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Sprout Oak
Venture capitalNew York · Pre-Seed–Series A · 4 people tracked
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Investment thesis
Sprout & Oak invests based on fundamentals and first principles rather than trends, targeting ideas that disrupt industries, enhance productivity, and transform workflows. The firm backs companies reshaping how software is created, consumed, and monetized to lead the next wave of digital transformation. Its core investment areas span the AI ecosystem (automation and intelligent decision-making), cybersecurity for a scalable digital experience, data infrastructure that unlocks AI's potential through proprietary data, and infrastructure software providing scalable foundations. The firm also emphasizes India as a key part of the global innovation economy, citing rapidly rising enterprise software demand (~$60B expected by 2027) and aiming to help companies tap that expanding market.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 4 people
from the firm's website & public directoriesFounder mafia
2 people who came through Sprout Oak went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 6 of 7 portfolio companiesEnterprise Software ×6Cybersecurity ×5AI & Machine Learning ×4Data & Infrastructure ×2Developer Tools ×1SaaS ×1
HQs:United States×3
Investments · 7 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12025 · 12 dated
Aiceberg provides real-time AI security and governance for enterprises, monitoring LLM and agentic AI interactions to detect shadow AI, prompt injections, and exposure of sensitive data (PII, PCI, PHI).
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareNew York, US
Alexander Schlager(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardRyan Permeh(Director)inAlex Tosheff(Director)in
Board seatHemen Vimadalal· per SEC Form D
Co-investorsSyn Ventures Seed Management Llc
1Kosmos provides a platform for digital identity verification and passwordless authentication designed to prevent identity fraud for service providers and enterprises.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Rohan PintoinMike Engle
BoardHemen Vimadalalin
Co-investorsGula Tech AdventuresKensington Capital Partners LimitedOquirrh VenturesBridge BankForgePoint Capital
Corvic offers an enterprise AI platform that wraps frontier models with grounded playbooks, multi-agent workflows, persistent memory, and secure data handling to process structured and unstructured data at scale.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Gurbinder Gill(Founder)in
Co-investorsFoothill VenturesLam CapitalM VenturesAtlantic Bridge VenturesBosch VenturesK2 Access Fund+1 more
SurgSecure is a cybersecurity services firm that provides security assessments, technology integration, and management of scalable security solutions across data, applications, cloud, identity, network, and endpoints.
CybersecurityEnterprise Software
Co-investorsS3 VenturesGTM CapitalInsight Partners
DataBahn builds a data pipeline platform that handles ingestion, enrichment, governance, and AI readiness of data for enterprise security teams.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareDallas, US
Nanda Santhana(Chief Executive Officer)inNithyalakshmi Nareshkumar(Chief Operating Officer)
Co-investorsForgePoint CapitalGTM CapitalS3 Ventures
QuilrAI provides endpoint-level security for AI coding tools that run locally on developer machines, intercepting and governing file access, shell commands, context window contents, and secret exfiltration before they execute.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
Ampsecure
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies1Kosmos · yourstory.com · Aug 12, 2025
Corvic · prnewswire.com · Apr 15, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Sprout Oak made?
- Sprout Oak has 7 tracked investments, including 2 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Sprout Oak invest at?
- Sprout Oak invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What sectors does Sprout Oak focus on?
- Sprout Oak focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, SaaS.
- Where is Sprout Oak located?
- Sprout Oak is headquartered in New York, US.
- Who does Sprout Oak co-invest with?
- Sprout Oak most often shares deals with S3 Ventures, ForgePoint Capital, GTM Capital, among 10 tracked co-investors.
Co-investors · 1
Firms observed investing alongside Sprout Oak, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Sprout Oak's recorded portfolio.
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