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Category Ventures
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Category Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm partnering with founders to build category defining companies. We lead seed rounds in enterprise software startups (infra, dev tools, apps, AI).
https://www.categoryvc.com/
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A wonderful article on our launch.
Bulgaria-born investor Villi Iltchev had to scrap his way to Silicon Valley. Then he became one of its top investors, turning $20M into $900M+ backing GitLab early on.

Now Iltchev has raised $160M for his own debut pre-seed and seed fund, Category Ventures. I spoke to him about it for @forbes.com.
This ‘Immigrant Kid’ Turned Early GitLab Investor Now Has A $160 Million Debut Venture Fund
Bulgaria-born Villi Iltchev, a former Salesforce and Box executive, plans to invest in pre-seed and seed enterprise software businesses from new fund Category Ventures.
www.forbes.com
A wonderful article on our launch.
Bulgaria-born investor Villi Iltchev had to scrap his way to Silicon Valley. Then he became one of its top investors, turning $20M into $900M+ backing GitLab early on.

Now Iltchev has raised $160M for his own debut pre-seed and seed fund, Category Ventures. I spoke to him about it for @forbes.com.
This ‘Immigrant Kid’ Turned Early GitLab Investor Now Has A $160 Million Debut Venture Fund
Bulgaria-born Villi Iltchev, a former Salesforce and Box executive, plans to invest in pre-seed and seed enterprise software businesses from new fund Category Ventures.
www.forbes.com
December 17, 2024 at 5:18 PM