SK Ventures
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
SK Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. A seed stage firm that focuses on investing in science-driven startups.
- Total investments:
- 71
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 1%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries SK Ventures invests in
Stages SK Ventures invests in
Countries SK Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $700k–$4.4M
- Pre-Seed
- $500k–$5M
- Series A
- $4.5M–$15M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 24 (34%)
- Artificial Intelligence 10 (14%)
- Analytics 8 (11%)
- Information Technology 8 (11%)
- Robotics 7 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 37 (52%)
- Series A 16 (23%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (6%)
- Series B 4 (6%)
- Series C 3 (4%)
Country
- United States 47 (66%)
- Canada 6 (8%)
- Israel 1 (1%)
- South Korea 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Eric Norlin
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Paul Kedrosky
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 6 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| KamiwazaAI offers scalable AI solutions for cloud, core, and edge environments. | $2.5M / Pre-Seed / Jan 09, 2025 | ||
| Velou brings product catalogs to life with AI-powered data enrichment, enabling retailers, brands and marketplaces to create intelligent catalogs that transform customer interactions. Seamlessly integrating with ecommerce and marketing technologies, Velou’s solution enhances acquisition, personalization, conversion, and retention by optimizing thedata that drives performance. In retail, success isn’t just about the technology—it’s about the quality of the data behind it. Velou’s AI-enriched product data acts as a force multiplier, ultimately fostering stronger brand loyalty and driving business growth. Our retail-specific models automate product merchandising, continuously learn and optimize catalogs, and ensure product attributes, descriptions, and metadata are accurate, comprehensive, and primed for performance marketing. | $4M / Seed / Jan 11, 2024 | ||
| Manifold is a software company that provides machine learning tools designed to help organizations analyze operational data and support decision making in industrial and energy environments. The platform processes time-series data from sensors, equipment, and control systems to identify patterns, detect anomalies, and generate forecasts related tosystem performance and reliability. Manifold enables users to build, deploy, and monitor predictive models without extensive manual coding, allowing data science workflows to integrate with existing operational systems. The software supports use cases such as asset monitoring, predictive maintenance, and optimization of complex processes through data analysis. Manifold focuses on translating raw operational data into structured insights that support planning and operational oversight. | $15M / Series A / Nov 14, 2023 | ||
| Antenna provides best-in-class market intelligence to direct-to-consumer subscription businesses. Antenna is a data and analytics startup that aims to expand knowledge of subscriber behavior so brands can entertain, inspire, and empower the world. It provides industry and competitive benchmarks across key metrics so their customers can know ‘whatgood looks like’, market intelligence so they can learn how to build a best-in-class business, and insights to inform their strategic decision-making. | $10M / Series A / Feb 01, 2022 | ||
| B2B SaaS providing market and competitive intelligence. Helps sales, and the teams that enable them, leverage competitive intelligence to win more business. It was founded in 2015 by Jason Smith and Sarathy Naicker and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. | $62M / Series B / Dec 01, 2021 | ||
| XMTP is an open, crypto-native communication protocol that connects communities, applications, and users. It was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas. | $20M / Series A / Aug 31, 2021 | ||
| Amperon is a provider of smart meters to deliver real-time energy data forecasts. There over 70M smart meters currently installed in the country, collecting 15 minute resolution electricity data for every type of ratepayer (including residential, commercial, and industrial). The data has been relatively untapped for the past decade, and Amperon isleveraging it to charge forward and bring AI to the energy world to usher in the smart grid of the future. | $2M / Seed / Apr 13, 2020 | ||
| SkyWatch provides a digital infrastructure for the distribution of Earth observation data and derived intelligence. It provides developers with the tools they need to cost-effectively add Earth observation data into their applications and workflows. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario. | $7.5M / Series A / Jan 03, 2020 | ||
| Vouched develops patent-pending AI (CV/ML) to visually verify identity and onboard users in seconds. Vouched works with companies in regulated and sensitive industries including healthcare, real estate, gig and sharing, retail, operations and logistics, and financial services and banking, among others. Vouched has identified hundreds ofthousands of people from around the world. It is proficient in hundreds of ID types, including all IDs in the U.S., Canada, Vietnam, and Great Britain, as well as passports for 30+ countries. | $4.4M / Seed / Aug 08, 2019 | ||
| Building technology that gives the DFS, fantasy, and betting communities an outsized advantage. Leveling the playing field for the everyday bettor and player with free tools, and a robust community focused on sports betting, fantasy and DFS. | Series A / Aug 02, 2019 | ||
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FAQ
What does SK Ventures invest in?
SK Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 71 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 SK Ventures's check size?
SK Ventures typically joins rounds of $700k–$4.4M at Seed, $500k–$5M at Pre-Seed and $4.5M–$15M 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 SK Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at SK Ventures?
The team at SK Ventures includes Eric Norlin (General Partner) and Paul Kedrosky (Managing 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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