We decide in two weeks
Two meetings, one reference call, then a yes or a no with the reasoning attached. You keep building while we make up our mind.
Pre-seed and seed · San Francisco
We write the first check, and we answer quickly.
OnePiece Ventures backs technical founders at the very beginning. Every partner here has built and shipped something, which is why our questions are about the product and not the projections.
$500k to $2.5m
First check size, lead or follow
14 days
From first meeting to a decision
64
Companies funded since 2019
$180m
Under management across three funds
What we do
Generalist by design. We follow founders, not categories.
Most funds meet you at the seed round. We would rather meet you the week you quit.
The earliest money is the hardest to raise and the most useful to receive. That is the part of the market we chose, and we have kept our fund small enough to stay honest about it.
We write plain terms
A standard post-money safe or a priced round on documents you can read in ten minutes. No side letters that only make sense to us.
We stay useful after the wire
Hiring, pricing, and the awkward conversations. Call us at 9pm when a co-founder wants to leave. That is the actual job.
Portfolio
Sixty-four companies. Here are twelve of them.
The work speaks first.
We were the first institutional money in most of these companies, and we still take the calls at the messy stages.
Northwind
Serverless data pipelines that scale to zero.
Voltage
Grid-edge software for clean-energy interconnection.
Tidewater
Real-time treasury for global SMB operators.
Latticework
Type-safe infrastructure as code for platform teams.
Ascend
Copilots for field-service technicians.
Hexboard
Runtime defense for AI agents and tool servers.
Orbital
Onboard compute for small-satellite constellations.
Kindling
A calmer way for households to plan money.
Where we spend our time
Four areas we know well enough to be useful in week one.
We are generalists with strong opinions in a few places.
- 01
Infrastructure and developer tools
Software that other engineers depend on. We have shipped it, sold it, and been on call for it, so we can help with the parts that are hard to explain to a board.
- 02
Applied AI
Products where a model does real work inside a workflow. We look for teams who understand the domain better than the model does.
- 03
Fintech and the operating layer
Payments, treasury, and the plumbing underneath small businesses. Slow to build, hard to displace once it works.
- 04
Security and trust
Identity, runtime defense, and the new surface area created by agents. This category grows every time software gets easier to write.
From a founder
“They sent terms on a Thursday and the money landed on Monday. Then they spent six months helping me hire, which was the part I actually needed.”
Elena Duarte, co-founder and CEO, Northwind
Insights
What we have learned, written down.
We publish the things we would otherwise repeat in every meeting.
Next step
Send us the thing you are building.
A short note and a link beat a polished deck. Every partner reads what comes in, and you will hear back within two business days.