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Root Layer Ventures

VC
New York, NYWebsite
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Stage

Pre-Seed

Check Size

$250K – $2.0M

Portfolio

2+ companies

Team

5 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Focuses exclusively on early-stage investments in enterprise infrastructure, developer tools, and data orchestration platforms.

Meet the Team

LE

Lee Edwards

Founder & GP

Enterprise Software
Cloud Infrastructure
AR

Avidan Ross

Founding Partner & Managing Partner

deep tech
hard tech
technical risk at seed
founder-led engineering teams
CM

Chrissy Meyer

General Partner

hardware development
manufacturing
industrial systems
KH

Kane Hsieh

Partner

industrial automation
hardware systems
product engineering
EH

Emily Henriksson

Principal

mechanical engineering
hardware design
deep tech

Industry Focus

Invests In

Developer Tools
Enterprise
Other
SaaS

Does Not Invest In

Consumer

Portfolio Companies (2)

Other

TO

Tonic.ai

Data Infrastructure
AR

Armory

Cloud Management

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