Affect Ventures
Affect Ventures is a Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, CA investing in AI / ML, EdTech. The firm typically writes $200K–$500K checks and has 2 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $200K–$500K
- Portfolio
- 2 companies on record
- Partners
- 4 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed
- Sectors
- AI / ML, EdTech
- HQ
- Palo Alto, CA
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-05-18
Pre-Seed
$200K – $500K
2+ companies
4 partners
Investment Thesis
Invests in early-stage technology companies that apply AI to improve education and productivity.
How Affect Ventures invests
Affect Ventures is a vc firm based in Palo Alto, CA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed stage, with a focus on AI / ML, EdTech.
Affect Ventures typically writes checks of $200K–$500K per investment.
Affect Ventures has backed 2 companies in our records, including Otter.ai, Spoken.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
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Portfolio Companies (2)
Other
Otter.ai
Spoken
- •Raising at Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in AI / ML, EdTech — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $200K – $500K check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Sriram Krishnan, General Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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