Vocal Ventures
Vocal Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Chicago, IL investing in Other, SaaS, AI / ML. The firm typically writes $1.0M–$2.5M checks and has 15 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $1.0M–$2.5M
- Portfolio
- 15 companies on record
- Partners
- 1 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other, SaaS, AI / ML, Enterprise
- HQ
- Chicago, IL
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-08-25
Pre-Seed, Seed
$1.0M – $2.5M
15+ companies
1 partner
Investment Thesis
Invests in transformative voice technology startups that enhance communication in B2B contexts.
How Vocal Ventures invests
Vocal Ventures is a vc firm based in Chicago, IL. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, SaaS, AI / ML, Enterprise. It does not invest in Consumer Goods.
Vocal Ventures typically writes checks of $1.0M–$2.5M per investment.
Vocal Ventures has backed 15 companies in our records, including VoiceSync, CommWave, Manus.
Partners & Team
Mark Rivers
Principal
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (15)
Other
VoiceSync
CommWave
Manus
Manus is a general AI agent that turns your thoughts into actions. It excels at various tasks in work and life, getting everything done.
Corgi
Building the First AI Insurance Company
Fish Audio
The most realistic AI Speech - Voice Cloning, Voice Library, VoiceOver, and more.
Pulse
Production-grade unstructured document extraction
RadixArk
RadixArk is an infrastructure-first, deep-tech company building large-scale inference and training systems for the entire AI community.
Archive
Archive is the AI social listening + creator discovery platform that captures what your community posts and automates reporting, gifting, and usage rights.
Steinmetz
Developing next-gen power electronics for EVs with industry-leading power density, making them more powerful, compact, and cost-effective.
Foundry BioSciences
AI-native biotech using protein language models to accelerate therapeutic discovery for aging and healthspan.
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, SaaS, AI / ML — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $1.0M – $2.5M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Mark Rivers, Principal.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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