Pre-Seed
$250K – $500K
$11M
72+ companies
1 partner
Investment Thesis
Investing Pre-Seed in founders building B2B software that reduces friction at scale.
Meet the 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.
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Fund I
Portfolio Companies (72)
2024
Vega Cloud
Platform to manage public cloud infrastructure: monitoring, optimization, resource deployment etc.
Civic IQ
Stanify.ai
Enterprise software / AI.
Desk.us
Silver Tree Labs
Solvin.ai
Enterprise AI sector.
Factory.app
B2B software / dev tooling.
ClinSight.ai
Under Healthcare & Digital Health.
HeyPinnacle
Mango Sciences
Identity / biosciences company; “Mango” in portfolio pages.
- •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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