Investors / United States / Cervin
Cervin
Venture capital · Palo Alto, CA, United States · North America
Cervin is a venture firm that partners with founders building enterprise technology companies. It provides guidance on product and market strategy, operations, and customer development, and connects portfolio companies to its network of domain experts and advisors.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsenterpriseenterprise softwaredata infrastructureaicloudnetworking
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Or find every investor that fitsCervin lists 72 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 14 funding rounds, 4 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 25% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (34%), Cybersecurity (15%) and Enterprise Software (11%). 88% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Pelion Venture Partners and Battery Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Cervin, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Cervin's whole history. Rounds on record name 14 companies; its own site lists 72. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundCervin does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 8% |
| Seed | 25% |
| Series A | 25% |
| Series B | 25% |
| Growth | 17% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 1 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 4 | 3 |
| '26 | 9 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 91th | 72 companies |
| Recent activity | 94th | 9 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 64th | 33% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 83th | 13% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 63th | 34% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 34% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 15% | 4% |
| Enterprise Software | 11% | 8% |
| Fintech | 9% | 12% |
| Space & Defense | 6% | 3% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 4% | 15% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 4% | 6% |
| Media & Entertainment | 3% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 13 |
| Pelion Venture Partners | 5 |
| Battery Ventures | 4 |
| Cisco Investments | 4 |
| Sapphire Ventures | 4 |
| Accel | 3 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 3 |
| Bessemer Venture Partners | 3 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers6996%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company34%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Cervin head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Cervin| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Sept 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 7 Aug 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 8 Jul 2026 | Series B | |
| 24 Jun 2026 | Series B | |
| 14 Apr 2026 | Series B | |
| 31 Mar 2026 | Seed | |
| 12 Mar 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 3 Mar 2026 | Series C+ |
Round details for Cervin
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Cervin's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
72 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AiFi provides a spatial intelligence platform for retail, venues, and travel industries | AI & Machine LearningReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
 Janrainakamai.com | Portfolio page | |||
| Akridata provides AI-powered visual inspection systems for defect detection and quality control | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
Human ResourcesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | |||
| Anvilogic runs AI automation across every SOC workload: onboard, search, detect, and investigate on top of the data and tools you already have. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| ArmorCode develops and provides a platform for unified exposure management using artificial intelligence | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Mar 2026Series C+ | Page + round | |
| ArmorText provides secure out of band communications solutions for critical roles and operations | CybersecurityEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Aviatrix provides cloud network security and breach containment solutions | CybersecurityEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Bedrock Analytics harmonizes data sources and turns them into answers, presentations, recommendations, alerts, and custom apps for the CPG industry | AI & Machine LearningConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Arkestro provides a predictive procurement platform for enterprises to manage procurement, sourcing, and supply chain challenges. | Enterprise SoftwareE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Blink Technologies develops and provides eye tracking software and technology to improve human interaction with digital platforms | AI & Machine LearningConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Blue River Technology creates intelligent machinery that solves challenges for customers, including a solution that uses computer vision and machine learning to distinguish crops from weeds. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Bright Pattern delivers advanced call center software and enterprise-grade call center solutions designed to power modern customer engagement. | EducationHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Brinker helps governments, NGOs, and major enterprises fight influence campaigns and disinformation through its OSINT platform and narrative intelligence solutions | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
Legal & Compliance | Jul 2025Round | Funding round | ||
| Causely provides causal intelligence for AI agents to diagnose and resolve incidents in systems. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Celona provides wireless networking solutions for enterprises | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Claritics provides customer experience and engagement solutions using AI-powered chat agents, voice agents, and other tools. | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| ClientSuccess provides a customer success platform to reduce churn and increase customer revenue. | Space & DefenseSpace & Defense | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 11 Nov 2026- Site
- cervinventures.com
- Last read
- 11 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 8 Aug 2023
- Companies checked
- 72
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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