Investors / United States / Premise
Premise
Venture capital · San Francisco, CA, United States · North America
Premise is a venture firm that invests $500K–$3M at pre-seed and seed in technical founders. It is run by former founders and operators who work closely with portfolio companies on product, go-to-market, hiring and fundraising.
Invests inEnterprise SoftwareAI & Machine LearningFintech
In its own wordsaiagentsdeveloper toolsconsumerprosumerenterprise software
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Or find every investor that fitsPremise lists 16 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Enterprise Software (18%), AI & Machine Learning (18%) and Fintech (18%). 80% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside NEA, Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures.
No funding round on record names Premise yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not Premise's whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 16. 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise Software | 18% | 8% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 18% | 18% |
| Fintech | 18% | 12% |
| Consumer | 11% | 3% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 7% | 15% |
| Cybersecurity | 4% | 4% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 4% | 1% |
| Crypto & Web3 | 4% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| NEA | 6 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 4 |
| Index Ventures | 4 |
| Dragon Capital | 2 |
| Evolution VC Partners | 2 |
| Greylock | 2 |
| IVP | 2 |
| Transpose Platform | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 42th | 16 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 9th | 18% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers16100%
- 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.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Premise head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
16 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arcade provides a runtime layer that sits between AI agents and the external systems they access, letting teams enforce, execute, and govern agent actions through a single control point. | Enterprise SoftwareCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Cowboy Space Corp is building a power grid in outer space for artificial intelligence using satellites and rockets to haul high-performance compute and optical data transmission | Space & DefenseAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Granica helps companies run enterprise AI for less, from the data layer to agent execution. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Greenlight offers a debit card and app for kids and teens to learn about earning, saving, and investing money | FintechEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Honeylove sells bras and shapewear. | E-commerce & MarketplacesConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Instabase transforms complex, document-heavy workflows with AI agents | FintechHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Sitch is a company that offers an AI dating app | Enterprise SoftwareConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Kindred is a platform for house swapping and home exchange | Real Estate & ConstructionLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Mejuri designs and sells fine jewelry | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Moonlake provides a platform for simulating and evaluating robot learning and deployment | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Musa develops a menstrual health and hormonal wellness application | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Robinhood provides a platform for trading and investing in stocks, ETFs, crypto, options, and futures. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| Stori offers credit cards, debit accounts, and loans to its customers. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| SuperMe provides a network where users can ask questions and get answers from profiles built from real work and perspectives of experienced individuals. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides AI speech to text dictation software for various platforms, including Mac, Windows, and iPhone. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- premise.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 16
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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