Endeavor8 — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm
Endeavor8 is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in United States investing in SaaS, Developer Tools, Enterprise. The firm has 12 portfolio companies in our records.
- Portfolio
- 12 companies on record
- Partners
- 3 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- SaaS, Developer Tools, Enterprise, AI / ML
- HQ
- United States
- Check size
- Not in our records
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-10-27
Pre-Seed, Seed
12+ companies
3 partners
Investment Thesis
Endeavor8 appears in curated enterprise investor lists focused on technically deep B2B software, AI, and data infrastructure. It is the kind of emerging manager that may be well aligned with semantic infrastructure for AI workflows.
How Endeavor8 invests
Endeavor8 is a vc firm based in United States. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on SaaS, Developer Tools, Enterprise, AI / ML.
Our records include 2 funds raised by the firm.
Endeavor8 has backed 12 companies in our records, including Producepay, apparo, Drip.
Partners & Team
Chris James has over 15 years of experience managing complex business matters involving cutting-edge technology at scale. His expertise spans all aspects of commercial deal-making, M&A, and intellectual property at Google, Waymo, and Zoox.
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Karl Kerksiek
General Partner & CEO
Karl Kerksiek brings over 15 years of investment experience in his role as Endeavor8 founding partner. Previously, Karl led investments for Finistere Ventures, where he focused on investing in cutting-edge technology solutions that positively impacted the food supply chain.
Industry Focus
Invests In
Funds
Endeavor 8 Fund II
Endeavor 8 Fund I
Recent Activity
Raised Endeavor 8 Fund II ($150M)
2021 · fund records
Raised Endeavor 8 Fund I ($100M)
2019 · fund records
Portfolio Companies (12)
Other
Producepay
Financial solution for farmers and wholesale produce marketplace
apparo
Producer of novel sunflower protein
Drip
Lending platform for trade finance focused on small businesses
Vestaron
Crop protection discovery platform focused on new biologicals
robigo
Gene-editing technology utilizing biopesticides for plant disease reduction
Citrine
AI platform for materials and chemical development
Drip Biotech
Platform bringing human breakthroughs to veterinary medicine
ENKO
AI discovery platform using new chemistry for crop protection
Salient
Climate prediction software utilizing AI
Placer
Intelligence platform for location-based insights for human foot traffic
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in SaaS, Developer Tools, Enterprise — the sectors they actively back.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Chris James, Venture Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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