What stage does Virta Ventures invest at?

Virta Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.

What is Virta Ventures's typical check size?

Virta Ventures typically writes checks of $100K – $750K.

Where is Virta Ventures located?

Virta Ventures is headquartered in San Francisco, US.

Does Virta Ventures lead rounds?

Virta Ventures typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.

Virta Ventures

Venture capitalActively deploying

San Francisco · Pre-Seed–Series A · 10 people tracked

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Investment thesis

Virta Ventures invests in early-stage companies driving a new industrial revolution reshaping the global economy. The firm backs founders transforming how the world is moved, powered, and built — spanning software-first companies as well as those building hardware from the ground up. Its focus is on making physical industries more profitable, efficient, and resilient, betting that iconic, category-defining companies of the next century are being founded today by driven, growth-oriented entrepreneurs.

Invests inAdvanced Manufacturing AgTech AI & Machine Learning Cleantech Climate Tech Construction Tech Deep Tech Energy Fintech Hardware InsurTech Mobility & Transportation PropTech SaaSSan FranciscoUnited States

Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.

Stage

Pre-Seed–Series A

Check

$100K – $750K

San Francisco, Idaho, US

Leads rounds

Follows

Instruments

Equity

Founded

2022

Tracked investments

Team · 10 people

from the firm's website & public directories

Russell· Founder and Managing Partner

Founder and Managing Partner of Virta Ventures with over 15 years of operating and investing experience in climate tech, having invested in 60+ early-stage companies. He was CFO at Full Harvest and previously held roles at RePower, Admirals Bank, Stem, and SunPower; he holds an MBA from Wharton, a BA from Yale, and is a CFA Charterholder.

Russell Sprole· Founder and Managing Partner· San Francisco Bay Areain

Founder and Managing Partner of Virta Ventures with 15+ years of operating and investing experience in climate tech; previously CFO at Full Harvest and held roles at RePower, Admirals Bank, Stem, and SunPower. Holds a Wharton MBA and Yale BA, and is a CFA Charterholder.

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Garrett Goldberg· Venture Partner· Parisin

Venture Partner with over a decade of venture investing and operating experience. He is co-Founder and General Partner at Potion Capital in Paris, was COO of Wellplaece, and previously a Partner at Bee Partners focused on marketplace and SaaS climate tech.

Charlie Warren· Advisor· San Francisco, California, United Statesin

Advisor who founded and built Convex into a leading commercial contractor sales platform, with over 10 years of experience in data, energy analytics, and enterprise software.

Dan Wilner· Advisor· Canadain

Advisor specializing in communications who has helped startups raise over $455 million through speechwriting, pitch materials, and media relations across sectors including climate, AI, healthcare, fintech, and media.

David Bill· Operating Partner· San Francisco, California, United Statesin

Operating Partner with over 25 years in technology leadership across startups and companies including ExactTarget and Virta Health. He is a Founding Advisor and CTO to Freestyle Capital and an Expert in Residence at First Round Capital, supporting technical diligence.

Dipak Kumar· Investor· San Francisco, California, United Statesin

Investor at Virta Ventures with experience in private equity, foundations, and policy. He was previously a Senior Analyst at the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation and worked in private equity at Cove Hill Partners; he is pursuing a joint MBA/MPP at Harvard.

Eyal Zurr· Advisor· Tel Aviv District, Israelin

Advisor with 10+ years of startup experience as founder and senior executive, specializing in strategic partnerships, go-to-market, and product-led growth. He is currently VP of Partnerships at Guidde and was previously at Monday.com.

Farlan Dowell· Operating Partner· San Francisco, California, United Statesin

Operating Partner with 20+ years of B2B SaaS sales leadership, having guided multiple companies from $0 to $10M ARR. He previously worked with Russell at Full Harvest.

Lee Hoffman· Advisor· New York, New York, United Statesin

Advisor who has co-founded and managed technology for companies including Time Warner, Razorfish Studios, and Terabolic. He co-founded and was CEO of Veri, a mobile startup acquired by The Knot in 2018.

What they invest in

from 16 of 30 portfolio companies

Energy ×7AI & Machine Learning ×6Cleantech ×5Advanced Manufacturing ×4Deep Tech ×4Climate Tech ×3Construction Tech ×3Fintech ×3

HQs:United States×11India×1

Investments · 30 tracked

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Laiierlaiier.ioin✓ verified

LAIIER develops sensor-based leak detection solutions for commercial buildings and industrial equipment, helping property operators, insurers, and facilities managers prevent water damage and reduce downtime.

Climate TechConstruction TechEnterprise SoftwareIoTPropTechLondon

Matt Johnson(Executive Officer, Director)Bibiana Nelson(Executive Officer)Colin Nunn(Executive Officer)

BoardFaisal Al-Husssein(Director)Zena Bruges(Director)Alyssa Bryan(Director)

Actualactualhq.comin

Ambergetamber.comin 𝕏

Blackcurrrantblackcurrant.ai

CapeZerocapezero.comin

CapeZero offers modeling software for clean energy project development teams to assess feasibility, run economic scenarios, and de-risk projects across the capital life cycle.

CleantechEnergyFintechSaaSKingston, US

Manish Hebbar(Executive Officer, Director)Sumit Chachra(Director)

Curocurocharging.comin 𝕏

Curo provides electric vehicle charging infrastructure and parking facilities for commercial fleets across the United States.

