Derive Ventures

Derive Ventures' investment decisions are led by the firm's founding partners, who maintain a flat decision-making structure. All partners participate in investment committee reviews, with no external advisory board or limited partner influence on individual deal selection. Specific partner names have not been publicly disclosed by the firm in detail beyond limited regulatory filings.

Derive sources deal flow through the operator networks of its founding partners, who previously held executive roles at venture-backed enterprise startups. The firm also cultivates relationships with product and engineering leaders at major technology companies, creating an early-access pipeline to spinout founding teams. Derive does not operate a scout program or publish formal thematic research for inbound sourcing.

Derive Ventures operates as a fully structured venture capital firm raising committed institutional funds rather than executing deal-by-deal syndicates. The firm charges standard venture fund management fees and carried interest, with capital called from limited partners on a portfolio-wide basis. Derive does not publicly market individual SPV opportunities to outside co-investors.

Derive Ventures tends to avoid capital-intensive sectors including life sciences, hardware, clean energy, and deep-tech that require non-software R&D. The firm also does not participate in consumer internet, gaming, or media/content investments, maintaining a strict enterprise technology mandate. Geographic avoidance of non-US markets, with rare exceptions for companies headquartered in the United States with global go-to-market.