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Incisive Ventures is a Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in US-SEA investing in SaaS, AI / ML, Healthcare. The firm typically writes $250K–$500K checks and has 72 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$250K–$500K
Portfolio
72 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
US-SEA

Last verified: 2026-05-30

Stage

Pre-Seed

Check Size

$250K – $500K

AUM

$11M

Portfolio

72+ companies

Team

1 partner

Investor activity
Last known investment: 2024Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Investing Pre-Seed in founders building B2B software that reduces friction at scale.

How Incisive Ventures invests

Incisive Ventures is a vc firm based in US-SEA. 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 72 companies in our records, including Stanify.ai, Civic IQ, Desk.us. Its most recent recorded investment was in 2024.

Partners & Team

MT

Martin Tobias

General Partner

Pre-Seed Technology Companies
Reducing Friction at Scale

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

SaaS
AI / ML
Healthcare
Developer Tools
Real Estate
Other
Enterprise
Fintech
Consumer
Marketplace
EdTech
Security

Does Not Invest In

crypto
gaming
consumer
biotech
hardware
marketplace
edtech
devtools
climate
media
services
ecommerce

Funds

Fund I

$10M2023
Active

Portfolio Companies (72)

2024

ST

Stanify.ai

AI/Social Media·Pre-Seed·Fund I

Enterprise software / AI.

CI

Civic IQ

GovTech·Pre-Seed
DE

Desk.us

Real Estate Tech·Pre-Seed
CL

ClinSight.ai

Healthcare AI·Pre-Seed·Fund I

Under Healthcare & Digital Health.

VE

Vega Cloud

Cloud Management·Pre-Seed·Fund I

Platform to manage public cloud infrastructure: monitoring, optimization, resource deployment etc.

HE

HeyPinnacle

HR Tech·Pre-Seed
FA

Factory.app

AI/SaaS·Pre-Seed·Fund I

B2B software / dev tooling.

SO

Solvin.ai

Developer Tools·Pre-Seed·Fund I

Enterprise AI sector.

MA

Mango Sciences

Healthcare·Pre-Seed·Incisive Ventures Fund 1

Identity / biosciences company; “Mango” in portfolio pages.

SI

Silver Tree Labs

Enterprise Software·Pre-Seed·Incisive Ventures Fund 1
How to pitch Incisive Ventures
  • 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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