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Emerge IA Ventures

VC
San Francisco, CAWebsite

Emerge IA Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, CA investing in AI / ML, Deep Tech, Other. The firm typically writes $1.0M–$3.0M checks and has 82 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$1.0M–$3.0M
Portfolio
82 companies on record
Partners
1 listed
AUM
$100M
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sectors
AI / ML, Deep Tech, Other, SaaS, EdTech, Developer Tools, Healthcare, Security, Fintech, Marketplace, Consumer
HQ
San Francisco, CA

Last verified: 2026-05-27

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$1.0M – $3.0M

AUM

$100M

Portfolio

82+ companies

Team

1 partner

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Invests in early-stage AI-driven technologies with a focus on IoT and edge devices for compliance and safety applications.

How Emerge IA Ventures invests

Emerge IA Ventures is a vc firm based in San Francisco, CA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on AI / ML, Deep Tech, Other, SaaS, EdTech. It does not invest in Consumer-facing applications.

Emerge IA Ventures typically writes checks of $1.0M–$3.0M per investment, backed by approximately $100M in assets under management.

Emerge IA Ventures has backed 82 companies in our records, including KitchenEyes AI, Emergeia, OpenClaw.

Partners & Team

AF

Alice Ford

GP

AI/ML
IoT
RestaurantTech

Industry Focus

Invests In

AI / ML
Deep Tech
Other
SaaS
EdTech
Developer Tools
Healthcare
Security
Fintech
Marketplace
Consumer

Does Not Invest In

Consumer-facing applications

Portfolio Companies (82)

Other

KI

KitchenEyes AI

RestaurantTech
EM

Emergeia

OP

OpenClaw

EL

ElevenLabs

FA

FAISS

PA

Palm Springs

PL

Playwright

CY

Cypress

LA

LangChain

IN

Inception

How to pitch Emerge IA Ventures
  • Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in AI / ML, Deep Tech, Other — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $1.0M – $3.0M check.
  • warm intro preferred
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Alice Ford, GP.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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