Plaid Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($2.0M–$3.5M Checks)
Plaid Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, CA investing in Fintech, Other, Developer Tools. The firm typically writes $2.0M–$3.5M checks and has 42 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $2.0M–$3.5M
- Portfolio
- 42 companies on record
- Partners
- 18 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Fintech, Other, Developer Tools, AI / ML
- HQ
- San Francisco, CA
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-06-13
Pre-Seed, Seed
$2.0M – $3.5M
42+ companies
18 partners
Investment Thesis
Plaid Ventures supports startups innovating in FinTech and payments, primarily those building on transformative financial APIs and expanding access to financial tools.
How Plaid Ventures invests
Plaid Ventures is a vc firm based in San Francisco, CA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Fintech, Other, Developer Tools, AI / ML.
Plaid Ventures typically writes checks of $2.0M–$3.5M per investment.
Plaid Ventures has backed 42 companies in our records, including Pinwheel, Column, Plaid.
Partners & Team
Zach Perret
Co-Founder & Investor
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (42)
Other
Pinwheel
Column
Plaid
Venmo
Carvana
Robinhood
Chime
Zillow Home Loans
H&R Block
Affirm
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Fintech, Other, Developer Tools — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $2.0M – $3.5M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Dan Haynam, Vice President of Sales.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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