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Oakseed Ventures
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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.
Team · 4 people
from the firm's website & public directoriesWhat they invest in
from 10 of 13 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×9Developer Tools ×5Enterprise Software ×5Cybersecurity ×3Cloud Computing ×2Data & Infrastructure ×2Deep Tech ×2Hardware ×2
HQs:United States×3
Investments · 13 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathPartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP
Choir AI provides AI agents that help pharmaceutical and medical device companies automate commercial operations, medical affairs, finance, forecasting, sales, regulatory access, and global market functions.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechMedical Devices
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 is a platform that enables organizations to build and deploy generative AI applications with built-in data transparency, compliance, and security controls.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Huseni Saboowala(Founder)inSridhar Ramaswamy(Founder)in
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
Eugene Cheah(Founder)in
PartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP
Co-investorsFjor FoundersKickstart VenturesPanache VenturesSoma CapitalTranspose Platform ManagementWavemaker Partners+1 more
Fleak builds a data normalization and quality platform that automatically structures fragmented data inputs for use in AI systems and analytics pipelines.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Bo LeiYichen Jin
PartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP
Co-investorsCisco InvestmentsHivemind 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)inWen-Loong Ma(CTO)Chris McQuin(Head of Hardware)inWenda Wang(Head of AI)in
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)inBarrett Woodside(Founder)inEdward Kmett(Founder)inMitesh Agrawal(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardRobert Reid(Director)
PartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP
Co-investorsAsimov VenturesBanyan VenturesCaucasus VenturesFlume VenturesIneffable VenturesInvariantes Fund+11 more
Ridge Security develops an AI-powered platform for automated penetration testing and continuous threat exposure management that validates cyber risks for enterprises.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareMilpitas, US
Nick Mo(CEO and Co-founder)inLydia Zhang(President and Co-founder)in
PartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP
Co-investorsTSVC
Spice Labs provides software scanning and cryptographic analysis tools that generate artifact dependency graphs of software systems and assist organizations in managing their transition to post-quantum cryptography.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeep TechDeveloper 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
Jack O'Brien(Founder)in
PartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP
Co-investorsFoothill VenturesMassVenturesThe E14 FundEntrepreneur FirstYourNest Venture Capital
PartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP
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Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesRidge Security · trysignalbase.com · Mar 25, 2026
Positron AI · finsmes.com · Feb 10, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Oakseed Ventures made?
- Oakseed Ventures has 13 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, Panache Ventures, TSVC, among 27 tracked co-investors.
Co-investors · 5
Soma Capital is a venture capital firm that backs founders building category-defining technology companies, emphasizing close, early relationships with ambitious entrepreneurs.
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 that, since 2008, has invested across multiple industry verticals through four funds, with a featured focus area in securetech (cybersecurity and physical security).
Banyan Ventures is a New York City-based, AI-native venture capital firm investing at the pre-seed/idea stage in AI-native infrastructure and AI-native application startups.
500 Global (formerly 500 Startups) is a venture capital firm whose flagship Silicon Valley strategy backs promising technology companies from pre-seed onward across a range of sectors and geographies.
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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