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Essence Venture Capital
Venture capitalActively deployingSan Francisco · Pre-Seed–Series A · 4 people tracked
Also known as ESSENCE · TIMOTHY CHEN ADVISORS, LLC
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Investment thesis
Essence Venture Capital focuses on the core technical primitives underpinning future technology, investing in early-stage infrastructure companies spanning AI, data, developer tools, security, and related categories. The firm aims to partner with technically credible founders at the very inception of category-defining infrastructure, sometimes before a company formally exists. Describing itself as engineers and builders first, Essence emphasizes technical credibility, community building, and understanding of infrastructure complexity, while helping with company formation, narrative shaping, go-to-market design, and network activation. The firm is currently deploying its fourth fund and engages deeply with the open-source and infrastructure communities, including through its podcasts.
Source: firm website, verified Oct 2, 2026.
Team · 4 people
from the firm's website & curated & public directories
Founder mafia
4 people who came through Essence Venture Capital went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 103 of 121 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×81Developer Tools ×65Enterprise Software ×48Data & Infrastructure ×41SaaS ×36Cloud Computing ×22Cybersecurity ×16Deep Tech ×8
HQs:United States×70Canada×1United Kingdom×1Ireland×1Sweden×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 24 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×22 founders×43 founders×104+ founders×8
Where their founders studiedfrom 44 founders with education data
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ×5University of Waterloo ×4Stanford University ×3Dartmouth College ×2University of California, Davis ×2University of Toronto - Woodsworth College ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 44 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×24Engineering ×11Business & Management ×5Humanities ×3Mathematics & Statistics ×2Physics ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 48 founders with career history
Google ×12Microsoft ×4Uber ×4Salesforce ×3Stanford University ×3Amplitude ×2Apple ×2Canopy ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
3 founders hold a PhD · 2 hold an MBA (of 46 with degree data)
Investments · 121 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12025 · 22024 · 22023 · 42022 · 32021 · 416 dated
KERYS Software develops a secure virtualization platform that enables multiple isolated environments on a single physical machine with near bare-metal performance, targeting organizations requiring digital resilience and DORA/NIS2 compliance.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityData & InfrastructureDeep TechDeveloper ToolsQuantum Computing
Pavlo Baron(Co-founder)inZachary Schneider(Co-founder)inCésar Rodríguez Rosario(Founder & CEO)inThomas BrethoméinSébastien DomergueinSylvain Cassierin
Co-investorsDaphniQAI VenturesAspire11Peak
DeepSource provides developer tools for code quality and security.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Sanket Saurav(CEO)inJai Pradeesh(President)inVishnu Jayadevan(Tech Lead - Platform)Saurabh Ariyan(Engineering Manager)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsFundersClubHack VCRogue CapitalTango.vc645 VenturesPioneer+6 more
Adelphi builds data middleware and discovery technology for intelligence and defense organizations, enabling secure collaboration and real-time access across fragmented, multi-domain data environments in compliance with security requirements.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDefense TechEnterprise SoftwareGovTech
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsOctaveFlex Capital Partners
Alkymi provides an AI-powered platform that extracts and automates data from unstructured documents, turning it into workflow-ready data via APIs.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechNew York City, US
Harald Collet(Founder)inAdam Kleczewski(Founder)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsIntel CapitalWork-BenchCanaan Partners
Apollo provides an AI-powered platform designed for go-to-market teams to improve sales and marketing productivity.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSales TechSan Francisco, US
Tim Zheng(CEO)inRay Li(Founder)inMatt Curl(Chief Executive Officer)inMarcio Arnecke(Chief Marketing Officer)inAdam Carr(Chief Revenue Officer)inPhil Moon(Chief Financial Officer)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsA*Angel Collective Opportunity FundBain Capital VenturesJude GomilaNewView CapitalPascal Capital+17 more
Arcol is a building design authoring platform that integrates construction and preconstruction intelligence into the design process, supporting collaboration between teams and AI agents.
