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Encourage Ventures

VC
New York, NY

Encourage Ventures is a Seed, Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in New York, NY investing in SaaS, Fintech, Marketplace. The firm typically writes $500K–$3.0M checks and has 2 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$500K–$3.0M
Portfolio
2 companies on record
Partners
3 listed
Stage
Seed, Pre-Seed
Sectors
SaaS, Fintech, Marketplace, Other, Consumer
HQ
New York, NY
AUM
Not in our records

Last verified: 2026-05-17

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Seed, Pre-Seed

Check Size

$500K – $3.0M

Portfolio

2+ companies

Team

3 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Focused on early-stage technology companies innovating in SaaS and marketplaces that drive productivity or disrupt legacy systems.

How Encourage Ventures invests

Encourage Ventures is a vc firm based in New York, NY. The firm invests at the Seed, Pre-Seed stages, with a focus on SaaS, Fintech, Marketplace, Other, Consumer.

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

Encourage Ventures has backed 2 companies in our records, including FlowOps, LedgerX.

Partners & Team

MK

Mahesh Kumar

Finance and Accounting Professional

Financial Planning and Analysis
Internal Audit
SJ

Siddharth Jain, CA

Team member (senior?)

Financial Services
Investments
Research
SA

Suraj Agarwal

Associate

Technical Analysis
Market Data
Stocks

Industry Focus

Invests In

SaaS
Fintech
Marketplace
Other
Consumer

Portfolio Companies (2)

Other

FL

FlowOps

Marketplace
LE

LedgerX

Fintech
How to pitch Encourage Ventures
  • Raising at Seed, Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in SaaS, Fintech, Marketplace — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $500K – $3.0M check.
  • warm intro preferred
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Mahesh Kumar, Finance and Accounting Professional.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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