Workday Ventures — Seed & Series A VC Firm
Workday Ventures is a Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in Pleasanton, California investing in SaaS, Other, AI / ML. The firm has 6 portfolio companies in our records.
- Portfolio
- 6 companies on record
- Partners
- 10 listed
- Stage
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Sectors
- SaaS, Other, AI / ML, Enterprise, Developer Tools
- HQ
- Pleasanton, California
- Check size
- Not in our records
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-10-10
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
6+ companies
10 partners
Investment Thesis
Strategic venture arm investing in enterprise workflow and software. Relevant mainly if the product can be positioned as operational infrastructure for independent business operators.
How Workday Ventures invests
Workday Ventures is a vc firm based in Pleasanton, California. The firm invests at the Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed stages, with a focus on SaaS, Other, AI / ML, Enterprise, Developer Tools.
Workday Ventures has backed 6 companies in our records, including Censia, Glean, Nayya.
Partners & Team
Sarah Kennedy Ellis
CMO
Clare Hickie
CTO
Unknown
Corporate venture team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (6)
Other
Censia
Talent intelligence platform that uses AI to surface skills data and insights for HR teams.
Glean
Work AI platform that helps employees search company knowledge, generate content, and automate tasks.
Nayya
Benefits intelligence platform that helps employees choose and engage with benefits.
Sana
AI company focused on how organizations share and access knowledge.
TechWolf
AI-based skills infrastructure company that helps organizations identify and develop workforce skills.
Auctor
Enterprise software implementation platform using AI; Workday Ventures publicly welcomed it to the portfolio, and Auctor’s funding round named Workday Ventures as a participant.
- •Raising at Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in SaaS, Other, AI / ML — the sectors they actively back.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Sarah Kennedy Ellis, CMO.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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