Construction TechPropTechSaaS
Paul O'Carroll(Founder)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsCowboy VenturesCraft VenturesVibe Capital
Artillery is a performance testing toolkit that provides load testing, Playwright-based end-to-end testing, and production monitoring capabilities for web applications and APIs.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSLimerick, IE
Hassy Veldstra(Founder)inHasan Minatullaevich Veldstra(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardEliot Durbin(Director)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsY CombinatorAccuro Trusteesboldstart venturesFirst Round CapitalGeneral CatalystLowercase Capital+2 more
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Atmanity is a platform for creating and discovering AI-generated avatars, offering a library of thousands of avatars that users can browse and make their own.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerCreator Economy
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAddin VentureGFR Fund
Axolotl is an open-source tool for fine-tuning and customizing large language models across different AI architectures, supporting techniques like LoRA, qLoRA, and PEFT with faster training.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAfore CapitalFikaLeadout CapitalChapter One
Butter builds bVisor, a lightweight sandbox runtime for AI agents that runs locally within application processes, providing a secure bash environment without virtual machines or remote infrastructure.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Erik Dunteman(CEO)inAdam Wan(Founder)Christopher Holm-Hansen(Founder)Jakob Knutzen(Founder)Vijay Menon(Founder)
Co-investorsY CombinatorAndreessen HorowitzAntlerAtomicDraft Ventures LlcFuturistic.VC+7 more
Chroma Sync is a serverless data ingestion service for Chroma Cloud that connects S3 buckets, GitHub repositories, and websites, then parses, chunks, and embeds the content for search.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Anton Troynikov(Founder)Jeff Huber(Founder)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAlt CapitalAir Street CapitalAIX VenturesAngel Collective Opportunity FundBloomberg BetaAI Grant+3 more
Clarify builds a modern CRM platform that consolidates customer data from multiple sources, automates workflows, and provides insights to drive business growth.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechDover, US
Patrick Thompson(Founder)inOndrej Hrebicek(Founder)inAustin Hay(Founder)inPranav Priyush(CEO)
BoardMatt Garratt(Director)inZachary Bratun-Glennon(Director)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAscend Venture CapitalFikaGradient VenturesInvariantes FundMadrona Venture GroupRecall Capital+6 more
Cleanlab develops machine learning tools for data quality and model improvement, serving enterprises and ML practitioners across industries.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Curtis Northcutt(Founder)inJonas Mueller(Founder)inAnish Athalye(Founder)inAnishathalye(Co-founder)Ulyana Tkachenko(Co-founder)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investors515 VenturesBain Capital VenturesMenlo VenturesPreston-Werner VenturesSamsung NextTq Ventures Llc+2 more
Cline is an open source AI coding agent runtime that developers use inside their IDE, terminal, or embedded via an SDK to plan and execute coordinated multi-file code changes, run terminal commands, and automate workflows in CI pipelines.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Saoud Rizwan(Founder)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investors1984 Ventures Management, LlcEmergence Capital PartnersESSENCE VCPace CapitalZero Prime Ventures
Coana provides static analysis tools that identify reachable security vulnerabilities in software dependencies, filtering out false positives to help developers prioritize genuine threats.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Anders Møller(Professor)Benjamin BarslevMartin TorpAnders Søndergaard
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsESSENCE VCSequoia Capital
CodeRabbit provides AI-powered code review tools for developers to improve software quality and efficiency in development workflows.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsWalnut Creek, US
Harjot Gill(Founder)inGuritfaq Singh(Founder)inVishavjeet Kaur(Executive Officer)Alex Berkenkamp(Executive Officer)Gur Singh(Founder)Vishu Kaur(Founder)
Co-investorsAtomicoCRV (Charles River Ventures)Flex Capital PartnersFoothill VenturesHarmony PartnersNVentures+8 more
Coiled is a lightweight compute platform that enables data engineers and scientists to scale Python code to thousands of cloud machines without Kubernetes or Docker.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Matthew Rocklin(Founder)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersChemistryCostanoa VenturesIA Ventures
Comfy is an open-source tool for building repeatable visual AI workflows by chaining multiple AI models together.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Yoland Y.(Founder)inYaozhong Yan(Executive Officer, Director)Junhan Huang(Director)Yoland Yan(Founder)
BoardChristopher Paik(Director)inYannik Marek(Director)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesChemistryCraft VenturesFoundersGV (Google Ventures)Sunflower Capital Management Fund+4 more
Comm is an encrypted messaging platform for communities that combines Signal's end-to-end encryption model with personal servers to support community features like channels, roles, and threads.
Crypto & Web3SocialNew York City, US
Ashoat Tevosyan(Founder)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsVibe CapitalCoinFundElectric CapitalEniac Ventures
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Making technical teams more collaborative.
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesUnusual Ventures
Crash Override monitors code written by humans and AI agents, inspects each build layer, applies cryptographic tagging to artifacts, and tracks their provenance in production environments.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareNew York, US
Mark Curphey(Director)inJohn Viega(Founder)inMark S. Curphey(Founder)
BoardJay Allan Leek II(Director)Erik Nordlander(Director)inMichael Droesch(Director)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersFirestreak VenturesGV (Google Ventures)In-Q-TelSyn Ventures Seed Management Llc
Datafold builds AI-powered agents and tools that automate complex data engineering tasks including migrations, optimization, CI/CD, and data quality validation.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York City, US
Gleb Mezhanskiy(Founder)inAlex Morozov(Founder)inLisa Mezhanskaia(Senior Operations Manager)Tina Perkins(Recruiter)Steven Avella(Recruiter)Becky Lee-Roche(Head of Recruiting)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersAngel Collective Opportunity FundAvant LabsBT Growth CapitalGood News VenturesHustle Fund+6 more
An AI security and trust platform securing live voice and video calls with real-time context analysis, deepfake detection, and social engineering response automation.
