# Emergent Ventures

> Emergent Ventures is a VC fund in Sandy Hook backing Software, E-Commerce and Machine Learning. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sandy Hook, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Oct 2020
- Lead investor: 63%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/68167780

Emergent Ventures is a VC fund in Sandy Hook focused on Software and E-Commerce. An investment fund focused on companies leveraging technology, data, analytics, & AI to unlock value.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | $65k–$400k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 25% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 25% |
| SMS | 1 | 13% |
| SaaS | 1 | 13% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Seed | 2 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tone | SaveMySales is an internet company that specializes in eCommerce, text message marketing, and customer service. It serves as a human SMS marketing solution that acquires subscribers, sends messages, and replies back to shoppers. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | $4M | Seed | Oct 06, 2020 | https://tonemessaging.com/ |
| LeaseToMe | LeaseToMe is an online marketplace for commercial real estate leasing. | $100K | Pre-Seed | Jul 22, 2020 | https://leasetome.com/ |
| Plentina | Plentina builds an alternative credit score and application that provides store credit financing to buy essentials like food and medicine in emerging markets using machine learning algortithms. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in | $400K | Pre-Seed | Jul 01, 2020 | https://www.plentina.com/ |
| Brahmin Solutions | Brahmin Solutions is a cloud-based inventory platform that is designed for retailers, wholesalers, and manufacturers. By having your business operations connected to one central platform, Brahmin Solutions provides your business a comprehensive view and complete control of your operations to grow efficiently and intelligently.Brahmin Solutionsintegrates with top sales channels such as Shopify, Magento, and Amazon as well as add-ons including Quickbooks, ShipStation, Shiptheory, Authorize.net, Stripe and more. To learn more, visit www.brahmin-solutions.com or reach out to our team at sales@brahmin-solutions.com or on Twitter at @BRAHMINSOL. | $150K | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2020 | https://www.brahmin-solutions.com |
| Plentina | Plentina builds an alternative credit score and application that provides store credit financing to buy essentials like food and medicine in emerging markets using machine learning algortithms. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in | $150K | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2020 | https://www.plentina.com/ |
| Actuate | Actuate employs computer vision to automatically identify guns in existing security camera feeds to notify police and provide early warning. Our solution dramatically reduces response times, and provides bystanders with the critical information needed to make life saving decisions. | $65K | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2018 | http://www.actuate.ai |
| Tulip | Tulip is a consumer platform that offers oral care products. |  | Seed | Oct 01, 2015 | https://www.tulipclean.com/ |
| ClassPass | ClassPass is a membership program for fitness classes across multiple gyms and studios, making working out more accessible. With over 25,000 studio, gym, and wellness partners across the globe, ClassPass connects members to a variety of classes and appointments including yoga, cycling, Pilates, boxing, massage, acupuncture, and more. It facilitatesthe discovery process, using machine learning to surface the most relevant recommendations to its members from a catalog of more than 5 million classes a month. In addition, ClassPass helps to lift the fitness industry daily, working directly with studio partners around the globe to merchandise their excess inventory, find new customers, and generate new streams of revenue. | $125K | Pre-Seed | Jul 01, 2011 | http://classpass.com/ |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [500 Startups Vietnam](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups-vietnam) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
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- [Bling Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bling-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Day One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/day-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [LaunchCapital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/launchcapital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Emergent Ventures invest in?

Emergent Ventures invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Machine Learning startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 8 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 $65k–$400k at Pre-Seed. 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.

### When did Emergent Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Emergent Ventures closed in Oct 2020. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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