Root Ventures
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Root Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technical teams working on deep tech. The firm specializes in the fields of financial services, venture capital, and investments. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Total investments:
- 109
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Root Ventures invests in
Stages Root Ventures invests in
Countries Root Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 6 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.6M–$8M
- Series A
- $7.5M–$21M
- Series B
- $20M–$45M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 20 (18%)
- Artificial Intelligence 11 (10%)
- Machine Learning 7 (6%)
- Robotics 6 (6%)
- Internet of Things 6 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 38 (35%)
- Series A 26 (24%)
- Series B 11 (10%)
- Funding Round 7 (6%)
- Series C 4 (4%)
Country
- United States 44 (40%)
- Canada 2 (2%)
- Denmark 1 (1%)
- Australia 1 (1%)
- Nicaragua 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Lee Edwards
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Avidan Ross
Founder & Partner
|
Founder & Partner | Total investments: 20 | Find email | |
Chrissy Meyer
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Emily Henriksson
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Kane Hsieh
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Volund Manufacturing is a precision manufacturing company specializing in CNC machining, fabrication, and engineered metal components. | $12M / Seed / Jun 10, 2026 | ||
| Illoca is building a platform that leverages generative AI to accelerate commercial architecture workflows. | $13M / Seed / May 06, 2026 | ||
| Instrumental is building software that enables assembly lines to autonomously operate, learn, and adapt parts and processes - saving billions of dollars in scrap and rework costs.Their customers use Instrumental to find and fix issues on their assembly lines, preventing development schedule slips and beginning production at higher yields. Theirequipment and data service is deployed on multiple global assembly lines at top-tier manufacturers.Instrumental was founded by Anna-Katrina Shedletsky and Samuel Weiss, two former Apple engineers who, after spending hundreds of days in China on manufacturing lines, set out to revolutionize the manufacturing space. They are assembling a diverse team who sees inefficiencies as opportunities and want to develop a system that changes the manufacturing world for the better. | Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 09, 2026 | ||
| The goal of Zed Industries, a small but dedicated team, is to create the finest text editor possible.Not our first director, Zed. It represents the result of more than ten years of expertise in creating tools for developers. We developed the hackable text editor Atom and the ground-breaking software framework Electron, which gave rise to acompletely new class of desktop applications. The most well-known editors in the world use Tree-sitter, a sophisticated syntax parsing system that we also created. It is ingrained in our DNA to create useful instruments. | $32.4M / Series B / Aug 20, 2025 | ||
| Allspice is a collaboration platform for hardware developers, inspired by software principles. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. | $15M / Series A / Jun 23, 2025 | ||
| Latent Technology builds the next-generation animation technology for virtual worlds. | $8M / Seed / Jun 05, 2025 | ||
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Integrated Biosciences
|
Integrated Biosciences is the first company in history to be able to virtually stress cells. | $17.2M / Seed / Oct 03, 2024 | |
| Trieve provides search teams with infrastructure for retrieval and RAG. | $3.5M / Seed / Sep 11, 2024 | ||
| CRUXOCM enables the autonomous control room of tomorrow, operating within the safety constraints of today. RIPA (Robotic Industrial Process Automation) for control room operators of major energy assets. | $17M / Series A / Aug 14, 2024 | ||
| Using open-source tools, vulnerability databases and large language models, Nullify gives developers actionable findings and fixes for security issues it finds in their workflows. | $3.4M / Seed / Mar 07, 2024 | ||
| See all 109 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Root Ventures invest in?
Root Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 109 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 Root Ventures's check size?
Root Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$8M at Seed, $7.5M–$21M at Series A and $20M–$45M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Root Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Root Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Root Ventures?
The team at Root Ventures includes Lee Edwards (General Partner), Avidan Ross (Founder & Partner) and Chrissy Meyer (General Partner), among 6 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 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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