San Francisco, US
Aman Ibrahim(Founder)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsEval Ventures FundFoundersResponsibly VenturesRipple VenturesTransform Capital ManagementYAR Ventures+1 more
DevZero is a Kubernetes platform that optimizes large-scale container environments through telemetry, machine learning, and automation to reduce resource waste and costs.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSeattle, US
Debo Ray(Founder)Rob Fletcher(Founder)inDebosmit Ray (debo)(Founder)inDebosmit Ray(Founder)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsCommunity Access FundFikaFoundation CapitalMadrona Venture Group
Spreedly operates an open payments platform that lets merchants orchestrate their payment stack, securely vault customer payment methods, manage fraud and authentication, and accept payments initiated by AI agents across multiple processors.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Adam Hiatt(Executive Officer, Director)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsMana VenturesPoint72 VenturesRuntime Ventures
Dragonfly is a Redis-compatible, multi-threaded (thread-per-core) in-memory data store that delivers higher throughput and better memory efficiency on a smaller hardware footprint.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Oded Poncz(Founder)Roman Gershman(Founder)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsQuiet Capital
effx built a platform to help engineering teams collaborate and work more productively, with a focus on microservices architectures.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsCowboy VenturesESSENCE VCKleiner PerkinsTokyo BlackModern TechnicalOlima Ventures
Encore is a backend development platform that lets developers declare cloud infrastructure directly in application code, run a local environment mirroring the cloud, and automatically provision production infrastructure in their own AWS or GCP accounts.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaSStockholm, SE
Marcus Kohlberg(Founder)inAndré Eriksson(Founder)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAlliance VCESSENCE VCKleiner PerkinsAlliance VentureCrane Venture PartnersDig Ventures Management Limited
Eventual develops data infrastructure for teams building physical AI, particularly focused on handling video and sensor data at scale.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep TechDeveloper Tools
Dylan DiMarchi(Founder)inJay Chia(Founder)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsCRV (Charles River Ventures)Felicis VenturesAlleyCorpESSENCE VCLaude VenturesUpfront Ventures+1 more
Daft is a data processing platform that transforms raw multimodal data (video, images, audio, sensor data) into training-ready datasets in a single pipeline.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Sammy Sidhu(Founder)inJay Chia(Founder)inTony Wang(Founder)Patrick Ames(Founder)Ritvik Kapila(Founder)Maurice Weber(Founder)
Co-investorsY CombinatorAlleyCorpAlumni VenturesArray Ventures Management LlcCaffeinated CapitalClocktower Ventures+8 more
Everest is an AI platform that automates regulatory, clinical, and commercial document workflows for pharmaceutical, medtech, and contract research organizations (CROs), generating submission-ready documents and associated statistical analyses from source data.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechEnterprise SoftwareMedical Devices
Mark G. Grondin(CEO)Ashley Ferreira(CEO)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investors515 VenturesEval Ventures FundTq Ventures LlcQuiet Capital
Fearn is a patent prosecution firm that handles patent drafting and filing for technology teams, founded by former Big Law patent professionals and PhDs.
AI & Machine LearningLegalTechSan Francisco, US
Han Kim(Founder)inAngela Gao, PhD(Co-Founder & CTO)Angela Gao(Founder)
Co-investorsDesigner FundKindred VenturesA16Z SpeedrunESSENCE VC
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Fiddler AI provides an AI observability and control platform offering experiments, monitoring, guardrails, and governance for enterprise AI agents and compound AI systems.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwarePalo Alto, US
Krishna Gade(Founder)inAmit Paka(Founder)in
BoardRaviraj Jain(Director)inBilal Zuberi(Director)inGeorge Mathew(Director)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundaVentureBenhamou Global VenturesBloomberg BetaCisco InvestmentsDallas Venture Capital+23 more
Flarion provides performance-optimization technology for distributed data-processing engines such as Spark, Hadoop, and Ray, using tools like Polars and Apache Arrow to improve speed and memory efficiency.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Udi Tizan(Founder)inRan Reichman(Founder)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsHetz VenturesSierra Ventures
Flatfile is an AI-powered data migration platform that lets enterprises collect, map, clean, transform, and validate data from files, APIs, webhooks, databases, and cloud storage.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSDenver, US
David Boskovic(Founder)inEric Crane(Founder)AVERY CHASE(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardRORY O'DRISCOLL(Director)inFRANCES SCHWEIP(Director)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAfore CapitalGradient VenturesScale Venture PartnersTiger Global ManagementTwo Sigma VenturesWorkday Ventures+5 more
Flowglad is a platform that unifies cross-system automations, context, and knowledge for professional service teams.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York City, US
Agree Ahmed(Founder)inHarrison Telyan(Founder)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsFinancial Venture StudioRestive VenturesSouth QuadY CombinatorDFS LabHoaQ+2 more
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Flox provides tooling to manage software and its dependencies down to individual packages, including SBOMs and provenance, with reproducible environments that work across the software lifecycle.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareNew York City, US
Ron Efroni Rotman(Executive Officer, Director)Michael Brantley(CTO)inRon Efroni(CEO)inBen Futoriansky(Executive Officer)in
BoardAaron Jacobson(Director)inPavel Livshiz(Director)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsHetz VenturesNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Angel Collective Opportunity FundFirestreak VenturesMaximilian StoiberTilia Impact Ventures+6 more
Flux develops a browser-based tool for hardware design collaboration that enables teams to work together efficiently.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsHardwareSan Francisco, US
Matthias Wagner(Founder)inLance Cassidy(Founder)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investors53 Stations8VCBain Capital VenturesBehind Genius VenturesCapital B Private HoldingsOutsiders+4 more
Adam Kirk(Founder)Ajay Kulkarni(Founder)Alberto Taiuti(Founder)Alex Yu(Founder)Alexandra Mysoor(Founder)Alexis Rivas(Founder)
Co-investorsOpen Field Capital01 Advisors1984 Ventures Management, Llc359 Capital8VCAcrew Capital+59 more
Fused is an end-to-end Python platform with data-aware AI that lets data teams and individuals explore data using natural-language prompts, build charts, and share results, including geospatial analysis.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureSaaSNew York, US
Isaac Brodsky(Founder)Sina Kashuk(Founder)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsFontinalis PartnersMyriad Venture Partners
Gable builds a data collaboration platform centered on data contracts, integration and unit testing, diffs, and monitoring to catch data quality issues at upstream sources before they reach analytical environments.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Daniel Dicker(Founding Engineer)inChad Sanderson(Co-founder & CEO)inJames Frost(Co-founder & CPO)inAdrian(Co-founder & CTO)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundB Capital GroupB4 CapitalCrane Venture PartnersIn-Q-TelInvest In Data+4 more
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Genmo is a research lab building frontier AI models for video generation, positioning its models as world simulators for embodied AI and synthetic environments.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyDeep TechMedia & EntertainmentSan Francisco, US
Ajay Jain(Founder)inParas Jain(Founder)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundEastlink Capital PartnersNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)ESSENCE VCGold House VenturesHouse+1 more
Iris is a natural-language-to-SQL analytics tool that lets executives and business teams ask questions in plain language and get data answers in under a minute.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureSaaS
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Good Start Labs builds game-based learning environments, benchmarks, and data-generation pipelines that produce verifiable rewards and real human feedback to train and evaluate AI models.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep TechGaming
Alex Duffy(Founder)inTyler(Founder)Tyler Marques(Founder)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsInovia CapitalTIRTA VenturesESSENCE VCGeneral Catalyst
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Groundlight builds machine learning and computer vision technology to enable robotics applications.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsRoboticsSeattle, US
AviLeo Dirac(Founder)inAvi Geiger(Founder)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsMadrona Venture GroupUnion Bay PartnesFlying Fish VenturesFounders' Co-op
Herald provides an AI-powered platform and API for insurance brokerages, including an intelligence engine, an email-based AI agent that extracts client data and sends submissions, and connectivity to carriers, MGUs, MGAs, wholesale brokerages, and program managers.
