Preston-Werner Ventures
Venture capitalSan Francisco Bay Area · Pre-Seed–Seed · 4 people tracked
Investment thesis
PWV is an early-stage venture firm founded by GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner that backs the next generation of software- and AI-driven companies. The firm is raising a $100M fund to lead pre-seed and seed rounds for founders redefining what's possible with technology. PWV emphasizes founders-first values with hands-on operator guidance, a community-oriented approach connecting 300+ portfolio founders, and a strong network of world-class investors to help portfolio companies secure follow-on funding.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 4 people
from the firm's website
What they invest in
from 70 of 74 portfolio companiesDeveloper Tools ×44AI & Machine Learning ×37SaaS ×22Enterprise Software ×20Cloud Computing ×17Data & Infrastructure ×12Deep Tech ×9Hardware ×7
HQs:United States×24Australia×1United Kingdom×1
Investments · 74 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2023 · 42020 · 15 dated
BETA Technologies develops electric aircraft (including the ALIA eVTOL) and associated charging infrastructure for sustainable aviation.
CleantechDefense TechHardwareMobility & TransportationBurlington, US
Kyle Clark(CEO)Sean Donovan(Executive Officer)Herman Cueto(Executive Officer)
BoardCharles Davis(Director)Mike Stone(Director)Francesco Capretti(Director)
Retrace is an open-source record-replay tool and AI debugger for Python that captures failed pytest and CI runs as replayable .retrace artifacts, letting an AI debug backwards from real runtime values to the root cause.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Aalo develops advanced nuclear reactor technology aimed at producing electricity at under 3 cents per kilowatt-hour.
Climate TechDeep TechEnergyHardware
Aera Farms makes Victory, a fridge-sized aeroponic farming appliance that uses automation and AI-powered crop management to grow leafy greens and root vegetables indoors from reusable seed pods.
AgTechFoodTechHardware
Astranis manufactures small, high-powered geosynchronous satellites equipped with advanced digital processing technology for global telecommunications and connectivity services.
Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechHardwareSpace TechSan Francisco, US
John Gedmark(Founder/CEO)inRyan McLinko(Founder/CTO)in
BuildPass is a construction management platform covering estimating and takeoff, site management, and job finances (budgets, commitments, progress claims and cash forecasting), plus an AI agent that works from a company's live project records.
Construction TechPropTechSaaS
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 NorthcuttinJonas Mueller(Co-founder)inAnish AthalyeinAnishathalye(Co-founder)Ulyana Tkachenko(Co-founder)in
Clerk provides user management and authentication infrastructure for developers, enabling quick integration of complete user management systems into applications.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Braden Sidoti(Executive Officer, Director)Colin Sidoti(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardShvetank Jain(Director)Karan Mehandru(Director)in
Command Code is a terminal-based AI coding agent that builds, fixes, tests, and refactors software while continuously learning a developer's coding preferences through their accepts, rejects, and edits.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Commonwealth Fusion Systems develops commercial fusion power plants using high-temperature superconducting magnet technology to provide grid-scale energy.
CleantechClimate TechDeep TechEnergyCambridge, US
Brandon Sorbom(Founder)Robert Mumgaard(Executive Officer, Director)Daniel Brunner(Executive Officer)
BoardMassimiliano Pieri(Director)Katie Rae(Director)inAlan Eustace(Director)
Commutator Studios offers a tool that automatically optimizes quantum applications by finding the best execution parameters across different quantum computers, reducing errors and improving accuracy, reliability, and performance.
Deep TechDeveloper ToolsQuantum Computing
Earthmover builds a cloud data platform for exploring, visualizing, analyzing, and sharing large-scale scientific datasets, with a focus on climate and Earth science data.
AI & Machine LearningClimate TechCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureNew York, US
Joseph Hamman(Executive Officer, Director)Ryan Abernathey(Co-founder)Tony Liu(Director)Joe Hamman(Co-founder)
Elicit is an AI-powered research assistant that helps users discover, analyze, and synthesize scientific literature and research findings.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechEnterprise SoftwareSaaSOakland, US
Andreas Stuhlmüller(Co-founder)Jungwon ByunAdam Heneghan(Executive Officer)Kevin Willer(Director)John McGee(Director)G. Eric Heneghan(Director)
Fal provides fast inference for generative AI models, particularly for image and video generation tasks like SDXL and Whisper.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCreator EconomyDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Gorkem Yurtseven(Founder & CEO)inBurkay Gur(Founder)in
BoardSteve Jang(Director)inJennifer Li(Director)inGlenn Solomon(Director)in
Flock Safety provides a platform that connects neighborhoods, businesses, and law enforcement to share verified incident information and enable coordinated emergency response based on shared evidence.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareGovTechHardwareSaaSAtlanta, US
Garrett Langley(Founder/CEO)inMatt Feury(Founder/CTO)in
Flux develops a browser-based tool for hardware design collaboration that enables teams to work together efficiently.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsHardware
Freeplay provides a platform for software product development teams to build and maintain generative AI products using best practices in experimentation, iteration, and data management.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Impossible Foods produces plant-based meat alternatives, including beef, pork, chicken, and sausage products designed to replicate the taste, nutrition, and cooking properties of conventional animal meat.
