Palo Alto · Pre-Seed–Late Stage · 11 people tracked
Also known as Cervin Ventures · Cervin Ventures 2021 · CERVIN VENTURES 2025 · Cervin Ventures Affiliates · CERVIN VENTURES MANAGEMENT, LLC
Investment thesis
Cervin Ventures positions itself as a hands-on partner to founders, focusing on helping companies build differentiated product value propositions and product roadmaps oriented toward long-term value creation. The firm provides market maps, research, and an advisor network to help entrepreneurs understand their competitive landscape. It also supports portfolio companies with stage-appropriate organizational development, talent acquisition through its network, and the creation of operational frameworks and business models. In collaboration with MIT and Professor Bill Aulet, Cervin has adapted a structured, step-by-step disciplined entrepreneurship program for its portfolio companies to help them launch ventures and bring products to market more efficiently.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 25, 2026.
Team · 11 people
from the firm's website & public directories
What they invest in
from 30 of 78 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×18SaaS ×18Enterprise Software ×17Cybersecurity ×8Data & Infrastructure ×6Cloud Computing ×5Developer Tools ×4Fintech ×4
HQs:United States×20Israel×1Mexico×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 14 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×52 founders×63 founders×24+ founders×1
Investments · 78 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 22019 · 22015 · 12014 · 16 dated
Loophole Labs is a systems infrastructure company that builds Architect, a Kubernetes platform for pod hibernation and live migration of workloads across nodes, zones, and clouds to avoid spot instance preemption and cold starts.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsAmplify Partners CVDeep AcrePeak XV PartnersHaystack
Aviatrix provides cloud network security solutions with embedded, real-time protection through its Cloud Native Security Fabric platform, serving enterprises that need control, security, and visibility across cloud infrastructure.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSanta Clara, US
Sherry Wei(Founder)Steve Mullaney(CEO)Doug M.in
BoardDevdutt Yellurkar(Director)inNick Sturiale(Director)in
Board seatShirish Sathaye· per SEC Form D · $46M raise · filed Nov 2019
Co-investors8VCGeneral CatalystMonta Vista CapitalCRV (Charles River Ventures)TCV
Arkestro provides intelligent procurement software that automates supplier quote collection and comparison for enterprise procurement teams.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Edmund LeikenBen Leiken(CTO)Rob Desantis(Co-founder)Edmund Adam Zagorin(Executive Officer, Director)Martin Meyer(Executive Officer)Neil Lustig(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsActivant CapitalAltira Group LLCConstruct CapitalEl Cap EquityForum VenturesKoch Disruptive Technologies+4 more
AiFi uses AI and computer vision to make physical spaces searchable, observable, and understandable, providing real-time insights for facility and space operators without manual audits.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareIoTRetail Tech
Steve Gu(Founder & CEO)Ying Zheng(Founder)
Co-investorsAmino CapitalCommunitas Capital PartnersDuke Capital PartnersEvolution VenturesGS FuturesHongtai Capital Holdings+5 more
Airgap Networks built agentless, identity-based network segmentation for IT and OT; acquired by Zscaler in 2024.
Akridata builds AI-powered visual inspection systems for quality control and defect detection across manufacturing, medical devices, automotive, and critical infrastructure.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningMedical Devices
Co-investorsAccelMenlo Ventures
Palo Alto-based maker of end-to-end conversational AI recruiting automation software, acquired by HireVue in October 2020.
Co-investorsBlue CollectiveGradient VenturesSapphire Ventures
Ampool built a cloud-native, high-performance SQL analytics engine and data federation layer; acquired by HPE in 2021.