AI & Machine LearningInsurTechSaaS
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAfore CapitalBrewer Lane VenturesUnderscore VC
A full-stack monitoring platform that helps developers identify performance issues and bugs in web applications through session replay and error tracking.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSeattle, US
Jay Khatri(Cofounder, CEO (acquired by LaunchDarkly))inVadim Korolik(Founder)inEdith Harbaugh(Founder)John Kodumal(Founder)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAfore CapitalCraft VenturesFuel CapitalMakers FundNeoRamtin Naimi+17 more
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HumanSignal offers labeling and evaluation automation within Label Studio Enterprise, using prompts and LLMs to generate pre-labels, run active-learning retraining loops, and score model outputs against rubrics.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Michael Malyuk(Founder)inNikolai Liubimov(Founder)inMax TkachenkoinMaxim Tkachenko(Founder)Nikolay Lyubimov(Founder)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsBow CapitalRedpoint VenturesSwift VenturesUnusual Ventures500 Global
Stream processing cloud that lets developers turn data into real-time action at scale.
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsCusp Capital468 CapitalCortical VenturesESSENCE VC
InsForge is an agent-native cloud infrastructure platform that provides backend services (authentication, database, storage, compute, AI model gateway, and more) designed specifically for AI coding agents to operate end-to-end.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Hang Huang(CEO)inTony Chang(Founder)in
Co-investorsBeta FundDigital Currency GroupPioneerY CombinatorActive CapitalApertu Capital+8 more
IOP Systems operates inference infrastructure for machine learning models in customer cloud environments, leveraging experience optimizing large-scale distributed systems.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools
YaoYueMihir Nanavatiin
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsFoothill VenturesScribble Ventures
Jasper provides an AI-powered platform for marketers and creators to generate and refine content.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSAustin, US
Chris Hull(Vice President of Customer Success)inJP Morgan(CTO)inDave Rogenmoser(Founder)inJohn Philip Morgan(Founder)Shane Orlick(Executive Officer)inTimothy Young(Chief Executive Officer)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAAF Management Ltd.Angel Collective Opportunity FundAscensionBessemer Venture PartnersCoatue ManagementCreative HQ — The Incubator+22 more
Keycard provides infrastructure for AI agents to operate safely and securely in production environments, enabling developers to connect agents to services across multiple clouds while maintaining identity, policy, and audit controls.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper Tools
Ian Livingstone(Founder)inMatthew Creager(Founder)inJared Hanson(Founder)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAcrew CapitalAndreessen Horowitzboldstart venturesExceptional CapitalModern TechnicalTapestry VC+2 more
Kite builds payment infrastructure for an "agent-native" web, providing autonomous AI agents with verifiable identity, programmable governance, and stablecoin-based settlement.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Developer ToolsFintechSan Francisco, US
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsCoinbase Ventures8VCGeneral CatalystAlumni VenturesFaculty GroupRR2 Capital+11 more
LanceDB is an AI-native multimodal lakehouse platform that unifies training data across multiple systems to accelerate model development and dataset creation at scale.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Chang She(Founder)inLei Xu(Founder)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundCRV (Charles River Ventures)Invest In DataRogue CapitalSky9 CapitalSoma Capital+13 more
LaunchNotes is a platform that connects product feedback, roadmap, and release communication so stakeholders know what is shipping and why it matters.
