Susa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2013, based in San Francisco, California. The firm invests in entrepreneurs building defensible products, technologies, and tools that create, capture, distribute, and leverage proprietary data.
Susa Ventures maintains a sector-agnostic approach with an emphasis on financial services, healthcare, supply chain, software, and consumer sectors. The firm seeks businesses with strong compounding moats, such as proprietary data, economies of scale, and network effects.
Their interest areas include alternative AI architectures, custom software and generative AI, AI research assistants, tech bio, energy, AI infrastructure, consumer applications for a post-AGI world, risk management, and AI supply chain.
A $175 million fund aimed at helping founders launch and scale their companies at the pre-seed and seed stages. This fund focuses on providing capital, customers, and talent to help startups build early momentum and increase their chances of becoming category-defining businesses.
Investment Strategy
Susa Ventures partners with entrepreneurs from inception through the seed stage, focusing on AI-driven companies. They look for "spiky founders" building category-defining companies with strong data moats. Their strategy includes offering founders the opportunity to become limited partners in a parallel fund with no fees and no carry, fostering a unique community-driven approach.
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