Fundraising Fox

Roble Ventures

Venture capital

Los Altos · Pre-Seed–Seed · 21 people tracked

Find your way into Roble Ventures

5,848 people in our graph share verified history with the Roble Ventures team — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Nancy Wangunlockedknows Parth Detroja · together at Google (overlapped)
knows the team · via IBM
knows the team · via Stanford University
×2knows the team · via Google
knows the team · via Morgan Stanley
knows the team · via Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Fox Verdict
Sign up to see your fit

Investment thesis

Roble Ventures invests in seed-stage startups that transform how people prepare for, connect with, and deliver their work. It focuses on three areas: workplace productivity solutions that optimize collaboration, efficiency, and transparency; skills development technologies that align individual ambition with organizational growth; and employment creation and discovery platforms that help talent find more fulfilling ways of working. The firm backs uncommon, resilient founders who prioritize people and believe in humanity's ability to build a better future of work and learning. It writes checks of $200K-$2M and aims to connect untapped human potential to the evolving demands of the modern workplace.

Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.

Stage
Pre-Seed–Seed
Check
$200K – $2M
HQ
Los Altos, California, US
Leads rounds
Follows
Instruments
Equity
Founded
2021
Tracked investments
22
Unicorns
1
IPOs
1
Acquisitions
1

Team · 21 people

from the firm's website

8 people who came through Roble Ventures went on to found or lead other companies.

What they invest in

from 14 of 22 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×12SaaS ×12Enterprise Software ×8HR Tech ×6EdTech ×3Developer Tools ×2Future of Work ×2Sales Tech ×2

HQs:United States×7Brazil×1Colombia×1Mexico×1

Who they back

founder profiles across 10 portfolio companies
50%
solo founders
5 of 10 mapped founding teams
62%
repeat founders
of 13 founders with career history

Founding team size:solo founder×52 founders×43 founders×1

Where their founders studiedfrom 13 founders with education data

Harvard Business School ×4University of California, Berkeley ×3Harvard Kennedy School ×2MIT Sloan School of Management ×2Universidad de Los Andes ×2

What their founders studiedfrom 13 founders with field-of-study data

Business & Management ×4Economics ×4Computer Science ×3Engineering ×2Finance & Accounting ×2Mathematics & Statistics ×2

Where their founders worked beforefrom 13 founders with career history

Amazon ×2Facebook ×2RevGenius ×2Sales Enablement Collective ×2

Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program

Y Combinator ×4

Investments · 22 tracked

founders shown can be your intro path

By year:2025 · 12022 · 12021 · 12014 · 14 dated

Hollygovhollygov.comin✓ verified

Holly is an AI-powered platform designed for government HR teams to manage job classifications, conduct real-time salary benchmarking, and ensure competitive compensation.

AI & Machine LearningGovTechHR Tech

Brendan HellweginCherie Chungin

Co-investorsGaingelsJ2 Ventures

Dragonboatdragonboat.ioin𝕏Dec 2021 · $3M

Dragonboat is an ontology-native product portfolio platform that unifies data across the product development lifecycle into a live semantic source of truth, with built-in apps for strategy, intake, planning, roadmapping, and PDLC.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSanta Clara, US

Yun Flint(Executive Officer, Director)Becky Flint(Founder)in

Co-investorsAct One VenturesInsight PartnersGingerbread Capital

FlowEQfloweq.comin𝕏

FlowEQ is a no-code workflow automation platform that embeds within existing business systems to automate recurring processes and support customer service, quality tracking, and member services operations.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSSan Francisco, US

Brittani Dunlap(Founder/CEO)in

Co-investorsStreamlined VenturesTri-Valley VenturesY Combinator

Heywaltheywalt.ai

Amby is a relationship management tool that enriches contacts and leads with context and uses a "Move Score" to detect early signals that a contact is likely to move, helping users reach out at the right time.

AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech

Co-investorsRedbud VC

Hyperboundhyperbound.aiin𝕏Sep 2025 · $15M

Hyperbound provides an AI sales coaching platform that analyzes sales calls and creates AI-powered roleplays to help sales representatives practice and improve their skills.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechSan Francisco, US

Sriharsha Guduguntla(Founder)inAtul Raghunathan(Founder)in

Co-investorsY CombinatorPeak XV PartnersTeam Ignite VenturesSnowflake Ventures

Mosaicmosaic.techin𝕏acquired by HiBob

Mosaic (now part of HiBob as its Finance Suite / "Bob Finance") provides FP&A software for financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and analytics, integrated with people data from an HCM platform.

Enterprise SoftwareFintechHR TechSaaSSan Francisco, US

Bijan Moallemi(Founder)in

Co-investorsFriends Family CapitalOMERS VenturesOssian CapitalRadical VenturesXYZ Venture CapitalFf Venture Capital+3 more

Pair AIpairai.comin

Pair AI offers practical coding competitions to assess software engineering candidates at scale, replacing traditional resume-based and LeetCode-style hiring.

