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Essence VC — Portfolio

Investor actively backing innovative startups and growth-stage companies across various industries and funding rounds.

51
Companies
$463.2M
Total invested
$9.7M
Avg. check
38
Industries
Software 16Artificial Intelligence (AI) 15Machine Learning 5Information Technology 5Enterprise Software 4SaaS 3+32 more
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Letta
September 2024

Letta is an AI company that enhances agent-based systems through advanced memory management.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) · San Francisco$10.0M Seed
Orgspace
September 2021

Orgspace provides a people management platform for software organizations to meet the needs of operational leaders.

Consulting · Brooklyn$2.5M Pre-Seed
Elotl
August 2025

Elotl is a cloud infrastructure software company that simplifies and automates Kubernetes and cloud computing workload management.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) · San FranciscoVenture - Series Unknown
Continual
June 2022

Continual is a next-generation AI platform for the modern data stack powered by end-to-end automation and a declarative workflow.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) · San Francisco$14.5M Series A
Fearn
June 2026

Fearn is an AI-native patent drafting platform that lets inventors and companies prepare patent applications in minutes.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) · San Francisco$5.5M Seed
Clarify
June 2025

Clarify offers a CRM that assists in managing sales processes.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) · Seattle$15.0M Series A
Restate
June 2024

Restate build workflows, event-driven applications, and distributed services in a fault-tolerant manner with durable async/await.

Enterprise Software · Berlin$7.0M Seed
LaunchNotes
May 2022

The Product Success Platform. Advancing and accelerating the product teams of today, so they can build the great technologies of tomorrow.

Collaboration · Walnut$15.0M Series A
HumanSignal
May 2022

HumanSignal provides human data services and infrastructure to evaluate, train, and fine-tune AI.

AI Infrastructure · San Francisco$25.0M Series A
Comfy
April 2026

Comfy is a modular interface that allows users to design and execute advanced stable diffusion pipelines through a graph-based interface.

Developer Tools · San Francisco$30.0M Series B
Unkey
April 2026

Unkey is an open-source API management platform, assisting in the creation, verification, and management of API keys.

Information Technology · Clayton$4.5M Seed
Devron
March 2022

Devron is a developer of a data science and machine learning product platform enabling insight from distributed data sets.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) · New York$13.8M Venture - Series Unknown
Graft
March 2023

Our Modern AI platform enables anyone to build production-ready AI apps in a few clicks.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) · San Francisco$10.0M Seed
Sentio
February 2023

Sentio is a provider of an observability platform for decentralised applications.

Blockchain · Seattle$6.4M Seed
OpenInfer
February 2025

OpenInfer develops an AI based agent engine that enables smart devices to execute automated tasks and manage interactions efficiently.

Agentic AI · San Mateo$8.0M Seed
Cline
July 2025

Cline is a developer of an open‑source AI coding agent that automates software creation tasks within integrated development environments.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) · San Francisco$27.0M Series A
Datafold
May 2025

Datafold automates proactive management of analytical data quality

Analytics · San Francisco$4.0M Venture - Series Unknown
Yurts Technologies
December 2024

Yurts Technologies is a SaaS company that offers a platform to engage with data using GenAI powered search and chat functionalities.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) · San Francisco$40.0M Series B
Log10
April 2024

Self-improving LLM Applications: AI that optimizes LLM applications by tuning prompts and models

Artificial Intelligence (AI) · San Francisco$7.2M Seed
Coana (acquired by Socket)
January 2024

Coana uses advanced reachability analysis to scan for vulnerabilities in open source dependencies, cutting false positives by over 80%.

Enterprise Software · Aarhus$1.6M Pre-Seed
Superframe
August 2023

Superframe is an artificial intelligence-powered software company to assist organizations optimize go-to-market technology stacks.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) · San Francisco$5.0M Seed
Abbey Labs
August 2023

Abbey is a platform for security teams to automate and secure access to sensitive data

Cloud Computing · San Francisco$5.3M Seed
Augmend
July 2023

Collective intelligence for developers and devops (AI mindmeld with teams)

Apps · Seattle$2.2M Pre-Seed
Mixpeek
January 2023

Semantic and visual search, clustering, analysis and recommendation infrastructure across video, images and text in just 2 API calls

Artificial Intelligence (AI) · New York$650K Pre-Seed

Where Essence VC invests

Software16
Artificial Intelligence (AI)15
Machine Learning5
Information Technology5
Enterprise Software4
SaaS3

About Essence VC's portfolio

How many companies has Essence VC invested in?

Essence VC has invested in 51 companies tracked in our database. The portfolio spans multiple industries and funding stages, from seed-stage startups to late-stage companies.

What industries does Essence VC invest in?

Essence VC's top investment sectors include Software, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Information Technology, Enterprise Software. The firm invests across 38 different industry categories.

What is Essence VC's largest investment?

Among tracked funding rounds, Yurts Technologies received $40.0M in a Series B round. Essence VC's total known invested capital is $463.2M.

What is the average investment size for Essence VC?

Essence VC's average investment size is $9.7M across its portfolio of 51 companies.

What are Essence VC's most recent investments?

Recent Essence VC portfolio additions include Letta, Orgspace, Elotl, Continual, Fearn. These companies were founded in 2020 or later.

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