Necessary Ventures
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Necessary Ventures is a venture capital firm that leads pre-seed rounds and invests non-lead from pre-seed to pre-IPO. It backs deep tech, hard tech, and AI companies across healthcare, reindustrialization, climate, financial services, and education.
Necessary Ventures is a venture capital firm. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to growth, in deep tech, hard tech, AI and healthcare. Its stated cheque size is $1-2M.
“We lead $1-2M pre-seeds and also invest non-lead from pre-seed to pre-IPO. We are thesis-driven and invest across a wide range of sectors, technologies, and business models.”
— Necessary Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Sectors
- deep tech, hard tech, AI, healthcare, reindustrialization, climate, financial services, education
- Cheque size
- $1-2M
Team, as Necessary Ventures publishes it
- Neil Devani Founder and Managing Partner
- Akash Malhotra Partner
- Deepa Sheth Venture Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on necessary.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 81 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Designer Fund 3 shared companies: copperhome.com, groovehealth.com, thepath.ai
- Air Street Capital 2 shared companies: wayve.ai, recursion.com
- Compound Advisors, LLC 2 shared companies: wayve.ai, magratheametals.com
- Menlo Ventures 2 shared companies: recursion.com, arcboats.com
- Collaborative Fund 2 shared companies: copperhome.com, rubi.earth
- DCVC 2 shared companies: akidolabs.com, circularityfuels.com
- Lowercarbon Capital 2 shared companies: arcboats.com, nevoya.com
- Colle Capital 2 shared companies: ensodata.com, fbn.com
- Balderton Capital 1 shared company: wayve.ai
- Eclipse 1 shared company: wayve.ai
and 71 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Necessary Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.necessary.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, stage_min, stage_max, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status, confidence
- https://www.necessary.vc/teamsectors, people
Record 9152 · added 2026-09-29 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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