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Surface Ventures
Venture capitalNew York · Pre-Seed–Series A · 4 people tracked
Also known as SURFACE VENTURE MANAGEMENT, LLC
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Investment thesis
Surface Ventures is a pre-seed and seed fund focused primarily on B2B software. It invests in infrastructure tooling that boosts productivity and collaboration across common business roles, with many solutions incorporating LLMs, spanning areas like B2B and commerce infrastructure, data and analytics, generative AI, developer tools, DevOps, industrial automation, future of work, and security/GRC. It also backs vertical software and tech-enabled services, particularly in healthcare, aiming to reduce friction, improve patient outcomes, and lower costs for patients, providers, pharma, and payers, with additional interest in fintech and proptech. The firm partners early with ambitious entrepreneurs, offering regular check-ins, responsiveness, and honest feedback.
Source: firm website, verified Oct 2, 2026.
Team · 4 people
from curated & public directoriesWhat they invest in
from 14 of 19 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×9Enterprise Software ×9Developer Tools ×7SaaS ×7Data & Infrastructure ×5Medical Devices ×2B2B Marketplaces ×1Cleantech ×1
HQs:United States×11
Investments · 19 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 42025 · 22024 · 32023 · 12022 · 32021 · 114 dated
Adapty provides infrastructure and analytics for mobile apps that sell in-app subscriptions.
Developer ToolsSaaS
Dmitriy PodoprosvetovKirill PotehinKirill PotekhininVitalii Davydov
Co-investors500 GlobalFlyer One VenturesirrvrntVC
Agno provides AgentOS, a private and secure agent platform and framework that runs in a company's own cloud, letting engineering teams build, deploy, and manage AI agents, teams of agents, tools, and workflows.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Ashpreet B(Founder)Ashpreet Bedi(Founder)
Co-investorsZero Prime VenturesData Community FundGreatPoint Ventures
Bayou Energy provides APIs for companies to deploy and manage clean energy devices.
CleantechData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnergySaaS
James Gordey(Co-Founder and CEO)inJoris Van Hecke(Co-Founder and CTO)in
Co-investorsLeap Forward VenturesStepchangeVery Serious Ventures
BotGauge provides an autonomous QA platform that uses AI agents to read a product's PRDs, UX flows, and demos, then generate, execute, self-heal, and report on functional, UI, and API test cases, with a dedicated domain expert (FDE) pod validating every test.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaSDover, US
Pramin Pradeep(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inNaresh Kumar Rajendran(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inVivek Paruthikkat Nair(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Co-investorsIA Seed VenturesSaka Ventures
CloudRift provides a control-plane platform for managing large-scale GPU infrastructure across data centers, offering virtualization, tenant and billing management, inference serving, and developer tools.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureSanta Clara, US
Dmitry Trifonov(Founder)
Concordare provides infrastructure for clinical research by extracting trial information into a standardized protocol model and automatically generating downstream deliverables for coordinators, eliminating manual documentation work across systems.
Digital HealthEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechMedical DevicesSaaSNew York City, US
Zach S.(Founder)in
Co-investorsTechstarsGaingelsInnovation Works
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ConverSight provides AI-powered decision intelligence software for sales, finance, procurement, marketing, and service functions in manufacturing, distribution, and retail industries.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareIoTSaaSIndianapolis, US
Ganesh Gandhieswaran(Founder)inGopinath Jaganmohan(Founder)in
Co-investorsAtland VenturesAugment VenturesBread And Butter Ventures, LlcCharmides CapitalElevate VenturesTechstars+1 more
Designbase offers an interface design tool that converts visual designs into code, aimed at small teams and resource-constrained organizations.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Alexandru Antihi(Founder)inRyan Xie(Founder)in
Co-investorsFundersClubY CombinatorCrosstimbers Capital GroupDecent CapitalForm CapitalGaingels+3 more
DocJuris offers an AI platform for legal teams to draft, review, and manage contracts and other legal documents such as NDAs, SLAs, employment agreements, and procurement contracts.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechSaaSSales TechHouston, US
Henal Patel(Executive Officer, Director)inStefano de Stefano(Executive Officer)inBrian Ng(Executive Officer, Director)David Issa(Executive Officer)
BoardJeremy Milken(Director)inRoger Chen(Director)in
Co-investorsSilverton PartnersRTP GlobalSeed Round CapitalWatertower Ventures Management, Llc
Gondola Markets is a broker for private markets and pre-IPO shares, helping shareholders and institutions buy and sell positions in late-stage private technology companies with pricing intelligence and discretion.
