Merlin Ventures — Seed & Series A VC Firm
Merlin Ventures is a Seed, Series A venture capital firm based in Tysons, VA investing in Security, Other, Developer Tools. The firm has 23 portfolio companies in our records.
- Portfolio
- 23 companies on record
- Partners
- 5 listed
- Stage
- Seed, Series A
- Sectors
- Security, Other, Developer Tools, AI / ML, Enterprise, SaaS
- HQ
- Tysons, VA
- Check size
- Not in our records
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-10-18
Seed, Series A
23+ companies
5 partners
Investment Thesis
Merlin Ventures focuses on cybersecurity with strong ties to enterprise and government security buyers. The firm is relevant for startups building security controls for sensitive and regulated data environments.
How Merlin Ventures invests
Merlin Ventures is a vc firm based in Tysons, VA. The firm invests at the Seed, Series A stages, with a focus on Security, Other, Developer Tools, AI / ML, Enterprise.
Merlin Ventures has backed 23 companies in our records, including Torq, Neo, QIZ.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (23)
Other
Torq
Provides an AI-powered security-operations platform for automated alert triage, investigation, and response.
Neo
QIZ
Above
Huskeys
Clutch
Jazz
Native
Tamnoon
Offers an AI-augmented managed service that helps organizations remediate cloud-security risks and misconfigurations.
Veriti
Provides a consolidated security platform that identifies and remediates security gaps and misconfigurations across infrastructure.
- •Raising at Seed, Series A? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Security, Other, Developer Tools — the sectors they actively back.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Nicole Perlroth, Venture Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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