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VestedVC

About VestedVC

Early capital for AI founders
building what's next.

We are an early-stage venture capital firm investing $100K-$10M in AI-native companies from pre-seed to Series A, with hands-on support across hiring, GTM, fundraising, and product strategy.

Impact in Numbers

A decade of investing behind founders building durable technology companies.

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Startups Backed Globally

$0.0B+

Assets Under Management

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Countries Reached

2012

Founded

Venture capital in action

We back founders before the category is obvious.

Our portfolio spans AI agents, conversation intelligence, data infrastructure, fintech, logistics, and applied automation. The common thread is ambition: founders building markets, not just features.

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Pre-seed

$100K - $1M

First institutional capital for technical founders validating a sharp market insight.

Seed

$1M - $3M

Lead or co-invest cheques for teams turning early usage into product-market fit.

Series A

$3M - $10M

Scale capital and follow-on support for companies ready to compound distribution.

Our Story

Our venture journey.

Founded in 2012, VestedVC began by writing early cheques into ambitious technical founders. Since then, we have grown into a global venture platform focused on AI-first companies.

We partner from pre-seed to Series A, often before the category is fully understood, and support founders through hiring, customer access, future rounds, and board-level strategy.

Our focus is clear: back AI-native companies with the capital, network, and operating depth needed to become category-defining businesses.

The VestedVC team — partnering with founders, creating impact

Our Mission

To be the first-choice capital partner for AI founders building from insight to product-market fit and beyond.

Our Vision

A portfolio of AI-native companies that define new markets, expand access, and compound responsibly over decades.

What we stand for

Our core values.

These principles shape how we source, underwrite, invest, and support founders after the round closes.

01

Conviction

We invest early when the market is still forming, then stay close as founders prove the category.

02

Founder Partnership

We help with hiring, customers, future rounds, and the hard decisions that shape durable companies.

03

AI Depth

We evaluate technical defensibility, data advantage, and product velocity with an operator's eye.

04

Long-term Trust

We protect founder context, move with transparency, and build relationships that outlast a round.

The people

Meet the team.

Investors, operators, and platform partners working beside founders from first cheque to follow-on rounds.

Sabrina Albert

Sabrina Albert

Founding Partner

Sabrina focuses on sourcing and evaluating new investment opportunities from Seed through Series A across VestedVC's investment themes. She also supports the growth and strategy of current portfolio companies. Sabrina is particularly interested in intelligent applications, enterprise software, and agentic systems.

Anna Baird

Anna Baird

Founding Partner

Anna is an operating partner who leverages her deep go-to-market, finance, and operating expertise to advise fast-growing and acceleration-stage companies in the VestedVC portfolio. Anna also has a deep understanding of sales technology, having worked as an executive at one of the companies pioneering the category.

Isha Mehra

Isha Mehra

Founding Partner

Isha is a Founding Partner at VestedVC, backing founders from pre-seed to Series A. She works closely with portfolio companies on strategy, fundraising, and scaling, with a particular interest in AI-native products and infrastructure.

Built for trust

A VC partner founders can actually rely on.

Trust is not a tagline. It shows up in how quickly we respond, how carefully we handle your materials, how clearly we run diligence, and how deeply we support founders after the cheque.

72 hrs

Typical first response

200+

Portfolio founders

$100K-$10M

Initial cheque range

4 wks

Pitch to term sheet target

Confidential by default

Founder materials stay inside the investment team. We review competing categories carefully and do not share your deck with portfolio companies.

Pitch terms

Transparent process

Clear steps from submission to partner meeting, with every founder getting a response and no warm intro required.

How we invest

Capital beyond round one

We reserve follow-on capital for companies that compound, so the first cheque can become a long-term partnership.

Our thesis

Operator network

Portfolio founders get access to hiring help, customer intros, GTM operators, cloud perks, and peers who have scaled before.

Founder hub
Milestones

Our timeline.

Milestones that shaped how we invest, partner, and support portfolio companies.

2012

First cheques written

VestedVC started with a simple thesis: exceptional technical founders deserve partners who understand both capital and company-building.

2017

Institutional fund launched

We scaled our early-stage platform and deepened support across fundraising, hiring, customer access, and go-to-market.

2019

Global founder network

Our portfolio expanded across markets, giving founders access to operators, investors, and customers beyond their home region.

2021

AI thesis sharpened

We doubled down on applied AI, intelligent software, data infrastructure, computer vision, and automation-led categories.

2023

Follow-on engine built

Portfolio companies raised growth rounds with support from our capital network, operating partners, and founder community.

Today

Backing AI-native leaders

200+ startups and $1.5B+ in AUM later, we continue to partner early with founders building category-defining AI companies.

Ready to Shape the Future?

Join visionary founders who are building category-defining companies with us.

Submit Your Pitch

Have questions? Contact our investment team