B2B MarketplacesFintech
Patrick Hughes(Co-Founder & CEO)inAndrew Benson(Founder & Executive Chairman)in
Co-investorsTranspose Platform ManagementFirstMile VenturesHCAP Partners
vCluster platform making Kubernetes more efficient; closed a $24M Series A led by Khosla Ventures.
San Francisco, US
Lukas Gentele(Executive Officer, Director)inFabian Kramm(Director)in
Co-investorsFusionBerkeley SkyDeck FundBlackRockEMERGENT VENTURESFoundation CapitalKhosla Ventures+1 more
Octozi provides AI-powered automation for clinical data workflows including cleaning, review, reconciliation, reporting, and operations in clinical trials.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMedical Devices
Amit Patel(Founder)inMatt Purri, PhD(Founder)in
Co-investorsDebiopharm Innovation FundEntrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA)Remarkable Ventures
Outerbase provides a platform to democratize access to data across organizations, enabling users to query and interact with their data regardless of their role.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSPittsburgh, US
Brandon Strittmatter(Founder)inBrayden Wilmoth(Founder)in
Co-investorsLobby CapitalRidge VenturesTechstarsY CombinatorAndreessen HorowitzGoodwater Capital+3 more
Chen Shashar(Founder)in
Co-investorsBowery CapitalGeek Ventures
Pipekit provides management and orchestration software for Argo Workflows, helping data and engineering teams reduce the time and cost of running complex data and CI pipelines on Kubernetes infrastructure.
Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Caelan Urquhart(Founder)inJ.P. Zivalich(Founder)in
Co-investorsKube VCUncorrelated VenturesY CombinatorAmino CapitalAstir VenturesFifth Quarter Ventures+5 more
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Poetiq builds self-improving AI systems that sit on top of existing LLMs to extract and synthesize their embedded knowledge into reliable reasoning strategies, using far less data than traditional reinforcement learning post-training.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareMountain View, US
Ian Fischer(Founder)in
Co-investorsOperator CollectiveOutset Capital468 CapitalCharacterFYRFLY Venture PartnersY Combinator
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Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesOctozi · thesaasnews.com · Jul 8, 2026
Botgauge · botgauge.com · Feb 10, 2026
Poetiq · thesaasnews.com · Feb 3, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Surface Ventures made?
- Surface Ventures has 19 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited, including 6 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Surface Ventures invest at?
- Surface Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Surface Ventures's typical check size?
- Surface Ventures typically writes checks of $500K – $3M.
- What sectors does Surface Ventures focus on?
- Surface Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Developer Tools, Digital Health, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Future of Work, Healthtech, Medical Devices, PropTech, SaaS.
- Where is Surface Ventures located?
- Surface Ventures is headquartered in New York, US.
- Does Surface Ventures lead rounds?
- Yes, Surface Ventures leads investment rounds.
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Co-investors · 19
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Saga Ventures is a $125M seed fund led by a trio combining career investor, GTM operator, and ML/fintech founder backgrounds, positioning itself as a return to traditional venture with a small partnership focused on deep company building. The firm backs hard problems in infrastructure-like categories including defense tech, space manufacturing, industrial automation, and AI infrastructure, emphasizing fundamentals-driven investing over hype cycles with $2-4M checks at pre-seed and seed stages.
1984 Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that backs founders, publishing content on fundraising, company building, and AI. Its portfolio includes companies such as PostHog and Proxie.
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