Anvilogic is a security operations platform that helps detection engineers and incident responders build, deploy, and manage security detections across hybrid SIEM and data lake environments.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSPalo Alto, US
Deb Banerjee(Founder)inKarthik Kannan(Founder)inMichael Monte(VP of Customer Success & Sales Engineering)in
Co-investorsDatabricks VenturesEvolution Equity PartnersFoundation CapitalG SquaredMyriad Venture PartnersNeythri Futures Fund+1 more
Ark provides a customizable digital platform for venture capital and private equity firms to manage investor communications, performance reporting, and document sharing with their limited partners.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Co-investorsAcies InvestmentsAloft VCAlta PartnersAmity VenturesArtis VenturesAsymmetric Capital Partners+21 more
ArmorCode provides unified vulnerability management and application security posture management for enterprises, aggregating findings across security tools to prioritize and remediate security risks in software, cloud infrastructure, and AI systems.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Nikhil Gupta(Founder)in
Co-investorsBallistic VenturesCheyenne VenturesHarmonic Growth PartnersNGP CapitalSierra VenturesTau Ventures+1 more
ArmorText provides a secure, out-of-band communications platform for enterprise incident response and crisis situations, offering end-to-end encrypted messaging that operates independently of an organization's network.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsK Street Capital
Bedrock Analytics provides a cloud-based data analytics platform that turns retail sales data into insights on product performance for consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers.
AI & Machine LearningRetail TechSaaSOakland, US
William Salcido(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardNeeraj Gupta(Director)in
Co-investorsCERVIN VENTURESIlluminate Ventures
San Francisco-based BetterCompany operates a workplace social platform for anonymous, candid employee dialogue.
Blink is a mobile employee experience platform, or "super-app," for frontline and deskless workforces.
Blue River Technology builds intelligent machinery using computer vision and machine learning to solve complex challenges in agriculture, construction, mining, and forestry.
AgTechAI & Machine LearningRoboticsSunnyvale, US
Jorge Heraud(Executive Officer, Director)Lee Redden(Cofounder)
BoardPhilip Erlanger(Director)Rich Boyle(Director)Ted Crosbie(Director)
Co-investorsAliment CapitalDCVC (Data Collective)Khosla VenturesPontifax AgTechUlu VenturesPontifax Global Food Agriculture Technology
Bolster is a marketplace and search platform matching startups with full-time, fractional, interim and board-level executives.
Bright Pattern provides omnichannel contact center software (CCaaS) with AI-driven features such as AI agents, transcription, agent assist, interaction analytics, and workforce management.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Brinker is an AI-based narrative intelligence SaaS platform for detecting and mitigating disinformation and influence campaigns.
AI and machine learning platform providing retail competitive pricing intelligence; merged with Clear Demand in January 2025.
Catch+Release runs a content licensing marketplace that lets brands and agencies license existing creator content found online.
San Francisco, US
Analisa Goodin(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardPreetish Nijhawan(Director)
Co-investorsAccelAstiaAsymmetric Capital PartnersFarvatn VentureStreamlined VenturesGingerbread Capital
Causely is a causal AI company automating detection, prevention and remediation of defects in cloud-native application environments.
Celona builds private 4G/5G "5G LAN" networking platforms that integrate cellular wireless into enterprise IT infrastructure.
Cervin (Cervin Ventures) is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage enterprise application, infrastructure, and tools startups.
Enterprise Software
Neeraj Gupta(Founder)in
Co-investorsAccelHarbourVest Partners (Canada)
Claritics is a data science and AI services firm offering analytics, AI and digital experience solutions.
ClientSuccess offers customer success software that helps teams reduce churn, manage the customer lifecycle, and grow customer revenue.
Enterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechAmerican Fork, US
David Blake(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Dave Blake(Founder)in
BoardSid Krommenhoek(Director)in
Co-investorsLaunchCapitalAlbum VCBullet Time VenturesPeak VenturesSignal Peak VenturesTechstars
CloudLanes was a San Francisco hybrid-cloud data protection and migration startup acquired by Druva in 2019.
Coast is a New York-based fintech providing fuel cards and expense management software for commercial vehicle fleets.
Conveyor builds AI agents that automate B2B customer security reviews, questionnaires and RFP responses.
Paris-based orbital defence startup building Interceptor, an air-launched spacecraft that de-orbits uncooperative space objects.
Datum builds a network layer that gives alternative and emerging cloud providers global edge, private network and interconnection capabilities.