Developer ToolsMarketing TechSaaSCalifornia, US
Tyler Davis(Founder)inJake Brereton(Founder)inEvan Michner(Director of Product)inAdam Wardlow(Director of Product Marketing)inJack Sneeringer(Director of Sales)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAtlassian VenturesBull City Venture PartnersCowboy VenturesInsight PartnersMoonPay
Legion Intelligence builds AI agents that perform work—search, chat-based answers, content drafting, and multi-step workflow automation—across an organization's existing systems and documents, with source attribution, human-in-the-loop approval, and access governance.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Jason Schnitzer(Founder)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsNava VenturesXYZ Venture Capital
Letta is an AI research lab building self-improving digital agents that use memory-native reinforcement learning and programmatic context management to learn continuously from experience over time.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Charles Packer(Founder)inSarah Wooders(Founder)inCharles Packer Sarah Wooders(Founder)
BoardIon Stoica(Advisor)Joey Gonzalez(Advisor)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsFelicis VenturesESSENCE VCAngel Collective Opportunity FundSunflower Capital Management FundAntler
Levo provides a runtime security platform that integrates API and AI security directly into the software development lifecycle, helping enterprises detect and prevent vulnerabilities before code reaches production.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Buchi(Founder)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsFoundation Capital
Disarray is an AI research company focused on autonomous agents for long-running tasks and automating model development through agentic search and context graphs.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Doris Xin(Co-founder & CEO)Moustafa Abdelbaky(Co-founder & CTO)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investors.406 VenturesLaude Ventures
Liveblocks provides APIs and infrastructure for building real-time collaborative tools, enabling multiplayer functionality for creative and productivity applications.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsHR TechSaaSSales TechSan Francisco, US
Guillaume Salles(Founder)inSteven Fabre(Founder)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAdventure FundAtlassian Venturesboldstart venturesKima VenturesMaximilian StoiberBanana Capital
Maestro is an open-source mobile UI testing tool that runs human-readable YAML end-to-end tests on iOS simulators and Android emulators, with a CLI, visual test IDE (Studio), cloud runner, and an MCP server for AI agents.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Jacob Krupski(Founder)inLeland Takamine(Founder)inJake Krupski(Founder)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsCowboy VenturesDraper AssociatesModern TechnicalAcronym Venture CapitalAllen Institute for AI (AI2) IncubatorDraper Dragon+6 more
Mage is an AI-native platform for building, running, and repairing data and AI workflows, where users describe a workflow in natural language and the platform generates the sources, code, dependencies, checks, and schedules.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSanta Clara, US
Georges Mangin(Founder)inTommy Dang(Founder)inXiaoyou Wang(Founder)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investors1Flourish CapitalAlumni VenturesDesigner FundGradient VenturesLigature VCMana Ventures+3 more
Magic Patterns generates user interface designs that match existing product styling and enables rapid prototyping of new features.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Alex Danilowicz(Founder)inTeddy Ni(Founder)inAlexander Danilowicz(Founder)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsPioneerStandard CapitalY CombinatorCapitalize VCCoughdrop CapitalESSENCE VC+7 more
Mesh provides a real-time B2B verification API that helps companies verify and onboard legitimate U.S. businesses, including SMBs and licensed professionals, by checking business registration, professional licenses, and business risk signals.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAfore CapitalAscend Venture Capital
Mixpeek provides a multimodal AI data platform for advertising technology companies to analyze images, videos, audio, and text content for contextual targeting, creative performance attribution, brand safety, and audience insights.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsMarketing TechSaaS
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsESSENCE VCWork-BenchHumans Of The Internet
Modal provides a cloud platform that lets developers define compute, hardware, and application logic in Python and deploy to the cloud, with fast-booting containers and autoscaling GPUs.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsNew York, US
Erik Bernhardsson(Founder)inAkshat Bubna(Founder)inSeth Zelnick(Executive Officer)inAaron Krane(Founder)in
BoardPatrick Chase(Director)inSarah Catanzaro(Director)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersGeneral CatalystLux CapitalRedpoint VenturesCreandumAbstraction Capital+22 more
Moment is a document and internal-tooling tool with a built-in reactive programming environment using React and Tailwind CSS, storing documents as plain Markdown files on disk in git/Jujutsu repositories.
Developer ToolsFuture of WorkSaaSSeattle, US
Lita Cho(Founder)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Monograph is firm management software for architecture and engineering firms that integrates project data, time tracking, and expense management into invoicing.
Construction TechEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Robert Yuen(Founder)Alex Dixon(Founder)inMoe Amaya(Founder)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsDesigner FundHomebrewParade VenturesBase10 PartnersIndex VenturesTiger Global Management
MotherDuck provides a serverless cloud analytics database built on DuckDB, enabling users to query and understand their data more easily.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureSeattle, US
Jordan Tigani(Founder)inHannes Mühleisen(Co-founder)Mark Raasveldt(Co-founder)Tino Tereshko(Founder)inRyan Boyd(Founder)inLeila Horejsi(Founder)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersAndreessen HorowitzBattery VenturesEastlink Capital PartnersFelicis VenturesFirestreak Ventures+10 more
Nectry provides a governance and control plane for enterprise AI agents, chatbots, and apps, letting companies build specialized, policy-scoped agents and bring existing AI (in Copilot, Salesforce, or low-code tools) under audit-ready control.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Daniel Winograd-Cort(Founder)inAdam Chlipala(Chief Scientist)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsFoothill VenturesSamsung NextThe E14 Fund
