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Diverge Ventures

VC
Los Angeles, CAWebsite
How to approach: cold outreach ok
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$500K – $3.0M

Portfolio

2+ companies

Team

4 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Diverge focuses on early consumer-focused hardware companies and health-related direct-to-consumer businesses with strong brand fundamentals.

How Diverge Ventures invests

Diverge Ventures is a vc firm based in Los Angeles, CA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Consumer, Healthcare, AI / ML.

Diverge Ventures typically writes checks of $500K–$3.0M per investment.

Diverge Ventures has backed 2 companies in our records, including WellEase, BodyMetrics.

Meet the Team

AY

Amber Yates

General Partner

Consumer Tech
Health Devices
TN

Thai Nguyen

Principal

Construction technology
Innovation scouting
Built environment R&D
Open innovation with startups
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Siavash Mohseni

Senior Innovation Manager at Diverge (Hensel Phelps)

Industry relationship management
Investment opportunity evaluation
Strategic innovation planning
Construction & AEC technology
MS

Mihir Somalwar

Innovation Lead at Diverge (Hensel Phelps)

Robotics and automation in construction
Customer contracts in heavy equipment / autonomous systems
Hardware + software deployment in AEC industry

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
Consumer
Healthcare
AI / ML

Portfolio Companies (2)

Other

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WellEase

Consumer Health
BO

BodyMetrics

Fitness Devices
How to pitch Diverge Ventures
  • Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in Other, Consumer, Healthcare — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $500K – $3.0M check.
  • cold outreach ok
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Amber Yates, General Partner.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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