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Deora Ventures

Geography: United States
Stage: Seed
Fund size: USD
Focus: AI/ML, Cloud & DevOps, Cybersecurity and Data Infrastructure
Signals: Published

N°01 / About

About Deora Ventures

AI Infrastructure — compute, memory, storage, orchestration, security, data, developer tooling - Early-Stage, Seed, Select Pre-Seed

N°02 / Thesis

Investment Focus

Location / RegionUnited States

Funding StageSeed

Industry Focus

AI/ML

Cloud & DevOps

Cybersecurity

Data Infrastructure

Developer Tools

Investor Signals Profile

active

Sweet Spot

Technical engineer-founder solving unglamorous AI infrastructure problems

AI infrastructure

enterprise SaaS

DevOps/security/data tooling

pre-seed to Series A

technical founders

production-ready AI

unglamorous infrastructure

Bullish Signals

Multiple exits: Netskope, Dynatrace, PayPal, Ampereexternal

1 portfolio IPO confirmedexternal

Diligence includes intro to net-new customersexternal

Part of Venture5 network — broad deal flowexternal

$100k–$500k checks, flexible instrumentsexternal

Active portfolio: agents, SIEM, inference, orchestrationexternal

Acq by Airgap/Zscaler adds security exit depthexternal

Actively investing nowwebsite

Deep first-degree enterprise network — customers, acquirerswebsite

Lead, co-lead or follow — flexible rolewebsite

Earn onto cap table via customer introductionswebsite

Portfolio breadth: agents, SIEM, workflows, inference, analyticswebsite

Portfolio company $12M Series A raise, KK/HS backedlinkedin

Network effects: strong intro/sourcing from Venture5 partnerslinkedin

Recent Series A win confirms active deploymentsocial

Contrarian Signals

Syndicate-first, fund still formingexternal

Small check size limits ownership stakesexternal

Geo limited: USA + DE onlyexternal

Founder Do's

Be a technical founder with direct domain expertise

Building AI infra: compute, storage, observability, security, orchestration

Solve latency, reliability, scalability, interoperability, trust

Open to first check through Series A

USA or DE C-Corp preferred

Founder Don'ts

Don't pitch vanity AI trends without infra depth

Don't expect rigid ownership or micromanagement

Don't skip enterprise customer traction potential

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Facts

Fund Overview

Fund SizeUSD

Saves0

Website

People

Key People

Sharran Deora; John Gannon; Victor Jakubiuk

John GannonGeneral Partner

Sharran DeoraVenture Partner

Harpreet SinghVenture Partner

Kohsuke KawaguchiVenture Partner

Victor JakubiukFounding Advisor

Jesse ScottVenture Partner

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