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Your partner for growth.
Incisive Ventures is a pre-seed fund in Seattle backing technology companies that reduce friction at scale — led by a founder who has invested in 350+ startups, including over a dozen unicorns.
The thesis
We back founders who remove friction at scale.
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Friction is the opportunity
The most transformative companies remove friction at scale. Amazon made shopping frictionless. Uber did it for transportation. We look for the next one.
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Conviction, early
A disciplined screening process built over decades of investing helps us find outlier founders and companies before the crowd does.
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A network that compounds
A network built across 60+ angel investments and four unicorns that secured $2.5B+ in follow-on financing — working for every founder we back.
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