Watershed Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($250K–$1.0M Checks)
Watershed Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in New York, New York investing in SaaS, Other, Marketplace. The firm typically writes $250K–$1.0M checks and has 7 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $250K–$1.0M
- Portfolio
- 7 companies on record
- Partners
- 3 listed
- AUM
- $500M
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- SaaS, Other, Marketplace, Fintech, Real Estate, Enterprise, AI / ML
- HQ
- New York, New York
Last verified: 2026-10-12
Pre-Seed, Seed
$250K – $1.0M
$500M
7+ companies
3 partners
Investment Thesis
Early-stage software investor with interest in vertical SaaS and marketplace models. Useful where the startup can be framed as vertical software for beverage brands and hospitality marketing execution.
How Watershed Ventures invests
Watershed Ventures is a vc firm based in New York, New York. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on SaaS, Other, Marketplace, Fintech, Real Estate.
Watershed Ventures typically writes checks of $250K–$1.0M per investment, backed by approximately $500M in assets under management. Our records include 2 funds raised by the firm.
Watershed Ventures has backed 7 companies in our records, including Watershed Bio, SalioGen Therapeutics, Violet Therapeutics.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Funds
Watershed Ventures Fund II
Watershed Ventures Fund I
Portfolio Companies (7)
Other
Watershed Bio
SalioGen Therapeutics
Violet Therapeutics
SynDevRx
Baselane
Financial platform for real estate investors and landlords.
Sokin
Global payments platform for businesses and individuals.
Penguin AI
AI software company; the retrieved source does not give a fuller company description.
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in SaaS, Other, Marketplace — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $250K – $1.0M check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Andrew Wight, Head of Product.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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