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AI Foundry Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($500K–$2.5M Checks)

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AI Foundry Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, CA investing in AI / ML, Other, SaaS. The firm typically writes $500K–$2.5M checks and has 8 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$500K–$2.5M
Portfolio
8 companies on record
Partners
5 listed
AUM
$40M
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sectors
AI / ML, Other, SaaS, Enterprise, Healthcare
HQ
San Francisco, CA

Last verified: 2026-08-13

How to approach: cold outreach ok
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$500K – $2.5M

AUM

$40M

Portfolio

8+ companies

Team

5 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Focuses on startups leveraging AI/ML to revolutionize industries including SaaS and enterprise workflows.

How AI Foundry Ventures invests

AI Foundry Ventures is a vc firm based in San Francisco, CA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on AI / ML, Other, SaaS, Enterprise, Healthcare.

AI Foundry Ventures typically writes checks of $500K–$2.5M per investment, backed by approximately $40M in assets under management.

AI Foundry Ventures has backed 8 companies in our records, including Airtable, PandaDoc, FinTech Fusion.

Partners & Team

RJ

Russell Johnson

CTO & Co-Founder

technical due diligence
product development
technology strategy
JC

Jesse Cole

COO & Co-Founder

operations
scaling businesses
Wall Street finance
KT

Kevin Tucker

CEO & Co-Founder

post-revenue B2B AI software
growth
M&A
MM

Mark Mahaffie

Capital Markets Advisor

exits
private/public equity transactions
capital markets
JC

Julia Chen

General Partner

AI/ML
B2B SaaS

Industry Focus

Invests In

AI / ML
Other
SaaS
Enterprise
Healthcare

Portfolio Companies (8)

Other

AI

Airtable

Workflow Automation SaaS
PA

PandaDoc

Automated Documentation SaaS
FI

FinTech Fusion

Enterprise Banking Technology Suite Universal middleware connecting legacy Core Banking Systems to blockchain infrastructure.

XR

XRPL Catalyst

Modular Lending & Securitization Platform End-to-end lending infrastructure from origination to securitization.

TO

TokenBridge

Institutional Securities Settlement Infrastructure T+0 atomic settlement for tokenized securities.

SI

Sigtuple

Healthcare·piVentures

AI diagnostics

NI

Niramai

Healthcare·piVentures

AI breast cancer detection

LO

Locus.sh

Logistics·piVentures

AI logistics

How to pitch AI Foundry Ventures
  • Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in AI / ML, Other, SaaS — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $500K – $2.5M check.
  • cold outreach ok
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Russell Johnson, CTO & Co-Founder.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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