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Also known as EMERGENT VENTURES, LLC
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Investment thesis
Emergent Ventures focuses on seed-stage investments in enterprise AI, cloud, and intelligent software companies, backing founders from inception through pre-Series A. The firm aims to identify promising founders early, before the broader market, and lead rounds with conviction. It emphasizes hands-on support, helping companies reach product-market fit, craft go-to-market strategies, and build lasting momentum toward category leadership. Emergent invests in US-focused companies that may build from anywhere, and provides tailored, context-specific guidance drawn from operators and investors who have built and backed category leaders. It also maintains a CXO network of experienced business leaders to support portfolio companies.
Source: firm website, verified Sep 15, 2026.
Team · 16 people
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Founder mafia
The EMERGENT VENTURES mafia →6 people who came through EMERGENT VENTURES went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 56 of 62 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×39SaaS ×30Enterprise Software ×24Marketing Tech ×12Data & Infrastructure ×9Sales Tech ×8Developer Tools ×7Cybersecurity ×6
HQs:United States×37United Kingdom×1India×1Pakistan×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 35 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×152 founders×103 founders×54+ founders×5
Where their founders studiedfrom 60 founders with education data
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay ×6Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi ×6University of California, Berkeley ×4Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani ×3Indian Institute of Technology, Madras ×3The Wharton School ×3Anna University Chennai ×2Carnegie Mellon University ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 54 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×24Engineering ×22Business & Management ×13Finance & Accounting ×6Economics ×3Life Sciences ×3Law ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 60 founders with career history
Cisco ×4InMobi ×3Juniper Networks ×3Mood Indigo IIT Bombay ×3Cognizant ×2Conviva ×2Facebook ×2Google ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
9 founders hold a PhD · 10 hold an MBA (of 59 with degree data)
Investments · 62 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 22025 · 42024 · 42023 · 42022 · 42021 · 32019 · 12015 · 123 dated
Nutanix provides a cloud infrastructure platform that enables organizations to run applications, data, and AI across hybrid environments including public clouds, private clouds, datacenters, on-premises, and edge locations.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Jose, US
Dheeraj Pandey(Executive Officer, Director)inRajiv Mirani(Executive Officer)inHoward Ting(Executive Officer)inDuston M. Williams(Executive Officer)inSunil Potti(Executive Officer)inDavid Sangster(Executive Officer)in
Co-investors137 VenturesAccelerator VenturesBattery VenturesBlumberg CapitalInventus Capital PartnersKhosla Ventures+9 more
ZoomInfo operates a go-to-market intelligence platform that provides B2B contact, firmographic, technographic, and intent data along with AI-powered automation to help sales, marketing, and recruiting teams find and convert customers.
Data & InfrastructureMarketing TechSaaSSales TechVancouver, US
Henry Schuck(Co-founder & CEO)inASHLEY MCGRANE(Executive Officer)inMICHAEL GRAHAM O'BRIEN(Executive Officer)JAMES ROTH(Executive Officer)inPETER CAMERON HYZER(Executive Officer)CHRIS HAYS(Executive Officer)in
Co-investorsAscent Venture PartnersConvergeHalifax GroupRecall CapitalVenrock
Crux is an AI-powered analytics and creative strategist platform that helps performance marketers optimize advertising decisions and campaigns.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Himank Jain(Co-Founder and CEO)inAtharva Padhye(Founder)inPrabhat Singh(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorFirst Cheque
NeuroSonic develops a handheld, non-invasive device that assesses stroke risk by analyzing carotid artery blood flow, enabling clinicians to determine which patients require further vascular imaging.
