Rackhouse Venture Management Lp
Actively deployingPre-Seed–Seed · 10 people tracked
Investment thesis
Rackhouse invests in early-stage founders and firms positioned at the intersection of AI and machine learning with real-world applications. The firm prioritizes driven and passionate entrepreneurs regardless of background who are focused on using data-driven approaches to enhance efficiency across industries.
Source: firm website, verified Jul 20, 2026.
Team · 10 people
from the firm's website
Kevin Novak founded Rackhouse VC after serving as Uber's first Head of Data Science, where he invented the dynamic pricing product and led the Data Science Platform. He also worked as Chief Data Officer for Tala Financial and has invested in multiple early-stage companies.
Brendan Baker is a materials engineer and former AngelList second employee who built venture systems at Greylock and developed algorithmic capital deployment platforms. He spent six years as Partner at Ridge Ventures investing in enterprise infrastructure and supply chain companies.
David Gorcey brings nearly two decades of experience growing early-stage technology startups in adtech, AI, and developer tooling. He has closed partnerships with Fortune 500 companies and social media platforms, and currently oversees enterprise partnerships at Stytch.
Emily Kramer is creator of the MKT1 Newsletter and Dear Marketers podcast, with experience as a top B2B startup marketing voice. She has held marketing leadership roles at Asana, Carta, and Ticketfly, helping hundreds of startups build marketing functions.
Jiaona Zhang is a seasoned product executive and investor with deep expertise scaling consumer and enterprise products. She currently serves as Chief Product Officer at Linktree and has held leadership roles at Webflow, Airbnb, Dropbox, and WeWork.
Zack Isaacson has built venture-backed startups in the San Francisco Bay Area and currently runs Pac Heights Partners, a boutique agency for deep tech software engineering teams. He co-founded Sweat Equity Ventures and previously worked at Sutter Hill Ventures.
Claire Park manages the Rackhouse founder community and office. She has led marketing strategy at a children's furniture company and a boutique consulting firm, and recently served as creative producer for documentary content about fine dining.
Jan Crisostomo brings 15 years of experience building recruiting functions at companies including Sentry, Google, and Dropbox. She previously served as a partner at Neo advising portfolio companies on recruiting and people operations.
Toni Alejandria is an experienced events and community builder with 17 years of background in events marketing and venture operations. She previously led community at Summit Series and held marketing roles at startups Tilt and Adentro.
What they invest in
from 45 of 71 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×25Enterprise Software ×22SaaS ×15Data & Infrastructure ×9Developer Tools ×7Fintech ×4Logistics & Supply Chain ×4Marketing Tech ×4
HQs:United States×12Kenya×1Netherlands×1
Investments · showing 60 of 71
founders shown can be your intro pathABL Space Systems develops small satellite launch vehicles, including the RS1 rocket and GS0 containerized launch system, enabling orbital launches from various ground locations.
HardwareSpace Tech
Ara operates a network of digital billboards in rideshare vehicles, retail storefronts, parking facilities, and municipal settings, offering hardware installation, content management systems, and advertising services on a subscription basis.
AdTechHardwareRetail TechNew York City, US
Jeffrey Cripe(Co-Founder, CEO)Jasper Wheeler(Co-Founder, CPO)Stuart Clark(Co-Founder, Head of Software)
ArcPrime provides AI-driven analytics and portfolio intelligence software for corporate intellectual property teams to manage patent portfolios, optimize filing strategy, and align IP programs with business priorities. The platform serves in-house patent teams, R&D departments, and enterprise leadership across multiple technology areas and jurisdictions.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechSaaS
Argyle provides a verification platform that automates the collection and verification of income, employment, and asset data using consumer-permissioned, real-time data from payroll, banking, and document sources. The platform serves service providers and lending institutions seeking to streamline verification workflows and reduce fraud.
Data & InfrastructureFintech
Arvist provides an AI platform for warehouse operations that integrates with existing systems to automate claims management, detect errors, and improve supply chain efficiency. The company serves warehouse and operations teams seeking to optimize workflows without replacing existing infrastructure.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainWilmington, US
Bigeye is a data observability platform that monitors and improves the reliability of datasets and pipelines for data engineering teams. The platform automates data quality checks while maintaining transparency and is designed to help organizations scale their data operations.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Kyle Kirwan(Co-founder)Egor Gryaznov(Co-founder)
Breef helps brands and startups find and connect with marketing agencies through a digital platform that streamlines the agency selection process.
