East Sunshine Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($100K+ Checks)
East Sunshine Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in South San Francisco, United States investing in SaaS, AI / ML, Enterprise. The firm typically writes $100K+ checks and has 8 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $100K+
- Portfolio
- 8 companies on record
- Partners
- 5 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- SaaS, AI / ML, Enterprise
- HQ
- South San Francisco, United States
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-11-05
Pre-Seed, Seed
$100K+
8+ companies
5 partners
About East Sunshine Ventures
East Sunshine Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. The firm is an early-stage fund focused on fintech, B2B SaaS, and AI. It backs pre-seed and seed companies in Silicon Valley. The investment thesis is broad enough to include AI-native hiring and evaluation software, particularly products that help enterprise teams make high-stakes technical hiring decisions.
The firm prefers to be approached via warm introduction. East Sunshine Ventures maintains a team of partners that includes Sunny Zhang as General Partner, as well as Sanish Mondkar, Michael Suswal, Jordan Fisher, and Lawrence Lou as Partners.
Investment Thesis
Invests at the pre-seed and seed stages in fintech, B2B SaaS, and AI, with an emphasis on technology for global financial institutions.
How East Sunshine Ventures invests
East Sunshine Ventures is a vc firm based in South San Francisco, United States. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on SaaS, AI / ML, Enterprise.
East Sunshine Ventures typically writes checks of $100K+ per investment.
Investing since at least 2023, East Sunshine Ventures has backed 8 companies in our records, including Dili, Openpipe, Generation Lab.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Recent Activity
East Sunshine Ventures named Lawrence Lou as Venture Partner
Sep 2025 · LinkedIn
Invested in Dili
2023 · portfolio records
Invested in Openpipe
2023 · portfolio records
Investment Track Record
East Sunshine Ventures has recorded investments in eight portfolio companies. The earliest and most recent recorded investment year is 2023. The firm has invested at the pre-seed and seed stages.
Recorded portfolio companies include Dili, an AI company that received seed funding in 2023, Openpipe, an AI company that received seed funding in 2023, and Mass Finance, a fintech company. Additional recorded investments are Claybird at the pre-seed stage, as well as Antigen, Generation Lab, OpenAI, and Overworld.
Portfolio Companies (8)
2023
Dili
Investment due diligence automation platform by using generative AI.
Openpipe
Train faster, cheaper models on production data. Raised $6.7MM seed round with co-investors from Open AI. Acquired by Coreweave (Sep 2025)
Other
Generation Lab
Harvard medicine/UC Berkeley lab/professor and ex-unicorn founder founded Longevity startup. Scaled 10x in valuation within one year since investment was made.
Antigen
AI adversary for the enterprise. Co-invested with Lightspeed.
Claybird
Portfolio company listed in investment records.
Mass Finance
Legal and financial operating system for corporations. Led by Stripe co-founder. 6x increase in valuation since investment.
Overworld
Overworld is building world models - AI systems that understand and generate interactive environments.
OpenAI
Market leading large language models. 6x increase in valuation since investment.
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in SaaS, AI / ML, Enterprise — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $100K+ check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Sunny Zhang, General Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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