Docsum is an AI contract review and negotiation platform used by sales and in-house legal teams.
Earlyasset is a private market infrastructure platform offering price discovery for private company shares, portfolio-level pricing, and direct liquidity through Earlyasset Capital, using share class and cap stack modeling from secondary market data.
Data & InfrastructureFintechSaaSNewark, US
Shawn Bercuson(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsNew Stack Ventures
Mountain View, US
Kaushal Mehta(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardJoe Medved(Director)Carlos Monfiglio(Director)Jeffrey Sachs(Director)
Co-investorsAarin CapitalCERVIN VENTURESMenlo VenturesNewSchools Venture FundSoftBank Capital
FireCompass offers agentic AI penetration testing for web applications and APIs, mapping an organization's attack surface, validating exploitable vulnerabilities with working proof-of-concept exploits, and chaining findings into multi-stage attack paths.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Co-investorsAthera Venture Partners
Flightcontrol, now Ravion, is a developer-first platform for deploying and operating applications in a customer's own AWS account.
Folloze provides an AI-powered platform for personalizing B2B buyer journeys, using buyer signals to help marketers launch campaigns faster and convert more effectively.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSSales TechPalo, US
Etai Beck(Executive Officer, Director)inDavid Brutman(Executive Officer, Director)inTsvi Menachemi(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsBenhamou Global VenturesCanvas VenturesNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)CERVIN VENTURES
Hegel AI develops open-source software tools that help developers experiment with, evaluate, and monitor generative AI models including language models, vector databases, and image generators.
Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareNew York City, US
Co-investorsAmino CapitalSamsung NextTransLink CapitalY Combinator
Involver was a San Francisco social media marketing SaaS platform for Facebook and Twitter, acquired by Oracle in 2012.
Kapital is a financial services platform offering digital banking, payment processing, and investment products in Mexico.
FintechSaaSMexico City, MX
Rene Saul(Founder)inFernando Sandoval Oseguera(Founder)in
Co-investorsAccial CapitalBroom VenturesColabora VenturesFoundersX VenturesKube VCMS&AD Ventures+7 more
LaunchDarkly provides a feature management platform that enables development teams to release code changes safely through feature flags, detect production issues in real time, and run experiments without redeploying applications.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaSOakland, US
Edith Harbaugh(Co-founder; Chief Executive Officer, Executive Chair)inJohn Kodumal(Co-founder)in
Co-investors500 GlobalAlchemist AcceleratorBessemer Venture PartnersFirebolt Ventures Management Company, LlcHeavybitNewView Capital+11 more
U.S.-based agile software firm providing cloud-native application design and development, acquired by NTT DATA Services in 2021.
OwnID offers a fraud prevention and identity trust platform combining face liveness detection, a biometric fraud bureau of 170M+ identities, and passwordless multi-factor authentication.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaS
Co-investorsIncubate USVela PartnersGTMfund
Paystand operates a blockchain-based B2B payments network for accounts receivable, accounts payable and cross-border settlement.
Co-investorsNewView Capital
Paystand provides a SaaS-based B2B payments platform built on blockchain technology that automates accounts receivable and payable processes for businesses.
Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSCalifornia, US
Jeremy(Co-Founder and CEO)Scott(Co-Founder and Head of Solutions)inScott Campbell(Founder)
Co-investorsCommerce VenturesDnx VenturesEPIC VENTURESIndustrious VenturesKing River CapitalLEAP Global Partners+5 more
Paz is a restorative music mobile app built to reduce stress and deliver meditative benefits to listeners.
Peerlogic offers an AI front desk assistant ("Aimee") for dental and veterinary practices that answers calls, texts back missed calls, schedules appointments, and provides analytics on call volume and lead conversion.
