Root Ventures
Root Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, CA investing in Developer Tools, Other, AI / ML. The firm typically writes $500K–$2.0M checks and has 7 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $500K–$2.0M
- Portfolio
- 7 companies on record
- Partners
- 6 listed
- AUM
- $190M
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Developer Tools, Other, AI / ML
- HQ
- San Francisco, CA
Last verified: 2026-05-03
Pre-Seed, Seed
$500K – $2.0M
$190M
7+ companies
6 partners
Investment Thesis
Invests in technical founders building hardware, data tools, and developer-facing infrastructure.
How Root Ventures invests
Root Ventures is a vc firm based in San Francisco, CA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Developer Tools, Other, AI / ML.
Root Ventures typically writes checks of $500K–$2.0M per investment, backed by approximately $190M in assets under management.
Root Ventures has backed 7 companies in our records, including Tonic, Pulumi, Sturdy.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (7)
Other
Tonic
Pulumi
Sturdy
Ramp
Proxy
Adquick
Spare8
UPI-based digital gold investing and leasing platform for consumers and financial institutions
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Developer Tools, Other, AI / ML — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $2.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Kane Hsieh, Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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