Emergent Ventures | Seed-Stage VC for Enterprising Founders

The First Choice of Enterprise AI Founders

Since 2016

Where we invest

STAGE

Seed

Inception to Pre-Series A

SECTOR

Intelligent Software

Enterprise AI, Cloud & beyond

GEO

US-focused companies

Building from anywhere

Our Approach

Early

We back ambitious founders early. We aim to spot signals before the market and lead with conviction when it matters most.

Proven

Emergent-backed companies graduate to the next stage and achieve category leadership at significantly higher rates.

Empowering

Hands-on support to go from idea to traction. Resources for getting to PMF, crafting GTM, and building momentum that lasts.

Bespoke

Tailored advice. Zero boilerplate. Grounded, context-specific guidance from people who’ve built and backed category leaders.

Our portfolio companies are blazing the trail in Enterprise AI

Observe.ai has been named among the Forbes AI 50 (2025), CB Insights AI 100 and Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers. The company has also received numerous industry accolades and is consistently ranked as a category leader by top industry organizations.

AI Cloud For Contact Centers

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Observe.ai has the best-in-class, market-leading AI product in its category with top brand recognition and 300+ customers globally

Emergent led Observe's pre-seed round in 2017, before they had a working product

“Acceldata has revolutionized our data quality management, reducing processing times from weeks to hours. This efficiency enables us to proactively address data issues, ensuring our clients receive the most reliable information possible.”

Observability for Analytics & AI

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Acceldata is the leading data observability platform used by multiple top 10 global banks, telcos, CPGs, and other large enterprises.

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Emergent co-led their seed round at inception stage in 2018 along with Lightspeed

“prezent.ai is solving a significant, previously unaddressed need as presentations are the de-facto mechanism for communicating anything from new project ideas to status updates.”

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AI-powered communication productivity

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Prezent.ai is the leading platform that boosts presentation productivity by combining contextual intelligence with brand compliance and audience personalization. Trusted by over 150 Fortune 2000 companies

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Emergent was the first venture investor (2021)

Our mentors and advisors have built and run some of the world’s most successful businesses

We help founders get to the *next level

We’re hands-on partners to ambitious Enterprise AI founders. We invest early and help achieve product-market fit, build go-to-market, and scale into breakout growth.