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Transcend Ventures — Pre-Seed VC Firm ($1.0M–$3.0M Checks)

VC
San Francisco, CAWebsite

Transcend Ventures is a Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, CA investing in Real Estate, Enterprise, Developer Tools. The firm typically writes $1.0M–$3.0M checks and has 30 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$1.0M–$3.0M
Portfolio
30 companies on record
Partners
31 listed
Stage
Pre-Seed
Sectors
Real Estate, Enterprise, Developer Tools, SaaS
HQ
San Francisco, CA
AUM
Not in our records

Last verified: 2026-09-06

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed

Check Size

$1.0M – $3.0M

Portfolio

30+ companies

Team

31 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Focused on investing in early-stage PropTech and enterprise software companies evolving legacy systems.

How Transcend Ventures invests

Transcend Ventures is a vc firm based in San Francisco, CA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed stage, with a focus on Real Estate, Enterprise, Developer Tools, SaaS. It does not invest in Consumer.

Transcend Ventures typically writes checks of $1.0M–$3.0M per investment.

Transcend Ventures has backed 30 companies in our records, including EXAMIND AI, Loop Academies, Press Start Academy.

Partners & Team

MN

Michael Narea

Co-Founder And GP

YS

Yash Singh

Growth Manager

EC

Emily Chang

GP

PropTech
Enterprise Software
RP

Rodulfo Prieto

Fellow

Laboratoria

Co-founder at Laboratoria

PB

Pato Bichara

Fellow

Collective Academy

CEO at Collective Academy

CL

Charles Lee

Fellow

CoderSchool

Co-Founder at CoderSchool

GB

Gerald Bastian

Fellow

Kok Bisa

Co-Founder at Kok Bisa

Y

Yaofei

Fellow

NewCampus

Co-founder at NewCampus

CH

Caleb Hicks

Fellow

Factor

Founder @ Factor

CO

Christine Outram

Fellow

Everydae

CEO @Everydae

JL

Jason Lavender

Fellow

Electives

Co-Founder at Electives

AA

Alberto Arenaza

Co-Founder

GT

Gonzalo Tudela

Fellow

AI

CEO at EXAMIND AI

MT

Marvin Tarawally

Fellow

Co-Founder, CEO Loop Academies

VS

Vince Siu

Fellow

Press Start Academy

Founder and CEO Press Start Academy

YH

Yvon Huang

Fellow

UXY

Founder & Instructor UXY

AA

Arnelle Ansong

Fellow

Edlyft

Co-Founder & CTO at Edlyft (YCW20)

IW

Isabelle Waring

Fellow

Paideia

Founder & CEO of Paideia

RS

Ritu Soni Srivastava

Fellow

TheLightbulb.Ai

Co-founder, TheLightbulb.Ai

DC

Didem Cikse

Fellow

Hub21

Co-Founder & CEO at Hub21

BP

Bogdan Ponomar

Fellow

AI HOUSE

CEO at AI HOUSE

AR

Anthony Reo

Fellow

Bunch

Co-founder at Bunch

AN

Anna Natsvlishvili

Fellow

Morphoses

CEO & Co-Founder Morphoses

AK

Aditya Kulkarni

Fellow

Stoa

Co-founder, Stoa

YN

Yussouf Ntwali

Fellow

BAG

CEO at BAG

OB

Ope Bukola

Fellow

Edupreneur

Product Builder & EDUpreneur

TL

Tao Laine Boyle

Fellow

FoondaMate

Co-Founder @ FoondaMate

JK

Jan Krutzinna

Fellow

ChatClass

Founder @ ChatClass

PT

Parith Thiengtham

Fellow

Edsy

Co-Founder of Edsy

RS

Ronna Sieh

Fellow

The Coding School

President at The Coding School

JB

Josefina Bustamante

Fellow

Bel

Co-founder @Bel

Industry Focus

Invests In

Real Estate
Enterprise
Developer Tools
SaaS

Does Not Invest In

Consumer

Portfolio Companies (30)

Other

EX

EXAMIND AI

LO

Loop Academies

PR

Press Start Academy

UX

UXY

ED

Edlyft

PA

Paideia

TH

TheLightbulb.Ai

HU

Hub21

AI

AI HOUSE

BU

Bunch

How to pitch Transcend Ventures
  • •Raising at Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • •Lead with your fit in Real Estate, Enterprise, Developer Tools — the sectors they actively back.
  • •Size your ask to their typical $1.0M – $3.0M check.
  • •warm intro preferred
  • •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Michael Narea, Co-Founder And GP.
  • •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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