Digital HealthHealthtechMedical DevicesLondon, GB
Mike Ryan(CEO)inMatthew Campbell(CTO)in
Co-investorsAnorak VenturesDetroit Venture PartnersLong Journey VenturesEntrepreneur FirstTranspose Platform Management
Terret provides a platform for managing revenue operations, designed for sales and go-to-market teams at startups and enterprises.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales Tech
Justin Shriber(Cofounder and CEO)Amit Sasturkar(Cofounder and CTO)
Co-investorsNGP CapitalBGV
Boomerang builds an AI agent that manages warm introduction programs for enterprise sales teams, automating the relationship-based activities that drive pipeline for companies like AWS and Snowflake.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales TechSan Francisco, US
Shyam Hariharakrishnan Neelakanta Iyer(Executive Officer, Director)Shankar Ganapathy(Director)Amit Dugar(Director)
BoardAlok Goyal(Director)in
Board seatAnupam Rastogi· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsPeak XV PartnersBetter CapitalStellaris Venture Advisors 2 Llp
OLOID provides passwordless authentication and identity access management for frontline and deskless workers using biometrics, badges, NFC, and device-based verification on shared devices, kiosks, and time clocks.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSunnyvale, US
Mohit Garg(Executive Officer, Director)inMadhu Madhusudhanan(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardGregg Adkin(Director)in
Board seatAnupam Rastogi· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsSeraph GroupUnusual VenturesYaletown PartnersDell Technologies CapitalHoneywell VenturesOkta Ventures
Quattr is an AI-powered SEO platform that unifies keyword research, content optimization, rank tracking, technical SEO, and automated internal linking into one workflow.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSPalo Alto, US
Anurag Singhal(Founder)in
BoardNeeraj Hablani(Director)in
Board seatAnupam Rastogi· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsNeotribe Ventures
Rockfish generates high-coverage, labeled synthetic data—including rare events, edge cases, anomalies, and drifts—from a customer's schema, sample, or production export to build evaluation sets for testing AI models and agents.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSeattle, US
Vyas Sekar(Executive Officer, Director)inDr. MuckAI Girish(Co-founder & CEO)Dr. Vyas Sekar(Co-founder & Chief Technologist)inDr. Giulia Fanti(Co-founder & Chief Scientist)Nathan Haugo(Co-founder & VP Platform Eng)inJeffrey Hummel(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Board seatAnupam Rastogi· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsFoster VenturesMilliways VenturesNewBuild.VCTen13NGP Capital
AkashX provides an AI query engine that runs semantic classification, extraction, and discovery across documents, relational tables, and multimedia without vector databases, RAG pipelines, or LLM orchestration.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSheridan, US
Darshan N(Founder)inKartik Kulkarni(Founder)in
Co-investorsTechstars
AlmaConnect provides an alumni engagement and relationship management platform for educational institutions and corporates, using data science to normalize and enrich profile data for prospect targeting.
EdTechEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Swapnil Khandelwal(Founder)inJay G.(Founder)in
Acceldata provides a unified platform for building, governing, and scaling data and AI workloads with end-to-end observability across pipelines.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwarePalo Alto, US
Rohit Choudhary(Executive Officer, Director)inAshwin Rajeeva(Executive Officer, Director)inSatish Krishnamurthy(Executive Officer, Director)Maram Nagendraprasad(Executive Officer, Director)Gaurav Nagar(Founder)in
Co-investorsDrive CapitalFelicis VenturesFocal VenturesGeneral CatalystInsight PartnersIntel Capital+21 more
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Spatial builds interactive virtual worlds using spatial computing and AI, operating a gaming studio focused on immersive multiplayer VR experiences.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerGaming
Astra builds a continuous offensive pentest platform that helps businesses identify and remediate security vulnerabilities.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareClaymont, US
Co-investorsBetter CapitalTechstars
BambooBox provides an AI-powered account-based marketing (ABM) platform combined with AI agents and human ABM experts to run end-to-end B2B go-to-market programs, covering strategy, data enrichment, campaign execution, and content creation.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS
Ankur Saigal(Founder)in
Co-investorsPeak XV PartnersNGP Capital
BasicBlock is a freight factoring and payment platform that lets truck carriers scan and submit load documents to get paid the same day at a fixed rate.
FintechLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSLincoln, US
Brett Byman(Executive Officer, Director)inTaylor Monks(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardAnkur Jain(Director)inBurak Cendek(Director)inCharley Dehoney(Director)
Co-investorsAutotech VenturesClear Haven Capital ManagementInvest NebraskaWakestream VenturesNelnetRise of the Rest Seed+2 more
Boomerang builds an AI agent called Rudy that runs warm introduction programs for enterprise revenue teams, drafting intro asks, reasoning with connectors, and tracking when introductions become revenue.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech
Co-investorsBetter Capital
Boson develops quantum-classical hybrid algorithms for accelerating complex engineering simulations, enabling faster product launches and reduced computational costs for organizations using high-performance computing.
Deep TechEnterprise SoftwareQuantum ComputingBear, US
Abhishek Chopra(Executive Officer, Director)inRut Lineswala(Executive Officer, Director)inJash Kumar Minocha(Executive Officer)
BoardRoger Krakoff(Director)inVijay Sethi(Director)
Co-investorsMonta Vista Capital
BosonQ Psi (BQP) develops BQPhy, a simulation software that integrates quantum computing with high-fidelity engineering simulations such as computational fluid dynamics.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechQuantum ComputingSaaS
Abhishek Chopra(Founder)in
Co-investorsArka Venture LabsPrana Tech VenturesTranspose Platform ManagementAlumni VenturesARC VENTURESArmory Square Ventures+2 more
Buffer is a social media management platform that enables small businesses, creators, and individuals to schedule posts, analyze engagement, and manage their presence across multiple social networks.
