Sprout Oak
Venture capitalActively deployingNew York · Pre-Seed–Series A · 4 people tracked
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 directories
What they invest in
from 5 of 7 portfolio companiesCybersecurity ×5Enterprise Software ×5AI & Machine Learning ×3Data & Infrastructure ×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)
BoardRyan Permeh(Director)Alex Tosheff(Director)
Board seatHemen Vimadalal· per SEC Form D
1Kosmos provides a platform for digital identity verification and passwordless authentication designed to prevent identity fraud for service providers and enterprises.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Rohan PintoMike Engle
BoardHemen Vimadalal
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)Nithyalakshmi Nareshkumar(Chief Operating Officer)
BoardErnie Bio(Director)
QuilrAI is an AI security and governance platform that discovers every AI agent, LLM connection, MCP server, and copilot across an organization, sets design-time permissions, and blocks policy violations at runtime before requests reach data.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Frequently asked questions
- 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.
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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