Epistle Ventures — Pre-Seed VC Firm ($500K–$2.0M Checks)
Epistle Ventures is a Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in Austin, TX investing in AI / ML. The firm typically writes $500K–$2.0M checks and has 1 portfolio company in our records.
- Check size
- $500K–$2.0M
- Portfolio
- 1 company on record
- Partners
- 4 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed
- Sectors
- AI / ML
- HQ
- Austin, TX
- AUM
- Not in our records
Pre-Seed
$500K – $2.0M
1+ companies
4 partners
Investment Thesis
Specializes in AI and academic publishing tools that optimize peer review and research dissemination.
How Epistle Ventures invests
Epistle Ventures is a vc firm based in Austin, TX. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed stage, with a focus on AI / ML. It does not invest in Hardware.
Epistle Ventures typically writes checks of $500K–$2.0M per investment.
Epistle Ventures has backed 1 company in our records, including R&D Nexus.
Partners & Team
Frankie O'Rourke
Founder
Chelsea O’Rourke
General Partner
Founded Epistle with Frankie O’Rourke while serving in Moscow in 2015. Today, the O’Rourke family lives in Oaxaca, Mexico pastoring a growing, missional church.
Megan Thompson
Managing Partner
Frankie O’Rourke
General Partner
Founded Epistle with Chelsea O’Rourke while serving in Moscow in 2015. Today, the O’Rourke family lives in Oaxaca, Mexico pastoring a growing, missional church.
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (1)
Other
R&D Nexus
- •Raising at Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in AI / ML — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $2.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Frankie O'Rourke, Founder.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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