Purpose Ventures — Pre-Seed VC Firm ($250K–$1.0M Checks)
Purpose Ventures is a Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, USA investing in Deep Tech, AI / ML, Enterprise. The firm typically writes $250K–$1.0M checks and has 44 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $250K–$1.0M
- Portfolio
- 44 companies on record
- Partners
- 11 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed
- Sectors
- Deep Tech, AI / ML, Enterprise, SaaS, Consumer, Climate / Energy, Food / AgTech, Fintech, Other
- HQ
- San Francisco, USA
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-05-16
Pre-Seed
$250K – $1.0M
44+ companies
11 partners
Investment Thesis
Investing in early-stage purpose-driven AI and DeepTech companies solving global challenges.
How Purpose Ventures invests
Purpose Ventures is a vc firm based in San Francisco, USA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed stage, with a focus on Deep Tech, AI / ML, Enterprise, SaaS, Consumer.
Purpose Ventures typically writes checks of $250K–$1.0M per investment.
Investing since at least 2020, Purpose Ventures has backed 44 companies in our records, including Ecosia, elobau, about:source. Its most recent recorded investment was in 2025, with 1 investment logged over the last 12 months.
Partners & Team
Laur a Höcherl
Investment Partner
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (44)
2025
Ecosia
2024
elobau
about:source
AUGENHÖHE
Stapelstein
Patagonia
Firebrand
Waschbär
Märkisches Landbrot
vyld
- •Raising at Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Deep Tech, AI / ML, Enterprise — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $1.0M check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Derek Gerrard, Managing Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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