Nilo is a browser-based 3D creative suite that lets users generate, customize, rig, animate, and export 3D assets and skins for Roblox from sketches, images, or text prompts, without using tools like Blender.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyGamingSan Francisco, US
Nuno Leiria(Founder)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsShilling VC
Nuon is a platform that lets software developers run their applications natively inside their customers' cloud accounts, supporting the BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) deployment model for B2B applications.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareBeverly Hills, US
Jon Morehouse(Founder)inJames Wu(Director)in
BoardAndrew McLoughlin(Director)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesDeep AcreHawk Hill VenturesImpossible FinanceMantis CapitalMaterialized View Capital+6 more
Ollama provides a platform for building with and running open-source language models locally and in the cloud.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwarePalo Alto, US
Jeffrey Morgan(Founder)inMichael Chiang(Founder)inManning Fisher(Design Lead)Patrick Devine(CTO)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investors49 Palms VenturesAngel Collective Opportunity FundGTMfundLeonis CapitalPace CapitalRogue Capital+11 more
OpenInfer builds inference infrastructure and tools that enable AI models to run efficiently on resource-constrained platforms and edge devices.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSan Mateo, US
Behnam Bastani(Co-Founder & CEO)inReza Nourai(Co-Founder & CTO)inKam Eshghi(Chief Business Officer)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsCota CapitalMFV PartnersOperator StackTau Ventures
Orb provides billing and revenue infrastructure for software companies, enabling usage-based and hybrid pricing models.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Alvaro Morales(Founder)inKshitij Grover(Founder)inJosh Buckler(Head of Sales)inBas de Goei(Head of Marketing)inJustin Chuan(Head of Design)in
BoardSaam Motamedi(Board Member / Investor Representative (Partner, Greylock))in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundData Community FundESSENCE VCFOG VenturesGreylock PartnersMayfield Fund+9 more
Phonic develops voice AI technology designed to enable natural and reliable human-machine conversations through speech interaction.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
David Ferris(Founder)inMitchell Catoen(Founder)inMoin Nadeem(Founder)inNikhil Murthy(Founder)in
Co-investorsLux CapitalTola CapitalY CombinatorZillionizeRomulus CapitalSupernode Ventures
Phonic develops technology to enable natural conversations with voice AI systems at human-like levels of reliability and simplicity.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Moin NadeemNikhil MurthyArun WongprommoonKendrick ShenJudson LamQiong Zhou Huang
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
A platform that enables users to deploy and manage multiple AI agents for operational tasks.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsbacktrace capitalPeak
San Francisco-based Poggio Labs builds AI "revenue agents" that generate continuously updated account plans inside Salesforce.
San Francisco, US
Connor Doyle(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inMatthew Slotnick(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAccelSpark Capital
ProjectDiscovery offers Neo, an autonomous AI-powered security testing platform that continuously scans web applications, APIs, and cloud infrastructure to identify and verify vulnerabilities with high accuracy and minimal false positives.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper Tools
Rishiraj Sharma(Founder)inSandeep Singh(Founder)inMarco Rivoli(Founder)Nizamul Rana(Founder)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAccelAngel Collective Opportunity FundCRV (Charles River Ventures)Lightspeed India PartnersLightspeed Venture PartnersMango Capital+5 more
Hoboken, US
Andrew Stein(Founder)Noah Carr(Director)
BoardEric Schmalzbauer(Founder)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsIrregular ExpressionsPoint72 VenturesREFASHIOND Ventures
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsFoundation CapitalVela PartnersVermilion Cliffs Ventures
Readyset is a database scaling platform that sits in front of existing MySQL and PostgreSQL databases to accelerate read performance with sub-millisecond latencies.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsBeverly Hills, US
Alana Renda(Founder)inNatalie Lao(Founder)inAlana Marzoev(Founder)Jon Gjengset(Founder)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersIndex VenturesThe E14 FundZero Prime VenturesData Community Fund
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsEval Ventures FundMaterialized View Capital468 Capital
Cloud infrastructure security startup whose guardrails platform made secure, compliant resource provisioning the default for developers.
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzFelicis VenturesGeneral PartnershipZenda
Restate is a lightweight runtime that turns AI agents, workflows, and backend services into durable processes with durable execution, consistent state, and reliable communication.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSanta Clara, US
Igal Shilman(Co-founder)inTill Rohrmann(Co-founder)inStephan Ewen(Co-Founder)inAhmed Farghal(Co-founder)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsfirstminute capitalRedpoint VenturesCapital One VenturesCusp CapitalESSENCE VCExceptional Capital+3 more
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Rosebud AI provides generative AI tools that enable users to create games and immersive interactive experiences without requiring extensive technical expertise.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerCreator EconomyDeveloper ToolsGamingSan Francisco, US
Lisha Li(Founder)inMei Liu(Eng Lead)Dzmitry Pletnikau(Founding Engineer)Eric Liu(Intern)Alexandru Barbur(Head of Eng)Kat Dar(EA)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investors2am VCAngel Collective Opportunity FundFoothill VenturesKhosla VenturesSoma CapitalVentek+15 more