Advanced ManufacturingEnergyIoTMobility & TransportationSan Francisco, US

Kieran White(CEO & Co-Founder)in

Everstareverstar.aiin 𝕏

Everstar is developing nuclear energy technology combined with AI, positioning itself around advancing nuclear power toward large-scale energy abundance.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnergyNew York, US

Michael Kim(Director)Chaewoon Kong(Executive Officer, Director)

Fleet falsemovewithfleet.com

Flux Autofluxauto.aiin 𝕏

Flux retrofits existing material handling equipment with AI-powered autonomy hardware, enabling warehouses to automate pallet movement, material transport, and logistics tasks without purchasing new machines or modifying infrastructure.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainRoboticsBengaluru, IN

Pranav Manpuria(Founder)inAbhishek Gupta(Founder)in

Fractalfractal.agin 𝕏

Fractal provides capital to farmers through equity investments in their farmland, allowing operators to access funds for land purchases, down payments, and preserving working capital while retaining control over how they farm.

AgTechFintech

FutureProof Technologiesfutureprooftech.io

Goodlynxgoodlynx.comin 𝕏

GoodLynx (GLX) operates a digital platform for clean energy capital markets, using a matching engine to connect U.S. clean energy developers with buyers of tax credits and environmental commodities.

CleantechClimate TechFintech

Havenhavenpanels.comin

Haven manufactures prefabricated building panels that arrive pre-routed for electrical and plumbing and integrate into standard construction practices, letting a 4-person crew get a home under roof in 2 to 5 days.

Advanced ManufacturingConstruction TechPropTech

Kayausekaya.ai

Luminaluminatech.co

Mercurymercurycomputing.io

NMTnewmantle.tech

NewMantle develops AI and physics-based software tools for subsurface characterization to support geothermal energy development.

AI & Machine LearningCleantechEnergy

Plugplug.vin

Project Omegaprojectomega.comin 𝕏

Project Omega recycles spent nuclear fuel to rebuild the domestic nuclear fuel cycle, using chemistry processing to remove key isotopes and develop new products for the nuclear economy.

Deep TechDefense TechEnergy

Staff Sheehan(CEO)

Resilience Investmentsresilience.investments

Resilience deploys residential solar and storage, aggregating homes into a single dispatchable grid resource that supplies power to the AI/data center economy while lowering or eliminating energy costs for working families.

CleantechClimate TechEnergy

Revise Roboticsreviserobotics.comin 𝕏

Revise Robotics builds robotic systems with AI that automate the assessment and refurbishment of discarded electronics for recycling facilities and second-hand resellers.

Advanced ManufacturingRoboticsNew York City, US

Rupesh Jeyaram(Founder)inAntonio Monreal(Founder/CTO)in

Shovelsshovels.aiin

Shovels provides a building permit and contractor data platform that uses AI to turn fragmented U.S. permit records into structured, searchable intelligence covering 164M+ permits across 2,450+ jurisdictions.

Construction TechData & InfrastructurePropTech

Sluiceboxsluicebox.aiin

Suntheticssunthetics.ioin

Sunthetics develops machine learning algorithms and software for chemical engineering applications.

AI & Machine LearningCleantechDeep TechNew MaterialsSaaSNew York City, US

Daniela Blanco(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardLaura Lucas(Director)

Symbolic Mindsymbolicmind.aiin

SymbolicMind develops CPU-native AI that uses symbolic rather than matrix computation to reduce training and inference energy consumption and costs by over 100x in reasoning workloads.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechSemiconductors

Thalothalolabs.comin 𝕏

Treehousetreehouse.proin 𝕏

Tybatyba.aiin

Vor Systemsvorsystems.com

Vor is an AI-enabled due diligence and transaction platform that reviews and organizes high-volume transaction documents (leases, permits, interconnection studies, offtake and finance agreements) and extracts key terms, risks, and deadlines with links back to source documents.

AI & Machine LearningEnergySaaS

WaterOnewaterone.ai

Frequently asked questions

What stage does Virta Ventures invest at?: Virta Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
What is Virta Ventures's typical check size?: Virta Ventures typically writes checks of $100K – $750K.
What sectors does Virta Ventures focus on?: Virta Ventures focuses on Advanced Manufacturing, AgTech, AI & Machine Learning, Cleantech, Climate Tech, Construction Tech, Deep Tech, Energy, Fintech, Hardware, InsurTech, Mobility & Transportation, PropTech, SaaS.
Where is Virta Ventures located?: Virta Ventures is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
Does Virta Ventures lead rounds?: Virta Ventures typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.

From the blog

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Virta Ventures has recently focused on competitive defensibility in the AI era, examining how human culture and collective learning remain essential alongside AI tools, and how the most resilient companies build integrated layers of competitive advantages spanning narrative control, distribution ownership, and compounding product platforms rather than relying on single moats. AI summary

The Missing Half of Intelligence in the Age of A.I.Mar 2026Human collective learning, not raw intelligence, is our evolutionary superpower, and organizations must continuously update their cultural software to thrive alongside AI.Building Moats in the AI Era - Part 4: The Innovation StackFeb 2026Category-defining AI companies build stacked layers of reinforcing competitive advantages that compound over time and become exponentially harder to replicate than single moats.Building Moats in the AI Era - Part 3: Beyond the 7 PowersDec 2025Beyond traditional competitive advantages, durable AI-era moats emerge from founders controlling narrative, owning distribution as a strategic asset, and building compound platforms with multiple integrated products.

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