Essence VC — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm
Essence VC is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm investing in Developer Tools, AI / ML, SaaS. The firm has 23 portfolio companies in our records.
- Portfolio
- 23 companies on record
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Developer Tools, AI / ML, SaaS, Other, Security, Fintech
- Check size
- Not in our records
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-10-09
Pre-Seed, Seed
23+ companies
Investment Thesis
Infrastructure-focused firm that backs technical founders at the earliest stages, often before a company exists. Strong fit for deeply technical infrastructure products and protocol-like software.
How Essence VC invests
Essence VC is a vc firm. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Developer Tools, AI / ML, SaaS, Other, Security.
Essence VC has backed 23 companies in our records, including Ollama, Warp, Jasper.
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Portfolio Companies (23)
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Ollama
Open-source platform for running local large language models.
Warp
Terminal for developers with AI-assisted workflows.
Jasper
AI content generation platform for marketing teams.
Tabular
Data platform built around Apache Iceberg / analytics infrastructure.
Torq
Security workflow automation platform.
Comfy / ComfyUI
Creative AI tooling for image and workflow generation.
Cline
AI coding assistant / developer agent.
LanceDB
Vector database for AI and data retrieval.
Unstructured
Data extraction and document processing platform.
CodeRabbit
AI code review assistant.
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Developer Tools, AI / ML, SaaS — the sectors they actively back.
- •warm intro preferred
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