Marketing TechSaaSSocialChicago, US
Joel Gascoigne(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsRadicle ImpactVTF Capital
Byte operates a network of ghost kitchens in Pakistan that prepare and deliver food ordered through an on-demand platform.
ConsumerFoodTechMarketplacesLahore, PK
Safee Shah(Founder/CEO)in
Co-investorsKinnow CapitalY CombinatorCorrelation VenturesCrosslink CapitalSoma CapitalWndrCo
ByteKitchen builds operational software for restaurants to improve profitability through features like food ordering suggestions and digital recipe management.
ConsumerE-commerceEnterprise SoftwareFoodTechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Divyang Arora(Founder)inRahul Madadi(Founder)inQuinn McKenna(Founder)in
Co-investorsCrosslink CapitalY CombinatorCorrelation VenturesSoma CapitalWndrCo
CombineHealth AI builds AI agents that automate complex workflows across the healthcare revenue cycle, helping healthcare providers reduce manual work, improve collections, and accelerate cash flow.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechSan Francisco, US
Sourabh Agrawal(Founder)inShikha Mohanty(Founder)in
Co-investorsY Combinator
Creative Commons is an international nonprofit organization that develops legal tools and frameworks to increase access to knowledge and creative works.
Data & InfrastructureImpact & Social GoodLegalTechMedia & EntertainmentSector Agnostic
Anna Tumadóttir(CEO)in
Co-investorsAUGE-UCR
Databricks provides a unified platform for data engineering, analytics, and artificial intelligence, enabling organizations to build and deploy data and AI applications on cloud infrastructure.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Ali Ghodsi(Co-founder & CEO)inIon Stoica(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inMatei Zaharia(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inReynold Xin(Founder)inPatrick Wendell(Founder)inAndy Konwinski(Founder)in
Co-investors137 VenturesA.Capital VenturesAglae VenturesAlkeon InnovationAltra VentureAmplify Partners+71 more
Delightree is an operating platform for multi-location franchise businesses, consolidating location launches, team training, daily task management, audits, communications, and SOP-based answers into one system used by both HQ and frontline staff.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSDenver, US
Madhulika Mukherjee(Executive Officer, Director)inTushar Mishra(Executive Officer, Director)inKhushboo Jain(Executive Officer)
BoardXiaolei Cong(Director)Anupam Rastogi(Director)in
Co-investorsAccelAxilor VenturesBrainstorm Ventures
Factors.ai is an account-based marketing (ABM) platform that consolidates intent and engagement data and uses AI agents to identify buying accounts, score them by real engagement signals, launch ad campaigns, and attribute revenue.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSStamford, US
Aravind Murthy(Founder)inPraveen Das(Founder)inSrikrishna Swaminathan(Founder)in
Co-investorsElevation CapitalStellaris Venture Advisors 2 Llp
Gan.ai is an AI video generation platform that turns text prompts into cinematic product ads, UGC-style creator videos, and personalized videos with AI avatars, voice cloning, and lip-sync.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechMedia & EntertainmentMountain View, US
Suvrat Bhooshan(Founder)in
Co-investorsAquiline Technology GrowthSurge
Kipling Secure provides a platform for managed service providers (MSPs) to discover, govern, secure, and monetize their clients' AI usage across browsers, apps, and agents.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaSSan Jose, US
Sunil Bakhru(Founder)inSaurabh Sandhir(Founder)in
Co-investorsUnusual VenturesZ5 Capital
Lena is an AI voice and SMS platform for healthcare patient outreach, handling outbound multi-dialing calls, two-way texting, voicemails, and inbound callbacks to enroll patients in care programs.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechHouston, US
Alex Harb(Founder)in
Co-investorsJumpstart CapitalNina CapitalTechstarsTMC Venture FundCultivation Capital
llmda builds AI software for hardware and embedded systems development, using a data consistency engine to keep design data aligned across hardware-software workflows.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechSemiconductorsPalo Alto, US
Mahesh Umasankar(Founder)in
Co-investorsUP Partners
vCluster platform making Kubernetes more efficient; closed a $24M Series A led by Khosla Ventures.
San Francisco, US
Lukas Gentele(Executive Officer, Director)inFabian Kramm(Director)in
Co-investorsFusionBerkeley SkyDeck FundBlackRockFoundation CapitalKhosla VenturesSurface Ventures+1 more
Lumeus provides agent-native security and governance for AI coding workflows, enforcing policy and access control across IDE plugins, CLI, and MCP agent sessions with full auditability.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Co-investorsTola CapitalFirst Rays Venture Partners
Mile Auto offers pay-per-mile car insurance aimed at low-mileage drivers, charging a base rate plus a per-mile cost based on a monthly odometer photo rather than a tracking device.
