RaceBasins
RaceBasins is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Portland, OR investing in Other, AI / ML, Developer Tools. The firm typically writes $250K–$2.0M checks and has 2 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $250K–$2.0M
- Portfolio
- 2 companies on record
- Partners
- 9 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other, AI / ML, Developer Tools
- HQ
- Portland, OR
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-07-15
Pre-Seed, Seed
$250K – $2.0M
2+ companies
9 partners
Investment Thesis
Backing early-stage founders building next-gen data engineering, analytics, and machine learning infrastructure, with an emphasis on warehouse and lake-centric innovations.
How RaceBasins invests
RaceBasins is a vc firm based in Portland, OR. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, AI / ML, Developer Tools.
RaceBasins typically writes checks of $250K–$2.0M per investment.
RaceBasins has backed 2 companies in our records, including Motherduck, Glean.
Partners & Team
Erin Shaw
General Partner
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (2)
Other
Motherduck
Glean
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, AI / ML, Developer Tools — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $2.0M check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Erin Shaw, General Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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