Raison d’Etre Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($1.0M–$3.0M Checks)
Raison d’Etre Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in New York, NY investing in Other, AI / ML, Marketplace. The firm typically writes $1.0M–$3.0M checks and has 36 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $1.0M–$3.0M
- Portfolio
- 36 companies on record
- Partners
- 3 listed
- AUM
- $56M
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other, AI / ML, Marketplace, Consumer, Healthcare, Climate / Energy, Fintech, Security, Developer Tools, SaaS, Enterprise
- HQ
- New York, NY
Last verified: 2026-05-17
Pre-Seed, Seed
$1.0M – $3.0M
$56M
36+ companies
3 partners
Investment Thesis
Invests in transformative, early-stage Web3 and AI-enabled startups, with a particular focus on creator tools and decentralized platforms.
How Raison d’Etre Ventures invests
Raison d’Etre Ventures is a vc firm based in New York, NY. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, AI / ML, Marketplace, Consumer, Healthcare.
Raison d’Etre Ventures typically writes checks of $1.0M–$3.0M per investment, backed by approximately $56M in assets under management.
Raison d’Etre Ventures has backed 36 companies in our records, including Storyblock, Huddle01, Airbnb.
Partners & Team
Sarah Adler
Partner
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (36)
Other
Storyblock
Huddle01
Airbnb
Worldwide lodging / marketplace for rentals.
Maya Sienna
Earl & Ember
Nouave
Whitestone Gallery
Jake Vine
The Samhla Collection
Bladnoch Prestige 1966
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, AI / ML, Marketplace — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $1.0M – $3.0M check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Andrei Berezin, Co-Founder, President, Executive Board; CEO of Raison Securities.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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