Tenaya Capital — Seed VC Firm ($500K–$3.0M Checks)
Tenaya Capital is a Seed venture capital firm based in Woodside, CA investing in EdTech, SaaS. The firm typically writes $500K–$3.0M checks and has 32 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $500K–$3.0M
- Portfolio
- 32 companies on record
- Partners
- 4 listed
- AUM
- $1.5B
- Stage
- Seed
- Sectors
- EdTech, SaaS
- HQ
- Woodside, CA
Last verified: 2026-06-06
Seed
$500K – $3.0M
$1.5B
32+ companies
4 partners
Investment Thesis
Investing in transformative tools for education and SaaS platforms with scalable potential.
How Tenaya Capital invests
Tenaya Capital is a vc firm based in Woodside, CA. The firm invests at the Seed stage, with a focus on EdTech, SaaS.
Tenaya Capital typically writes checks of $500K–$3.0M per investment, backed by approximately $1.5B in assets under management.
Tenaya Capital has backed 32 companies in our records, including Coursera, Udacity, AgilOne.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (32)
Other
Coursera
Udacity
AgilOne
Aspen Aerogels
BigCommerce
Brighter
CloudPassage
Denodo
DocuSign
Eventbrite
- •Raising at Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in EdTech, SaaS — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $3.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Dave Markland, Chief Financial Officer.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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