# Seth Berman

> Seth Berman is a seed investor at Susa Ventures backing Software and Machine Learning. See 45 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Susa Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/susa-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 45
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/seth-berman/1/649/31a
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/sethgb
- Website: http://www.susaventures.com

Seth Berman is a seed investor at Susa Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Machine Learning. Seth Berman is the Co-Founder and General Partner at Susa Ventures, where he focuses on investments in frontier tech, logistics, marketplaces & consumer. Seth led Susa’s investments in Flexport, Pericope Data and Expanse. Prior to Susa, Seth was an active angel investor. He has invested in 100+ seed stage companies in total, and his portfolioincludes Nest, Optimizely, Wish, Omio and Docker. He also served as the VP of Strategic Marketing for The Richemont Group, a publicly traded company (CFR:VX) which owns brands and e-commerce sites Cartier, Net-A-Porter.com, Mr. Porter, Montblanc, and Chloe. Seth graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with a bachelor’s degrees in Business and Finance."

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.9M–$5M |
| Series A | $5M–$22M |
| Series B | $14M–$65M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 20% |
| Machine Learning | 6 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 11% |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 9% |
| Mobile | 3 | 7% |

83 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 38% |
| Series A | 11 | 24% |
| Series B | 4 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 9% |
| Series D | 3 | 7% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 24 | 53% |
| India | 1 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HOPPR | HOPPR offers a secure platform delivering data, foundation models, and tools for you to fine-tune and accelerate your app development with higher accuracy and better performance. | $31.5M | Series A | Jun 17, 2025 |  |
| Pulley | Pulley is the first dedicated platform for construction permitting. Our purpose-built workflows, localized requirements and embedded expertise help developers, contractors, and architects get permits faster, removing a costly bottleneck to construction. Across dozens of markets, leading builders trust Pulley to permit everything from single-familyhomes to complex commercial projects. | $4.4M | Seed | Jun 02, 2022 |  |
| Pulley | Pulley is the first dedicated platform for construction permitting. Our purpose-built workflows, localized requirements and embedded expertise help developers, contractors, and architects get permits faster, removing a costly bottleneck to construction. Across dozens of markets, leading builders trust Pulley to permit everything from single-familyhomes to complex commercial projects. | $4.4M | Seed | Jun 02, 2022 |  |
| Viz | Viz helps physicians to identify anomalies in brain scans through machine learning. The company leverages advanced deep learning to communicate time-sensitive information about stroke patients straight to a specialist who can intervene and treat them. It uses deep learning algorithms to identify a suspected large vessel occlusion, a particularlydisabling type of stroke, in a CT scan and alerts the stroke team specialist within minutes.Viz has developed deep learning algorithms to analyze brain scans for large vessel occlusions (LVOs), a disabling type of stroke. The company also allows the stroke center’s clinicians to rapidly share images back and forth. Viz's mission is to fundamentally improve how healthcare is delivered in the world, through intelligent software that promises to reduce the time to treatment and improve access to care.Viz was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $100M | Series D | Apr 07, 2022 |  |
| Human Interest | Human Interest is a 401(k) provider that makes it easy for small and medium-sized businesses to help their employees save for retirement.The company built an end-to-end technology to solve administrative and compliance problems for small and medium-sized businesses. It also offers easy and affordable employee retirement plans and helped thousandsof businesses across America to offer retirement accounts to their employees.In 2015, the San Francisco, California-headquartered company was formed by Paul Sawaya and Roger Lee. | $200M | Series D | Aug 04, 2021 |  |
| Okra | Digitizing financial services for Africa. | $3.5M | Seed | Apr 21, 2021 |  |
| CrowdAI | CrowdAI enables anyone to create high quality, custom machine learning models to analyze imagery and video—no data science background or coding required. Our full-stack solution to machine learning provides all the tools necessary to go from raw pixels to structured data and insights relevant to your specific needs. CrowdAI’s platform streamlinesthe process of creating and deploying machine learning models, making it approachable and intuitive to anyone in the enterprise. The models created on our platform aren’t just for reports and charts: by putting them into a production environment, you can use real-time data to make real operational decisions. | $6.3M | Series A | Apr 08, 2021 |  |
| Viz | Viz helps physicians to identify anomalies in brain scans through machine learning. The company leverages advanced deep learning to communicate time-sensitive information about stroke patients straight to a specialist who can intervene and treat them. It uses deep learning algorithms to identify a suspected large vessel occlusion, a particularlydisabling type of stroke, in a CT scan and alerts the stroke team specialist within minutes.Viz has developed deep learning algorithms to analyze brain scans for large vessel occlusions (LVOs), a disabling type of stroke. The company also allows the stroke center’s clinicians to rapidly share images back and forth. Viz's mission is to fundamentally improve how healthcare is delivered in the world, through intelligent software that promises to reduce the time to treatment and improve access to care.Viz was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $71M | Series C | Mar 17, 2021 |  |
| MycoWorks | MycoWorks is engaged in the creation of sustainable design solutions with advanced biomaterials. The company’s proprietary custom-engineered material is sustainable, versatile, and animal-free, and feels and performs like leather. Their first product, Reishi, and the proprietary platform to make it, Fine Mycelium, are a groundbreaking approach tobiomaterials that delivers unparalleled versatility and unmatched performance in strength, durability, and hand feel. The perfect intersection of art and science, Reishi is the only natural material that performs like cowhide leather and is engineered to meet the highest quality standards.MycoWorks was founded by Sophia Wang and Philip Ross in 2013 and is based in Emeryville, California. | $17M | Series A | Feb 25, 2020 |  |
| Tortuga AgTech | Tortuga AgTech empowers growers by using robots that perform a variety of labor-intensive tasks on the farm, with an emphasis on the harvest. Tortuga AgTech's mission is to build a healthier society, and a thriving ecosystem, through smarter farming. To do this, they want to enable growers to sell better produce - unique, tasty, nutritiousfood.They're doing this by building Digital Horticulture systems, made up of powerful technology like robotics, automation, and precision data analytics and machine learning. These systems will enable advanced growing methods to compete with scale agriculture, which means growers will be able to grow better produce that's also better for the planet.The automation of picking, packing, and trimming will reduce significantly the manual labor hours needed to grow to produce. It will also increase yields through denser layouts and optimized grow conditions. And, they'll help create full-time local technical jobs as well. And they do all of that while providing fresher, healthier, and more sustainable products to the humans living near their grower customers' operations. | $5M |  | May 03, 2019 |  |

10 of 45 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [AME Cloud Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ame-cloud-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bloomberg Beta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bloomberg-beta) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [BoxGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxgroup) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Felicis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/felicis-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Susa Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Susa Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed rounds, backing companies at their earliest stages and beyond.

5 contacts available at Susa Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chad Byers | Co-founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chad-byers |
| Courtney Lipkin | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/courtney-lipkin |
| Derick En'Wezoh, MD | Healthcare and Tech Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/derick-en-wezoh |
| Hammad Aslam | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hammad-aslam |
| Kenny Joo | Head of Finance | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kenny-joo |

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## FAQ

### What does Seth Berman invest in?

Seth Berman invests primarily in Software, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 45 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 Seth Berman's check size?

Seth Berman typically joins rounds of $1.9M–$5M at Seed, $5M–$22M at Series A and $14M–$65M 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 Seth Berman participates in.

### When did Seth Berman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Seth Berman closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 45 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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