Venture CapitalPavestone VC
Pavestone VC backs early-stage technology companies across enterprise SaaS, fintech, deeptech, and frontier sectors like spacetech and defencetech, writing focused cheques at pre-seed through Series A stages where technical differentiation is a core moat.
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Pavestone VC backs early-stage technology companies across enterprise SaaS, fintech, deeptech, and frontier sectors like spacetech and defencetech, writing focused cheques at pre-seed through Series A stages where technical differentiation is a core moat.
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Pavestone VC is a venture capital firm that invests across a broad technology spectrum, with particular conviction in areas that require technical depth and long-term category building. The firm operates two distinct cheque structures: a flagship range of $3–8 million targeting pre-Series A to Series B companies, and a dedicated frontier tech bucket of $1–2 million for pre-seed to pre-Series A startups working in domains like space tech, defence tech, and deeptech. Beyond frontier sectors, Pavestone is actively interested in enterprise SaaS serving both large organisations and SMBs, fintech, logistics, healthtech, cleantech, web3, and developer tools. This breadth means the firm can engage founders across varied verticals while maintaining a clear preference for businesses where technology is the primary differentiator rather than distribution or marketing alone. For Indian founders, Pavestone represents a firm that is genuinely open to capital-intensive, longer-gestation bets in hard tech alongside faster-cycle software businesses. Founders who have a clear technical edge, a credible path to global markets, and are raising at pre-Series A or earlier are well-positioned to approach Pavestone. The firm's dual-bucket model also makes it accessible at multiple points in a company's early journey.
The firm operates two distinct cheque structures: a flagship range of $3–8 million targeting pre-Series A to Series B companies, and a dedicated frontier tech bucket of $1–2 million for pre-seed to pre-Series A startups working in domains like space tech, defence tech, and deeptech.
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Defence teach, space tech, enterprise tech, deep tech
Investment criteria
atleast 600k - $1mn in revenue for B2B enterprise tech bucket/ technology wise for Moonshots - , Rounds of internal due diligence on PMF,GTM,Product/platform etc
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