Cervin Ventures
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
Cervin Ventures is a early-stage venture capital firm investing in founders to build good startups and great companies. Cervin partners with disciplined entrepreneurs that are building tools, applications and infrastructure products to address massive, fast-growing markets. For more than a decade, Cervin has leveraged the operating backgrounds ofits investors to help founders build enduring companies and avoid short-lived hype cycles. Cervin has invested in more than 50 companies including LaunchDarkly, Paystand, and Celona, with more than a dozen successful exits from companies such as Punchh and Tynker.
- Total investments:
- 114
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 26%
- Fund size:
- $162M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Cervin Ventures invests in
Stages Cervin Ventures invests in
Countries Cervin Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.8M–$10M
- Series A
- $6M–$24M
- Series B
- $14M–$65M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 27 (24%)
- Artificial Intelligence 24 (21%)
- SaaS 20 (18%)
- Information Technology 16 (14%)
- Enterprise Software 9 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 33 (29%)
- Series A 30 (26%)
- Series B 18 (16%)
- Pre-Seed 6 (5%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 6 (5%)
Country
- United States 60 (53%)
- India 1 (1%)
- Israel 1 (1%)
- Mexico 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Preetish Nijhawan
Co-Founder & General Partner
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Co-Founder & General Partner | Total investments: 15 | Find email | |
Shirish Sathaye
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 42 | Find email | |
Courtney McKee
Director of Finance
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Director of Finance | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Daniel Karp
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Neeraj Gupta
Co-Founder & General Partner
|
Co-Founder & General Partner | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| StarSling provides an AI-powered platform designed for developers to manage tasks related to DevOps. The platform connects tools like GitHub, Sentry, and Linear into one central developer homepage. It automates tasks such as fixing exceptions, updating documentation, and managing bugs. The system uses agents that learn and support continuous taskcompletion across tools. Developers can integrate their existing tools and use pre-configured workflows for automation. | $3M / Pre-Seed / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees | $125M / Series C / Sep 09, 2026 | ||
| Zeit AI, founded by former Palantir engineers, generates a structured data base atop your tabular data files which you can query using natural language. For example, you suspect an efficiency in your organisation and you have a bunch of data files, instead of reading through all of them one by one in excel, you explore them in Zeit AI. Theycurrently offer a two-week pilot program where their engineers develop tailored solutions for data challenges involving CSV, Excel, or PDF files. | $5.8M / Seed / Sep 03, 2026 | ||
| Lemma offers an AI platform that automates prompt optimization and continuous learning for model improvement. | $2.3M / Pre-Seed / Aug 13, 2026 | ||
| Vendelux is the leading Event Intelligence Platform that helps marketers make more data-driven decisions around event attendance, sponsorship, and hosting. Customers match CRM data against a proprietary database of over 30,000 events, including speaker, sponsor, and attendee information, to easily find their prospects, customers, and competitorseverywhere they are going to be. | $50M / Series B / Jul 08, 2026 | ||
| Redo develops a free return automation application for brand owners. It turns refunds into exchanges or store credit. It also automates the return process to operate under preferences and helps clients transform their returns center into a profit center. Its package protection simplifies claims management with an all-in-one customer portal, makingit easy to offer, track, and resolve claims. | $81M / Series B / Jun 23, 2026 | ||
| Ratio is a fintech platform that provides customers with flexible payment options, simplifying the procurement process. Ratio provides buy now, pay later services that integrate payments, predictive pricing, analytics, and finance, allowing B2B SaaS companies and other recurring revenue businesses to increase sales while gaining access to the valueof new contracts. Ratio allows businesses to leverage their recurring revenue streams to unlock new non-dilutive capital. | $15.8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 14, 2026 | ||
| Earlyasset is a private market infrastructure company that brings price transparency and liquidity access to the venture secondary market.The platform enables shareholders — including employees, founders, and early investors — to discover the estimated market value of their private equity, priced to their specific share class and cap stackposition using real market data, public comparables, and proprietary signals. Unlike last-round valuations or 409A estimates, Earlyasset models what a secondary buyer would actually pay today.For VCs, LPs, and multi-asset holders, Earlyasset provides portfolio-level pricing across dozens of positions — uploadable via a schedule of investments — updated continuously as market conditions change.When shareholders are ready for liquidity, Earlyasset Capital steps in as a direct buyer for qualifying companies (Series B+ with strong revenue and growth). For situations outside that criteria, the platform's SecondaryOS product helps issuing companies manage bespoke secondary transactions directly — handling shareholder communications, cap table coordination, and share pricing for transactions of any size and stock class.Earlyasset removes the friction, opacity, and broker dependency that have historically made private market liquidity inaccessible for most shareholders. The result is a transparent, company-friendly process that puts shareholders in control of when and how they access the value they've earned. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Mar 31, 2026 | ||
| Qurrent is an autonomous digital workforce company that provides digital workforces that execute complex back-office operations across functions such as finance, supply chain, procurement, and enterprise operations. The company deploys software-based digital workers that perform rule-based and cognitive tasks, automating workflows thattraditionally require human intervention. These digital workforces are fully managed, with Qurrent owning the deployment, ongoing management, and performance of each digital worker while ensuring operational reliability and compliance with contractual service-level agreements (SLAs). The platform integrates with enterprise systems such as ERP, CRM, and procurement platforms to handle tasks including invoice processing, order management, reconciliations, and reporting. Its autonomous workers interact with multiple applications, validate data, and execute transactions across business systems, reducing manual effort and accelerating operational efficiency.Qurrent also monitors, maintains, and optimizes the performance of its digital workforce in real time. Performance metrics, process improvements, and compliance checks are embedded into its management framework, ensuring that automated operations meet agreed-upon business outcomes and quality standards. By providing a fully managed approach, the company allows organizations to implement robotic and cognitive automation without the need for in-house infrastructure, specialized staffing, or complex software management. Qurrent guarantees operational outcomes through contractual SLAs, making digital workforces a reliable extension of enterprise teams for back-office automation. | $15M / Series A / Mar 12, 2026 | ||
| ArmorCode offers an AppSecOps platform that reduces application exposure and risk for customers. Its customers use the platform for AppSec Posture, Vulnerability and Compliance Management, and DevSecOps automation. ArmorCode AppSecOps platform is delivering a 10X AppSec Force Multiplier impact to several marquee enterprises. The company wasfounded in 2020 and is based in Palo Alto, California. | $16M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 03, 2026 | ||
| See all 114 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Cervin Ventures invest in?
Cervin Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 114 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Cervin Ventures's check size?
Cervin Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$10M at Seed, $6M–$24M at Series A and $14M–$65M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Cervin Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Cervin Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Cervin Ventures?
The team at Cervin Ventures includes Preetish Nijhawan (Co-Founder & General Partner), Shirish Sathaye (General Partner) and Courtney McKee (Director of Finance), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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