Somersault Ventures

The firm is led by co-founders Alex and Julia, who together set the investment strategy and make funding decisions. Alex's background spans AI software, marketplaces, EdTech, and consumer apps as an investor and former TMT banker. Julia brings operating heft from senior product roles at Twitch, YouTube, and Google, and her domain expertise shapes how the firm evaluates consumer tech and multi-sided marketplace deals.

Somersault explicitly targets two communities where it has deep and leveraged networks: founders connected to UC Berkeley and those from Central and Eastern European immigrant backgrounds. The firm's LP base is drawn from the same tech-operator ecosystem, creating a referral flywheel. Its partners' personal track records in Eastern European tech and Berkeley's alumni ecosystem give the sourcing approach a structural repeatability.

The firm focuses on the seed stage. That includes early-seed and start-up rounds for software and marketplace companies. The partners have separate individual track records in angel investing and later-stage board advisory, but the fund's institutional capital is deployed at the earliest institutional inflection points.

The firm invests across North America and Europe. Its remote-first team is anchored in San Francisco, London, and Dubai — time-zone positions that give it access to Bay Area tech, European startup corridors, and Middle Eastern capital networks. The fund does not publish a country-level allocation split.