Runebook builds user interfaces for large language models, including Tome, a local LLM client with MCP support.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Peter Cho(Executive Officer, Director)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Herald is an AI-powered incident investigation platform that detects anomalies in software environments, automatically identifies root causes of issues, and prevents customer impact through autonomous analysis.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Vikram Sreekanti(Co-founder & CEO)Chenggang Wu(Co-founder & CTO)Joey Gonzalez(Co-founder & Chief AI Officer)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsRedpoint VenturesZero Prime Ventures
Sardine provides a fraud investigation platform that contextualizes risk across customers, devices, transactions, and businesses within an organization's ecosystem.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityFintechSan Francisco, US
Soups Ranjan(Founder)inAdi G(Founder)Zahid Shaikh(Founder)inAditya Goel(Founder)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investors11.2 CapitalActivant CapitalAndreessen HorowitzCannage CapitalCoinbase VenturesCross Creek Advisors+17 more
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Saris builds an AI platform for banks and credit unions to automate workflow tasks and enhance employee productivity without replacing human workers.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintech
James Dang(Founder)inAlice Dinu(Founder)inDanial Jameel(Founder)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investors8VCAudaciousBTECH CONSORTIUMHomebrew
Sentio provides a decentralized, AI-powered modular data and compute network for Web3 developers, offering tools such as a data processor and hosted subgraphs.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSeattle, US
Fuyao Zhao(Founder)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Signadot provides a Kubernetes-native developer platform that simplifies the development of cloud-native applications by enabling faster feedback loops and collaborative testing at scale.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Arjun Iyer(Founder)inAnirudh Ramanathan(Founder)inAnthony Yeh(Senior Software Engineer)David Polstra(Marketing Director)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsRedpoint VenturesMaterialized View CapitalY CombinatorAllison Pickens VenturesRenegade PartnersTifo+1 more
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Torq offers an AI-based Security Operations Center (SOC) platform that helps security teams triage, investigate, and respond to threats.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecuritySaaS
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Blacksburg, US
Ray Jenkins(Executive Officer, Director)Mike Heffner(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardJoseph Ruscio(Director)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsHeavybitUncork Capital
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Superframe is a customer intelligence platform that consolidates customer signals into a context layer for AI-powered go-to-market teams, providing cited answers to GTM questions.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales TechPalo Alto, US
Derek Steer(Founder)inNick Bruun(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardDan Scholnick(Director)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsDesigner FundESSENCE VC
Open lakehouse storage platform by the creators of Apache Iceberg (Databricks)
Daniel Weeks(Founder)Jason Reid(Founder)Ryan Blue(Founder)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzMaterialized View CapitalSunflower Capital Management FundSV AngelUnusual VenturesValkyrie Ventures Management, Llc+2 more
Distributional has rebranded as Talaria Scientific following a company pivot; the page is an announcement of this transition and provides no concrete detail about the new product or business.
AI & Machine LearningBerkeley, US
Nick Payton(Founder)Renaud Bourassa(Founder)Scott Clark(Founder)inTobias Andreasen(Founder)Scott Clark to solve(Founder)
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesAndreessen HorowitzAngel Collective Opportunity FundOperator StackOregon Venture FundPoint72 Ventures+1 more
Teleskope offers a data security platform with a "Data Reasoning Layer" that discovers, classifies, and automatically remediates sensitive data exposure across an organization's environment.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareNew York, US
Elizabeth Nammour(Founder)inJulie Trias(Founder)
BoardBrian Schechter(Director)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsA'Z AngelsCorrelation VenturesLerer HippeauM13Primary Venture Partners
TensorWave provides a cloud platform for training and running AI workloads, built on AMD Instinct GPUs and the ROCm software stack.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureLas Vegas, US
Jeff Tatarchuck(Executive Officer, Director)Piotr Tomasik(Founder)inDarrick Horton(Founder)inJeff Tatarchuk(Founder)inKathleen Simon(Chief Financial Officer)Cassandra Mack(Chief Information Security Officer)
Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundJavelin Venture PartnersMistral Venture PartnersProsperity7 VenturesStartupNVTransLink Capital+5 more
Eva is an AI-powered research platform that conducts and maintains systematic reviews and meta-analyses by continuously updating them as new clinical trials emerge.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechMedical DevicesSan Francisco, US
Cyrus Nouroozi(CEO)inAmir Mehr(CTO)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsPioneerY CombinatorCoho DeeptechGeneral CatalystHyperKleiner Perkins+2 more
Torq is a security orchestration platform that automates phishing investigation and response workflows by connecting email security tools, SIEM systems, threat intelligence platforms, and endpoint tools.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaSDenver, US
Leonid Belkind(Founder)inEldad Livni(Founder)Ofer Smadari(Founder)
Co-investorsEvolution Equity PartnersGreenfield PartnersInsight PartnersNotable CapitalBessemer Venture PartnersGGV Capital
Trajectory builds a platform for continual learning that lets companies observe, direct, and deploy AI models that improve from real user behavior, with data governance controls and approval workflows before model updates reach production.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Arjun Karanam(Founder)inMichael Elabd(Founder)inRonak Malde(Founder)in
Co-investorsConvictionAntiBoxGroupDesigner FundBessemer Venture PartnersExceptional Capital+2 more
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PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Truffle Security develops TruffleHog, an open-source secrets scanning tool that identifies and remediates exposed credentials such as encryption keys in cloud and SaaS environments before exploitation.
