Intellect Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($50K–$200K Checks)
Intellect Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, CA investing in Other, SaaS, AI / ML. The firm typically writes $50K–$200K checks and has 3 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $50K–$200K
- Portfolio
- 3 companies on record
- Partners
- 9 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other, SaaS, AI / ML, Security, Consumer
- HQ
- San Francisco, CA
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-09-12
Pre-Seed, Seed
$50K – $200K
3+ companies
9 partners
Investment Thesis
Focuses on investing in startups leveraging AI to enhance decision-making capabilities in consumer SaaS applications.
How Intellect Ventures invests
Intellect Ventures is a vc firm based in San Francisco, CA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, SaaS, AI / ML, Security, Consumer.
Intellect Ventures typically writes checks of $50K–$200K per investment.
Investing since at least 2020, Intellect Ventures has backed 3 companies in our records, including TerraPower, Evolv Technology, ThinkSwift. Its most recent recorded investment was in 2020.
Partners & Team
Jane Doe
GP
Nathan Myhrvold
Founder and CEO
Avid inventor and visionary leading Intellectual Ventures; mentioned as giving Bloomberg journalist Ashlee Vance a tour of IV’s offices and lab while discussing topics including global warming, patents, supersonic dinosaur tails, snowflake microscopy, and pizza scanners.
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (3)
2020
TerraPower
Evolv Technology
Other
ThinkSwift
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, SaaS, AI / ML — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $50K – $200K check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Russell Canlas, Engineering Manager.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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