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Chaos Ventures

VC
San Francisco, CAWebsite

Chaos Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, CA investing in Enterprise, AI / ML, SaaS. The firm typically writes $250K–$1.0M checks and has 85 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$250K–$1.0M
Portfolio
85 companies on record
Partners
4 listed
AUM
$40M
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sectors
Enterprise, AI / ML, SaaS
HQ
San Francisco, CA

Last verified: 2026-06-13

Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$250K – $1.0M

AUM

$40M

Portfolio

85+ companies

Team

4 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Pre-seed and seed investor in enterprise software and AI-native B2B companies.

How Chaos Ventures invests

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

Chaos Ventures typically writes checks of $250K–$1.0M per investment, backed by approximately $40M in assets under management.

Chaos Ventures has backed 85 companies in our records, including Stripe, Carta, Intercom.

Partners & Team

JR

John Ream

Founder / GP

Enterprise software
Pre-seed
JS

Justin Smith

General Partner

FinTech
Healthcare
Consumer
Pre-seed
Seed
Series A
DZ

Dustin Zhang

General Partner

FinTech
Health IT
Data Services
Seed & Series A (NY)
RA

Ryan Alexander

General Partner

Financial Services
Consumer
Real Estate Adjacent — CBRE background; real estate investment / commercial real estate insights

Industry Focus

Invests In

Enterprise
AI / ML
SaaS

Portfolio Companies (85)

Other

ST

Stripe

Fintech infrastructure
CA

Carta

B2B fintech (cap table)
IN

Intercom

B2B SaaS (customer comms)
WH

WHYM

IN

InterPrice Technologies

YU

YUMI

KL

Klarna

DA

DAPPER LABS

PE

PERCENT

FL

FLUTERWAVE

How to pitch Chaos Ventures
  • Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in Enterprise, AI / ML, SaaS — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $250K – $1.0M check.
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as John Ream, Founder / GP.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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