Essence VC portfolio

Essence VC has 13 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding, with 1 investment in the last 12 months.

Website: essencevc.fund.

Type: Venture capital.

Portfolio on Recent Funding: 13.

Deals, last 12 months: 1.

Capital in their rounds: $73.1M.

Latest deal: RadiantOps · Sep 16, 2026.

About this page

It is a venture capital firm based in Bothell, US, founded in 2020. Its most recent investment on record is RadiantOps's $7M Seed round in September 2026, alongside Foundation Capital, Vermilion Cliffs Ventures, Vela Partners and 1 other. By category, its portfolio leans toward Developer tools and cloud (8) and Data and analytics (4). It has co-invested with CRV, Foundation Capital and Vela Partners, most often CRV (2 rounds).

About Essence VC

Firm type: Venture capital.

Headquarters: Bothell, US.

Founded: 2020.

Stages: Seed.

Sectors: Enterprise Software.

Portfolio companies: 1.

Exits: 1.

Rounds led: 2.

What Essence VC invests in

Developer tools and cloud · 8 · 62%
Data and analytics · 4 · 31%
AI agents · 4 · 31%
AI coding and devtools · 2 · 15%
Education · 2 · 15%
Voice and audio AI · 1 · 8%
Media and content · 1 · 8%
Sales and marketing · 1 · 8%

Essence VC recent investments

Company	Round	Date	Alongside
RRadiantOps	Seed · $7M	Sep 16, 2026	Foundation Capital (lead), Vermilion Cliffs Ventures, Vela Partners +1
EEventual	Seed · $30M	Jul 22, 2025	Array Ventures, Y Combinator, CRV (lead)
NNuon	Series A · $17M	Dec 1, 2024	Red Swan Ventures, Quinn Slack, Alumni Ventures +6
LLanceDB	Seed	May 15, 2024	Soma Capital, CRV (lead), Swift Ventures
OOrb	Series A · $19.1M	Mar 29, 2023	Zero Prime Ventures, The Cannon Project, South Park Commons +6

How Essence VC invests

Stage	Deals	Capital in rounds
Seed	3 60%	$37M
Series A	2 40%	$36.1M

Year	Deals	Capital in rounds
2023	1 20%	$19.1M
2024	2 40%	$17M
2025	1 20%	$30M
2026	1 20%	$7M

Essence VC portfolio companies

RRadiantOps$7MSeed · Sep 2026
EEventual$30MSeed · Jul 2025
NNuon$17MSeries A · Dec 2024
LLanceDBSeed · May 2024
OOrb$19.1MSeries A · Mar 2023
DDistributionalbacker
MMagic Patternsbacker
LLettabacker
CClinebacker
CClarifybacker
SStandard Kernelbacker
HHumansignalbacker
TTeleskopebacker

Company	Round with Essence VC	Total raised	Latest raise
RRadiantOps AI coding and devtools	Sep 16, 2026 Seed · $7M	$7M	Sep 16, 2026 Seed
EEventual Voice and audio AI	Jul 22, 2025 Seed · $30M	$50M	Jul 22, 2025 Seed
NNuon Developer tools and cloud	Dec 1, 2024 Series A · $17M	$17M	Dec 1, 2024 Series A
LLanceDB Data and analytics	May 15, 2024 Seed	$30.5M	Jun 24, 2025 Series A
OOrb	Mar 29, 2023 Series A · $19.1M	$44.1M	Feb 23, 2025 Series B+
DDistributional	backer · source	$19M	Oct 8, 2024 Series A
MMagic Patterns Media and content	backer · source	$6.5M	Apr 17, 2026 Series A
LLetta AI agents	backer · source	$10M	Sep 26, 2024 Seed
CCline AI coding and devtools	backer · source	$59M	Feb 14, 2026 Series A
CClarify AI agents	backer · source	$22.5M	Jun 25, 2025 Series A
SStandard Kernel Developer tools and cloud	backer	$20M	—
HHumansignal Data and analytics	backer	undisclosed	—
TTeleskope AI agents	backer	$27.2M	Nov 3, 2025 Series A

Most frequent co-investors

Similar investors

Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Developer tools and cloud).

How this is counted

Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-11, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.

Share is of the 5 rounds on Recent Funding that name Essence VC. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.

Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists Essence VC, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/essence-vc (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.