Vertex Ventures

Vertex Ventures US focuses on partnering with and investing in early-stage founders building infrastructure and SaaS companies. They aim to pay it forward, drawing from their own experiences as founders and operators. The firm's special power lies in partnering with technical founders to nail the go-to-market strategy and assemble exceptional teams. They aim to share lessons learned from their own journeys and bring curiosity and candor to every step, providing high-conviction and highly present support to their portfolio companies. They're particularly interested in how AI is changing software, specifically how it's written and how it runs. They are shifting from manual, human-paced workflows to systems that understand context and surface the next right action in areas such as provisioning, CI/CD, security, observability and performance, and incident response.