Piva Capital — Seed & Pre-Seed VC Firm ($500K–$3.0M Checks)
Piva Capital is a Seed, Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, CA investing in Other, Enterprise. The firm typically writes $500K–$3.0M checks and has 21 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $500K–$3.0M
- Portfolio
- 21 companies on record
- Partners
- 13 listed
- AUM
- $250M
- Stage
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sectors
- Other, Enterprise
- HQ
- San Francisco, CA
Last verified: 2026-06-25
Seed, Pre-Seed
$500K – $3.0M
$250M
21+ companies
13 partners
Investment Thesis
Focused on supporting deep-tech and digital innovation in industrial automation, energy, and advanced manufacturing.
How Piva Capital invests
Piva Capital is a vc firm based in San Francisco, CA. The firm invests at the Seed, Pre-Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Enterprise. It does not invest in Consumer, Crypto.
Piva Capital typically writes checks of $500K–$3.0M per investment, backed by approximately $250M in assets under management.
Piva Capital has backed 21 companies in our records, including Ambyint, Optimized Thermal Systems, Alloy Enterprises.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (21)
Other
Ambyint
Optimized Thermal Systems
Alloy Enterprises
Boston Metal
INERATEC
Koloma
Lunar Energy
Malta, Inc.
Menlo Micro
Novastus
- •Raising at Seed, Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, Enterprise — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $3.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Mark Gudiksen, Managing Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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