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Root Layer Ventures

VC
New York, NYWebsite

Root Layer Ventures is a Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in New York, NY investing in Developer Tools, Enterprise, Other. The firm typically writes $250K–$2.0M checks and has 2 portfolio companies in our records.

How to approach: warm intro preferred
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.

How Root Layer Ventures invests

Root Layer Ventures is a vc firm based in New York, NY. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed stage, with a focus on Developer Tools, Enterprise, Other, SaaS. It does not invest in Consumer.

Root Layer Ventures typically writes checks of $250K–$2.0M per investment.

Root Layer Ventures has backed 2 companies in our records, including Tonic.ai, Armory.

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
How to pitch Root Layer Ventures
  • Raising at Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in Developer Tools, Enterprise, Other — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $250K – $2.0M check.
  • warm intro preferred
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Lee Edwards, Founder & GP.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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