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Humboldt Fund — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($250K–$1.5M Checks)

VC
San Francisco, CaliforniaWebsite

Humboldt Fund is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California investing in SaaS, Other, Enterprise. The firm typically writes $250K–$1.5M checks and has 3 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$250K–$1.5M
Portfolio
3 companies on record
Partners
2 listed
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sectors
SaaS, Other, Enterprise
HQ
San Francisco, California
AUM
Not in our records

Last verified: 2026-10-12

How to approach: cold outreach ok
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$250K – $1.5M

Portfolio

3+ companies

Team

2 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Humboldt Fund backs early software companies with a bias toward enterprise and operational products. It is a smaller, less-well-known investor that may be interested in software improving real-world workflows.

How Humboldt Fund invests

Humboldt Fund is a vc firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on SaaS, Other, Enterprise.

Humboldt Fund typically writes checks of $250K–$1.5M per investment.

Humboldt Fund has backed 3 companies in our records, including Metagenomi, HAYA Therapeutics, PhageLab.

Partners & Team

BQ

Benjamin Quiroga

General Partner

UF

Unspecified from sourced pages

Partner

B2B SaaS
Enterprise

Industry Focus

Invests In

SaaS
Other
Enterprise

Portfolio Companies (3)

Other

ME

Metagenomi

Biotechnology / gene editing·Series A

Genome editing company developing programmable gene-editing systems.

HA

HAYA Therapeutics

Biotechnology / therapeutics·Seed extension

RNA-based therapeutics company focused on precision medicines.

PH

PhageLab

Biotechnology / agriculture·Not specified

Develops bacteriophage-based solutions for bacterial control in agriculture and related uses.

How to pitch Humboldt Fund
  • •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • •Lead with your fit in SaaS, Other, Enterprise — the sectors they actively back.
  • •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $1.5M check.
  • •cold outreach ok
  • •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Benjamin Quiroga, General Partner.
  • •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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