Preface Ventures
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Preface Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Health Care. At day zero, we partner with teams who build the Frontier Enterprise that improves our work. We invest meaningful capital ($500k-$1M) in pre/seed rounds.
- Total investments:
- 63
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 22%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Preface Ventures invests in
Stages Preface Ventures invests in
Countries Preface Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
1 more contact available
Round size
- Seed
- $2.1M–$8M
- Pre-Seed
- $2.1M–$4M
- Series A
- $3.5M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 13 (21%)
- Health Care 10 (16%)
- Artificial Intelligence 10 (16%)
- SaaS 6 (10%)
- Information Technology 6 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 32 (51%)
- Pre-Seed 10 (16%)
- Series A 7 (11%)
Country
- United States 26 (41%)
- Brazil 3 (5%)
- Canada 3 (5%)
- Argentina 2 (3%)
- United Kingdom 2 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Luke Cooper
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Ahmad Muhaisen
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Curtis Ropp
Limited Partner
|
Limited Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Farooq Abbasi
Founder and General Partner
|
Founder and General Partner | Total investments: 28 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
heytruffle
|
heytruffle is a hospitality technology company that provides a fully managed AI Concierge for multilocation restaurant groups globally. The service handles a restaurant's inbound calls, including reservations, takeout and delivery orders, catering requests, and large party bookings, while a dedicated human team monitors and tunes each AI hostevery week. Bilingual in English and Spanish by design, and in any language required. heytruffle is service, not software: instead of another dashboard to manage, it takes ownership of the phone layer end to end so restaurant teams can stay focused on the guests in front of them. | Seed / Jul 29, 2026 | |
Clario
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Clario is the first platform designed to remove enterprise data ROT, or redundant, out-of-date, and insignificant files that covertly impair AI performance, drive up expenses, and remain in systems as undetected liabilities. | $6M / Seed / Jun 17, 2026 | |
Benji
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Benji is a modern API for loyalty programs. It helps businesses enhance conversion rates and profitability by providing clients with a new way to pay using rewards points. | $6.3M / Seed / May 19, 2026 | |
ContextQA
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Low-code, No-code: Test Automation PlatformFeatures: AI-Driven Web UI Test Automation No Coding!! Auto Generate Test Cases Auto Heal Test Cases Visual Regression Root-cause AnalysisTest Results with Context: • Advance Options Recording of Test Execution Network Trace Console Logs Network Errors Impact AnalysisSingle Platform - MultipleTestings: • Rest API Functional Testing API Testing Accessibility Testing Security Testing Web Performance Testing Cross-Browsers Testing Cross-Devices TestingIntegration with All Major Platforms JIRA Native App: • ContextQA | JIRA ... Azure DevOps Integration CI/CD Pipeline Integration Webhook Integration | $6.2M / Seed / Apr 26, 2026 | |
BackChannel
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BackChannel is an online B2B platform for inventory transactions and for buying and selling online goods. | $4.7M / Seed / Nov 19, 2025 | |
Feroot Security
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All-in-One Client-Side Risk Management Platform Feroot is the first way to manage and automate everything you need to protect your data assets on the client-side of your web applications and websites – from credit card data to login credentials, ePHI, and more. All in one, online platform. | $14M / Series A / Nov 18, 2025 | |
Velocity
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Velocity provides a unified platform for efficiently moving and managing funds across both traditional banks and blockchains. | $10M / Pre-Seed / May 28, 2025 | |
Barndoor AI
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Barndoor AI offers a centralized governance layer to manage granular access, policy enforcement, and visibility across agentic AI workforce. | $13.6M / Seed / May 19, 2025 | |
Mutuus
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Mutuus is the first digital healthcare membership in Mexico, offering comprehensive end-to-end healthcare services through a user-friendly platform that includes free services, discounts, and full coverage to safeguard the health and wealth of our members. | $3.2M / Seed / Mar 20, 2025 | |
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Benji
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Benji is a modern API for loyalty programs. It helps businesses enhance conversion rates and profitability by providing clients with a new way to pay using rewards points. | Pre-Seed / Feb 27, 2025 | |
| See all 63 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
Hyde Park Venture Partners
5 deals together
Actions Capital (fka K50 Ventures)
5 deals together
Norte Ventures
5 deals together
Quiet Capital
4 deals together
RRE Ventures
4 deals together
SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)
4 deals together
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FAQ
What does Preface Ventures invest in?
Preface Ventures invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 63 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 Preface Ventures's check size?
Preface Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.1M–$8M at Seed, $2.1M–$4M at Pre-Seed and $3.5M–$20M 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 Preface Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Preface Ventures?
The team at Preface Ventures includes Luke Cooper (Venture Partner), Ahmad Muhaisen (Venture Partner) and Curtis Ropp (Limited Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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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