Portfolio 79
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
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| May 22, 2023 | Levo | levo.ai | United States, California, Pleasanton | |
| May 19, 2023 | Unify | unify.ai | $48M | United States |
| May 6, 2023 | Orb | withorb.com | $39M | United States, California, San Francisco |
| May 6, 2023 | Chroma | trychroma.com | ||
| May 6, 2023 | flox | floxdev.com | $27M | |
| Apr 21, 2023 | unstructured.io | unstructured.io | $65M | United States, California, Loomis |
| Apr 21, 2023 | jaifluxninja | fluxninja.com | United States, California, San Francisco | |
| Apr 21, 2023 | Vectara | vectara.com | $53.5M | United States, California, Cupertino |
| Apr 21, 2023 | Mage | mage.ai | $6.3M | United States, California, Santa Clara |
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Mentions in press and media 6
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| Oct 7, 2026 | Swiss-US company Namespace closes USD 42 Series B round | Coding agents mean the next 100 billion commits are arriving faster than anyone planned for, and they need infrastructure built for one thing: performance. Hyperscalers like AWS and GCP optimize for production workloads, not for the coding... |
| Jun 29, 2023 | Seattle venture firm Essence VC raises $27M to back technical infrastructure startups | Timothy Chen is the managing partner of Essence VC, a Seattle venture capital fund that just landed $27 million. (Essence VC Photo) Seattle pre-seed venture capital firm Essence VC says it has raised $27 million for its third fund to back e... |
| Jun 2, 2022 | Pitch Deck Teardown: Encore’s $3M seed deck | For this week’s Pitch Deck Teardown, I’m (virtually) traveling to Sweden to take a look at the $3 million seed round raised by developer tool startup Encore. The company is creating what it calls a software development platform for the clou... |
| Apr 19, 2022 | Enabling developers to build new cloud backends in minutes lands Encore with $3 million | Sweden-based backend development engine improving the developer experience in a multi-cloud world, Encore has raised $3 million in funding. The investment was led by Crane Venture Partners with participation from Acequia Capital, Essence Ve... |
| Enabling developers to build new cloud backends in minutes lands Encore with $3 million | Sweden-based backend development engine improving the developer experience in a multi-cloud world, Encore has raised $3 million in funding. The investment was led by Crane Venture Partners with participation from Acequia Capital, Essence Ve... |
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FAQ about Essence VC
How many startups has Essence VC invested in?
Essence VC has 79 portfolio companies on Parsers VC, among them Levo, Unify and Orb.
What has the press written about Essence VC?
Parsers VC has collected 6 articles mentioning Essence VC, among them “Swiss-US company Namespace closes USD 42 Series B round” (Oct 7, 2026) and “Seattle venture firm Essence VC raises $27M to back technical infrastructure startups” (Jun 29, 2023).
Is Essence VC still active?
Yes, Essence VC is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 7, 2026.