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Purpose Built Ventures

VC
Palo Alto, CAWebsite

Purpose Built Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, CA investing in Other, Enterprise. The firm typically writes $500K–$3.0M checks and has 2 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$500K–$3.0M
Portfolio
2 companies on record
Partners
1 listed
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sectors
Other, Enterprise
HQ
Palo Alto, CA
AUM
Not in our records

Last verified: 2026-05-04

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$500K – $3.0M

Portfolio

2+ companies

Team

1 partner

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Focused on HRTech and Future of Work startups addressing hiring efficiencies, global talent, and intelligently solving workforce gaps.

How Purpose Built Ventures invests

Purpose Built Ventures is a vc firm based in Palo Alto, CA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Enterprise. It does not invest in Consumer, Media.

Purpose Built Ventures typically writes checks of $500K–$3.0M per investment.

Purpose Built Ventures has backed 2 companies in our records, including Talview, Sora Care.

Partners & Team

ML

Miles Lasater

CEO

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
Enterprise

Does Not Invest In

Consumer
Media

Portfolio Companies (2)

Other

TA

Talview

Recruitment & Hiring Platform
SO

Sora Care

HealthTech·Seed

AI-powered platform that turns unpaid family caregiving into Medicaid-paid caregiving.

How to pitch Purpose Built Ventures
  • Raising at Pre-Seed, 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 Miles Lasater, CEO.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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