Pre-seed and seed investors in enterprise technology · US & Europe

We see the future of enterprise AI before the market does.

Furnace Ventures is a seed-stage fund backing bold founders at the intersection of AI and enterprise — leveraging the Furnace Group Media network as the leader and aggregator of the enterprise AI ecosystem.

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200+

Corporate partners

2×/yr

Flagship summit

100+

C-level network

1,000+

Founder relationships

About

We invest in AI companies that solve validated enterprise problems, leveraging one of the largest enterprise AI executive communities to help founders reach product-market fit faster.

We discover and support founders based on our deep insights, network, and expertise into enterprise AI transformation and innovation, through the Furnace Group Media platform of companies and ecosystems.

Our Edge

The Furnace Advantage

A rich ecosystem cultivated through Furnace Group Media — a unique edge in sourcing and validation.

Furnace Group Media

A media, research, and intelligence firm supporting Fortune 500 enterprise leaders with AI transformation and innovation — including the Chief AI Council, a network of AI C-suite leaders.

AI Hot 100 Summits

Enterprise AI summits bringing together the leaders navigating enterprise AI transformation — putting us in the room with the buyers shaping enterprise AI adoption.

The AI Furnace

An AI innovation community network, with curated founder dinners, salons, and hackathons.

Media Exposure

A 30,000+ subscriber AI newsletter.

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Our Focus

Where AI meets enterprise.

We invest at the intersection — AI capability applied to the complexity of real enterprises.

Artificial Intelligence

Allocation to AI infrastructure and vertical AI applications — from foundational models to agentic workflows — reshaping how work gets done.

Enterprise

Our edge and expertise in enterprise helps us discover and support vertical, horizontal, and infrastructure products being applied to complex industries and organizations.

Our Model

Validation before capital. Acceleration after.

Pre-Investment

Validate

We validate AI founders using our C-level partner network — pressure-testing product and problem-fit with the enterprise leaders who would actually buy it. This is paired with our unique methodology for analyzing founder characteristics.

Post-Investment

GTM Acceleration

We accelerate AI founders and their go-to-market using our C-level partner network and our media platform — warm introductions, executive validation, and platform exposure based on our unique wedge in the enterprise AI market.