Root Ventures
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Root Ventures is a San Francisco-based deep tech seed fund that invests in technical founders. It typically provides initial investments of $3-5M and maintains a selective portfolio.
Root Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, United States. It invests directly in companies, at seed, in deep tech. Its stated cheque size is $3-5M. 60 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“As engineers ourselves, we specialize in leading initial funding for founders tackling new technical opportunities.”
— Root Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Stage
- Seed
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Sectors
- deep tech
- Cheque size
- $3-5M
- Portfolio
- 60 companies
Team, as Root Ventures publishes it
- Avidan Ross Managing Partner
- Kane Hsieh Partner
- Chrissy Meyer Partner
- Lee Edwards Partner
- Zodi Chalat Associate
- Ben Lovell Head of Operations
- Laelah Reino Operations Manager
Names and roles exactly as listed on root.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Root Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://root.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, portfolio_count, people, status
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Record 626 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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