Pre-seed and seed capital for outlier software founders
Backing the companies that make tomorrow feel inevitable.
Rizzo Ventures is an emerging fund investing early in technical teams building category-defining infrastructure, AI-native workflows, and new financial rails.
AI workflows
Developer infrastructure
Financial rails
THESIS
We invest where technical advantage becomes distribution advantage.
Our first check goes in before consensus forms — when the product is sharp, the market is moving, and the founder has a non-obvious edge.
Velocity before scale
We like teams that ship in tight loops and learn faster than incumbents can notice.
A real technical wedge
The strongest companies start with a hard insight, not a louder go-to-market deck.
Timing with a tailwind
We back shifts that are already happening in budgets, regulation, behavior, or compute.
First money for sharp edges.
We move quickly when the founder has proprietary learning, a narrow initial market, and a product that can compound from a wedge into a platform.
$250k–$750k
typical first check
WE ARE A FIT IF
You are building software with a meaningful technical moat.
You know the first niche better than anyone else.
You want direct feedback, customer intros, and fast conviction.
AI-native operations
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Devtools
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Fintech infrastructure
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Data security