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Root Ventures portfolio
Root Ventures has 10 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding, with 1 investment in the last 12 months.
About this page
It is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, US, founded in 2011. It led 1 of the 10 rounds it joined. Its most recent investment on record is CORE Biomedicine's $21M Series A round in July 2026, alongside Vision Incubate, BioVenture, Elikon Venture and 5 others. By category, its portfolio leans toward Robotics and hardware (4) and Developer tools and cloud (3). It has co-invested with Insight Partners, Haystack and DCVC, most often Insight Partners (5 rounds).
About Root Ventures
Funds raised
| Fund | Fund # | Size | Announced |
|---|---|---|---|
Bay Area | IV | $190Mvia Shai Goldman's fund list | |
Bay Area, LA | II | $77Mvia Shai Goldman's fund list |
What Root Ventures invests in
- Robotics and hardware · 4 · 40%
- Developer tools and cloud · 3 · 30%
- Health and bio · 2 · 20%
- Cybersecurity · 2 · 20%
- Commerce and retail · 2 · 20%
- AI agents · 2 · 20%
- Manufacturing and industrial · 1 · 10%
- Fintech · 1 · 10%
Root Ventures recent investments
| Company | Round | Date | Alongside |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series A · $21M | Vision Incubate, BioVenture, Elikon Venture (lead) +5 | ||
| Series A · $10M | Harrison Metal, Coatue, Benchmark (lead) | ||
| Series B+ · $65M | Haystack, Oldslip, Tiger Global Management (lead) +3 | ||
| Series B+ · $60M | Scale Venture Partners, Madrona, Insight Partners (lead) | ||
| Series B+ · $80M | Conductive Ventures, Tooey Courtemanch, Tiger Global Management +6 | ||
| Series A · $20M | Conductive Ventures, Bosch Ventures, Entrée Capital (lead) +3 | ||
| Series B+ · $40M | Grant Verstandig, Haystack, GRIDS Capital +3 | ||
| Series A · $8M | Pathbreaker Ventures, Haystack, Madrona (lead) +1 |
How Root Ventures invests
Root Ventures portfolio companies
CCORE Biomedicine$21MSeries A · Jul 2026
QQuilter$10MSeries A · Feb 2024
NnTopology$65MSeries B+ · Nov 2021
EEsper$60MSeries B+ · Oct 2021
VVersatile$80MSeries B+ · Sep 2021
WWildtype$13MSeries A · Oct 2019
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| Company | Round with Root Ventures | Total raised | Latest raise |
|---|---|---|---|
Health and bio |
Series A · $21M | $21M | Jul 28, 2026 Series A |
Robotics and hardware |
Series A · $10M | $35M | Oct 7, 2025 Series B+ |
Manufacturing and industrial |
Series B+ · $65M | $125M | Nov 18, 2021 Series B+ |
Fintech |
Series B+ · $60M | $72M | Oct 1, 2021 Series B+ |
Robotics and hardware |
Series B+ · $80M | $105.5M | Sep 15, 2021 Series B+ |
Commerce and retail |
Series A · $13M | $117M | Mar 24, 2026 Series B+ |
AI agents |
backer · source | $10M | Jan 25, 2026 Series B+ |
AI agents |
backer · source | $415M | Mar 1, 2023 Series B+ |
AI coding and devtools |
backer | $12.5M | Feb 5, 2026 Seed |
Robotics and hardware |
backer | $62.5M | May 9, 2022 Series B+ |
Most frequent co-investors
IInsight Partners5 shared rounds · last Nov 18, 2021
HHaystack4 shared rounds · last Nov 18, 2021
DDCVC3 shared rounds · last Nov 18, 2021
TTiger Global Management2 shared rounds · last Nov 18, 2021
CCanaan Partners2 shared rounds · last Nov 18, 2021
MMadrona2 shared rounds · last Oct 1, 2021
EEntrée Capital2 shared rounds · last Sep 15, 2021
CConductive Ventures2 shared rounds · last Sep 15, 2021
BBosch Ventures2 shared rounds · last Sep 15, 2021
RRobert Phillpot2 shared rounds · last Sep 15, 2021
LLeigh Jasper2 shared rounds · last Sep 15, 2021
PPathbreaker Ventures2 shared rounds · last Feb 1, 2020
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SSupernova Invest10 companies · 3 deals in 12 mo
Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Robotics and hardware).
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.
Venture funds Root Ventures raised, from the list of new VC funds compiled by Shai Goldman (Brex). Each size links to the article that states it, or to that list where no article was found. All new funds: new VC funds.
Share is of the 10 rounds on Recent Funding that name Root Ventures. 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 Root Ventures, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/root-ventures (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.