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Eniac Ventures
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Eniac Ventures leads seed rounds and partners with founders from 0 to 1. Founded in 2009 by four University of Pennsylvania engineering classmates, the firm describes itself as 'founders first' — having founded and operated 10 tech startups themselves, the GPs bring empathy, expertise, and experience to accelerate portfolio companies toward product-market fit. Eniac invests across SaaS, developer platforms, consumer, and deep tech, writing checks of $350K–$3M and targeting 10–15% ownership. The firm deliberately caps its fund size (most recently at $125M for Fund V) to remain a collaborative, high-conviction lead investor, backing only 2–3 companies per GP per year — enabling hands-on partnership rather than passive capital deployment.
Notable quotes
“Consistency has been our superpower.”
“We want to be balanced between thesis-driven and opportunistic … The theses that we tend to focus on tend to be on a per-partner basis and change pretty quickly.”
“The conclusion was we weren't going to kiss some old guy's ass for 10 years to move up the ladder.”
Recent investments
| Company | Round | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Airbnb | Seed | — | — |
| Alloy | Seed | — | — |
| Attentive | Seed | — | — |
| Anchor (acquired by Spotify) | Seed | — | — |
| Automation Anywhere | Seed | — | — |
| Attention | Series B | $14m | 2026-04 |
| Predoc | Series A | $30m | 2025-09 |
| Cascala Health | Seed | $9m | 2025-08 |
| Evertune | Series A | $15m | 2025 |
| Bito | Seed | $6m | 2025 |
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| Lerer Hippeau | 8 |
| First Round Capital | 7 |
| MetaProp Ventures | 6 |
| Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) | 5 |
| Darling Ventures | 5 |
| Alumni Ventures | 4 |
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