AI & Machine LearningHealthtechSaaSScottsdale, US
Ryan Miller(Executive Officer, Director)Kristin Miller(Director)
BoardJustin Gray(Director)Taylor Oliver(Director)Alexander Maskovyak(Director)Ashok Santhanam(Director)
Co-investorsAZ Venture Capital Inc.Copper Sky CapitalAZ-VCCERVIN VENTURESIn Revenue Capital
Privacera is a SaaS-based data security and governance platform that helps enterprises discover sensitive data, enforce access policies, and securely migrate data to the cloud while managing compliance risk.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareNewark, US
Balaji Ganesan(Co-Founder & CEO)inDon Bosco Durai(Co-Founder & CTO)
Co-investorsAccelBattery VenturesCorrelation VenturesPoint72 VenturesSapphire VenturesInsight Partners
Punchh provides ordering, loyalty, and marketing software for enterprise restaurant, convenience store, grocery, and retail brands.
FoodTechMarketing TechRetail TechSaaS
Savneet Singh(President & CEO of PAR Technology Corp., and President of ParTech, Inc.)Joe Yetter(General Manager)
Co-investorsSapphire VenturesAdams Street Partners
QuanticMind was an AI-driven search advertising and marketing intelligence platform, acquired by Centro.
Qurrent is a San Francisco company providing fully managed, autonomous AI "digital workforces" for enterprise back-office operations.
RADICL provides an AI-native autonomous virtual security operations center for SMBs in the U.S. defense industrial base.
Ramble is a San Francisco AI product that turns a user's personal data and contacts into a queryable knowledge base of who-knows-what.
San Francisco AI fintech platform that pays B2B tech scale-ups upfront on signed deals while their buyers pay over time.
Flightcontrol provides deployment infrastructure for developers, bridging the gap between the simplicity of Platform-as-a-Service and the control of AWS.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSDayton, US
Brandon Bayer(Founder)inMina Abadir(Founder)in
Co-investorsTRAC (Third Round Analytics Capital)Transpose Platform ManagementY Combinator
Draper, Utah commerce-technology company offering an AI-powered post-purchase and e-commerce platform for DTC brands.
Remi operates a roofing marketplace that matches homeowners with contractors using instant quotes and fast timelines.
Utah-based workforce platform combining same-day payroll, commission automation and HR tools for home services companies.
Lehi, US
Adam Duerschmidt(Executive Officer, Director)Riley Omanson(Executive Officer)Roshan Kumar(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardTaylor Oliver(Director)in
Co-investorsCERVIN VENTURESTokyo Black
Slapdash built a command-bar tool for unified search and actions across cloud work apps; acquired by ClickUp in 2022.
SnapLogic builds an AI-powered enterprise integration platform that automates workflows and data processes across applications.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Mateo, US
Gaurav Dhillon(Founder & CEO)inSpencer Punter(Executive Officer)Brad Stewart(Chief Executive Officer)in
BoardFrank Artale(Director)Scott Kupor(Director)in
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzArrowroot CapitalEQUIAMFloodgateGolub GrowthSixth Street
Sunnyvale-based provider of enterprise secure application access delivered as a cloud service; acquired by Akamai in 2016.
Co-investorsMoment Ventures, Llc
Location-based mobile advertising platform powering deal and coupon targeting inside shopping apps; acquired by Valassis in 2015.
Stack Moxie provides monitoring and alerting for critical marketing processes and workflows.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSKirkland, US
M.H. Lines(Co-Founder, CEO)Shea Chanon(Co-Founder, Operations)Steven Dunston(Co-Founder, CRO)
Co-investorsAscend Venture CapitalSwan Venture FundSybilla MastersTechstars
Developer community platform for sharing and comparing tech stacks, plus SaaS stack discovery; acquired by FOSSA in 2024.
Stream.Security offers CloudTwin, a real-time model of an organization's cloud, identity, Kubernetes, VMware, network and SaaS environment that correlates configuration, posture, and activity to detect threats and calculate blast radius.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityTel Aviv, IL
Or Shoshani(Founder)Stav Sitnikov(Founder)
Co-investorsEnergy Impact PartnersGlilot Capital PartnersTLV PartnersUS Venture Partners
StrongSuit is a legal AI platform for litigation and transactional work, covering case law research, drafting and contract redlining.
Houston-based ThirdAI builds software that trains and runs deep learning models on commodity CPUs instead of GPUs.
