Restive Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($500K–$1.0M Checks)
Restive Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, United States investing in Fintech, Other. The firm typically writes $500K–$1.0M checks and has 9 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $500K–$1.0M
- Portfolio
- 9 companies on record
- Partners
- 4 listed
- AUM
- $40M
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Fintech, Other
- HQ
- San Francisco, California, United States
Last verified: 2026-09-21
Pre-Seed, Seed
$500K – $1.0M
$40M
9+ companies
4 partners
Investment Thesis
An early-stage fintech investor focused on backing visionary founders building AI-native financial services (AiFi), typically at pre-incorporation through seed, emphasizing infrastructure, agentic payments, compliance, risk, and regulated workflows, with deep domain expertise and operational support.
How Restive Ventures invests
Restive Ventures is a vc firm based in San Francisco, California, United States. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Fintech, Other.
Restive Ventures typically writes checks of $500K–$1.0M per investment, backed by approximately $40M in assets under management.
Restive Ventures has backed 9 companies in our records, including Tranch, Nowsta, Propel.
Partners & Team
Shaunt Sarkissian
Managing Partner
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (9)
Other
Tranch
Nowsta
Propel
Flex
Roger
Anvil
Brico
Natural AI
Stand Insurance
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Fintech, Other — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $1.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Tyler Griffin, Co-Founder & Managing Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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