Emergence Capital
VC Fund
San Mateo, United States
Emergence Capital is a VC fund in San Mateo focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Emergence Capital provides financial backing and strategic guidance to startup founders from initial financing rounds through potential public offerings. Investment areas include business-to-business cloud platforms, horizontal software architectures, vertical industry applications, and artificial intelligence systems. Partner configurations focus on centralized strategy contributions, institutional diligence support, and operational advising across the portfolio.
- Total investments:
- 312
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 42%
- Fund size:
- $1B
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Emergence Capital invests in
Stages Emergence Capital invests in
Countries Emergence Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 15 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $5.4M–$27M
- Series B
- $8.5M–$185M
- Series C
- $14M–$140M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 71 (23%)
- Artificial Intelligence 45 (14%)
- SaaS 42 (13%)
- Information Technology 31 (10%)
- Enterprise Software 28 (9%)
Stage
- Series B 70 (22%)
- Series A 63 (20%)
- Series C 40 (13%)
- Series D 23 (7%)
- Seed 22 (7%)
Country
- United States 126 (40%)
- Canada 3 (1%)
- Argentina 2 (1%)
- China 1 (0%)
- France 1 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Brian Jacobs
Founder and General Partner
|
Founder and General Partner | Total investments: 40 | Find email | |
David Singer
Chief Financial Officer
|
Chief Financial Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Doug Landis
Growth Partner
|
Growth Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Everett Cox
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Gordon Ritter
Founder and General Partner
|
Founder and General Partner | Total investments: 28 | Find email | |
| See all 15 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casap is a modern platform, it builds technology for financial services. | $56M / Series B / Oct 28, 2026 | ||
| Bedrock Robotics delivers enhanced autonomy to the built environment, allowing the construction sector to build at the rate that today's society requires. | $600M / Series C / Oct 26, 2026 | ||
| Messaging platform for agents & humans | $20M / Seed / Sep 24, 2026 | ||
| Verda provides a full-stack AI cloud platform for the development, training, and deployment of AI models. Its services include GPU instances, instant clusters, serverless containers, managed storage, and other cloud infrastructure powered by NVIDIA hardware. Verda also operates an AI Lab focused on large-scale training, inference optimization, reinforcement learning, and AI systems engineering. Its platform serves AI developers and organizations across the full AI lifecycle, from prototyping to scalable inference. | $189M / Series B / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| Sela is the market-leading AI voice agent for mortgage lenders. From inbound lead qualification to proactive CRM outreach, our AI agents engage borrowers in real, natural conversations and seamlessly hand off to licensed loan officers when they're ready every day, at scale. | $15M / Series A / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| Adaptive Real Estate helps construction teams save time and money. Lots of it. | $30M / Series B / Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| Arcee AI develops open-weight AI models and tools for building and deploying applications across cloud, on-premise, and edge environments. | $150M / Series B / Sep 16, 2026 | ||
| Gimlet Labs is an applied research lab focused on developing next-generation AI infrastructure. | $300M / Series B / Sep 04, 2026 | ||
| Nunchux AI develops a multimodal generative AI inference acceleration engine designed to optimize the deployment of image, video, and world models. The infrastructure focuses on speeding up model execution times and reducing operational compute costs without compromising output quality. | Seed / Sep 03, 2026 | ||
| Arga Labs develops software testing and validation infrastructure for AI agents and applications. The company provides real-world sandbox environments that replicate third-party services, APIs, command-line interfaces, and MCPs, allowing developers to test software without affecting production systems. Its platform provides digital twins, isolatedsandboxes, production-informed scenarios, automated test runs, and detailed evidence of provider calls, responses, latency, and side effects. Arga also supports pull request validation, browser-based testing, security testing, and autonomous agent testing through deterministic environments. The platform integrates with development and observability tools such as GitHub, Jira, Linear, Sentry, and PostHog to incorporate application context into testing workflows. Arga Labs serves software development teams building applications and AI agents that interact with external services. | $10M / Seed / Aug 26, 2026 | ||
| See all 312 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Emergence Capital invest in?
Emergence Capital invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 312 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Emergence Capital invest in?
Emergence Capital typically joins rounds of $5.4M–$27M at Series A, $8.5M–$185M at Series B and $14M–$140M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Emergence Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Emergence Capital took part in.
How do I contact Emergence Capital?
Public channels for Emergence Capital 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 Emergence Capital?
The team at Emergence Capital includes Brian Jacobs (Founder and General Partner), David Singer (Chief Financial Officer) and Doug Landis (Growth Partner), among 15 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 Nov 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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