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Higher Ground Labs — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm

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Higher Ground Labs is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm investing in SaaS, AI / ML, Developer Tools. The firm has 90 portfolio companies in our records.

Portfolio
90 companies on record
Partners
3 listed
AUM
$100M
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sectors
SaaS, AI / ML, Developer Tools
Check size
Not in our records

Last verified: 2026-10-27

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

AUM

$100M

Portfolio

90+ companies

Team

3 partners

Investment Thesis

Invests in software and services supporting modern work, operations, and productivity. Often a fit for tools that help teams and founders operate with more clarity and structure.

How Higher Ground Labs invests

Higher Ground Labs is a vc firm. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on SaaS, AI / ML, Developer Tools.

Higher Ground Labs manages approximately $100M in assets. Our records include 2 funds raised by the firm.

Higher Ground Labs has backed 90 companies in our records, including plural, qriously, quiller.

Partners & Team

BH

Betsy Hoover

Co-Founder

GN

Gerard Niemira

Managing Director

LB

Leah Bae

Principal

Industry Focus

Invests In

SaaS
AI / ML
Developer Tools

Funds

Higher Ground Labs Fund II

$100M2018
fully deployed

Higher Ground Labs Fund I

$100M2015
fully deployed

Recent Activity

Raised Higher Ground Labs Fund II ($100M)

2018 · fund records

Raised Higher Ground Labs Fund I ($100M)

2015 · fund records

Portfolio Companies (90)

Other

PL

plural

QR

qriously

QU

quiller

RE

relentless

RE

repd

RI

rivalmind ai

SO

social currant

SO

solidarity tech

SO

sosha

SP

speakeasy political

How to pitch Higher Ground Labs
  • •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • •Lead with your fit in SaaS, AI / ML, Developer Tools — the sectors they actively back.
  • •warm intro preferred
  • •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Betsy Hoover, Co-Founder.
  • •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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