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Oakseed Ventures

Venture capital

Seed · 4 people tracked

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Investment thesis

Oakseed Ventures invests in transformative technical founders building enterprise AI and cybersecurity solutions.

Source: firm website, verified Aug 6, 2026.

Stage
Seed
Instruments
Equity
Tracked investments
14

Team · 4 people

from the firm's website & public directories
Bret Hartman· Managing Partnerin
Nigel Austin· General Counsel & Managing Partnerin

What they invest in

from 10 of 14 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×8Developer Tools ×5Enterprise Software ×4Cybersecurity ×3Data & Infrastructure ×2Hardware ×2Advanced Manufacturing ×1Cloud Computing ×1

HQs:United States×2

Investments · 14 tracked

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Celeritas AIceleritasai.com

PartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP

Choir AIchoirai.com

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

Code Lockcodelock.itin

CodeLock provides software supply chain security solutions.

CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsGovTechSaaS

PartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP

Co-investorsSancus VenturesSoundboard Venture Fund

Daxa AIdaxa.aiin𝕏

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 (Recursal AI)featherless.ai

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

Featherless AI
Fleak AIfleak.ai

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 Machinesnoblemachines.aiin

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 AIpositron.aiin𝕏

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 Securityridgesecurity.aiin𝕏

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 Labsspicelabs.ioin

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

Subconscioussubconscious.devin𝕏

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

Tibo AItibo.ai

PartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP

Under Control Robotics

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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

TSVC

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.

Both backed · 1
$1M
Dreamit Ventures

Dreamit Ventures is an early-stage venture firm investing in cybersecurity startups, offering customer introductions and access to co-investors to support company growth.

Both backed · 1
$500K – $1.5M
Banyan Ventures

Banyan Ventures is an early-stage venture firm founded by a solo GP that backs AI companies, with a particular focus on AI infrastructure.

Both backed · 1
Soma Capital

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.

$100K – $300K

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