Root Ventures
SlowingFiled to raiseSan Francisco, CALast fund filed 2025
1 on a current fund
last 24 months
across filed funds
| Vehicle | Filed | Target | Sold to date | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Root Ventures IVFiled to raise in 2025, with no closing reported yet. | 2025 | $250M | $0 | 0 |
| Root Ventures IIIFiled to raise in 2021, with no closing reported yet. | 2021 | $150M | $0 | 0 |
| Root Ventures IIFiled to raise in 2017, with no closing reported yet. | 2017 | $75M | $0 | 0 |
| Root Ventures I | December 2014 | $31M | $31M | 80 |
Amounts are Item 13 as filed: the target is the whole offering, and the amount sold is cumulative across amendments rather than a final close. The filing carries no per-investor amount, so a firm’s own cheque is not recoverable here.
1 partner is named across this firm’s filings, 1 of them on a fund it is deploying now.
| Partner | Activity | Categories | Board seats | Last 24mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avidan Ross | Slowing | Developer tools & infrastructure, Enterprise software, Food & agriculture | 7 | 1 |
Activity is filed board seats in the last 24 months: 4+ Active, 2–3 Selective, 1 Slowing, none Quiet. A firm's tier totals its partners, so an active firm may be four partners with one seat each. It undercounts partners who invest without taking a board seat, and filings lag a closing by weeks, so Quiet means the paperwork is quiet, not the person.
Classified sectors of Root Ventures’s own portfolio companies, based on 7 with a verified or cited source.
Not a filing value: this is Lev’s own classification of each company, one company one vote regardless of how many of Root Ventures’s partners are named on its board, shown only when we found a specific, checkable source. Companies with no source read as unclassified and are left out of the shares above.
| Firm | Shared boards | Companies |
|---|---|---|
| Bonfire Ventures | 1 | Particle Industries |
| EIP | 1 | Particle Industries |
| Scale Venture Partners | 1 | Dusty Robotics |
| Spark Capital | 1 | Particle Industries |
A shared board seat: a company where filings name a Root Ventures partner and a partner at the other firm, both with a clean identity match. Not a claim either firm led or co-led the round, only that both are named on the same board.