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Root Ventures

Seed-stage deep-tech venture firm backing hard engineering startups.

Active VC 🇺🇸 United States · United States · Since 2015
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Portfolio Active
3
Latest Quilter
Deal flow
$85M
5 rounds
Unicorns
0
≥ $1B valuation
Founded
2015
11 yrs
Latest
Aug 2025
Zed

About Root Ventures

Seed-stage deep-tech venture firm backing hard engineering startups.

Investment activity

2023–2025
$10M
$32M
1
'23
1
'25

Sector focus

🎨 AI Design 2
💻 AI Coding 2
🎮 AI Gaming 1
🎞️ AI Animation 1

Geographic focus

US 1
GB 1

Portfolio

3

Quilter

Physics-driven AI platform that fully automates printed circuit board (PCB) layout

Zed

The multiplayer code editor — fast, native, and AI-first from the ground up

Latent Technology

Physics-driven generative AI animation that reacts in real time

Co-investors

8

V1.VC

2 shared

Matchstick Ventures

2 shared

Redpoint Ventures

2 shared

Benchmark

2 shared

Tom Preston-Werner

1 shared

Lip-Bu Tan

1 shared

Dylan Field

1 shared

AlbionVC

1 shared

Recent rounds

5
Aug 20, 2025 Series B $32M Zed
Mar 1, 2023 Series A $10M Zed
Seed $8M Latent Technology
Series B $25M Quilter
Series A $10M Quilter