# Differential Ventures

> Differential Ventures is a VC fund backing Software. See 53 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 53
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 38%
- Fund size: $42M
- Last fund: Jun 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/differential-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/differentialvc
- Website: http://www.differential.vc

Differential Ventures is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Differential Ventures invest in b2b tech startups with a unique advantage in data science and machine intelligence that will transform the way businesses operate. It is a seed-stage vc fund that invests in b2b data-oriented technology solutions.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.8M–$8M |
| Pre-Seed | $300k–$5.4M |
| Series A | $4M–$21M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 18 | 34% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 14 | 26% |
| Machine Learning | 10 | 19% |
| Information Technology | 10 | 19% |
| SaaS | 6 | 11% |

63 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 28 | 53% |
| Series A | 7 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 4% |
| Grant | 1 | 2% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 18 | 34% |
| Canada | 9 | 17% |
| Israel | 4 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Daria Barkai | Administrative Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daria-auerbach |
| David Magerman | Managing Partner and Co-Founder | 15 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-magerman |
| Melissa Demma | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/melissa-demma |
| Ned Berman | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ned-berman |
| Nicholas Adams | Managing Partner and Co-founder | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nick-adams-ab2e |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Valence AI | Valence is a communication tool that delivers emotional feedback in real-time conversation, aiming to augment emotional perception across different neurotypes, languages, communication styles, and cultures. | $5M | Seed | Jun 23, 2026 |  |
| PostSig | PostSig automates the post-signature contract management process, ensuring obligations are met, deadlines tracked, and performance optimized. Stay compliant, mitigate risks, and maximize contract value effortlessly — turning your contracts from static documents to strategic assets. | $4.1M | Seed | Sep 16, 2025 |  |
| Row64 | Row64 is the world’s first Data Science Spreadsheet powered by a GPU data engine that runs 10x to 1,000x faster than traditional data software. Designed ground up for Business Analysts & Data Scientists, Row64 blends the simplicity of Excel with the Power of Python to accelerate your data pipeline. Row64 works interactively with billions ofrecords, delivers keynote quality storytelling tools and one-click Data Science recipes to spreadsheet users. | $4M | Seed | Jun 09, 2025 |  |
| Plastic Labs | User context management & metacognition for large language model applications. | $5.4M | Pre-Seed | Apr 11, 2025 |  |
| Circuit Mind | Circuit Mind builds Artificial Intelligence that completely automates the design of Electronics Circuit boards |  | Series A | Jul 01, 2024 |  |
| Circuit Mind | Circuit Mind builds Artificial Intelligence that completely automates the design of Electronics Circuit boards | $6.1M | Seed | Jul 01, 2024 |  |
| HATCH | HATCH is the first of its kind Giving Intelligence Platform. An AI-powered portal for Fundraisers, Marketers and Volunteers to streamline and Maximize their impact. A new home for a new world of giving! HATCH unifies expanded-data to create the complete human profile and applies proprietary algorithms to recommend the most timely, personalized andeffective methods of outreach. For the first time, you’ll know what makes your donors, customers, and employees tick, click and give. | $3.1M | Seed | Apr 09, 2024 |  |
| FlowFi | Accounting for what's next. | $9M | Seed | Feb 13, 2024 |  |
| Retrocausal | Retrocausal is the industry leader in intelligence augmentation systems that give superpowers to assembly operators, plant managers, and industrial engineers to dramatically boost the productivity, quality, and safety of shopfloor processes.Retrocausal employs cutting-edge generative AI in the form of its Copilot software to elevate low-skilledlabor to take on high-skilled and sophisticated tasks. | $5.3M |  | Nov 30, 2023 |  |
| Retrocausal | Retrocausal is the industry leader in intelligence augmentation systems that give superpowers to assembly operators, plant managers, and industrial engineers to dramatically boost the productivity, quality, and safety of shopfloor processes.Retrocausal employs cutting-edge generative AI in the form of its Copilot software to elevate low-skilledlabor to take on high-skilled and sophisticated tasks. | $5.3M | Seed | Nov 30, 2023 |  |

10 of 53 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Green Egg Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greeneggventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Betaworks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/betaworks) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Blackhorn Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackhorn-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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- [Lorimer Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lorimer-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [SaaS Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/saas-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Differential Ventures invest in?

Differential Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 53 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 Differential Ventures's check size?

Differential Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$8M at Seed, $300k–$5.4M at Pre-Seed and $4M–$21M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Differential Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Differential Ventures?

Public channels for Differential Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Differential Ventures?

The team at Differential Ventures includes Daria Barkai (Administrative Officer), David Magerman (Managing Partner and Co-Founder) and Melissa Demma (Associate), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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