CybersecurityDeveloper Tools
Dylan Ayrey(Founder)inDustin Decker(Founder)Julian Dunning(Founder)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investors515 VenturesAbstract VenturesAndreessen HorowitzExpaHarpoon VenturesIntel Capital+5 more
Turso is a database engine built as a Rust rewrite of SQLite, adding concurrent writes, native vector search, cloud-native replication, and browser/on-device support via WebAssembly.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsLondon, CA
Pekka Enberg(Founder)inGlauber Costa(Founder)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsBlumberg CapitalFirst Star VenturesHumans Of The InternetMango CapitalNorwest Venture PartnersPreston-Werner Ventures
Uniform is a composable digital experience platform that enables brands to create, personalize, and deliver omnichannel experiences by integrating content, data, and technology from multiple sources.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Henry Birkholm Petersen Lars(Executive Officer, Director)Bjarne Hansen(Director)Adam David Conn(Executive Officer, Director)Olexandr Shyba(Director)
BoardTeddie Wardi(Director)inShruti Gandhi(Director)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsArray Ventures Management LlcInsight PartnersElad Gil
Unify provides AI agents that handle routine business tasks across communications, sales, operations, and engineering by executing pre-built workflows or custom automation.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSLondon, GB
Daniel Lenton(Hiring Manager)inDouglas Kitani(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Austin Hughes(Founder)Austin Hughes Connor Heggie(Founder)Connor Heggie(Founder)Daniel Lenton (Hiring)(Hiring Manager)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsA.Capital VenturesAbstract VenturesAbstraction CapitalBattery VenturesJ12 VenturesLeonis Capital+23 more
Unkey is an API management platform for developers, designed to handle API workflows including integration and scaling.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaS
James Perkins(Founder)inAndreas Thomas(Founder)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsUncork CapitalESSENCE VCDeep AcreHomebrewPreston-Werner VenturesStep Function Ventures+1 more
Unstructured transforms complex, unstructured data (64+ file types) into clean, structured data suitable for AI and analysis, handling ETL, security, compliance, and integrations across enterprise systems.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareRocklin, US
Brian S. Raymond(Founder)inBrian Raymond(Founder)Crag Wolfe(Founder)Matt Robinson(Founder)
BoardKaran Mehandru(Director)inEnrique Salem(Director)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesAngel Collective Opportunity FundAnsa CapitalBain Capital VenturesM12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)Madrona Venture Group+11 more
Warp builds an agentic development environment that began as a re-imagined terminal and now lets developers dispatch AI agents to write, deploy, and debug software.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Zach Lloyd(Founder)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsBoxGroupContraryNext Play VenturesSequoia CapitalSunflower Capital Management FundAmplify.LA+5 more
Wizia applies behavior-change and personalization techniques from retail marketing to healthcare, prompting people to complete actions like screenings, prescription refills, and lower-cost care.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechInsurTechSaaS
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsFoundation CapitalAfore Capital
Workbrew is a management platform for Homebrew that lets teams centrally deploy software from a library of 15k+ packages, enforce policies, manage vulnerabilities, and keep packages patched.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareConcord, US
Vanessa Gennarelli(Founder)in
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesOperator Collective
Vectara is an enterprise AI agent platform for building, deploying, and governing AI agents with retrieval-augmented generation, offering high accuracy and low hallucination rates.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareCupertino, US
Tallat M. Shafaat(Founder)inAmr Awadallah(Founder)inAmin Ahmad(Founder)Tallat Shafaat(Founder)
PartnerTimothy Chen· solo GP
Co-investorsRace CapitalBrighter CapitalFeld VenturesFusionMDSV CAPITALPage One Ventures+10 more
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Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Essence Venture Capital made?
- Essence Venture Capital has 121 tracked investments, 10 of which have exited, including 4 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Essence Venture Capital invest at?
- Essence Venture Capital invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Essence Venture Capital's typical check size?
- Essence Venture Capital typically writes checks of $10K – $10M.
- What sectors does Essence Venture Capital focus on?
- Essence Venture Capital focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Crypto & Web3, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Developer Tools, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Hardware.
- Where is Essence Venture Capital located?
- Essence Venture Capital is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Does Essence Venture Capital lead rounds?
- Essence Venture Capital typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does Essence Venture Capital co-invest with?
- Essence Venture Capital most often shares deals with Angel Collective Opportunity Fund, Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, among 141 tracked co-investors.
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Since 1999, Redpoint Ventures has partnered with visionary founders to create new markets and redefine existing ones. The firm invests early in startups building category-defining companies, from AI and infrastructure to security. Redpoint has backed hundreds of companies, including Netflix, Snowflake, Stripe, Ramp, Twilio, Ramp, and Hims, and today backs the next generation of AI leaders like OpenAI, Legora, Modal, Abridge and Physical Intelligence. Redpoint is based in San Francisco and has offices in New York City and Woodside. For more information visit: http://www.redpoint.com/
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, known for pioneering the platform model with a large team of operators supporting founders across stages.
Alumni Ventures (AV) is a venture capital firm that co-invests alongside lead VCs in startups, backing founders with capital and access to a large investor and operator community.
Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm that partners with founders to build technology companies.
Cowboy Ventures is an early-stage venture firm focused on partnering with startups at the pre-seed and seed stages, offering hands-on support to help build enduring companies.
M12 is Microsoft's corporate venture capital fund, investing in innovative startups and leveraging Microsoft's resources, connections, and customers to help portfolio companies scale.
Craft Ventures is a venture capital firm run by a team of former founders, operators, and investors who partner closely with founders to help build and scale technology companies.
Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture firm that backs early founders, with a focus on AI-native companies driving scale and industry change.
Mango Capital is an early-stage venture firm investing in enterprise software founders at inception, before product-market fit, with a focus on agent infrastructure and intelligent applications.
Atomico is an international venture capital firm that invests in growth-stage technology companies across multiple geographies. The firm focuses on scaling disruptive technology businesses globally.
Vibe Capital is a $10M venture fund investing in Web3, AI, and Deep Science startups at the pre-seed and seed stage.
Coinbase Ventures is the investment arm of Coinbase, backing founders building across the crypto and Web3 ecosystem in support of Coinbase's mission of expanding economic freedom.
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468 CapitalPeakCusp CapitalRed Swan VenturesAIX VenturesHeavybitfirstminute capitalbacktrace capitalBull City Venture PartnersEverywhere VenturesBowery CapitalDCM VenturesAwesome People VenturesSeed Club VenturesGutter CapitalAthletico VenturesAngular VenturesGrayscale VenturesRembrandt Venture PartnersGanas VenturesQuest Venture PartnersTrail Run CapitalArtisanal Ventures
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