Category Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($250K–$1.0M Checks)
Category Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California investing in Enterprise, Developer Tools, SaaS. The firm typically writes $250K–$1.0M checks.
- Check size
- $250K–$1.0M
- Partners
- 1 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Enterprise, Developer Tools, SaaS, AI / ML
- HQ
- San Francisco, California
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-10-05
Pre-Seed, Seed
$250K – $1.0M
1 partner
Investment Thesis
Solo-GP early-stage fund focused exclusively on enterprise software. The firm targets technical and software-centric companies, including developer tooling and infrastructure-adjacent products.
How Category Ventures invests
Category Ventures is a vc firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Enterprise, Developer Tools, SaaS, AI / ML.
Category Ventures typically writes checks of $250K–$1.0M per investment.
Partners & Team
Villi Iltchev
Founder and Managing Partner
Industry Focus
Invests In
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Enterprise, Developer Tools, SaaS — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $1.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Villi Iltchev, Founder and Managing Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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