Deep Future Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($250K–$3.0M Checks)
Deep Future Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Austin, TX investing in Other, Deep Tech, AI / ML. The firm typically writes $250K–$3.0M checks and has 5 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $250K–$3.0M
- Portfolio
- 5 companies on record
- Partners
- 9 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other, Deep Tech, AI / ML
- HQ
- Austin, TX
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-05-21
Pre-Seed, Seed
$250K – $3.0M
5+ companies
9 partners
Investment Thesis
Invests in companies building the foundational tools for the future of human-AI interaction and immersive tech, with a focus on hardware and software integrations.
How Deep Future Ventures invests
Deep Future Ventures is a vc firm based in Austin, TX. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Deep Tech, AI / ML.
Deep Future Ventures typically writes checks of $250K–$3.0M per investment.
Deep Future Ventures has backed 5 companies in our records, including Shield AI, PlantMaster AI, Immersive Labs.
Partners & Team
Steve Jurvetson
Venture Capitalist
Steve Jurvetson is an early-stage venture capitalist with a focus on founder-led, mission-driven companies at the cutting edge of disruptive technology and new industry formation. He currently serves on the boards of SpaceX, Tesla and D-Wave (quantum computers). Steve was the founding VC investor in four public companies and several rapidly growing companies like Planet, Memphis Meats, Hotmail, and the deep learning companies Mythic and Nervana. He also led investments in companies that were acquired for $12 billion in aggregate.
John Patel
Partner
Elena Marks
Founding Partner
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (5)
Other
Shield AI
PlantMaster AI
Immersive Labs
Conscious Cloud AI
Vicarious
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, Deep Tech, AI / ML — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $3.0M check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Nora Almanza, Operations Manager.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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