Altos Ventures

About Altos Ventures

Altos Ventures is a venture capital firm based in United States, focusing on Pre-Seed stage investments. The fund actively supports founders building innovative solutions in E-Commerce, SaaS, providing strategic guidance and capital to help startups scale.

Investment Focus

Location / RegionUnited States

Funding StagePre Seed

Industry Focus

Ecommerce

Saas

Investor Signals Profile

active

Sweet Spot

Deep-tech AI founders with research pedigree, seed stage

AI security

agentic AI

seed-stage

research-first

infrastructure

fintech

Bullish Signals

Led $10M seed in AI securityexternal

Co-invested with YC, Menlo, 645external

Active seed deployment, agentic AI thesisexternal

Toss Bank #1 Korea 4 consecutive yearslinkedin

Toss tops Forbes World's Best Banks 2026linkedin

Toss #1 in 6 of 7 Forbes categorieslinkedin

54,000 consumers surveyed — customer-validated ranklinkedin

Portfolio fintech now most trusted bank nationallylinkedin

Contrarian Signals

Network-gated deal access (YC overlap)external

Korea-heavy portfolio concentration risklinkedin

Founder Do's

Come with deep domain research background

Target AI/security infrastructure space

Show team with top-tier AI lab experience

Pitch agentic-era problems

Consumer-first fintech with strong retention angle

Founder Don'ts

Don't pitch traditional SaaS without AI angle

Don't skip technical depth in pitch

Don't expect quick decision — long-term lens

Key GPs & Partners

Tae Yoon

Partner

deal leadseed-stageAI focus

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Fund Overview

Fund Size$500M

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Key People

Ho Nam, Han Kim

Tae YoonPartner