FintechInsurTechMobility & TransportationAtlanta, US
Jim Cook(Executive Officer, Director)inFred Blumer(Executive Officer, Director)inDan Glunt(Director)Tom Jones(Director)Scott Nelson(Director)Joe Fuller(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsFlorida FundersService Provider CapitalUlu VenturesSure Ventures
Newday is an impact investing firm that manages portfolios for values-oriented investors seeking to align their capital with social and environmental outcomes.
FintechImpact & Social Good
Co-investorsAUTHENTIC VENTURES
Nexthop AI develops networking infrastructure hardware and software optimized for AI and cloud workloads, serving hyperscale data center operators.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureHardware
Anshul Sadana(Founder & CEO)inAnshul Sharma(Founder & CEO)Prasad Eduri(VP Hardware Engineering)Ryan McBride(VP Software Engineering)Arthi Jayakumar(VP Product Management & Services)Ariff Tahir(VP Customer Engineering)
Co-investorsLightspeed Venture PartnersAndreessen HorowitzBattery VenturesKleiner Perkins
Observe.AI builds an AI agent platform that enables businesses to deploy specialized autonomous agents to handle customer conversations, support frontline teams, and optimize contact center operations.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSSales TechSan Francisco, US
Swapnil Jain(Founder/CEO)inJithendra Vepa(Founder)in
Co-investorsMenlo VenturesScale Venture PartnersNexus Venture Partners01 AdvisorsCommon OceanMGV.VC+7 more
Potpie provides AI agents that map an organization's codebase into a knowledge graph to automate software development tasks such as debugging, testing, implementation planning, and pull request generation.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Co-investorsAll In CapitalDeVC
Prezent is an enterprise communication and presentation productivity platform powered by AI that helps teams increase communication effectiveness and reduce presentation production time and costs.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
BoardRajat Mishrain
Co-investors500 GlobalAngel Collective Opportunity FundGreycroftMultiplier CapitalTrue Global VenturesAlumni Ventures+3 more
Wren is an AI agent for privacy assessments that handles intake, research, risk analysis, and approval routing, and monitors internal tools like Jira, CLM, and procurement for activity requiring a privacy review.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York City, US
Prashant Mahajan(Founder)in
Co-investorsBetter CapitalInsight PartnersPeak XV PartnersTogether FundiSeed
Rocketium offers AI Studio, a service combining AI agents, creative intelligence, and human design experts to produce on-brand, campaign-ready marketing and advertising creative assets.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing Tech
Co-investors1CrowdArka Venture LabsFundamental VCTenacity Ventures
Sagetap is a peer-driven network that connects enterprise technology buyers with verified professionals for vendor evaluation and selection, replacing traditional analyst reports with real-world insights and trusted conversations.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSales Tech
Co-investorsNFXUncorrelated Ventures
Shanda is a platform that simplifies podcast creation and editing for content creators and knowledge sharers.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyFintechMedia & EntertainmentRoboticsSaaSSan Francisco, US
DumiPaul
Co-investorsTechstarsFitz Gate VenturesGeodesic CapitalNorthern Light Venture Capital
SimpliContract offers an AI-native Intelligent Contract Management platform that structures contracts into searchable data, orchestrates the contract lifecycle from intake through execution, and monitors post-signature obligations, SLAs, pricing, and renewals.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechSaaSPleasanton, US
Guru Venkatesan(Founder)inMakesh Kumar(Founder)inJinaraj Patinjakkara Gopalan(Co-Founder & CTO)in
Co-investorsArka Venture LabsFoster VenturesKalaari CapitalPICUS CAPITAL
SquadStack builds voice AI agents that handle sales phone conversations in Indian languages, using proprietary speech models trained on Indian contact center audio to qualify leads, book appointments, and close sales across call, WhatsApp, SMS, and in-app channels.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech
Apurv Agrawal(Founder)inKanika Jain(Founder)inVikas Gulati(Founder)in
Co-investorsAxilor VenturesChiratae Ventures
Statisfy is an AI-native customer success platform that runs predictive, generative, and autonomous agents to score account health, generate QBR decks and briefs, and automate tasks like renewal emails, risk escalation, and CRM updates.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales TechBoston, US
Munish Gandhi(Co-founder and CEO)inNavin Agrawal(Co-founder and CTO)inDean Wiltse(Executive Officer, Director)Navin Agarwal(Founder)inDave Casion(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardMichael Collins(Director)in
