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Scopus Ventures

VC
Los Angeles, CAWebsite

Scopus Ventures is a Seed, Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, CA investing in AI / ML, SaaS, Other. The firm typically writes $50K–$1.0M checks and has 17 portfolio companies in our records.

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Seed, Pre-Seed

Check Size

$50K – $1.0M

Portfolio

17+ companies

Team

3 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Backing founders leveraging AI-driven technologies for sales and marketing automation, with a focus on B2B SaaS.

How Scopus Ventures invests

Scopus Ventures is a vc firm based in Los Angeles, CA. The firm invests at the Seed, Pre-Seed stages, with a focus on AI / ML, SaaS, Other, Enterprise. It does not invest in Consumer, Gaming.

Scopus Ventures typically writes checks of $50K–$1.0M per investment.

Scopus Ventures has backed 17 companies in our records, including Hiretual, Jitterbit, Pienso.

Meet the Team

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Eran Gilad

Managing Partner

Business Operations and Entrepreneurship

Eran has been an Operator his entire career. He started his career at the IDF as an Officer and continued scaling organizations for two decades. Before making the leap into entrepreneurship, he got his start as a management consultant at Bohlin & Stromberg Sweden focused on mergers, acquisitions and growth strategies. Since then he has been building and growing successful B2B companies. Today, Eran finds his passion at helping entrepreneurs who truly swing for the fences. He holds an Engineering degree from Coventry University, England and an MBA from Lund University, Sweden. He currently attends the OPM Program at the Harvard Business School.

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Robert Mai

Managing Partner

Finance and Investment Banking

Robert is focusing on fund management as they pertain to Scopus Ventures investments, partnerships, operations and regulatory compliance in the U.S. and abroad. Robert has over 25 years of experience working in investment banking and asset management throughout Asia and the US at Lehman Brothers, UBS and Citigroup. Prior to teaming up with Eran and Bahram, Robert spent a decade working in private equity and venture capital markets, including managing a $300 million alternative investments portfolio and fixed income trading platform at Klingenstein Fields Wealth Advisors. Robert graduated from the University of California, Irvine, with a BS in Biological Sciences and received an MBA from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.

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Bahram Nour-Omid

Chairman, Managing Partner

Technological Operations

Bahram is a serial entrepreneur who began his career as a technologist specializing in large-scale computing and software systems. Later on, he founded several companies building and growing teams to significant success. He has been venture investing since 1990 bringing with him decades of business leadership in technology companies with many successful exits. He has a PhD in Scientific Computing, a MA in Mathematics, and a MS in Engineering, all from the University of California, Berkeley. His Bachelor of Science is in Civil Engineering from the Imperial College of London.

Industry Focus

Invests In

AI / ML
SaaS
Other
Enterprise

Does Not Invest In

Consumer
Gaming

Portfolio Companies (17)

Other

HI

Hiretual

AI Recruiting Tech
JI

Jitterbit

PI

Pienso

EM

Empirical

RI

Riskcast

AP

AppsVillage

TO

TOPeration

CL

Class.Me

AU

Authenticiti

TO

Torii

How to pitch Scopus Ventures
  • Raising at Seed, Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in AI / ML, SaaS, Other — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $50K – $1.0M check.
  • warm intro preferred
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Eran Gilad, Managing Partner.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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