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Emergence Capital
A specialist rather than a generalist. States that every technology revolution unlocks new business models and that its edge is recognising them early, pointing to Salesforce as its horizontal SaaS bet and Veeva as its vertical one.
Criteria: States that its current focus is AI-Native Services, which it defines as companies that sell outcomes rather than software, alongside AI infrastructure and physical world AI. Publishes an unusual constraint: that its partners each make just one investment annually, which it describes as a deliberate choice that lets it go deep with every founder. Its team page lists six general partners and one further partner. Publishes no check size, no fund size and no stage definitions.
What this means for your pitchDo the arithmetic on their own two published numbers before you spend a month here. Seven investment partners at a stated one investment each per year is a very small number of new companies, which means long odds and, if you get in, unusually deep engagement. Only worth the effort if you are B2B software and can name the business model shift you are riding in a single line.
Emergence CapitalChecked 16 August 2026
From Emergence Capital's own site and announcements · checked 26 August 2026 · selective, not comprehensive · verify on the firm's pages
Emergence announced it led a $5 million seed round for EverSettled, whose AI assistant Sage guides executors through probate, estate administration, and inheritance tasks. The firm states the product targets the majority of families who have assets to settle but cannot afford traditional legal help.
Emergence published a post on portfolio company Together AI's $800 million Series C at an $8.3 billion valuation. The firm states Together AI's open-source AI platform serves thousands of paying customers, including Cursor, Cognition, and ElevenLabs.
Emergence wrote about Procore's $845 million acquisition of DroneDeploy, whose software captures and analyzes job-site imagery from drones and ground robots for construction. Emergence led DroneDeploy's Series A in 2015, and partner Kevin Spain held a board seat through the company's decade-long run.
Founder Gordon Ritter published a thesis post revisiting the firm's 2016 Coaching Networks idea, arguing that the durable advantage in enterprise AI is the proprietary learning loop a company builds on top of foundation models rather than the models themselves.