Root and Shoot Ventures

Root and Shoot Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in digital technologies expected to create new markets and open up existing ones. The fund was set up to back founders positioned to benefit from the accelerated shift toward a digital economy, a shift the firm associates with changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic. In assessing opportunities, the firm weighs two consistent factors: how well a company's product fits its market, and the strength and character of its founding team. The fund describes itself as open-ended, allowing it to hold and support portfolio companies without a fixed timeline for exit. Beyond these stated principles, the firm's public materials give little further detail on sector focus, cheque size or the geographies it covers, so this profile is necessarily brief.