Who We Are
Tensility Venture Partners is a seed-stage venture capital firm that partners with mission-driven founders of early-stage enterprise AI startups, with a focus on software for cyber security and digital health, as well as novel, vertical-focused applications for artificial intelligence. |
What does Tensility Mean?
Flexibility with underlying strength. This means that we learn and adapt to new ideas and circumstances, but we approach investing and company building from a deep base of experience. We, Wayne and Armando, started in venture on the same day in June 2000. We have successfully invested and helped build portfolio companies across multiple industries. We have achieved profitable exits through major financial events such as the Dotcom crash, the 2008 recession, and other ups and downs. We each separately learned at MIT and CalTech to rigorously examine both our successes and failures to improve our desired outcomes. This has led us to the investment strategy we are pursuing at Tensility. |
What We Do
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We seed and grow companies that will revolutionize business by delivering the promise of AI to the enterprise. We look for entrepreneurs that do what has never been done before.
We invest in three areas:
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Open source democratized the access to leading edge technologies. Big data and cloud brought low cost compute cycles to bear on huge data sets. Now we will see advancements from smarter software to create incredible functionality.
We believe in relevant, "right" data, not the analysis of all possible data. Insightful entrepreneurs know that great efficiency and knowledge can be gleaned by looking only at the most useful data sources, while ignoring irrelevant ones.
We believe that it is important to listen to entrepreneurs, to our portfolio company leaders, to our advisers, to our co-investors and fellow board members, and to our team. While we do provide honest and constructive feedback, we are experienced enough to know that we alone do not have all the answers.
We believe in pioneering entrepreneurs that can transform industries. While good companies can come from evolutionary strategies that improve upon the status quo, we prefer bold new ideas that can change the landscape.
We believe our model for venture creates the best possible outcomes for both the entrepreneurs and our entrepreneurial limited partners. We stress a commitment to learning, transparency, and optionality.
We believe that it is important to listen to entrepreneurs, to our portfolio company leaders, to our advisers, to our co-investors and fellow board members, and to our team. While we do provide honest and constructive feedback, we are experienced enough to know that we alone do not have all the answers.
We believe in pioneering entrepreneurs that can transform industries. While good companies can come from evolutionary strategies that improve upon the status quo, we prefer bold new ideas that can change the landscape.
We believe our model for venture creates the best possible outcomes for both the entrepreneurs and our entrepreneurial limited partners. We stress a commitment to learning, transparency, and optionality.
What We Love
If you are an entrepreneur raising a seed or seed+ round and leveraging data and artificial intelligence to improve people's lives and the way they work, then we would love to connect with you! We love bold, new ideas.