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Emergent Ventures

20 N San Mateo Dr Ste 1, San Mateo, CA, 94401, United States

Overview

Emergent Ventures is a venture firm that invests in seed-stage software and AI startups. Emergent partners early with high-potential entrepreneurs and helps them find product-market fit and develop go-to-market. The firm focuses on the Intelligent Software space, which includes themes such as Enterprise Automation, Intelligent Voice and Video, Logistics-tech, DevOps/Developer Tools, Finance-tech, and Cloud Management

Total investments
46
Lead investments
13
Investments · 12mo
5
Active investors
4

Sector focus

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • B2B
  • DevOps
  • Enterprise Software
  • Machine Learning
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Delightree

    Participated · Series A · Aug 2026

    Delightree, based in San Francisco, provides an AI operating system that centralizes training, compliance, communications, audits, task management, and new-location launches for multi-unit and franchise businesses. Since launching just over two years ago, the company says revenue has grown nearly 20x and its platform is used across more than 6,000 locations nationwide. Customers cited include solidcore, Dunn Brothers Coffee, JETSET, Five Star Franchising, MOOYAH Burgers, and Beem Light Sauna. Delightree reports that customers opening new locations do so two to three months faster and that frontline teams reclaim up to 30% of their time while experiencing reduced turnover. The company is expanding beyond franchises into restaurants, fitness, wellness, retail, healthcare, and home services. Future plans emphasize building agentic AI capabilities that surface operational issues, assign remediation, and act as a 24/7 operations manager for distributed teams.

  • Maya Research

    Participated · Seed · Jun 2026

    Maya Research develops voice-interface technology and conversational AI models designed to speak, think, and respond like a native speaker. The company focuses on adapting models to local languages, contexts, and conversational nuances to serve people who prefer speaking over typing. Maya positions its technology for users who interact with devices via conversation rather than traditional typing, tapping, or complex navigation. The startup was founded in 2025 by BS Dheemanth Reddy and Bharath Kumar Kakumani. Its current disclosed funding status is a $1.9 million seed round led by South Park Commons. The article does not provide revenue, user, or other operating metrics.

  • BambooBox

    Participated · Equity · Mar 2026

    BambooBox offers a Managed ABM Operating System that pairs AI-powered orchestration technology with forward-deployed ABM experts and execution engines to help enterprises drive acquisition, cross-sell, and expansion. The company positions its product as an operating layer that integrates with existing CRM, marketing, and sales systems to translate intent signals into measurable pipeline outcomes. BambooBox serves enterprise customers across India and the United States, including Airtel Business, Rootstock, and LightMetrics. It is investing in AI agents to automate research, personalization, and orchestration at scale and plans to deepen those AI capabilities. The company was founded by Ankur Saigal and Divyesh Dixit and operates from Bangalore and San Francisco. Financial details disclosed in the articles include the recent $6.6 million raise led by Peak XV's Surge.

  • Potpie

    Led · Seed · Feb 2026

    Potpie AI builds a platform that acts as a foundational context layer for engineering teams, automating high-impact, non-trivial tasks such as debugging cross-service failures, maintaining and authoring end-to-end tests, blast-radius detection, and system design. The system is aimed at large enterprises with codebases starting around one million lines and scaling to hundreds of millions. Potpie is already working with Fortune 500 and publicly listed companies in regulated sectors like healthcare and insurtech, demonstrating early enterprise traction. Founded by Aditi Kothari and Dhiren Mathur and headquartered in San Francisco, the company plans to deepen its core context and agent infrastructure. The newly raised capital will also fund expansion of the engineering team and support additional early enterprise deployments. No operating metrics such as revenue or user counts were disclosed in the article.

  • prezent.ai

    Participated · Equity · Oct 2025

    Prezent.ai provides AI-enabled enterprise communication solutions tailored to Life Sciences customers. The company reported more than 150 Life Sciences customers, including 45 leading biopharma firms, and stated it has completed over 5 million deliverables across the sector. Prezent said it is in a scale-up phase and has grown ARR more than 200% year-over-year. The company launched Prezent Vivo, an offering that integrates purpose-built AI with expert services to deliver outcome-focused communications. Management frames Vivo as a strategic evolution to combine technology and domain expertise for regulated industries. The recent secondary investment by True Global Ventures is positioned to support the Vivo rollout and continued expansion.

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