Essence Venture Capital

Essence VC is a data infra and dev tools specialist fund. 

We don’t try to be “value add”, we only succeed if we make a difference.

Technical founders are great at building, but not always great at telling the most exciting narrative to non-technical audiences (e.g.: investors, customers, and more).

Having both a deep technical background and personal operating experience, we dive deeper than others can and help brainstorm fundamentally different possibilities.

The path from a deeply technical background to a CEO is a unique transition, and having personal founder + operating stories, we have a unique empathy to listen and help work through the emotional and tactical journey to grow towards an effective leader.

Experiencing growing open source and developer communities from a first-hand experience, helps us have a unique network and tactical advice when it comes to building a new community or product traction.

Hiring engineers is one of the hardest parts of the company's journey, yet has one of the largest impacts on the company's trajectory.

We were founders with senior engineering leadership experiences, who also have tens of thousands of developer connections through open source and developer communities.

We can help on hire your founding engineer, head of engineer, and more.