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Verticality Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($300K–$5.0M Checks)

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San Diego, CAWebsite

Verticality Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in San Diego, CA investing in SaaS, Other, AI / ML. The firm typically writes $300K–$5.0M checks and has 2 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$300K–$5.0M
Portfolio
2 companies on record
Partners
6 listed
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sectors
SaaS, Other, AI / ML
HQ
San Diego, CA
AUM
Not in our records

Last verified: 2026-05-13

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.

How Verticality Ventures invests

Verticality Ventures is a vc firm based in San Diego, CA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on SaaS, Other, AI / ML. It does not invest in Consumer.

Verticality Ventures typically writes checks of $300K–$5.0M per investment.

Verticality Ventures has backed 2 companies in our records, including AutoBook, MarketingTank.

Partners & Team

AN

Arash Najafi

SVP – Capital Markets

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

Hamid Rezapour

President & Founder

real estate acquisition
financing
development
leasing
property management
disposition
BM

Boyd Messmann

SVP – Acquisitions

net lease assets
value-add real estate assets
acquisitions
dispositions
CC

Christopher Chang

Partner

Real estate investments
Properties acquisition
Deal structuring
JH

Jonathan Hale

Founder & GP

Vertical SaaS
B2B SMB Automation
TL

Tim L. Rackerby

Partner

Investment underwriting
Strategic asset repositioning
Capital relationships

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 Arash Najafi, SVP – Capital Markets.
  • •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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