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DevSpring Ventures

VC
New York, NYWebsite

DevSpring Ventures is a Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in New York, NY investing in Developer Tools, SaaS, Enterprise. The firm typically writes $150K–$500K checks and has 18 portfolio companies in our records.

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed

Check Size

$150K – $500K

Portfolio

18+ companies

Team

15 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

DevSpring Ventures nurtures early-stage developer tools and DevOps innovations tailored for agile teams and rapid deployment.

How DevSpring Ventures invests

DevSpring Ventures is a vc firm based in New York, NY. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed stage, with a focus on Developer Tools, SaaS, Enterprise, Healthcare, AI / ML.

DevSpring Ventures typically writes checks of $150K–$500K per investment.

DevSpring Ventures has backed 18 companies in our records, including DeployQuick, Bioalert, Carbonyx.

Meet the Team

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Erin Skillen

Vice President of Marketing

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Nathan Percy

Investor Relations Manager

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Natalie Youssef

Project Manager

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Helen Aareskjold

Accounting Manager

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Keith Ippel

Cofounder

entrepreneurship
angel investing
impact investing

Keith co-founded Spring in 2010 with a mission to change the world through innovation. Over his 30 years of experience, he has counselled and taught hundreds of entrepreneurs, trained hundreds of angel investors, and coached hundreds of impact investors. He has launched and led multiple companies and has raised over $80m in angel investment and venture capital.

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Carla Rodriguez

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Developer Tools
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Graham Day

Investment Team Leader

impact investing
climate and agriculture deals
regenerative agriculture

Graham has been involved in impact investing for 20 years. He was formerly the Chief Investment Officer at Spring and was one of the founding members of the LGT Impact. He is a former CFO of Sistema.bio and ex-Oliver Wyman. He has a Masters degree from the Johns Hopkins University in Economics and a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from the Sauder School of Business.

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Olivia Hornby

VP

finance
social and environmental themes
women entrepreneurs

Olivia has nearly 20 years experience in finance working with multiple asset classes and $billions of capital from investors. She was formerly a VP at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, at RBC, Vancity, and boutique alternative investment funds in Vancouver and London, UK. She started investing at a young age in stocks and bonds but was always interested in social and environmental themes. After starting a family and leaving Goldman Sachs in 2022, she started angel investing.

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Larissa Sequeira

Venture Operator-Investor

climate and real assets
Canada’s next generation of founders

Larissa is a civil engineer turned venture operator-investor with almost a decade of experience spanning the full capital stack: institutional asset management at PGIM ($1.5T AUM), building an enterprise SaaS startup from zero to Series A at Manifest Climate ($28M raised), and deal diligence and syndication across North America, the EU, and MENA. She brings deep domain expertise in climate and real assets, and a global network to support Canada’s next generation of founders. She holds a Master of Engineering in Cities Engineering and Management, and a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto.

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Stephen Nairne

CIO

Raven Indigenous Capital Partners

Stephen Nairne CIO, Raven Indigenous Capital Partners

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Monique Morden

Board Member

Timia Capital

Monique Morden Board Member, Timia Capital

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Kristi Miller

Managing Partner

Krystal Growth Partners

Kristi Miller Managing Partner, Krystal Growth Partners

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Luke Sheen

Founding ED

Halo Health

Luke Sheen Founding ED, Halo Health technology

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Praveen Varshney

Founder

Varshney Capital

Praveen Varshney Founder, Varshney Capital

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Sylvain Carle

Co-Founder and Executive Director

CIVIC

Sylvain Carle Co-Founder and Executive Director at CIVIC

Industry Focus

Invests In

Developer Tools
SaaS
Enterprise
Healthcare
AI / ML

Portfolio Companies (18)

Other

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DeployQuick

DevOps
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Bioalert

Creating a safer environment by empowering companies to take real-time action resulting in public health and safety.

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Carbonyx

Carbonyx turns industrial waste and CO2 into high-performance materials.

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Cognito Health

Comprehensive treatment of ADHD, depression, anxiety and insomnia using virtual medical appointments, coaching & medication delivery.

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COSM

Cosm is modernizing pelvic care to improve the lives of women suffering from underserved and stigmatized health issues.

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Ginger Desk

HIPAA compliant virtual assistants and a seamless software platform to enable health & wellness practitioners to focus more time on patient health.

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Glidance

Glidance offers the world’s first autonomous and intelligent guide, Glide, for people who are blind or have low vision.

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JetScaleAI

JetScale is on a mission to make cloud operations predictable and continuously efficient—eliminating waste to reduce cost volatility and shrink the climate footprint of computing.

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Opalia

Opalia is leading the world’s transition to a more sustainable food system starting with cell-based milk products that don’t compromise on quality.

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Open Ocean Robotics

Safer, more affordable and sustainable ways to collect and manage oceanographic and maritime data.

How to pitch DevSpring Ventures
  • Raising at Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in Developer Tools, SaaS, Enterprise — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $150K – $500K check.
  • warm intro preferred
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Erin Skillen, Vice President of Marketing.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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