Starling Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($100K–$1.0M Checks)
Starling Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Austin, TX investing in Other. The firm typically writes $100K–$1.0M checks and has 20 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $100K–$1.0M
- Portfolio
- 20 companies on record
- Partners
- 1 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other
- HQ
- Austin, TX
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-05-23
Pre-Seed, Seed
$100K – $1.0M
20+ companies
1 partner
Investment Thesis
Invests in startups empowering creators with tools to grow, monetize, and operationalize their content-driven businesses.
How Starling Ventures invests
Starling Ventures is a vc firm based in Austin, TX. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other.
Starling Ventures typically writes checks of $100K–$1.0M per investment.
Starling Ventures has backed 20 companies in our records, including ByteDance, Instacart, Recall.ai.
Partners & Team
Julia Winter
Founding Partner
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (20)
Other
ByteDance
A multinational internet technology company known for its content platforms.
Instacart
An online grocery delivery service.
Recall.ai
A company involved in AI technology.
Amplitude
Revue
Narrato
Coinbase
Plangrid
Ginkgo Bioworks
Benchling
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $100K – $1.0M check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Julia Winter, Founding Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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