Firms

Root Ventures

San Francisco, California, US

root.vc

signal.nfx.com

goldi.ai

Root Ventures is a San Francisco-based deep-tech seed venture capital firm run by engineers, for engineers. The firm specializes in leading initial funding rounds for technical founders tackling hard problems in areas such as applied AI, robotics, hardware, developer tools, and climate tech.

Founded: —
Type: Venture capital

Team

Gilad Meiri Root Ventures, investor	$1M$500K – $2M	Israel
Emily Henriksson Root Ventures, principal	$1M$500K – $2M	Los Angeles, California
Avidan Ross Root Ventures, partner	$1M$500K – $2M	San Francisco Bay Area
Kane Hsieh Root Ventures, unknown	$1M$500K – $2M	San Francisco Bay Area
Chrissy Meyer Root Ventures, general_partner	$1M$500K – $2M	San Francisco, California
Lee Edwards Root Ventures, general_partner	$1M$500K – $2M	San Francisco, California
Ben Lovell Root Ventures, Head of Operations	—— – —	San Mateo, California
Adam Levinson Root Ventures, unknown	—— – —
Bryan Helmkamp Root Ventures, null	—— – —
Jerry Neumann Root Ventures, null	—— – —
Kai Backman Root Ventures, null	—— – —
Laelah Reino Root Ventures, Operations Manager	—— – —
Luke Church Root Ventures, null	—— – —
Zodi Chalat Root Ventures, Associate	—— – —

$—2026-06-09	Volund Manufacturing	Root Ventures
$—2026-02-18	Vervesemi	Root Ventures
$—2026	Volund Manufacturing	Root Ventures
$—2026	illoca	Bessemer Venture Partners, Root Ventures
$7M2025-04-24	MagicBlock	Lightspeed, Delphi Digital, Pivot Investment Partners, Root Ventures, Mechanism Capital, Maven 11
$—2025-03-11	Rakurai	Root Ventures
$17M2024-08-14	Crux Ocm	Root Ventures, Gil Dibner
$—2024-04-25	Movement	Root Ventures
$—2024-04-02	Agora	General Catalyst, Human Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Seed Club Ventures, Dragonfly, Root Ventures
$—2024-03-14	CliqueCustom Airdrop ToolingB2B	Root Ventures
$—2024-02-29	TopoLogic	Root Ventures
$—2023-11-15	Mamori Labs	Root Ventures
$1M2023-09-27	Rollstack	Y Combinator, Monte Carlo Capital, UpHonest Capital, Kima Ventures, Root Ventures
$—2023-09-26	Fhenix	Root Ventures
$—2023-09-18	Bastion	Cherry Ventures, Root Ventures
$25M2023-08-29	Intuition Robotics	OurCrowd, Western Technology Investment, Toyota Ventures, Root Ventures, Wave Capital
$—2023-06-08	Argus Systems	Root Ventures
$20M2023-05-15	Together	Lux Capital, First Round, Root Ventures
$—2023-03-15	Zed	Root Ventures
$—2023	Zed Industries	Root Ventures
$—2023	Zed	Accel, Root Ventures
$—2022-12-15	Blocknative	Root Ventures
$5M2022-10-11	Fidu	Lightspeed, NFX, Root Ventures, Imaginable Futures
$—2022-10-03	Stellar Pizza	Root Ventures
$—2022-06-14	Oma	Root Ventures
$—2022-05-18	ChargeLab	Root Ventures
$5M2022-04-21	Liquifi	Y Combinator, Human Ventures, Alliance DAO, Nascent, Dragonfly, Orange DAO, Root Ventures
$40M2022-02-10	Superconductive	CRV, Root Ventures
$—2022-02-08	ApertureData	Root Ventures, Work-Bench
$40M2022	Superconductive	CRV, Root Ventures
$—2021-12-02	Privacy Dynamics	Root Ventures
$—2021-11-10	Daily	Root Ventures
$60M2021-10-04	Esper	Root Ventures, Avidan Ross
$—2021-07-14	Blocknative	Root Ventures
$30M2021-05-20	Esper	Root Ventures, Avidan Ross
$—2021-04-13	Meroxa	Amplify Partners, Root Ventures
$—2020-12-03	Versatile	Bosch Ventures, Root Ventures
$—2020-10-08	Nordsense	Root Ventures
$—2020-09-03	ThruWave	Root Ventures
$4M2020-01-31	Daily	Freestyle Capital, Root Ventures
$—2019-10-30	Particleio	Root Ventures
$—2019-04-08	Nautilus Labs	Root Ventures
$12M2019	Wildtype	CRV, Root Ventures
$—2019	Crux Ocm	Angular Ventures, Root Ventures
$34M2018	Spruce	Y Combinator, Real Ventures, Electric Capital, Okta Ventures, Root Ventures, Orange DAO
$—Unknown date	Flight Science	Root Ventures
$—Unknown date	CORE Biomedicine	Root Ventures
$—Unknown date	Quilter	Root Ventures
$—Unknown date	Particle	Root Ventures
$—Unknown date	Instrumental	Root Ventures
$15MUnknown date	Okteto	Y Combinator, Haystack, Two Sigma Ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures, Root Ventures
$—2023	Latent Technology	AlbionVC, Root Ventures
$—Unknown date	Oma Fertility	Root Ventures

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