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Running Tide Ventures — Pre-Seed VC Firm

VC

Running Tide Ventures is a Pre-Seed venture capital firm investing in Other, AI / ML, Developer Tools. The firm has 73 portfolio companies in our records.

Portfolio
73 companies on record
Partners
3 listed
Stage
Pre-Seed
Sectors
Other, AI / ML, Developer Tools, Consumer
Check size
Not in our records
AUM
Not in our records

Last verified: 2026-10-06

How to approach: cold outreach ok
Stage

Pre-Seed

Portfolio

73+ companies

Team

3 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Early consumer-app investor candidate with AI adjacency surfaced in emerging-fund lists. Could fit if the startup’s wedge is a novel mobile user experience rather than pure infrastructure.

How Running Tide Ventures invests

Running Tide Ventures is a vc firm. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed stage, with a focus on Other, AI / ML, Developer Tools, Consumer.

Running Tide Ventures has backed 73 companies in our records, including activsurgical, Adstage, Alice Technologies.

Partners & Team

OH

Ossama Hassanein

Chairman

BM

Brent MacDonald

Partner

Artificial Intelligence
Finance

Brent MacDonald is a Partner at Rising Tide, involved in strategic investments and growth initiatives across various sectors including AI and finance.

JK

Joe Kell

Chief Financial Officer

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
AI / ML
Developer Tools
Consumer

Portfolio Companies (73)

Other

AC

activsurgical

AD

Adstage

AL

Alice Technologies

AM

Amberdata

AR

Armory

AS

Aspect Biosystems

AS

Astranis

AT

Atia Vision

AY

Ayar Labs

BA

Bash

How to pitch Running Tide Ventures
  • •Raising at Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • •Lead with your fit in Other, AI / ML, Developer Tools — the sectors they actively back.
  • •cold outreach ok
  • •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Ossama Hassanein, Chairman.
  • •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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