Co-investorsTau VenturesGreen D Ventures
SupportLogic provides an AI infrastructure layer for customer experience (CX), extracting data and signals from existing post-sales systems and building persistent customer context.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Krishna Raj Raja(Founder)in
Acteris is an AI intelligence layer for industrial robots that enables adaptive automation in high-mix, low-volume production environments.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningRobotics
Talview provides AI-powered video interviewing, remote proctoring, and assessment solutions for recruitment and exam administration.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechHR TechSaaSPalo Alto, US
Sanjoe Tom JoseinMani KainTom JoseinJobin JoseinSanjoe Tom Matthew Jose(Executive Officer, Director)inSubramanian Kailasam(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investors2am VCMayfield FundStorm Ventures
Terminal connects fast-growing technology companies with remote engineering talent from around the world through AI-powered recruiting and remote management services.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkHR TechSaaS
Dylan Serota(CEO + Co-founder)inClay Kelloggin
Co-investors8VCAtomicCathay InnovationSemperVirens Venture Capital
UptimeAI builds an AI-based monitoring and diagnostics platform for industrial plants, providing operational guidance rather than just data, alerts, and dashboards.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSan Ramon, US
Vamsi Yalamanchili(Executive Officer, Director)Jagadish Gattu(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardAnkur Jain(Director)inRishit Desai(Director)
Co-investorsAditya Birla VenturesAiSprouts VCquantumEDGE VenturesAi SproutsVenture CatalystsWestBridge Capital+2 more
Vayuh builds physics-informed AI models that forecast severe convective storms, hurricanes, wildfire, and other extreme weather perils, delivering risk maps, portfolio analytics, and uncertainty quantification via API.
AI & Machine LearningClimate TechInsurTech
Mayur Mudigonda(Founder & CEO)
A platform providing kernel-native workload isolation and multi-tenancy capabilities for running customer inference workloads on shared GPU infrastructure with near-zero performance overhead and strict security boundaries.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Co-investorsFusion
Vidoso provides an AI agent platform that generates brand-compliant marketing content—including campaign assets, blog posts, social copy, and video clips—from source materials such as webinars, events, and raw video.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSMenlo Park, US
Sharad Verma(CEO & Co-founder)Ayush Chordia(CTO & Co-founder)inDan Ahmadi(Co-founder)
BoardSteven Kishi(Director)Ankur Jain(Director)in
Co-investorsAspenwoodTau VenturesZ5 Capital
Xpand offers software for managing employee lifecycle transitions, including candidate experience, digital offers, post-offer and pre-boarding steps, onboarding, transfers, and offboarding.
Future of WorkHR TechSaaS
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
Delightree Inc.Nicira NetworksOps MxTrener RoboticsVdovitrina
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.
Exits · 4
2 IPOs · 2 acquisitions · showing 3NutanixNASDAQ: NTNXZoominfoNASDAQ: GTMNicira Networksacq. by VMware
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesBoomerang · forbes.com · Aug 19, 2026
Buffer · morningstar.com · Aug 17, 2026
Databricks · techcrunch.com · Aug 13, 2026
Quattr · echowi.ai · Aug 6, 2026
BQP · investing.com · Aug 5, 2026
BasicBlock · basicblock.io · Jul 22, 2026
BosonQ Psi · satellitetoday.com · Jul 17, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has EMERGENT VENTURES made?
- EMERGENT VENTURES has 62 tracked investments, 4 of which have exited, including 8 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does EMERGENT VENTURES invest at?
- EMERGENT VENTURES invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What sectors does EMERGENT VENTURES focus on?
- EMERGENT VENTURES focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, SaaS.
- Where is EMERGENT VENTURES located?
- EMERGENT VENTURES is headquartered in Silicon Valley, US.
- Does EMERGENT VENTURES lead rounds?
- Yes, EMERGENT VENTURES leads investment rounds.
- Who does EMERGENT VENTURES co-invest with?
- EMERGENT VENTURES most often shares deals with Lightspeed Venture Partners, Better Capital, Tau Ventures, among 120 tracked co-investors.
- What size deals does EMERGENT VENTURES back?
- Across 11 deals with disclosed amounts, EMERGENT VENTURES has joined rounds of $2M – $78M (median $5.3M).
From the blog
visit blog ↗Emergent has recently written about enterprise AI's transition from experimentation to scaled execution, the firm's recognition as a top venture capital firm, and best practices for early-stage founders in customer discovery for product-market fit. AI summary
Media · Podcasts & interviews
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