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Essence VC
Venture capital
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Invests inAI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareCybersecurity
Your fit with Essence VC
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Or find every investor that fitsEssence VC lists 11 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 11 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 55% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (35%), Enterprise Software (15%) and Cybersecurity (15%). 82% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Alumni Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and Y Combinator.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Essence VC, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundEssence VC does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 55% |
| Series A | 46% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
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 | 1 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 4 | 0 |
| '25 | 4 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 27th | 11 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 55% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 64th | 35% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 35% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 15% | 8% |
| Cybersecurity | 15% | 4% |
| Space & Defense | 15% | 3% |
| Fintech | 10% | 12% |
| Legal & Compliance | 5% | 2% |
| Developer Tools | 5% | 0% |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers11100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- 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.
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Alumni Ventures | 3 |
| Redpoint Ventures | 3 |
| Y Combinator | 3 |
| Felicis | 2 |
| Mantis Venture Capital | 2 |
| Sequoia Capital | 2 |
| 1984 Ventures | 1 |
| 8VC | 1 |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Essence VC 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 Essence VC| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 10 Jun 2026 | Seed | |
| 18 Nov 2025 | Series A | |
| 21 Oct 2025 | Series A | |
| 2 Sept 2025 | Series A | |
| 31 Jul 2025 | Seed | |
| 17 Dec 2024 | Series A | |
| 1 Sept 2024 | Seed |
Round details for Essence VC
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Essence VC's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
11 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cline provides an AI coding agent that can be used in various environments, including desktop, cloud, and terminal, to assist with coding tasks. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Jul 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Coana provides open source vulnerability scanning services to identify and remediate reachable vulnerabilities in software development lifecycles. | CybersecuritySpace & Defense | Jan 2024Seed | Funding round | |
| Fearn handles everything a company's patents need, including dedicated legal experts, filings at fixed prices, and a platform to track it all | Legal & Compliance | Jun 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Kite provides autonomous agents with verifiable trust and a purpose-built chain to transact, coordinate, and operate at scale. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Infracost helps companies manage and optimize their cloud costs by integrating FinOps policies and best practices into their workflows. | FintechSpace & Defense | Nov 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Keycard provides runtime authentication for agents, giving each agent its own identity, authority to act, and access to resources under a defined policy. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Letta is an AI research lab building machines that learn | AI & Machine Learning | Sept 2024Seed | Funding round | |
| Nuon provides continuous delivery of software into customers' clouds | Space & DefenseCybersecurity | Dec 2024Series A | Funding round | |
| Phonic develops speech-to-speech models for customer support and other applications | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Oct 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Restate develops and provides a durable runtime for building agents, workflows, and microservices | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2024Seed | Funding round | |
| Signadot provides ephemeral environments to verify AI-generated code | AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools | Feb 2022Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- essencevc.fund
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 23 Feb 2022
- Companies checked
- 11
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