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Cervin Ventures

820 Ramona Street, Unit 200, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, United States

Overview

Cervin Ventures is a early-stage venture capital firm investing in founders to build good startups and great companies. Cervin partners with disciplined entrepreneurs that are building tools, applications and infrastructure products to address massive, fast-growing markets. For more than a decade, Cervin has leveraged the operating backgrounds of its investors to help founders build enduring companies and avoid short-lived hype cycles. Cervin has invested in more than 50 companies including LaunchDarkly, Paystand, and Celona, with more than a dozen successful exits from companies such as Punchh and Tynker.

Total investments
69
Lead investments
22
Investments · 12mo
10
Active investors
8

Sector focus

  • B2B
  • Enterprise Software
  • Financial Services
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Lemma

    Participated · Seed · Aug 2026

    Lemma builds production monitoring infrastructure for autonomous AI agents by capturing structured traces of agent executions, including LLM calls, tool usage, inputs and outputs, retrieval steps, timing data, and errors. Its platform analyzes those traces to identify recurring semantic failures, prioritize issues, and surface alerts. The company aims to detect silent failures where agents appear to succeed technically but produce incorrect outcomes. Lemma was founded by Jerry Zhang and Cole Gawin and participated in Y Combinator’s Fall 2025 cohort. It recently raised $2.3 million in a pre-seed round to accelerate development of its monitoring and failure-detection tools. Initially, Lemma plans to focus on supporting startups that are already running AI agents in production.

  • Vendelux

    Participated · Series B · Jul 2026

    Vendelux builds an event intelligence layer that maps and tracks more than 250,000 global B2B events to help sales and marketing teams evaluate historical attendee density, identify active buyer cohorts, and automate qualified in-person meeting bookings. The platform serves prominent enterprise customers including Ramp, Glean, Coupa, McKesson, Writer, Deel, Intel, and the United States Postal Service. The company is led by co-founders Alex Reynolds and Stefan Fletcher and is headquartered in New York City. As of the July 2026 Series B, Vendelux has raised $71M in total funding. Planned uses of the new capital include deepening its AI infrastructure, accelerating product development, and expanding its global corporate sales engineering teams. The company emphasized bridging marketers with event organizers as a product focus going forward.

  • Redo

    Participated · Series B · Jun 2026

    Redo provides returns and other shopper-facing solutions for e-commerce brands and has expanded rapidly over the last 24 months, growing from about 100 brands to more than 4,000. The company reports that more than 70% of its brand customers now use multiple Redo solutions rather than only its returns product. Monthly metrics have consistently set new records according to the company's announcement. Redo framed its recent $81M raise at a $1.25B valuation as a validation of brand trust and ongoing demand for its services. In lieu of a big fundraising launch, the company said it will channel announcement funds back to brands and shoppers, including a program to give $100 to one person per Redo brand. The company stressed that substantial work remains and that it will continue investing in its product and customer relationships.

  • Earlyasset

    Participated · Seed · Mar 2026

    Earlyasset is building a platform intended to provide pricing transparency, transaction infrastructure, and access to capital for the venture secondary market. The company plans to launch its platform later this year, enabling early users to register private holdings, access pricing insights, and request liquidity. Earlyasset is led by co-founder and CEO Shawn Bercuson and is based in Park City, Utah. It raised $2 million in a pre-seed round led by New Stack Ventures, with participation from Cervin Ventures, Andrew Ryan of ABVCS, and angel investors. The company said it will use the funding to expand operations and accelerate development efforts. As it builds out its network of investors and capital partners, Earlyasset aims to expand liquidity across private markets.

  • Qurrent

    Led · Series A · Mar 2026

    Qurrent offers fully managed digital workers that autonomously execute end-to-end back-office tasks in finance, supply chain, procurement, legal, property management, and other functions. Instead of selling tools that customers must configure, the company deploys and manages the digital workforce itself, guaranteeing outcomes through service-level agreements. The platform has already completed over 6 million production tasks, nearly tripling its volume since November 2025, and has delivered tangible results such as processing more than $100 million in monthly partner payments for an ad-tech client in under 30 minutes, eliminating manual invoice collection for a law firm, and saving a property investment firm 18,000 hours and $800,000 annually. These case studies demonstrate dramatic cycle-time reductions and cost savings that drive enterprise adoption. Headquartered in San Francisco, Qurrent positions its service as a catalyst for measurable margin improvement, with every advance in AI models making its offering faster and cheaper. The newly raised capital will be used to scale enterprise go-to-market efforts and deepen the platform’s capabilities, supporting rapid customer expansion across multiple verticals. Financial details beyond the recent funding were not disclosed, but the operational metrics suggest strong traction heading into the next growth phase.

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