B2B MarketplacesMarketing Tech
Chronosphere provides an observability platform for microservices and containers that helps teams detect and fix customer-impacting issues while controlling costs and complexity. The platform includes telemetry data collection and transformation capabilities designed for cloud-native and DevOps environments.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsPalo Alto, US
Clarasight is an AI-native operating system for corporate travel and expense management that unifies fragmented data from existing travel, expense, card, and HR systems to provide visibility and enable faster decision-making. The platform helps enterprise travel and expense teams reduce reporting overhead, close spend visibility gaps, and execute program decisions faster.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS<UNKNOWN>
Confida provides AI-facilitated contract negotiation and drafting software that helps teams create, track, and negotiate agreements faster. The platform serves legal, sales, and commercial teams across industries including manufacturing, construction, and private markets.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTech
Decodable is a fully-managed, serverless platform for real-time data integration, ETL/ELT, and stream processing built on Apache Flink and Debezium. The platform serves enterprises and data teams who need to move and process streaming data for analytics, AI applications, and operational decision-making.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureSaaS
Elroy Air develops autonomous hybrid-electric aircraft for heavy-payload cargo delivery, serving commercial logistics, defense, and humanitarian customers. The company builds and operates the Chaparral vehicle, a turbogenerator-hybrid eVTOL aircraft designed for distributed aerial logistics in remote and contested environments.
Deep TechHardwareLogistics & Supply ChainRoboticsCalifornia, US
Andrew Clare(CEO)Dave MerrillClint Cope
Fathom provides a platform that records and analyzes customer conversations, internal syncs, and strategy calls to give teams a shared view of information and identify patterns. The product serves teams and businesses looking to improve decision-making and consistency across meetings.
Enterprise SoftwareSaaS
Fishtail provides supply chain financing for freight forwarders and shippers, leveraging advanced underwriting to assess shipment risks and offer capital solutions at competitive rates.
FintechLogistics & Supply Chain
Geologie offers personalized skincare and acne treatment products formulated by dermatologists with clinically proven actives. The brand serves consumers seeking effective, simplified routines without harsh chemicals, positioning itself as a direct-to-consumer alternative to traditional beauty brands with transparent ingredient percentages.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerHealthtech
Subsalt provides synthetic and real patient data access solutions for healthcare research teams, enabling rapid de-identified data exploration and secure runtime analysis without traditional governance delays. The platform serves clinical researchers by replacing months-long approval processes with minutes-to-hours synthetic data availability and audited production workflows.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDigital Health
Guilde rapidly prototypes, validates, and scales new businesses using advanced models and tools, helping founders move from problem definition to first customers in weeks. The company supports venture creation and incubation across various sectors.
Developer ToolsEnterprise Software
Hipp is an AI-native platform designed for mobile healthcare providers in specialties like behavioral health (ABA, occupational therapy) and home health. The software handles scheduling, clinical analytics, and administrative workflows to reduce time spent on non-clinical tasks.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechSaaS<UNKNOWN>
David ConnorsFaaez Ul Haq
Seldon is a product development tool that uses synthetic personas modeled from real user behavior to surface bugs, friction, and design insights before product launch. It serves product teams in regulated industries like healthcare, finance, and education.
Developer ToolsEnterprise Software
Morph is an AI platform that automates software development tasks including code generation, testing, documentation, and bug fixing. It serves software development teams and enterprises seeking to accelerate their development workflows.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Mozart Data provides a data platform for centralizing, organizing, and analyzing business data without requiring engineering expertise. The platform serves high-growth startups and data teams.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Nash provides AI-powered logistics orchestration software that coordinates fleet management, carrier selection, and fulfillment networks in real time. The platform serves 3PLs, carriers, and delivery service providers across verticals including grocery, B2B distribution, field services, retail, and pharmaceuticals.
AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSAmsterdam, NL
OnBrand is a network platform that connects event hosts and venues with consumer brands for product placements and activations. Hosts can apply to feature products from partner brands like beauty, skincare, fashion, and wellness companies at their events and share the experiences on social media.
Creator EconomyMarketing TechMarketplaces
Oxen.ai provides a platform for creating and managing digital assets, including videos and images, with integrated generative AI capabilities and model fine-tuning for visual style customization.
