Tunitas Ventures

Tunitas Ventures is a seed-stage, solo GP firm based in Menlo Park, California, founded in 2022 by Eric Ver Ploeg, PhD. The firm invests exclusively in "category creating" companies — startups defining entirely new markets with few to no direct competitors, defensible business models, and unit economics that are beginning to work. Tunitas explicitly looks beyond the venture echo chamber's trendy sectors, applies a first-principles analytical approach, and requires a minimum 50x return potential in every investment, resulting in a concentrated, high-conviction portfolio. The firm's primary value-add is fundraising assistance: helping portfolio companies raise their Series A from the best possible investors through a proven playbook, warm introductions, back-channel feedback, and situation-specific strategic advice. Tunitas invests across all technology sectors except healthcare, focuses exclusively on US-based companies, and writes checks of $500K–$1.5M at seed or pre-seed stage.