ConsumerFoodTechHealthtechRedwood City, US
Pat Brown(Founder & CEO)David Lee(Executive Officer)
BoardBart Swanson(Director)inSamir Kaul(Director)inTai Ronnen(Director)Fedele Bauccio(Director)
Inference Capital is an investment firm representing permanent capital and allocators across private markets, providing advisory and direct allocation services.
Fintech
Inngest is an execution layer for agents and workflows that helps engineers build and optimize event-driven workflows without manual retry logic or queue management.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsRoyal Oak, US
Tony Holdstock-Brown(CEO & Founder)Dan Farrelly(CTO & Founder)inDaniel Farrelly(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardJamin Ball(Director)Dan Cahana(Director)in
Inth provides developer-first consent infrastructure that allows software teams to manage cookie consent, regional rules, and script loading directly in code rather than through external platforms.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Christopher Burns(Founder)in
Limitless creates AI tools designed to augment human intelligence and overcome cognitive limitations by improving memory and focus.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkHardware
Dan Siroker(Founder)in
Liquid AI is a foundation model company, spun out of MIT CSAIL, that builds efficient, compute- and cost-optimized general-purpose AI systems designed to run on any device.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareBrookline, US
Daniela Rus(Co-founder)Mathias Lechner(Co-founder & CTO)Ramin Hasani(Co-founder & CEO)Alexander Amini(Co-founder & CSO)Louis Hunt(Executive Officer)Stephen Pagliuca(Director)
Massdriver provides infrastructure automation and management for cloud-native organizations, enabling developers and operations teams to provision and manage infrastructure with ease while maintaining compliance and operational standards.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareLos Angeles, US
Cory O'Daniel(Founder)inChris Hill(Founder)in
Netlify is a platform for building, deploying, and scaling modern web applications, serving millions of developers and thousands of enterprises.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaSSan Francisco, US
Mathias Biilmann(Co-founder & CEO)Christian Bach(Co-founder, Chief Strategy and Creative Officer)
Not Diamond provides an intelligent model router for coding agents that predicts which language model to use for each input, aiming to reduce inference costs while maintaining accuracy.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
PATH makes refillable aluminum water bottles designed to reduce single-use plastic waste.
Circular EconomyConsumer
PlanetScale is a database platform built on the Vitess open-source project, designed for scaling large distributed systems.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Poolside builds open-weight foundation models and agentic coding models, including the Laguna family, along with the systems and infrastructure needed to train, refine, and improve these models.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools
Jason Warner(Founder & CEO)Eiso Kant(Founder)
Postman is an API platform that helps developers build, test, and manage APIs throughout their lifecycle.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Abhinav Asthana(CEO and co-founder)Ankit Sobti(Co-founder)Abhijit Kane(Co-founder)
Power Planet develops enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) that extract clean, always-on power from deep, high-temperature rock, using proprietary drilling automation technology.
CleantechClimate TechEnergy
Prisma builds an ORM and database tools for developers to simplify database workflows across application development, deployment, and scaling.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Purplefish is a takeoff tool that extracts material bills of materials, weld counts, and labor takeoff from isometric piping drawings (ISOs) using custom AI models, linking each line item back to its spot on the drawing.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechSaaS
Replicated provides a container-based platform for software vendors to deploy cloud-native applications in customer environments.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Snyk is a developer-focused security platform that identifies and fixes vulnerabilities in code, dependencies, containers, and cloud infrastructure using AI-powered analysis.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsBoston, US
Guy Podjarny(Director)Peter McKay(Executive Officer, Director)Stephanie Dominy(Executive Officer)
BoardPhilippe Botteri(Director)inMatthew Weigand(Director)inKen Fox(Director)
StackBlitz provides a browser-based development environment for creating and launching web applications, with code execution happening entirely within the user's browser using WebAssembly technology.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Eric Simons(CEO & Co-Founder)Albert Pai(CTO & Co-Founder)Alexander Berger(Chief Operating Officer)Bryan Adams(Vice President of Sales)Mitchell Wright(Head of Growth Marketing and Data)Hyllarie Colyer(Head of People)
Stripe provides financial infrastructure for businesses to accept payments, offer financial services, and implement custom revenue models across international markets in 135+ currencies.
FintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
John Collison(Founder/President)inPatrick Collison(Founder/CEO)inWilliam Gaybrick(Executive Officer)
BoardMichael Moritz(Director)in
Supabase is a fully managed PostgreSQL backend platform that integrates with AI builders like Claude, Lovable, and Bolt to enable rapid development of production applications.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Paul Copplestone(Founder)inAnt Wilson(Founder)in
Thunder Compute develops GPU virtualization software that improves utilization of graphics processing units in data centers.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeep TechDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Carl Peterson(Founder)inBrian Model(Founder)in
Upside Foods produces cultivated meat using cell-based technology.
BiotechFoodTechSan Francisco, US
Uma Valeti(Founder & CEO)in
Weights & Biases is an AI developer platform that enables teams to build, train, and monitor AI agents, applications, and models with tools for experiment tracking, model management, and agent evaluation.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
Shawn Lewis(Executive Officer, Director)Lukas Biewald(Executive Officer, Director)Chris Van Pelt(Executive Officer, Director)Mariah Nagy(Executive Officer)Yan-David Erlich(Executive Officer)Cameron Kinloch(Executive Officer)
Exits · 1
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioBeta TechnologiesNYSE: BETA
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesThunder Compute · siliconangle.com · Aug 19, 2026
Railway · railjournal.com · Aug 18, 2026
Cursor · tradingkey.com · Aug 18, 2026
Commonwealth Fusion Systems · techcrunch.com · Jul 30, 2026
Stripe · techcrunch.com · Jul 20, 2026
Postman · finance.yahoo.com · Jul 17, 2026
Flock Safety · wvnews.com · Jul 17, 2026
Astranis · thenextweb.com · Jul 16, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Preston-Werner Ventures made?
- Preston-Werner Ventures has 74 tracked investments.
- What stage does Preston-Werner Ventures invest at?
- Preston-Werner Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What is Preston-Werner Ventures's typical check size?
- Preston-Werner Ventures typically writes checks of $500K – $3M.
- What sectors does Preston-Werner Ventures focus on?
- Preston-Werner Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Data & Infrastructure, Developer Tools, Enterprise Software, SaaS.
- Where is Preston-Werner Ventures located?
- Preston-Werner Ventures is headquartered in San Francisco Bay Area, US.
- Does Preston-Werner Ventures lead rounds?
- Yes, Preston-Werner Ventures leads investment rounds.
- Who does Preston-Werner Ventures co-invest with?
- Preston-Werner Ventures most often shares deals with Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, Heavybit, among 309 tracked co-investors.
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Co-investors · 68
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Insight Partners is an investment firm focused on accelerating revenue and profit growth in software companies, providing capital and operational support through its Insight Onsite team.
Felicis Ventures is a venture capital firm that backs founders building across artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and defense, energy and resilience, and health and bio.
SV Angel is an investment firm that partners with and supports founders building transformative companies, providing long-term backing and close advisory relationships.
Coatue Management is a technology-focused investment firm that invests in innovation across both public and private markets with responsible risk management.
Fifty Years is a pre-seed and seed focused venture capital firm that backs founders using technology to solve major global problems, and also helps start companies.
GV (Google Ventures) is a venture capital firm that has invested in artificial intelligence and machine learning since its early days, building a global portfolio of more than 100 AI companies across infrastructure, life sciences, and applications.
Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies focused on technology, mobile, and clean energy sectors, including biotechnology applications. The firm provides capital and strategic support to entrepreneurs developing breakthrough technologies across multiple markets.
Notable Capital is a venture capital firm that has partnered with founders for over two decades, backing companies from the earliest stages through to exit.
Redpoint Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 1999 by former partners from leading venture firms, focusing on early-stage technology companies across multiple sectors. The firm leverages its partners' technology investment experience and an extensive network of entrepreneurs and industry contacts to support portfolio company growth.
First Round Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that backs startups from their earliest rounds. It invested in Notion's 2013 seed round.
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Madrona Venture GroupSamsung NextGeneral CatalystLightspeed Venture PartnersAlumni VenturesBain Capital VenturesSapphire VenturesSignalFireTodd and Rahul’s Angel FundLowercase Capital2048 VenturesNexus Venture PartnersNext Play VenturesAIX VenturesConvictionBold Capital PartnersFirst Star VenturesSafar PartnersNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Founder CollectiveBenchmarkGreycroftPioneerC2 InvestmentsPrecursor VenturesTrinity Ventures01 AdvisorsHanabi CapitalKortschak Investments L.P.AltaIR CapitalHustle FundAntlerCostanoa VenturesSpeedinvestGeneral Atlantic468 CapitalFlourish Venturesfirstminute capitalJetstreamSLVCVertex Ventures Sea Management Pte. Ltd.BECO CapitalCurious CapitalVersion One VenturesSorenson VenturesNauta CapitalBain Capital VentureArthur VenturesFoundersbacktrace capitalGigafundBee PartnersLeonis Capital7BC Venture CapitalGamegroove CapitalFirst Row Partners
Firms observed investing alongside Preston-Werner Ventures, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Preston-Werner Ventures's recorded portfolio.
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