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Cotton Seed Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($100K–$1.0M Checks)

VC
Bangalore, IndiaWebsite

Cotton Seed Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Bangalore, India investing in Other, AI / ML, SaaS. The firm typically writes $100K–$1.0M checks and has 2 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$100K–$1.0M
Portfolio
2 companies on record
Partners
5 listed
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sectors
Other, AI / ML, SaaS
HQ
Bangalore, India
AUM
Not in our records

Last verified: 2026-05-17

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$100K – $1.0M

Portfolio

2+ companies

Team

5 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Backing innovators in the textile industry, with a special emphasis on leveraging technology to modernize design and production workflows.

How Cotton Seed Ventures invests

Cotton Seed Ventures is a vc firm based in Bangalore, India. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, AI / ML, SaaS.

Cotton Seed Ventures typically writes checks of $100K–$1.0M per investment.

Cotton Seed Ventures has backed 2 companies in our records, including ColorCraft AI, ThreadSync.

Partners & Team

AC

Austin Cotton

Founding Partner

commercial real estate
development
branding
brokerage
JC

Jimbo Cotton

Founding Partner

commercial real estate
brokerage
leasing
development
site selection
GN

Gil Nuss

Founding Partner

capital markets
investment sales
resort & hospitality development
leasing
RC

Rodney Cotton

Partner

Life Sciences
Biotech
Health Tech
Diagnostics
Executive leadership
Strategy
LM

Lakshmi Menon

Partner

Textile Sector
AI Design

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
AI / ML
SaaS

Portfolio Companies (2)

Other

CO

ColorCraft AI

AI Design Tools
TH

ThreadSync

Textile Supply Chain SaaS
How to pitch Cotton Seed Ventures
  • •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • •Lead with your fit in Other, AI / ML, SaaS — the sectors they actively back.
  • •Size your ask to their typical $100K – $1.0M check.
  • •warm intro preferred
  • •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Austin Cotton, Founding Partner.
  • •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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