Citrine Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($500K–$1.5M Checks)
Citrine Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, CA investing in Other, AI / ML, Consumer. The firm typically writes $500K–$1.5M checks and has 19 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $500K–$1.5M
- Portfolio
- 19 companies on record
- Partners
- 3 listed
- AUM
- $50M
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other, AI / ML, Consumer, Healthcare, Food / AgTech, EdTech
- HQ
- Los Angeles, CA
Last verified: 2026-06-13
Pre-Seed, Seed
$500K – $1.5M
$50M
19+ companies
3 partners
Investment Thesis
Focuses on unconventional materials science startups with applications in semiconductors and AI-focused hardware.
How Citrine Ventures invests
Citrine Ventures is a vc firm based in Los Angeles, CA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, AI / ML, Consumer, Healthcare, Food / AgTech. It does not invest in Media, Consumer.
Citrine Ventures typically writes checks of $500K–$1.5M per investment, backed by approximately $50M in assets under management.
Citrine Ventures has backed 19 companies in our records, including NanoEdge Devices, HyperNano, Citrine Capital LLC.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (19)
Other
NanoEdge Devices
HyperNano
Citrine Capital LLC
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Shopify
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Alphabet
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Citrine Venture Partners
A newly founded early-stage VC firm established in 2025.
Citrine Angels
Invests in women-founded early-stage startups with significant addressable markets.
Citrine Informatics
An AI/materials science software company.
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, AI / ML, Consumer — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $1.5M check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Dan Dall’Asta, Co-Founder & Managing Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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