Criteria Venture Tech — Pre-Seed & pre-series A VC Firm ($500K–$2.0M Checks)
Criteria Venture Tech is a Pre-Seed, pre-series A venture capital firm investing in AI / ML, Security, Developer Tools. The firm typically writes $500K–$2.0M checks and has 59 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $500K–$2.0M
- Portfolio
- 59 companies on record
- Partners
- 3 listed
- AUM
- $250M
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, pre-series A
- Sectors
- AI / ML, Security, Developer Tools, Deep Tech, SaaS, Enterprise
Last verified: 2026-10-28
Pre-Seed, pre-series A
$500K – $2.0M
$250M
59+ companies
3 partners
Investment Thesis
Tech-focused VC fund investing in early-stage startups across Europe and the US, with a clear emphasis on AI, cybersecurity, data, software infrastructure, and deep tech. The firm says it leads or co-leads pre-seed rounds with meaningful initial ticket sizes.
How Criteria Venture Tech invests
Criteria Venture Tech is a vc firm. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, pre-series A stages, with a focus on AI / ML, Security, Developer Tools, Deep Tech, SaaS.
Criteria Venture Tech typically writes checks of $500K–$2.0M per investment, backed by approximately $250M in assets under management. Our records include 2 funds raised by the firm.
Criteria Venture Tech has backed 59 companies in our records, including Vilynx, Playgiga, vLex.
Partners & Team
Albert Morro
Principal
Aleix Pérez
Principal
Roma Jelinskaite
Managing Partner
Industry Focus
Invests In
Funds
Criteria Venture Tech Fund II
Criteria Venture Tech Fund I
Recent Activity
Raised Criteria Venture Tech Fund II ($150M)
2021 · fund records
Raised Criteria Venture Tech Fund I ($100M)
2019 · fund records
Portfolio Companies (59)
Other
Vilynx
Acquired by Apple
Playgiga
Acquired by Meta (Facebook)
vLex
Acquired by Clio
Strikeready
8layers
AI platform for cloud identity threat detection
Scalestack
Enline
iPronics
Developer of programmable photonic chips for AI
Barbara
Industrial software company focused on IoT infrastructure
Argilla (Hugging Face)
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, pre-series A? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in AI / ML, Security, Developer Tools — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $2.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Albert Morro, Principal.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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