Coherent Ventures
Coherent Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in San Diego, CA investing in Other. The firm typically writes $100K–$1.5M checks and has 2 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $100K–$1.5M
- Portfolio
- 2 companies on record
- Partners
- 1 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other
- HQ
- San Diego, CA
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-07-18
Pre-Seed, Seed
$100K – $1.5M
2+ companies
1 partner
Investment Thesis
A small rolling fund investing exclusively in photonics and biometrics innovations for industrial and medical applications.
How Coherent Ventures invests
Coherent Ventures is a vc firm based in San Diego, CA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other. It does not invest in Media, Consumer-facing AI.
Coherent Ventures typically writes checks of $100K–$1.5M per investment.
Coherent Ventures has backed 2 companies in our records, including LaserTool Inc., OptiBiometric Solutions.
Partners & Team
Michael Grant
Solo GP
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (2)
Other
LaserTool Inc.
OptiBiometric Solutions
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $100K – $1.5M check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Michael Grant, Solo GP.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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