Incisive Ventures is a Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in Seattle, Washington, United States investing in SaaS, AI / ML, Healthcare. The firm typically writes $250K–$500K checks and has 73 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $250K–$500K
- Portfolio
- 73 companies on record
- Partners
- 1 listed
- AUM
- $11M
- Stage
- Pre-Seed
- Sectors
- SaaS, AI / ML, Healthcare, Developer Tools, Real Estate, Other, Enterprise, Fintech, Consumer, Marketplace, EdTech, Security
- HQ
- Seattle, Washington, United States
Last verified: 2026-09-04
Pre-Seed
$250K – $500K
$11M
73+ companies
1 partner
Investment Thesis
Invests in pre-seed B2B software companies that reduce friction at scale, often being the first institutional check for founders building technology to simplify complex workflows, especially those using AI and targeting enterprise or SMB customers.
How Incisive Ventures invests
Incisive Ventures is a vc firm based in Seattle, Washington, United States. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed stage, with a focus on SaaS, AI / ML, Healthcare, Developer Tools, Real Estate. It does not invest in crypto, gaming, consumer, biotech, hardware.
Incisive Ventures typically writes checks of $250K–$500K per investment, backed by approximately $11M in assets under management. Our records include 1 fund raised by the firm.
Investing since at least 2024, Incisive Ventures has backed 73 companies in our records, including Civic IQ, Desk.us, ClinSight.ai. Its most recent recorded investment was in 2024.
Partners & Team
Martin Tobias is the founder of Incisive Ventures, a Pre-Seed Fund in Seattle focused on investing in technology companies that reduce friction at scale. He has decades of investing experience, having invested in over 250 companies as an angel investor, half a dozen as a venture partner at a major VC firm, and is a limited partner in over a dozen VC funds. He is also the founder of Element8, a leading Angel network. Martin is a 3x venture-backed CEO with experience at Microsoft and Accenture, raising over $500M (including two IPOs) for his own companies.
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Funds
Fund I
Portfolio Companies (73)
2024
Civic IQ
Desk.us
ClinSight.ai
Under Healthcare & Digital Health.
HeyPinnacle
Factory.app
B2B software / dev tooling.
Solvin.ai
Enterprise AI sector.
Vega Cloud
Platform to manage public cloud infrastructure: monitoring, optimization, resource deployment etc.
Mango Sciences
Identity / biosciences company; “Mango” in portfolio pages.
Silver Tree Labs
Stanify.ai
Enterprise software / AI.
- •Raising at Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in SaaS, AI / ML, Healthcare — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $500K check.
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Martin Tobias, General Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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