Vine Ventures
www.vineventures.comEarly-stage seed investing across multiple geographies (NYC, Tel Aviv, San Francisco, LatAm) with particular strength in FinTech, SaaS, Marketplaces, AI/Infrastructure, Healthcare, and Defense. They claim to be one of the largest seed-focused firms in NYC with differentiated footprints across three continents.
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Vine Ventures partners with high-integrity, problem-obsessed, wildly interesting founders at the early stage, operating as long-term investors who back founders at inception and continue investing until IPO. Their single mandate is to help fledgling companies navigate the challenges of building generational businesses. They position themselves as ‘peers, not parents’ with deep operator networks that can fundamentally impact company trajectory. The firm emphasizes developing mutual trust through deep understanding of founders’ problem spaces, personal relationships based on stage-of-life similarity, and access to a strategic network of C-level operators.
What Sets Them Apart
- Global geographic presence across NYC, SF, Tel Aviv, and LatAm - rare for early-stage funds
- Full-stack investor model - partners source deals, run diligence, sit on boards, and actively introduce customers/hires rather than fragmenting responsibilities
- Hands-on operational support: recruiting, sales strategy, governance, and fundraising assistance post-investment
- Founders-for-founders ethos - team understands founder mentality and built firm from ground-up rather than inheriting portfolio or investors
- High graduation rates from Seed to Series A/B - 'one of the highest graduation rates in the industry'
- Deep domain expertise across key verticals with operator networks from companies like Okta, Elastic, OpenAI, Wix, Priceline
- Early conviction in emerging technologies - invested in CodiumAI pre-GenAI ubiquity, strong track record with prior exits (Carta, Ro, Dutchie, Front, Unqork)
Portfolio Highlights
Baton
Saas
Carta
Fintech
Cayena
Marketplace
Codified
Infrastructure
Qodo (fka CodiumAI)
Infrastructure
Compete
Saas
Dutchie
Fintech
Ennabl
Saas
+ 30 more companies in their portfolio
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