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Oakseed Ventures

Venture capital

Seed · 4 people tracked

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989 people in our graph share verified history with the Oakseed Ventures team — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Ken Chenaultunlockedknows Bret Hartman · together at IBM (overlapped)
×3knows the team · via Cisco
×2knows the team · via IBM
knows the team · via Kirkland & Ellis
knows the team · via McKinsey and Company
×2knows the team · via Redpoint 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.

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

Founder mafia

2 people who came through Oakseed Ventures went on to found or lead other companies.

What they invest in

from 10 of 14 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×9Developer Tools ×5Enterprise Software ×5Cybersecurity ×3Cloud Computing ×2Data & Infrastructure ×2Deep Tech ×2Hardware ×2

HQs:United States×3

Investments · 14 tracked

founders shown can be your intro path
Celeritas AIceleritasai.com

PartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP

Choir AIchoirai.com

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

Code Lockcodelock.itin

CodeLock provides software supply chain security solutions.

CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsGovTechSaaS

Brian Gallagherin

PartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP

Co-investorsSancus VenturesSoundboard Venture Fund

Daxa AIdaxa.aiin𝕏

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

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

Eugene Cheah(Founder)in

PartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP

Co-investorsFjor FoundersKickstart VenturesPanache VenturesTranspose Platform ManagementWavemaker PartnersHack VC

Featherless AI
Fleak AIfleak.ai

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-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)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 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)inBarrett Woodside(Founder)inEdward Kmett(Founder)inMitesh Agrawal(Executive Officer, Director)in

BoardRobert Reid(Director)

PartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP

Co-investorsAsimov VenturesBanyan VenturesCaucasus VenturesIneffable VenturesInvariantes FundNZVC+9 more

Ridge Securityridgesecurity.aiin𝕏

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 Labsspicelabs.ioin

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

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

Jack O'Brien(Founder)in

PartnerChee-We Ng· solo GP

Co-investorsFoothill VenturesMassVenturesEntrepreneur FirstYourNest Venture Capital

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 · 5

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
500 Global

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.

$150K

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