Encoded Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($250K–$2.0M Checks)
Encoded Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California investing in Security, Other, SaaS. The firm typically writes $250K–$2.0M checks and has 20 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $250K–$2.0M
- Portfolio
- 20 companies on record
- Partners
- 1 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Security, Other, SaaS, Developer Tools, AI / ML
- HQ
- San Francisco, California
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-10-05
Pre-Seed, Seed
$250K – $2.0M
20+ companies
1 partner
Investment Thesis
Solo-GP seed fund focused on modern infrastructure software, spanning cloud infrastructure, data/AI infrastructure, and cybersecurity. The firm targets the earliest stages, including inception and pre-seed, with a technical-founder lens.
How Encoded Ventures invests
Encoded Ventures is a vc firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Security, Other, SaaS, Developer Tools, AI / ML.
Encoded Ventures typically writes checks of $250K–$2.0M per investment.
Encoded Ventures has backed 20 companies in our records, including Crusoe, Jazz Security, Mobile Observability.
Partners & Team
I started Encoded in 2024 after two decades of investing in infrastructure and security at Battery Ventures. At Battery, I partnered with numerous founders and developed a deep network of technologists and practitioners, many of whom are now investors in Encoded. Investing in infrastructure has been my whole career. It’s what I know + love. I’ve worked with numerous teams from pre-seed through to acquisition and IPO.
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (20)
Other
Crusoe
Acquired by Crusoe
Jazz Security
DLP, Remastered
Mobile Observability
Reimagined
AI Co-pilot
The first AI co-pilot built for Apache Spark
IPv4 Marketplace
The leading marketplace for IPv4 address leasing
Agentic
Pen testing for your SDLC
Neurometric
AI Agents- Better, Faster, Cheaper, pick 3
Compute as Code
Video Agents that Feel Human
GPU-powered Security
Intelligence for AI infrastructure
Autonomous Database
Reliability engineer for MySQL and PostgreSQL
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Security, Other, SaaS — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $2.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Alex Benik, GP.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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