Esplanade Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($250K–$1.0M Checks)
Esplanade Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in New York, New York investing in AI / ML, SaaS, Enterprise. The firm typically writes $250K–$1.0M checks and has 24 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $250K–$1.0M
- Portfolio
- 24 companies on record
- Partners
- 9 listed
- AUM
- $500M
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- AI / ML, SaaS, Enterprise
- HQ
- New York, New York
Last verified: 2026-11-11
Pre-Seed, Seed
$250K – $1.0M
$500M
24+ companies
9 partners
Investment Thesis
Early-stage firm investing in software and AI companies. The thesis is relevant for enterprise automation and workflow software that can scale through repeatable B2B adoption.
How Esplanade Ventures invests
Esplanade Ventures is a vc firm based in New York, New York. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on AI / ML, SaaS, Enterprise.
Esplanade Ventures typically writes checks of $250K–$1.0M per investment, backed by approximately $500M in assets under management. Our records include 3 funds raised by the firm.
Esplanade Ventures has backed 24 companies in our records, including Aerial, Binah.ai, Brainbox.
Partners & Team
Timothy Sung
Senior Analyst
Unknown
GP
Dr. Sheldon Elman, MD
Co-Founder & Chairman
45+ Years in Healthcare
Stuart M. Elman
Co-Founder
20+ Years in Healthcare
Josh Blair
Venture Partner
15+ Years in HealthTech
Industry Focus
Invests In
Funds
Esplanade Ventures Fund III
Esplanade Ventures Fund II
Esplanade Ventures Fund I
Recent Activity
Raised Esplanade Ventures Fund III ($250M)
2023 · fund records
Raised Esplanade Ventures Fund II ($150M)
2022 · fund records
Raised Esplanade Ventures Fund I ($100M)
2020 · fund records
Portfolio Companies (24)
Other
Aerial
Binah.ai
software for contactless health measurement and remote patient monitoring
Brainbox
Carebook
Cerula Care
oncology behavioral health and care navigation company
Cleerly
Embr Labs
Genxys
Igentify
KixCare
virtual pediatric care platform
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in AI / ML, SaaS, Enterprise — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $1.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Timothy Sung, Senior Analyst.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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