Root Ventures is a San Francisco-based deep tech seed fund. As engineers ourselves, we specialize in leading initial funding for founders tackling new technical opportunities. Our initial investments typically range from $3-5M. With a selective few new deals a year and 2/3 of our funds in reserve, we are committed to being a long-term partner.
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- Esper — Esper is devops for devices, allowing teams to seamlessly build and manage enterprise hardware.
- Meroxa — Meroxa is a platform for software engineers to build mature, scalable data engineering infrastructure with a single command.
- Particle — Particle is the largest professional IoT development platform.
- Daily — Daily makes it easier for developers to add video to websites and apps.
- HASH — HASH is an open-source, self-building database that grows and maintains a typed graph of entities on your behalf.
- Superconductive — Superconductive is a SaaS platform for verifying and enforcing data integrity at every stage of the lifecycle of data in an organization.
- Okteto — Okteto is the best emphemeral environment for developers.
- Privacy Dynamics — Privacy Dynamics ensures your customers' data privacy without slowing down your team.
- Nautilus Labs — Nautilus Labs allows maritime fleets to optimize shipping routes and energy costs in real time.
- nTopology — nTopology is the future of mechanical engineering software.
- Tortuga AgTech — Tortuga automates agriculture for high value produce.
- Instrumental — Instrumental generates real time insights for mass manufacturing.
- Stellar Pizza — Stellar Pizza is building the future of automated food production.
- Versatile — Versatile is an onsite construction data provider for accelerating schedules.
- Dusty Robotics — Dusty Robotics automates layout in complex construction projects.
- ThruWave — Thruwave increases the efficiency and transparency of high volume logistics operations.
- Seismic — Seismic augments strength and safety for workers through soft robotics.
- Seam — Seam provides an API for managing building systems.
- ChargeLab — ChargeLab builds API- and software-defined EV charging networks.
- Wildtype Foods — Wildtype creates organic, clean, high-quality, animal-free meat.
- Nordsense — Nordsense optimizes pickup routes for waste management fleets.
- TruckLabs — Trucklabs reduces fuel costs and increases profit margins for long haul trucking fleets.
- Sensable — Sensable generates real-time industrial engineering insights.
- Crux — Crux automates critical energy infrastructure.
- IaSQL — IaSQL is the next evolution of infrastructure management, allowing you to manage your infra in a database instead of stateless config files.
- Mashgin — Mashgin automates self-checkout.
- Creator — Creator builds fully autonomous hamburger robots.
- ApolloShield — ApolloShield safeguards airspace from autonomous and remote piloted aircraft.
- Skycatch — Skycatch provides high resolution 3D mapping and modeling of high-value infrastructure.
- Shaper — Shaper Tools makes the Origin, a handheld, auto-correcting CNC.
- Cape — Cape Networks allows IT professionals to monitor, text, and repair enterprise networks remotely.
- Righthook — Righthook reduces the time and cost required to develop autonomous vehicles.
- SixWheel — SixWheel brings autonomy and electrification to long haul trucking operations.
- Radical — Radical Semiconductor provides hardware security down to the individual IC.
- Zed — Zed is a fully-native desktop code editor focused on high performance, clean design, and real-time collaboration.
- Kayhan — Kayhan’s spaceflight operations platform allows satellite operators to focus on their core mission.
- AllSpice — Collaboration and testing platform for hardware teams.
- Quilter — Automated design tools for electrical engineers.
- Adept — Useful general intelligence.
- Aperture Data — Aperture manage images and videos with a database purpose-built for data science and machine learning.
- SuperTokens — SuperTokens is the best Open Source solution for user authentication.
- Fudge — Fudge is the best way to speed up your website to improve conversion rates and increase revenue.
- Kodra — Fast dataset curation for machine learning.
- Topologic — Design and automation software for textile manufacturing.
- Ruby Robotics — Robotics and AI to autonomously prepare, image, and assess tissue during biopsy procedures.
- Instance — Instance is the fastest way to synthesize DNA.
- CADY Solutions — CADY automates the electrical schematic analysis process.
- Sublayer — Sublayer is AI-assisted coding that works the way you do.
- Nullify — Nullify performs product security tasks alongside your developers.
- Trieve — Trieve provides infrastructure for building AI search into your applications.
- Breakpoint AI — Breakpoint uses AI to detect failures in computer vision models and re-trains them to prevent future issues.
- Determinate Systems — Determinate provides enterprise-grade solutions for Nix package management.
- Gen Alpha — Gen Alpha builds AI copilots for analog and mixed-signal chip design to streamline workflows.
- Hunch — Hunch provides collaborative data exploration and visualization tools for non-technical users.
- Illoca — Illoca accelerates commercial architecture workflows with generative AI for AEC software.
- Integrated Biosciences — Integrated uses optogenetics and ML to discover drugs for neurodegenerative and age-related diseases.
- Latent Technology — Latent helps animators and game developers create life-like 3D assets with AI-powered tools.
- Patterns — Patterns provides tools and infrastructure for developing modern AI applications efficiently.
- Subtrace — Subtrace automatically tracks all HTTP requests coming in and going out of your production backend.
- Digichem — Digichem prototypes and manufactures custom molecules online.
- Loopwork — Loopwork is building the next generation of agents.
- Feather — Feather provides FEA that runs in the browser.
- Vibe Robotics — Vibe Robotics, founded by Kai Backman and Luke Church, builds novel programming interfaces for robotics.
- DeepWeave — DeepWeave helps semiconductor teams generate better PPA solutions to deliver more highly performant chips.
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