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Retail Innovation Ventures

VC
New York, NY

Retail Innovation Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in New York, NY investing in Other. The firm typically writes $300K–$1.5M checks and has 2 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$300K–$1.5M
Portfolio
2 companies on record
Partners
2 listed
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sectors
Other
HQ
New York, NY
AUM
Not in our records

Last verified: 2026-07-09

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$300K – $1.5M

Portfolio

2+ companies

Team

2 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Focused entirely on enabling the next generation of commerce and retail through innovative technologies.

How Retail Innovation Ventures invests

Retail Innovation Ventures is a vc firm based in New York, NY. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other.

Retail Innovation Ventures typically writes checks of $300K–$1.5M per investment.

Retail Innovation Ventures has backed 2 companies in our records, including Refinery AI, Moment.

Partners & Team

SM

Saravana Mani

General Partner

Retail Innovation
Retail Technology
Customer Experience
Supply Chain
Go-to-Market Strategy
SL

Samantha Liu

General Partner

RetailTech
MarketingTech
E-commerce

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other

Portfolio Companies (2)

Other

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Refinery AI

AI-driven RetailTech
MO

Moment

E-commerce
How to pitch Retail Innovation Ventures
  • Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in Other — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $300K – $1.5M check.
  • warm intro preferred
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Saravana Mani, General Partner.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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