DX Venture Studio — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($100K–$500K Checks)
DX Venture Studio is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California investing in Other, Developer Tools, AI / ML. The firm typically writes $100K–$500K checks and has 15 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $100K–$500K
- Portfolio
- 15 companies on record
- Partners
- 2 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other, Developer Tools, AI / ML
- HQ
- San Francisco, California
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-09-02
Pre-Seed, Seed
$100K – $500K
15+ companies
2 partners
Investment Thesis
Solo-GP fund by Ed Huang investing fast in pre-seed/seed builders for AI/agent infrastructure—primitives, runtimes, tooling, storage / retrieval layer, etc.
How DX Venture Studio invests
DX Venture Studio is a vc firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Developer Tools, AI / ML. It does not invest in Consumer Apps, Token launches without infra.
DX Venture Studio typically writes checks of $100K–$500K per investment.
DX Venture Studio has backed 15 companies in our records, including raft.build, insforge.dev, smolmachines.com.
Partners & Team
Dongxu (Ed) Huang
Solo GP
Sole GP, unicorn company founder, independent investor, decade in data infrastructure, database kernel engineer by trade, started hacking at 9, embraces what AI is rewriting, investor and operator, actually understands infra from the inside.
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (15)
Other
raft.build
AI-assisted build/developer tooling
insforge.dev
development tooling platform
smolmachines.com
AI/automation software
monid.ai
AI software
telem.ai
AI software
vm0.ai
AI software
novita.ai
AI infrastructure / model hosting
databend.com
data warehouse / analytics database
sheet0.ai
spreadsheet/AI productivity software
dify.ai
LLM app development platform
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, Developer Tools, AI / ML — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $100K – $500K check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Dongxu (Ed) Huang, Solo GP.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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