The rounds this investor is named on, who it invests beside, and where it shows up.
Named on 5 rounds in the feed, most often at Seed and in AI.
Essence is an early stage venture fund focused on the core primitives of the future.
Venture capitalessencevc.fundRounds from 2024-06-10 to 2026-10-29
| Company | Round | Amount | Announced | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Phonic A speech-to-speech model for agentic tasks | Series A Verified against 1 of 38 sources | $27.5M | 2026-10-29 | [ PART ] |
Monid A unified checkout platform for AI agents | Seed Verified against 4 of 9 sources | $7.7M |
| 2026-10-06 |
| [ PART ] |
Namespace Labs A developer platform that offers fast coding, build, and test environments across Mac, Windows, and Linux | Series B Verified against 4 of 27 sources | $42M | 2026-10-05 | [ PART ] |
Fearn AI-powered patent law firm | Seed Verified against 13 of 16 sources[ REPORTED LATER ]: This round was announced before Fireround first saw it. It stays in the company's history, not in Latest, Trending, or alerts. | $5.5M | 2026-06-10 | [ PART ] |
Restate Restate is a low-latency application runtime with durable execution, keyed state, queues, RPC, timers, flow control, and operational control in one binary. | Seed Verified against 2 sources[ HISTORY ]: An earlier round, from the company's own announcement, found while researching the company. Checked like any round, but not new, so it stays out of the daily feed and alerts; a date range shows it. | $7M | 2024-06-10 | [ PART ] |