AI & Machine LearningConsumerCreator EconomyHR TechMarketplacesSaaSNew York City, US

Parth Detroja(Founder)in

Co-investorsGSV VenturesSLVCY CombinatorZeno Ventures

Readysetpotatoreadysetpotato.comin

Potato builds software that bridges scientific research and laboratory execution, enabling research teams to move from hypothesis to experiment to learning faster by automating the manual processes between scientific intent and real-world lab work.

AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechSaaS

Merrit Savener(VP of Commercial)

Co-investorsDraper AssociatesDolby Family VenturesEnsemble VC

Remyxremyx.aiin

Remyx is an AI development platform that structures machine learning workflows using scientific method principles, providing ranked experiment recommendations grounded in codebase and research, capturing results from existing tools, and maintaining decision records with full experiment provenance.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software

Terry Rodriguez(Founder)in

Co-investorsGenerationship

Rising Teamrisingteam.comin

Rising Team builds an AI coaching platform that helps managers and teams improve performance through personalized coaching, roleplay simulations, and team experiences integrated with enterprise tools.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkHR TechSaaS

Jennifer(Founder)JeffTanya

Co-investorsAurumFemale FoundersFour Acres CapitalSupernode VenturesGingerbread Capital

Slangslangapp.com

Slang builds an AI-driven professional English learning platform that personalizes courses by role and context for companies and educational institutions.

AI & Machine LearningEdTechEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Diego Villegas(Co-founder)inKamran Khan(Co-founder)in

Co-investorsAVP VenturesCapria VenturesDila CapitalHi VenturesInQlabSalkantay Ventures+2 more

Teachyteachy.com.brin

Teachy is an all-in-one AI learning system for schools that lets educators create textbooks, lesson plans, assessments, and slides, adapt materials for individual student needs, and grade tests and essays with AI.

AI & Machine LearningEdTechSaaS

Pedro Siciliano(Founder)inFábio Baldissera(Founder)in

Co-investorsCapria VenturesThe MBA FundGoodwater CapitalReach Capital

Ubitsubits.mxin𝕏Jan 2022 · $25M

UBITS provides an online corporate training platform with over 550 expert-created courses in areas such as sales, business, marketing, technology, and finance.

EdTechHR TechSaaS

Julián Melo(Founder)in

Co-investorsCathexis VenturesAmador HoldingsEndeavor CatalystOwl VenturesRiverwood Capital

UBITSubits.comin𝕏

UBITS is a modular AI-powered HR platform that helps organizations recruit, train, and develop their teams across Latin America.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaSBogotá, CO

Julián Melo(Founder)in

Co-investorsAmador HoldingsCapria VenturesMagma PartnersOwl VenturesRiverwood CapitalSalkantay Ventures+2 more

Udemy Online learning marketplaceudemy.comApr 2014

Making quality education accessible to all through the world's largest marketplace for learning and teaching online.

San Francisco, US

Eren Bali(Cofounder)inOktay Caglar(Executive Officer)Gagan Biyani(Founder)inDennis Yang(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardPaul Lee(Director)Bradley Twohig(Director)

Co-investorsAlpha PartnersBling CapitalChanger ClubFounder Institute Australia & New ZealandFounder Institute BoliviaFounders Circle Capital+11 more

Ulessonulesson.com

Jabi, Abuja

Shola Adekoya(Director)Simdul Shagaya(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardVictor Patterson(Director)Ido Sum(Director)in

Co-investorsOwl VenturesTLcom Capital

Other

Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.

CompaasCompensation intelligence platform ExitedEddy LearningInspiritvrTiny CometTinycometstudios

Exits · 2

1 IPOs · 1 acquisitions · showing 1

Mosaicacq. by HiBob

Portfolio news

latest coverage across their companies

Frequently asked questions

How many investments has Roble Ventures made?
Roble Ventures has 22 tracked investments, 2 of which have exited, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
What stage does Roble Ventures invest at?
Roble Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
What is Roble Ventures's typical check size?
Roble Ventures typically writes checks of $200K – $2M.
What sectors does Roble Ventures focus on?
Roble Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, EdTech, Future of Work, HR Tech, SaaS.
Where is Roble Ventures located?
Roble Ventures is headquartered in Los Altos, US.
Does Roble Ventures lead rounds?
Roble Ventures typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
Who does Roble Ventures co-invest with?
Roble Ventures most often shares deals with Y Combinator, Capria Ventures, Insight Partners, among 51 tracked co-investors.

Media · Podcasts & interviews

featuring the team

Key Strategies for Success in Venture Capital With Roble Ventures’ Founding Partner, Sergio Monsalve

Grace Gong · Sergio Monsalve

¿Vale la pena ESTUDIAR en STANFORD si quieres EMPRENDER? | Sergio Monsalve, Roble Ventures

Startupeable con Enzo Cavalie · Sergio Monsalve

Shea Center Talk: Sergio Monsalve and James Loftus, Roble Ventures and Paypal Ventures

Start at Shea · Sergio Monsalve

Spearheading Thematic Investments in VC with Sergio Monsalve, Founding Partner at Roble Ventures

DECODE · Sergio Monsalve

Images

Roble Ventures photoRoble Ventures photoRoble Ventures photoRoble Ventures photo

Similar investors

Featured in lists