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Great Circle Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($100K–$500K Checks)

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Boston, MAWebsite

Great Circle Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Boston, MA investing in SaaS, Enterprise. The firm typically writes $100K–$500K checks and has 29 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$100K–$500K
Portfolio
29 companies on record
Partners
4 listed
AUM
$250M
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sectors
SaaS, Enterprise
HQ
Boston, MA

Last verified: 2026-10-13

How to approach: cold outreach ok
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$100K – $500K

AUM

$250M

Portfolio

29+ companies

Team

4 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Early-stage software investor with a focus on enterprise and B2B startups. Often backs founders building workflow software and business automation products.

How Great Circle Ventures invests

Great Circle Ventures is a vc firm based in Boston, MA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on SaaS, Enterprise.

Great Circle Ventures typically writes checks of $100K–$500K per investment, backed by approximately $250M in assets under management. Our records include 2 funds raised by the firm.

Great Circle Ventures has backed 29 companies in our records, including Alec’s Ice Cream, Algae Cooking Club, Ayoh.

Partners & Team

JA

Jacob Afriat

General Partner

N

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GP

B2B software
RA

Rani Aliahmad

Partner

RP

Ryan Perry

Investor

Industry Focus

Invests In

SaaS
Enterprise

Funds

Great Circle Ventures Fund II

$150M2023
actively investing

Great Circle Ventures Fund I

$100M2021
fully deployed

Portfolio Companies (29)

Other

AL

Alec’s Ice Cream

AL

Algae Cooking Club

Algae-based cooking oil / culinary ingredient brand

AY

Ayoh

Mayo and condiment brand founded by Molly Baz

CA

California Cultured

CR

Croots

CY

Cyanotype Bio

DI

Dispatch Goods

EQ

Equii

HA

Habiza

HE

Hedgehog

How to pitch Great Circle Ventures
  • •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • •Lead with your fit in SaaS, Enterprise — the sectors they actively back.
  • •Size your ask to their typical $100K – $500K check.
  • •cold outreach ok
  • •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Jacob Afriat, General Partner.
  • •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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