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Soma Capital
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Soma Capital invests in technical founders building innovative companies across all sectors, with a core belief in 'building deep friendships day 1 with brilliant superhumans pushing humanity forward.' The fund is stage-agnostic but primarily focuses on seed and pre-seed, writing checks of $100K–$2M, often as the first or earliest institutional money in. Soma is particularly bullish on software automating the world — spanning B2B SaaS, fintech, AI/ML, and frontier tech — and leverages a founder-first approach that emphasizes non-dilutive capital, founder autonomy, and access to Fortune 500 CEO networks (via Vivek Ranadive's TIBCO legacy) for customer development. The firm is unusually concentrated in Y Combinator companies and runs the Soma Capital Fellowship, offering founders $100K–$1M on uncapped SAFEs at 0% equity.
Notable quotes
“Our mission is to build deep friendships day 1 with brilliant superhumans pushing humanity forward.”
“Soma invests in technical founders building innovative companies across all sectors. We believe in building deep friendships day 1 with brilliant superhumans pushing humanity forward.”
“VC is incredibly saturated arguably with several multi decade long monopolies and it's not easy to come in fresh and make an impact, and build something differentiated and longterm sustainable, but we're certainly up to the challenge because why not!”
Recent investments
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 130 |
| General Catalyst | 12 |
| Lux Capital | 8 |
| Gaingels | 7 |
| Long Journey Ventures | 5 |
| Tribe Capital | 4 |
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