Active: new fund Jan 2025 Verified 5 Nov 2026
Root Ventures
San Francisco seed fund that leads initial rounds in deep tech companies founded by engineers, typically investing $3 to 5M initially and reserving two thirds for follow-ons.
- Type
- VC firm
- Location
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Stages
- Seed
- Backs
- Deep tech
- Sectors
- Deep tech, Industrial, Hardware, Robotics, Devtools
- Fund size / AUM
- $250M Root Ventures IV (Form D offering, 2025); $644M gross private fund assets (Form ADV; private funds: 32, of which venture capital: 32)
- Latest fund or filing
- 10 Jan 2025
- Website
- www.root.vc
Contacts on file
For Root Ventures, the paid file holds: 6 named decision-makers with roles.
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Notable investments
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Sources
- www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2049975/000204997525000001/
- adviserinfo.sec.gov/firm/summary/175079
- root.vc/
- root.vc/#tldr
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