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Valia Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($50K–$1.5M Checks)

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New York, United StatesWebsite

Valia Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in New York, United States investing in AI / ML, Other, SaaS. The firm typically writes $50K–$1.5M checks and has 15 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$50K–$1.5M
Portfolio
15 companies on record
Partners
4 listed
AUM
$100M
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sectors
AI / ML, Other, SaaS
HQ
New York, United States

Last verified: 2026-09-28

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$50K – $1.5M

AUM

$100M

Portfolio

15+ companies

Team

4 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Valia invests from pre-seed through Seed and Series A in ambitious founding teams building bold, category-defying companies. It takes a generalist approach and backs portfolio companies as they grow.

How Valia Ventures invests

Valia Ventures is a vc firm based in New York, United States. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on AI / ML, Other, SaaS.

Valia Ventures typically writes checks of $50K–$1.5M per investment, backed by approximately $100M in assets under management.

Valia Ventures has backed 15 companies in our records, including DataRobot, Drift, Legacy.

Partners & Team

KJ

Khaled Jalanbo

Co-Founder

NB

Nell Brennan

Finance Director

JC

Jared Carmel

Managing Partner

AI/ML
MarTech
SaaS
RR

Riley Rodgers

Partner

Industry Focus

Invests In

AI / ML
Other
SaaS

Portfolio Companies (15)

Other

DA

DataRobot

AI/ML
DR

Drift

MarTech
LE

Legacy

SU

Superpower

YU

Yutori

VA

Valar Atomics

BU

Built Robotics

SE

Seed

AV

AvatarOS

ME

Mecha Health

How to pitch Valia Ventures
  • •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • •Lead with your fit in AI / ML, Other, SaaS — the sectors they actively back.
  • •Size your ask to their typical $50K – $1.5M check.
  • •warm intro preferred
  • •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Khaled Jalanbo, Co-Founder.
  • •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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