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Verticality Ventures

VC
San Diego, CAWebsite
How to approach: cold outreach ok
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$300K – $5.0M

Portfolio

2+ companies

Team

6 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Verticality Ventures specializes in backing startups focused on sector-specific SaaS solutions leveraging automation to improve business operations for SMBs.

Meet the Team

HR

Hamid Rezapour

President & Founder

real estate acquisition
financing
development
leasing
property management
disposition
AN

Arash Najafi

SVP – Capital Markets

capital raising
joint-venture equity
fund agreements
relationships with institutional & high net worth investors
JH

Jonathan Hale

Founder & GP

Vertical SaaS
B2B SMB Automation
CC

Christopher Chang

Partner

Real estate investments
Properties acquisition
Deal structuring
TL

Tim L. Rackerby

Partner

Investment underwriting
Strategic asset repositioning
Capital relationships
BM

Boyd Messmann

SVP – Acquisitions

net lease assets
value-add real estate assets
acquisitions
dispositions

Industry Focus

Invests In

SaaS
Other
AI / ML

Does Not Invest In

Consumer

Portfolio Companies (2)

Other

AU

AutoBook

Scheduling SaaS
MA

MarketingTank

AI Marketing Tech
How to pitch Verticality Ventures
  • Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in SaaS, Other, AI / ML — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $300K – $5.0M check.
  • cold outreach ok
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Hamid Rezapour, President & Founder.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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