AI & Machine LearningCreator Economy
Paladin operates a pro bono infrastructure platform that connects low-income individuals with volunteer attorneys and helps legal services organizations, law firms, and in-house legal teams manage volunteer programs. The platform enables centralized case management, volunteer recruitment, and impact reporting for civil and criminal legal services.
Enterprise SoftwareLegalTechSaaSNew York City, US
Pipe provides working capital and financial tools to small and medium-sized businesses through integrations with software platforms they use daily. The company enables business owners to access capital for hiring, payroll, and growth without lengthy fundraising processes.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Claurelle Rakipovic(Chief Executive Officer)Vijay Vachani(Chief Operating Officer)Jin Han(Chief Administrative Officer)Nate Wiger(Chief Product & Technology Officer)
Pogo provides real consumer behavior data and qualitative research for investors and consultants conducting diligence, portfolio strategy analysis, and thought leadership. The platform enables rapid research across consumer cohorts through both quantitative and qualitative methods.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureFintechMarketing TechSaaS
Porter is a platform that enables developers to deploy and manage application infrastructure across AWS, GCP, or Azure without DevOps overhead. It provides production-ready clusters with CI/CD, auto-scaling, monitoring, and compliance features for web services, APIs, databases, and workers.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareNew York City, US
Justin Rhee(Founder)in
Reality Defender develops an AI platform for detecting deepfakes and synthetic media, serving enterprise organizations to prevent fraud and impersonation. The company offers multimodal detection capabilities through an API and SDK for developers.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDefense TechEnterprise SoftwareNew York City, US
Ben Colman(Co-Founder and CEO)inGaurav Bharaj(Co-founder)
Scoot Science provides data-driven operational intelligence for commercial fishing and aquaculture operations through real-time ocean forecasts, catch logging, and environmental monitoring. The platform integrates oceanographic data and sensor inputs to help fishing fleets and aquaculture farms optimize catch decisions and reduce fish mortality events.
AgTechData & Infrastructure
Sorcero develops AI-powered intelligence solutions for the life sciences industry, helping companies accelerate patient access to therapies and improve medical research and communications. The platform uses medically-tuned large language models to support pharmaceutical, biotech, and healthcare organizations.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechMedical DevicesWashington, US
Dipanwita Das(CEO and Co-founder)
Spacture AI provides a real-time AI video intelligence platform that analyzes existing retail store cameras to detect and prevent loss, theft, and fraud. The platform serves enterprise retailers by delivering instant alerts for shoplifting, unscanned items, safety risks, and operational anomalies.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareRetail Tech
Spry provides management software for college athletic departments, enabling coordination and visibility across coaching, administration, and operations teams.
EdTechEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Standard AI provides computer vision intelligence for physical retail stores using existing camera infrastructure. The platform delivers privacy-safe, real-time insights about shopper behavior, media effectiveness, and store performance to help retailers optimize layouts, promotions, and operations.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareRetail TechSan Francisco, US
Jordan Fisher(Founder/CEO)inJohn Novak(Founder/Head of Hardware Engineering)inMichael Suswal(Founder/COO)inDavid Valdman(Founder)in
Anaplan is a scenario planning and analysis platform that combines deterministic calculations, probabilistic AI, and connected data for enterprise decision-making. It serves enterprise organizations needing to perform planning and forecasting with AI-powered agents.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software
Tadata is an AI agent platform that integrates into Slack to automate research and repetitive work by connecting to business tools like CRM, marketing, and ops systems. It learns team preferences over time and brings contextual data from multiple sources to enable intelligent task automation.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS<null>
Tamber provides a suite of tools for music production including voice-controlled DAW interaction, motion-based instrument control, AI-powered sample discovery, and sample packs derived from ambient recordings. The platform is designed for music creators working within their digital audio workstation.
AI & Machine LearningCreator Economy
The Ticket Fairy provides event ticketing and management software to venue operators and promoters in multiple countries, helping them handle sales, marketing, and audience analytics for live events.
ConsumerMarketplacesTravel & HospitalityLos Angeles, US
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Rackhouse Venture Management Lp invest at?
- Rackhouse Venture Management Lp invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What sectors does Rackhouse Venture Management Lp focus on?
- Rackhouse Venture Management Lp focuses on AdTech, AI & Machine Learning, Developer Tools, Enterprise Software, SaaS.
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