Anupam Rastogi
Founder of Emergent Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2018 - Current
At Emergent, we lead venture investments in transformative AI-powered SaaS and enterprise infrastructure companies. We invest at pre-seed, seed, and post-seed/seed+ rounds across enterprise and B2B software, including Application SaaS, Cloud, Data, Infra, Security, Vertical SaaS and Dev Tools. We are builders at heart and invest with high conviction. We partner with ambitious founders early and help them get to product-market fit, build out go-to-market, and navigate major company-building milestones such as downstream fundraising. Our tightly-knit community of more than 100 successful entrepreneurs and technology executives opens doors and provides game-changing insights. We focus on startups targeting the US as their primary market. We like partnering with companies that build products in an emerging tech hub and leverage Silicon Valley to create a world-class go-to-market engine. We have backed companies originating from – or with engineering teams in – tech hubs such as India, the mid-western US, Europe and beyond.
Emergent Ventures is a venture firm that invests in seed-stage software and AI startups.
Seed Investor
2022
Led Seed Round Meet privacy commitments without slowing the speed of product development. Continually discover the collection, usage, sharing, storage, and leakage of personal data across all your products.
Privado is a software company that builds tools for the simplification of data privacy compliance.
Raised $17,500,000.00 from Peak XV Partners, Emergent Ventures, Brandi House, Keller Smith, Insight Partners and Together Fund.
Seed Investor
2022
Co-led Seed Round Personalize videos at scale with Generative AI
Gan.ai allows brands to generate personalized copies of a single video recording, with variables changed in the voice and lip-sync.
Raised $5,250,000.00 from Google.
Seed Investor
2021
First venture investor. The presentation productivity platform for enterprise teams. Helps corporate executives generate impactful presentations with the right storyline, in brand-approved design
prezent.ai is an AI-powered presentation success platform for enterprise teams.
Raised $24,300,000.00 from Zoom Ventures, Angel Collective Opportunity Fund, Emergent Ventures, WestWave Capital, Greycroft and BluePointe Ventures.
Seed Investor
2021
Scale Your Kubernetes Infrastructure Efficiently
Loft Labs enables any organization to scale self-service access to Kubernetes from 10 to 10,000 engineers.
Raised $28,600,000.00 from Surface Ventures, Kit Merker, Emergent Ventures, Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, Fusion Fund and Khosla Ventures.
Seed Investor
2020
Led Pre-Seed round Franchise Operations on Auto-Pilot
Delightree is an all-in-one franchising tech platform designed exclusively for emerging franchise businesses looking to scale their business
Raised $9,599,998.00 from Z Nation Lab.
Seed Investor
2019
Led Seed round Converging cyber and physical identity for the modern workplace
Secure and frictionless passwordless access for frontline workers and shared devices
Raised $23,001,000.00 from Yaletown Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, George Kaiser Family Foundation, Carya Venture Partners, Exposition Ventures, Okta Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, Plug and Play and Honeywell Ventures.
Investor
2019
Support Experience Management Platform
SupportLogic helps companies improve their customer support experience using generative and predictive AI to maximize revenue retention.
Raised $62,020,000.00 from WestBridge Capital, General Catalyst, Emergent Ventures and Sierra Ventures.
Seed Investor
2021
Co-led Pre-Seed round Intelligent growth platform made for B2B marketers to accelerate growth
Seed Investor
2021
Seed Investor; Led Seed+ round Global sourcing hub for the entertainment industry
Vitrina A.I. is a SaaS platform for the video content industry to facilitate and enable cross-border transactions.