Vermilion Cliffs Ventures

Venture Capital · Cybersecurity

Overview

Vermilion Cliffs Ventures is a founder-first VC fund investing in early-stage AI, developer tools, infrastructure, and cybersecurity startups. Led by ex-GitHub and Twilio operators, we offer hands-on go-to-market support from pre-seed to scale.

Investor profile

Venture capital
Investments
30
25 of them startups
Hiring now
9
38 open roles
Rounds in 12 months
3
$42.3M raised
Focusshare of its companies
Artificial Intelligence 67%Software 22%Cybersecurity 11%Information Technology 6%Space & Aerospace 6%Biotechnology 6%Robotics 6%Farming & Agriculture 6%
Where its companies are
United States 43%Spain 3%Germany 3%
Stage of its companies
Series A 73%Pre-seed & seed 18%Series B 9%
Its companies, the freshest money firstAll 30 investments
AranyaVenture round $11.3M · 4 mo ago CopilotkitSeries A $27M · 6 mo ago · 1 role ColimitVenture round $2.4M · 14 mo ago FiveonefourVenture round $10.8M · 17 mo ago · 1 role StarisVenture round $5.8M · 22 mo ago Mach9Venture round $14.4M · 2 yr ago · 14 roles CatioVenture round $4.1M · 2 yr ago · 1 role ArgillaVenture round $5.4M · 3 yr ago OsmosisVenture round $56M · 5 yr ago · 3 roles Keycard6 roles Clarify6 roles Cognee4 roles
38 open roles at 9 of its companies
Hiring fastestroles opened in 30 days
Clarify5 new roles in 30 days Mach93 new roles in 30 days
Co-investorscompanies they hold together
Y Combinator 6 shared Eniac Ventures 3 shared First Round Capital 2 shared Irregular Expressions 2 shared Abstraction Capital 2 shared Boldstart Ventures 2 shared
Similar investorstheir companies share markets and countries
Hawkhill Betaworks Array Ventures Nexus Venture Partners South Park Commons Boldstart Ventures a16z speedrun Decibel
Sources: its portfolio page, read Nov 3

News

News TechCrunch 4 months ago
Solo GP Ashley Smith announces second $25M fund to back startups in AI, security and more
Vermilion Cliffs Ventures announced Wednesday the close of a $25 million Fund II.
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Press release tennessean.com 4 months ago
Vermilion Cliffs Ventures Raises $25M Second Fund for Technical Founders Building AI Infrastructure and Dev Tooling Read more
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News vermilioncliffs.substack.com 10 months ago
Hello Atomic, Goodbye Git: Rebuilding Software Collaboration for the AI Era with Lee Faus
This week I sat down with Lee Faus, Founder and CEO of Atomic, just after he closed a 2.5M pre-seed round supported by Yoni Rechtman via Slow Ventures and Jean Sini via Irregular Expressions and of course, Vermilion Cliffs Ventures.
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News Financial Post 4 years ago
Vermilion Energy suspends share buybacks in face of EU windfall tax Financial Post Read more
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