) lending, automating data extraction, borrower profiling, loan scoring, and portfolio monitoring for national and regional banks, community banks, and debt funds.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSan Diego, US
Shayne Skaff(CEO)Tal Almog
Caliza provides cross-border payment infrastructure and multi-currency account management for businesses operating globally, enabling instant transfers, payouts, and compliant financial operations across North America, Asia, South America, Europe, and Africa.
Enterprise SoftwareFintech<UNKNOWN>
Chance is a messaging app focused on personal conversations with close contacts.
ConsumerSocial
Charlie Labs builds "daemons" β always-on AI processes defined in Markdown files that work proactively across tools like Slack, Linear, and GitHub to handle recurring maintenance work such as PR review, issue labeling, dependency updates, and documentation upkeep.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsFuture of Work
ChartHop provides a people operations platform that unifies people data and HR workflows including onboarding, compensation management, performance reviews, and employee engagement surveys.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaSBrooklyn, US
Ian White(Executive Officer, Director)
Cherry is a point-of-sale financing platform that enables healthcare practices to offer patients buy-now-pay-later payment plans with instant approval and competitive rates.
FintechHealthtechSaaS
CloudTrucks provides a platform that connects independent truck owner-operators to a network of carriers for freight shipping, handling compliance and cash flow management.
Logistics & Supply ChainSaaS
Cognition develops Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer agent that plans, writes, tests, and deploys production code within existing development environments to augment human engineering teams.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Scott Wu(Founder)Walden Yan(Founder)Steven Hao(Founder)in
Partiful is an event management platform that enables users to create and share event invitations, sell tickets, manage guest lists, and coordinate event logistics through features like QR code check-in, messaging, and photo sharing.
ConsumerMarketplacesBrooklyn, US
Comfy (ComfyUI) is a node-based AI creation engine that lets visual professionals connect models, processing steps, and outputs on a canvas with control over every parameter and output.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyDeveloper Tools
Concrete indexes venture portfolio communication across emails, meetings, documents, and links, then extracts structured, source-linked signals such as metrics and operational data.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
Conductor AI builds the Conduit platform, which ingests complex policy documents and encodes expert processes into AI-powered agentic workflows for document review, approval, agentic search, and redaction.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechGovTechBiddeford, US
Eric Schwartz(Executive Officer, Director)Zachary Long(Executive Officer, Director)Benjamin Fichter(Executive Officer, Director)
Connie Health helps Medicare-eligible individuals compare and enroll in Medicare plans, using technology to match plans to a person's budget and healthcare needs alongside local agents.
Digital HealthHealthtechInsurTech
Crossmint is a platform for integrating stablecoin infrastructure including wallets, onramps, and payment orchestration for enterprises and developers.
Crypto & Web3FintechSaaS
Crusoe builds energy-first AI infrastructure, using innovative and renewable energy sources to power hyperscale AI factories and a cloud platform for AI workloads.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingEnergy
Cully Cavness(Co-Founder)
Deeptune builds simulation environments ("training gyms") where AI agents can practice tasks like writing code or working in software such as Slack and Salesforce, then learn and improve over time.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsNew York, US
Delphi is an AI-powered assistant platform that helps venture capitalists scale their investment operations by automating deal screening, founder communication, and thought leadership distribution.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyEdTechEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaS
BoardKeith Rabois(Investor/Venture Capitalist)
Doppler provides a secrets management platform for developers, DevOps, and security teams to securely manage sensitive credentials and configuration data within their development workflows.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareAustin, US
Brian Vallelunga(Chairman & Founder)in
EarnBetter, now part of EarnIn, offers AI tools for job seekers, including automatic resume rewriting and formatting, cover letter generation, personalized job matches across more than 5 million listings, and a job-search tracking platform.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkHR Tech
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Abstract Ventures invest at?
- Abstract Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Abstract Ventures's typical check size?
- Abstract Ventures typically writes checks of $100K β $1M.
- What sectors does Abstract Ventures focus on?
- Abstract Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Crypto & Web3, Deep Tech, Developer Tools, Fintech, Hardware.
- Where is Abstract Ventures located?
- Abstract Ventures is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Does Abstract Ventures lead rounds?
- Yes, Abstract Ventures leads investment rounds.
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