Emergent Ventures
VC Fund
San Mateo, United States
Emergent Ventures is a venture firm that invests in seed-stage software and AI startups. Emergent partners early with high-potential entrepreneurs and helps them find product-market fit and develop go-to-market. The firm focuses on the Intelligent Software space, which includes themes such as Enterprise Automation, Intelligent Voice and Video,Logistics-tech, DevOps/Developer Tools, Finance-tech, and Cloud Management
- Total investments:
- 95
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 36%
- Fund size:
- $76M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Emergent Ventures invests in
Stages Emergent Ventures invests in
Countries Emergent Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
1 more contact available
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$6M
- Pre-Seed
- $900k–$5.2M
- Series A
- $6.8M–$26M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 29 (31%)
- Artificial Intelligence 25 (26%)
- Information Technology 15 (16%)
- Machine Learning 9 (9%)
- SaaS 8 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 39 (41%)
- Series A 18 (19%)
- Pre-Seed 9 (9%)
- Series B 7 (7%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (4%)
Country
- United States 43 (45%)
- India 6 (6%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
- France 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ankur Jain
Founder & Partner
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Founder & Partner | Total investments: 38 | Find email | |
Anupam Rastogi
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 28 | Find email | |
Indra Singhal
Operating Partner
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Operating Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Rishi Khullar
Limited Partner
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Limited Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Delightree
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Delightree is a unified operations platform built for multi-unit brands that need visibility, consistency, and control as they scale. Most franchisors rely on disconnected tools for training, audits, and daily execution, which hides performance issues and slows growth. Delightree replaces that patchwork with a single, mobile-first system thatcentralizes operations, accelerates store openings through a purpose-built Location Launcher, and brings clarity across every site. Powered by AI, Delightree surfaces trends, risks, and opportunities hidden in everyday activity so brands can act early, operate smarter, and scale with confidence. | $25M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 04, 2026 | |
BambooBox
|
BambooBox is a marketing technology company offering an AI-powered Account-Based Marketing platform for B2B enterprises. It helps organizations identify high-intent accounts analyze buyer signals and execute personalized marketing campaigns across channels. The platform combines data intelligence automation and analytics to improve revenuetargeting and marketing efficiency. | $6.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 17, 2026 | |
Nexthop AI
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Nexthop AI develops AI infrastructure and custom networking solutions for large cloud operators, focusing on enhancing operational efficiency and connectivity within complex network environments. The company offers a range of services, including network automation, data management, and analytics, enabling clients to optimize their networkperformance and streamline their operations. Through its innovative solutions, Nexthop AI addresses the challenges faced by cloud operators, providing tools that facilitate seamless integration and scalability in dynamic computing environments. Additionally, Nexthop AI emphasizes compatibility with open-source network operating systems, allowing clients to leverage existing technologies while implementing advanced networking strategies. | $500M / Series B / Mar 10, 2026 | |
Potpie AI
|
Potpie AI delivers a platform that helps engineering teams generate and run AI agents that understand and act on real codebases by converting source code, logs, tickets, documentation, and reviews into an integrated knowledge graph for context-aware reasoning. It provides tools that let users describe tasks in natural language that translate intoconcrete development actions such as feature implementation, debugging, workflow automation, or code analysis across repositories. The company integrates with existing systems such as version control, communication channels, and project management tools, so engineers can access AI assistance within familiar workflows. Potpie AI supports custom agent creation tailored to specific engineering needs and workflows and enables intelligent navigation of complex systems at scale. Its architecture focuses on deep code context and traceability so automated agents operate with clarity and predictability across connected code and data. | $2.2M / Pre-Seed / Feb 23, 2026 | |
Trener Robotics
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T-robotics uses end-to-end neural networks and constraint-based programming to train AI skills for robots. These skills are directly deployable on all major commercially available robot brands. These skills allow these robots to fail less, perform complex tasks, and program easily. | $32M / Series A / Feb 10, 2026 | |
Prezent AI
|
Prezent is an enterprise business storytelling platform for business communication, empowering busy professionals with an AI-driven platform to effortlessly create compelling presentations and narratives. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth enterprises, Prezent combines cutting-edge technology with human-centered design withindustry-specific AI models to revolutionize storytelling in the workplace. | $30M / Series B / Oct 10, 2025 | |
BQP
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At BQP, we’re developing a quantum-accelerated digital twin platform for mission-critical applications. The platform, BQPhy, is a back-end engine that integrates seamlessly into existing engineering workflows and operates on today’s infrastructure without requiring quantum hardware. BQPhy helps teams solve large-scale, complex challenges inengineering optimization, data-driven modeling (ML), and physics-based (CFD) simulations. We are bridging the gap between current high-performance computers and future quantum systems with probabilistic algorithms from quantum information science, unlocking simulation capabilities that were previously impractical or impossible. BQPhy reduces time, accuracy, and throughput inefficiencies, thereby accelerating development cycles, unlocking previously unexplored design spaces, lowering costs, and enhancing product outcomes. | $4.9M / Seed / Jul 17, 2025 | |
Lena Health
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Text-based Health Assistant for patients. With Lena, clinics can offer callers the option to skip the long call queues and schedule their appointment via SMS-text live chat. Value-based care organizations and payers can offer members a text-based assistant that can take care of health tasks such as scheduling appointments and coordinating theircare. | $2M / Seed / Apr 22, 2025 | |
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Nexthop AI
|
Nexthop AI develops AI infrastructure and custom networking solutions for large cloud operators, focusing on enhancing operational efficiency and connectivity within complex network environments. The company offers a range of services, including network automation, data management, and analytics, enabling clients to optimize their networkperformance and streamline their operations. Through its innovative solutions, Nexthop AI addresses the challenges faced by cloud operators, providing tools that facilitate seamless integration and scalability in dynamic computing environments. Additionally, Nexthop AI emphasizes compatibility with open-source network operating systems, allowing clients to leverage existing technologies while implementing advanced networking strategies. | $110M / Series A / Mar 25, 2025 | |
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Prezent AI
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Prezent is an enterprise business storytelling platform for business communication, empowering busy professionals with an AI-driven platform to effortlessly create compelling presentations and narratives. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth enterprises, Prezent combines cutting-edge technology with human-centered design withindustry-specific AI models to revolutionize storytelling in the workplace. | Mar 19, 2025 | |
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FAQ
What does Emergent Ventures invest in?
Emergent Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 95 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 Emergent Ventures's check size?
Emergent Ventures typically joins rounds of $1M–$6M at Seed, $900k–$5.2M at Pre-Seed and $6.8M–$26M 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 Emergent Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Emergent Ventures?
The team at Emergent Ventures includes Ankur Jain (Founder & Partner), Anupam Rastogi (Managing Partner) and Indra Singhal (Operating Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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