Root Ventures
Venture capitalSan Francisco
Fund manager profile
Root Ventures is a venture fund manager based in San Francisco. SEC filings show 4 venture funds on record, most recently Root Ventures IV, L.P. ($250M offering) filed January 2025.
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D filings. Firm website data not yet available.
What they invest in
from 12 of 14 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×6Developer Tools ×5Deep Tech ×3Enterprise Software ×3Hardware ×3SaaS ×3Construction Tech ×2Data & Infrastructure ×2
HQs:United States×9France×1
Investments · 14 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12025 · 22022 · 12020 · 15 dated
DeepWeave builds Loom, an AI-native optimization platform that augments the backend (physical) design stage of chip design, targeting power, performance, area, and yield through design-technology co-optimization within existing EDA flows.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSemiconductors
Unni Narayanan(Founder and CEO)David Pan(Founder and CTO)
Co-investorsHomebrewIncubate USRoot Ventures Manager, Llc
Kayhan Space develops technology to improve the safety of spaceflight operations.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechSaaSSpace TechLafayette, US
Siamak Hesar(Founder)inAraz Feyzi(Founder)in
BoardKane Hsieh(Director)
Co-investorsInitialized CapitalBeyond CapitalOverlineRoot Ventures Manager, LlcTechstarsEVE Atlas+2 more
CADY provides AI-powered schematic analysis that reviews Netlist and BOM files to detect design flaws, errors, and best-practice violations in high-density PCB designs within minutes.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareRamat Hasharon
Or Shabtai(Director)Tal Ben Porath(Director)Gilad Shapira(Executive Officer, Director)Avidan Aryeh Ross(Director)
BoardNimrod Cohen(Director)
Board seatAvidan Aryeh Ross· per SEC Form D · $2M raise · filed Sep 2025
Co-investorsATOORO FUNDCatapult VenturesRoot Ventures Manager, LlcTAU VenturestoDay Ventures
Dusty Robotics builds the FieldPrinter, a mobile robot that automates layout and marking tasks on construction job sites.
Construction TechHardwareRoboticsMountain View, US
Tessa Lau(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inPhilipp Herget(Director, Promoter)
BoardRichard Boyle(Director)in
Board seatAvidan Ross· per SEC Form D · $45.5M raise · filed Jun 2022
Co-investorsCanaan PartnersCantos VenturesGRIDS CapitalHumba VenturesNextGen Venture PartnersRoot Ventures Manager, Llc+1 more
Particle is an edge-to-cloud IoT platform-as-a-service for connected devices, acquired by Digi International in January 2026 for $50M.
San Francisco, US
Zachary Supalla(Executive Officer, Director)Zachary Crockett(Executive Officer, Director)Stephanie Rich(Executive Officer)Zachary Newport Supalla(Executive Officer, Director)Zachary Lynn Crockett(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardSameer Reddy(Director)
Board seatAvidan Ross· per SEC Form D · $5M raise · filed Sep 2025
Co-investorsBonfire VenturesSpark Capital
Hawthorne, US
James Wahawisan(Executive Officer)Benson Tsai(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatAvidan Ross· per SEC Form D · $7M raise · filed Sep 2020
An ML research and product lab building general intelligence by enabling people and computers to work together creatively
Enterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
David Luan(Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer)inAshish Vaswani(Co-founder & Chief Scientist)Niki Parmar(Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer)Augustus Odena(Co-founder)Maxwell Nye(Co-founder)inErich Elsen(Co-founder)
Co-investorsA.Capital VenturesAdditionAir Street CapitalAtlassian VenturesGeneral CatalystGreylock Partners+8 more
Belidor builds AI software for the construction industry, beginning with bid leveling and bid management tools for U.S. preconstruction teams.
Construction TechParis, FR
Marc Apicella(CEO)inBaptiste Grandclerc(Cofounder)in
Co-investorsAngular VenturesEntrepreneur First
DailyObjects designs and sells consumer tech accessories such as phone cases, chargers, and organizers for everyday use.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerce
Co-investorsRoots Ventures
Flight Science offers an operations platform for airlines that gives dispatchers and pilots real-time flight monitoring, integrated communications, and route/altitude/speed optimization recommendations.
AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSWest Hollywood, US
Andrew Gasparovic(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsOutsiders
Illoca builds Tracing Paper, a design tool that enables architects and designers to sketch, markup, and iterate on designs through a more natural workflow rather than rigid command-based interfaces.
Developer ToolsSan Ramon, US
Chiaowei Yu(Founder)Chin-Yi Cheng(Founder)
Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersRoot Ventures Manager, LlcAIX VenturesAlt Ventures
Meroxa builds real-time data integration and streaming tools to help organizations liberate data from silos and create data-driven applications.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsAmplify PartnersDrive CapitalRoot Ventures Manager, LlcAdditionHustle FundIndex Ventures+2 more
Quilter builds physics-driven AI that automatically generates printed circuit board (PCB) layouts, using Maxwell's equations, thermodynamics, and manufacturing constraints rather than human design patterns.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsHardwareLos Angeles, US
Sergiy Nesterenko(Founder and Chief Executive Officer)
BoardEric Vishria(Benchmark partner and board member)Nina Achadjian(Index Ventures partner and board member)
Co-investorsCoatue ManagementIndex VenturesRoot Ventures Manager, LlcBenchmark
Trieve provides backend infrastructure for implementing search, retrieval augmented generation, and recommendation systems, offering pre-built tools for ranking tuning, model customization, and hybrid semantic-keyword search.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Nick Khami(Founder)inDenzell Ford(Founder)Nicholas Khami(Founder)in
Co-investorsRoot Ventures Manager, LlcY Combinator
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
CADY · kalkine.ca · Aug 14, 2026
Quilter · investmentweek.co.uk · Aug 13, 2026
DailyObjects · economictimes.indiatimes.com · May 11, 2026
Illoca · finsmes.com · May 7, 2026
Belidor · intersectionhq.substack.com · May 5, 2026
Kayhan Space · spacenews.com · Mar 20, 2026
Flight Science · upstartsmedia.com · Jan 22, 2026
Adept site · TechCrunch · Aug 23, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- Where is Root Ventures located?
- Root Ventures is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Who does Root Ventures co-invest with?
- Root Ventures most often shares deals with General Catalyst, Greylock Partners, NVIDIA, among 13 tracked co-investors.