Root Ventures

Root Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco that invests in deep tech, describing its team as engineers themselves who specialise in providing initial funding for founders tackling new technical opportunities. The firm says it makes a selective few new investments each year and keeps a substantial share of its funds in reserve, positioning itself as a long-term partner rather than a firm chasing a high volume of deals. Its portfolio includes Esper, described as devops for devices that helps teams build and manage enterprise hardware; Meroxa, a platform for building data engineering infrastructure with a single command; Particle, which it describes as the largest professional IoT development platform; Daily, which helps developers add video to websites and apps; and HASH, described as an open-source, self-building database.