Insik Rhee
Founder and General Partner @ Vertex Ventures US
Palo Alto, United States
Insik Rhee is a Series B investor at Vertex Ventures US in Palo Alto focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Insik Rhee is based out of Los Altos, California and is the Founder and General Partner of Vertex Ventures US. Insik previously worked at Evisort as a Board Member. Insik Rhee attended the University of California, Berkeley.
- Total investments:
- 22
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 45%
Last updated:
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Industries Insik Rhee invests in
Stages Insik Rhee invests in
Countries Insik Rhee invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 8 (36%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (23%)
- SaaS 4 (18%)
- Cloud Data Services 3 (14%)
- Information Technology 3 (14%)
Stage
- Series B 6 (27%)
- Seed 5 (23%)
- Series A 4 (18%)
- Series C 3 (14%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 14 (64%)
- Switzerland 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Solving the data context problem | $4M / Pre-Seed / Apr 22, 2025 | ||
| Trustero provides solutions and services that enable demonstrable, sustainable trustworthiness for emerging enterprises. The Trustero Compliance as a Service (CaaS) offers, establishes, and manages regulatory compliance by undertaking vulnerability assessments, security risk analyses, and other measures to ensure all business processes and systemsremain in full compliance. Artificial intelligence (AI) and other modern technologies means their clients have the visibility needed to gain actionable insights into their compliance across the extended enterprise. | $10.4M / Series A / Nov 21, 2024 | ||
| Clearpol is an operating system for regulatory compliance and risk management for the healthcare industry. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Los Angeles, California. | $3.3M / Seed / Jun 08, 2024 | ||
| Steward leaders and creators of CNCF wasmCloud. Cosmonic is building the distributed application platform for the enterprise. | $8.5M / Seed / Oct 25, 2022 | ||
| Ambi Robotics is an artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics company developing advanced solutions that scale e-commerce operations to meet demand while empowering humans to work smarter. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Berkeley, California, United States. | $32M / Convertible Note / Oct 14, 2022 | ||
| Experify is a SaaS solution to drive conversions for ecommerce brands, by connecting undecided shoppers with already existing customers. | $4M / Seed / Apr 19, 2022 | ||
| Trustero provides solutions and services that enable demonstrable, sustainable trustworthiness for emerging enterprises. The Trustero Compliance as a Service (CaaS) offers, establishes, and manages regulatory compliance by undertaking vulnerability assessments, security risk analyses, and other measures to ensure all business processes and systemsremain in full compliance. Artificial intelligence (AI) and other modern technologies means their clients have the visibility needed to gain actionable insights into their compliance across the extended enterprise. | $8M / Seed / Mar 22, 2022 | ||
| Cyberhaven is the data security company revolutionizing how companies protect their important information from theft and misuse.Security products only recognized and protected a limited range of data types because they relied on finding patterns in the content itself. Data tracing technology analyzes billions of events surrounding every piece ofdata to better understand and classify it, allowing for the protection of a broader range of sensitive data in any form, anywhere it goes. | $33M / Series B / Dec 14, 2021 | ||
| Testlio helps businesses deliver amazing customer experiences by providing a community of highly vetted testers and an end-to-end QA management platform. They assemble your dedicated QA dream team from their vetted, experienced, and passionate tester community. Their platform seamlessly integrates into the tools that you already use andconnects you with the team giving you a high degree of visibility. They work around the clock and around the world, on any platform, so you hit every deadline and launch better products, faster.Their customers include Microsoft, Lyft, Salesforce, CBS Interactive, Flipboard, Strava. Learn more at testlio.com | $12M / Series B / Oct 26, 2021 | ||
| Upsolver lets you build continuous pipelines for your cloud data lake using SQL and pipeline automation. No custom coding. No orchestration. No infrastructure maintenance. | $25M / Series B / Apr 06, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Vertex Ventures US
Vertex US is taking a unique approach to early-stage investments by investing early and often first. The firm intentionally makes a select number of investments each year to be true partners to startups from Day One to 100 and beyond.
Vertex Ventures US Contacts
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Domenic Perri
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Insik Rhee
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Jonathan Heiliger
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Megan Reynolds
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Noah Carr
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What does Insik Rhee invest in?
Insik Rhee invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Insik Rhee closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 22 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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