DataCore Ventures
DataCore Ventures is a Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in Austin, TX investing in Enterprise, AI / ML, Other. The firm typically writes $500K–$2.5M checks and has 12 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $500K–$2.5M
- Portfolio
- 12 companies on record
- Partners
- 11 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed
- Sectors
- Enterprise, AI / ML, Other, SaaS, Developer Tools
- HQ
- Austin, TX
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-08-25
Pre-Seed
$500K – $2.5M
12+ companies
11 partners
Investment Thesis
DataCore Ventures invests in transformative software solutions specifically in enterprise AI and data engineering, focusing on enabling businesses to leverage data for operational excellence.
How DataCore Ventures invests
DataCore Ventures is a vc firm based in Austin, TX. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed stage, with a focus on Enterprise, AI / ML, Other, SaaS, Developer Tools. It does not invest in Consumer, Media.
DataCore Ventures typically writes checks of $500K–$2.5M per investment.
DataCore Ventures has backed 12 companies in our records, including SignalAI, StarWind, Swarm.
Partners & Team
Steve Hunsaker
Director Systems Engineering
Ben Treiber
Executive
Michael Chadwell
Director
Emily Tran
GP
Industry Focus
Invests In
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Portfolio Companies (12)
Other
SignalAI
StarWind
Resilient HCI for Edge, ROBO, SMBs Simple, easy-to-use HCI available as software and turnkey appliance solutions. Ensure high availability for your applications with just 2 nodes. Compact & cost-effective.
Swarm
Scalable S3 Object Storage Platform Petabyte-scale cyber-resilient storage for active archives, backup targets, and long-term retention. Centrally manage and protect data, while enabling distributed access across sites.
Swarm Appliance
Lightweight Object Storage Appliance Prepackaged, ready-to-run appliance providing secure S3 storage for backups and active archives across edge, ROBO, and small IT environments.
Nexus
For Demanding HPC & AI Workloads Maximize performance and scalability with a high-throughput, low-latency parallel file system with data orchestration, global namespace, multi-protocol access.
Puls8
Persistent Storage for Kubernetes Provide high-performance persistent volumes for stateful applications and cloud-native services. Ensure reliable, scalable Kubernetes storage across on-premises and cloud.
Abundant Robotics
Developer of autonomous robotic systems for agriculture.
Freenome
Biotechnology company developing blood tests for early cancer detection.
Pivot Bio
Agricultural technology company focused on nitrogen-fixing microbes.
Caringo
Provider of object storage software solutions.
- •Raising at Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Enterprise, AI / ML, Other — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $2.5M check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Ricardo Campos, Senior Director of Finance.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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