Essence VC

Activity from announced rounds

Activity in this selectionOct 24, 2026 · Developer tools · Jan 1, 2026
Rounds participated in
2
Confirmed lead rounds
0
1 roles undisclosed
New companies
2
First participation on record · 0 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$62M
2 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Seed1
Series B1

By primary sector

AI1
Developer tools1

By country

1
United States1

Rounds

2 in this selection
Namespace

Developer infrastructure that provides fast coding, build and test environments for software teams.

$42MSeries B
Participant
Standard Kernel

Uses AI to generate highly optimized GPU kernels for improving AI workload performance

$20MSeed
Role not disclosed