Tynker is an educational programming platform that teaches children coding through game design, animation, robotics and Python.
Vendelux is a New York-based event intelligence platform that helps B2B teams pick, execute and measure in-person events.
WEVO simulates customer response to new concepts, products and campaigns using AI agents plus a global human panel.
Woz is a San Francisco AI app-development platform combining agentic AI with human engineering review to build business-ready apps.
Zephyr is a technology-enabled home services platform that acquires and operates local HVAC and home services brands.
Zight is screen recording and screenshot software that lets users capture their screen, webcam, voice, and face, annotate images, create GIFs, and share them via cloud links.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkSaaS
Co-investorsNordic Eye Venture Capital
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesSnapLogic · en.wikipedia.org · Aug 6, 2026
Cervin · alleywatch.com · Aug 3, 2026
Kapital Bank · euromoney.com · Jul 17, 2026
LaunchDarkly · pulse2.com · Jul 17, 2026
Earlyasset · earlyasset.com · Apr 25, 2026
ClientSuccess · frazier.vc · Jan 30, 2026
OwnID · calcalistech.com · Sep 21, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Cervin made?
- Cervin has 74 tracked investments, including 2 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Cervin invest at?
- Cervin invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Late Stage stages.
- What is Cervin's typical check size?
- Cervin typically writes checks of $250K – $6M.
- What sectors does Cervin focus on?
- Cervin focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Developer Tools, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Hardware, Logistics & Supply Chain, Quantum Computing, Retail Tech, SaaS.
- Where is Cervin located?
- Cervin is headquartered in Palo Alto, US.
- Does Cervin lead rounds?
- Yes, Cervin leads investment rounds.
- Who does Cervin co-invest with?
- Cervin most often shares deals with Accel, Sapphire Ventures, Correlation Ventures, among 110 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
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Co-investors · 38
Accel is a venture capital firm that partners with exceptional teams, positioning itself as a first partner to founders globally.
Sapphire Ventures partners with expansion-stage enterprise software companies aiming to become category leaders.
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is a venture capital firm that invests in and provides long-term support to founders building new companies.
Streamlined Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that partners with founders and invests at the seed stage to help build large-scale companies.
Illuminate Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on B2B/enterprise software companies, typically serving as a startup's first institutional investor and leading Series Seed rounds.
Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies focused on technology, mobile, and clean energy sectors, including biotechnology applications. The firm provides capital and strategic support to entrepreneurs developing breakthrough technologies across multiple markets.
Redpoint Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 1999 by former partners from leading venture firms, focusing on early-stage technology companies across multiple sectors. The firm leverages its partners' technology investment experience and an extensive network of entrepreneurs and industry contacts to support portfolio company growth.
Uncork Capital (formerly SoftTech VC) is a seed-stage venture firm that invests early in founders, with a focus on AI-native companies building leverage and scale.
Insight Partners is an investment firm focused on accelerating revenue and profit growth in software companies, providing capital and operational support through its Insight Onsite team.
Foundation Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that commits to founders at the idea stage and maintains long-term relationships with portfolio companies through their growth journey.
Battery Ventures is a global investment firm that has backed more than 450 companies over its 40-year history, operating its investment staff as a single global unit.
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Heavybit is an early-stage venture firm investing in technical, enterprise infrastructure startups, backing founders from day zero and helping them scale from developer-focused products up to enterprise adoption.
▶26 more co-investors
Bloomberg BetaSequoia CapitalFounders FundLightspeed Venture PartnersLux CapitalMeritech Capital PartnersCrosslink CapitalTrinity VenturesHanabi CapitalBlockchain CapitalMatrixWingDell Technologies CapitalZetta Venture PartnersPeakThird Point VenturesCisco InvestmentsStorm VenturesUP PartnersThomvest VenturesVertex Ventures Sea Management Pte. Ltd.MorgenthalerOCA VenturesBrewer Lane Ventures11.2 CapitalXerox Ventures
Firms observed investing alongside Cervin, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Cervin's recorded portfolio.
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