Oakseed Ventures
Venture capitalSeed · 4 people tracked
Investment thesis
Oakseed Ventures invests in transformative technical founders building enterprise AI and cybersecurity solutions.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 6, 2026.
Team · 4 people
from the firm's website & public directoriesWhat they invest in
from 10 of 14 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×8Developer Tools ×5Enterprise Software ×4Cybersecurity ×3Data & Infrastructure ×2Hardware ×2Advanced Manufacturing ×1Cloud Computing ×1
HQs:United States×2
Investments · 14 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathPartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP
Choir AI provides AI agents for commercial and finance teams in the pharmaceutical and medical technology industries, supporting tasks like forecasts, QBRs, budgets, commercial plans, and operational insights.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHealthtech
PartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP
CodeLock provides software supply chain security solutions.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsGovTechSaaS
PartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP
Co-investorsSancus VenturesSoundboard Venture Fund
DAXA provides a unified governance platform for AI agents and enterprise data, enforcing access permissions and controlling agent actions in real time.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
PartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP
Co-investorsArka Venture LabsDreamit Ventures
Featherless.ai provides a single API for accessing over 40,000 open-source AI models, including DeepSeek, Kimi, and GLM, without requiring setup or self-hosting.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools
PartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP
Co-investorsFjor FoundersKickstart VenturesPanache VenturesTranspose Platform ManagementWavemaker PartnersHack VC
Fleak is an AI infrastructure layer that sits between data sources and AI applications, normalizing, filtering, governing, and routing incoming data in real time.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
PartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP
Co-investorsHivemind Capital PartnersRain CapitalSAV (Scale Asia Ventures)SmartGateVC
Noble Machines builds general-purpose industrial humanoid robots designed to perform hazardous and physically demanding tasks.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningHardwareRobotics
Wei Ding(CEO)Wen-Loong Ma(CTO)Chris McQuin(Head of Hardware)Wenda Wang(Head of AI)
PartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP
Co-investorsCentre Street Partners
Positron builds purpose-built hardware and inference accelerator silicon for running Transformer-based generative AI models, offering inference appliances that map HuggingFace Transformers models onto the hardware and expose an OpenAI API-compliant endpoint.
AI & Machine LearningHardwareSemiconductorsLovelock, US
Thomas Sohmers(Executive Officer, Director)Mitesh Agrawal(Executive Officer, Director)Barrett Woodside(Founder)
BoardRobert Reid(Director)
PartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP
Co-investorsAsimov VenturesBanyan VenturesCaucasus VenturesIneffable VenturesInvariantes FundNZVC+9 more
Ridge Security offers an agentic AI platform for offensive security, providing continuous, production-safe penetration testing (RidgeBot) and AI red teaming (RidgeGen) that finds, validates, and helps remediate exploitable risks.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
PartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP
Co-investorsTSVC
Spice Labs generates Cryptographic Bills of Materials (CBOMs) and color-coded post-quantum cryptography security reports by analyzing built JVM artifacts (Java, Scala, Kotlin) directly from Artifactory or Docker Hub registries, without agents or source code access.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
PartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP
Subconscious develops TIMRUN, an inference runtime, and the TIM family of post-trained open models optimized for AI agent workloads rather than chatbots, offering on-GPU context compression that extends context windows and increases concurrency and token throughput.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper Tools
PartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP
Co-investorsFoothill VenturesMassVentures
PartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesPositron AI · siliconvalleyinvestclub.com · Jul 10, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Oakseed Ventures made?
- Oakseed Ventures has 14 tracked investments.
- What stage does Oakseed Ventures invest at?
- Oakseed Ventures invests at the Seed stage.
- What sectors does Oakseed Ventures focus on?
- Oakseed Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Enterprise Software.
- Who does Oakseed Ventures co-invest with?
- Oakseed Ventures most often shares deals with Banyan Ventures, Ineffable Ventures, Panache Ventures, among 25 tracked co-investors.
Co-investors · 4
TSV Capital (TSVC), formerly TEEC Angel Fund, is a Silicon Valley seed-stage venture firm that backs technical founders at the earliest stages, having invested in over 200 early-stage companies.
Dreamit Ventures is an early-stage venture firm investing in cybersecurity startups, offering customer introductions and access to co-investors to support company growth.
Banyan Ventures is an early-stage venture firm founded by a solo GP that backs AI companies, with a particular focus on AI infrastructure.
Soma Capital is a venture capital firm that partners early with founders, emphasizing close relationships and running a fellows program for those just getting started.
Firms observed investing alongside Oakseed Ventures, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Oakseed Ventures's recorded portfolio.
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