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Intellect Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($50K–$200K Checks)

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San Francisco, CAWebsite

Intellect Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, CA investing in SaaS, AI / ML, Security. 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
SaaS, AI / ML, Security, Consumer
HQ
San Francisco, CA
AUM
Not in our records

Last verified: 2026-09-12

How to approach: cold outreach ok
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$50K – $200K

Portfolio

3+ companies

Team

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 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.

Partners & Team

RC

Russell Canlas

Engineering Manager

JN

Jami Nielsen

Executive Assistant

DB

Diana Blair

Executive Assistant

AB

Amelia Buharin

Chief Intellectual Property Officer

JV

Jen Vennes

House Manager

MT

Meagan Talton

Procurement Specialist

RC

Ross Carter

Senior Technical Writer

JD

Jane Doe

GP

AI Productivity
Decision Intelligence
NM

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

SaaS
AI / ML
Security
Consumer

Portfolio Companies (3)

2020

TE

TerraPower

Energy·Growth
EV

Evolv Technology

Security·Growth

Other

TH

ThinkSwift

AI Productivity
How to pitch Intellect Ventures
  • •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • •Lead with your fit in SaaS, AI / ML, Security — 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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