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Venture Capital Intelligence
Firms, funds, partners, companies and rounds from sworn filings, firm sites and announcements, kept as a graph with a date and a source on every edge. Facts, inferences and estimates are labelled as such. A fund target is never a close, GAV is never dry powder, and a round size is never an investor’s check.
Firms / E12 Venture Capital, LLC
E12 Venture Capital, LLC
Building unprecedented value through the power of partnership with the vision to create trillions of opportunities.
name or self-description says seed
Importance
22
moderate
Active deployment
8
low
Emerging
57
elevated
Completeness
69
high
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
19
moderate
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- Los Altos, CAadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- 110 FIRST STREET, Los Altos, CA, 94022adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- 650-628-8062adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- https://www.e12.ventures/
- SEC adviser type
- exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- venture capital fund adviseradviserinfo.sec.govItem 2.B(1): advises solely venture capital funds
- Latest Form ADV
- May 29, 2026
- Private funds reported
- 1 (1 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $96.7Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- Owners on Schedule A
- Norinchukin Bank (Member Of E12 Venture Capital, Llc), NA; Mitsui & Co. Global Investment Ltd (Member Of E12 Venture Capital, Llc), C; Morado Ventures, LLC (Member Of E12 Venture Capital, Llc), C
- business phone
- 650-763-3380adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
- business phone
- 650-628-8062adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
2 observed deals
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- ai, fintech, healthcare, climate, hardware, robotics, logistics, industrial, agtech
- Stages
- seed, early
- Geography
- global
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
- Self-described
- seed
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation: no observed deals yet
Stage at first entry: no observed deals yet
Sectors
unknown 50%Other Technology 50%
lead rate n/afollow-on rate n/anew logos, 12 months 2
Funds and vehicles
1 reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E12 Venture Capital Fund I, L.P. | Fund | unknown | Unknown | $105M Apr 30, 2024 | 5 | $0 of $110M | Nov 10, 2022 |
GAV is the gross asset value the adviser reported on Form ADV for the vehicle, never the fund’s committed size and never dry powder. Form D sold is the amount sold as of the latest filing, never a final close.
Investment team
13 current, 0 departed
Ash Patel
Managing partnerCo-Managing Partner
Kenjiro (Ken) Watanabe
Managing partnerCo-Managing Partner
Mike Marquez
Managing partnerCo-Managing Partner
Ashvinkumar Parbhoobhai Patel
PartnerManager Of E12 Venture Capital, Llc · since Aug 1, 2022
Henry Sohn
PartnerPartner
Masaji Matsuoka
PartnerManaging Director
Michael James Marquez
PartnerManager Of E12 Venture Capital, Llc · since Nov 1, 2022
Patrick McGill
PartnerPartner
Indri Ongko
Platform and operationsChief Financial Officer
Paulina Szyzdek
PrincipalPrincipal
Toshihiro Terada
PrincipalPrincipal
Yukitaka Kojima
PrincipalPrincipal
Irene Mingozzi
Venture partnerVenture Partner
Investments on record
2 edges, 2 companies, 0 partner-attributed
| Company | Round | Role | Partner | Round size | This investor | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tortuga | portfolio listing | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact Venture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages) |
| Unspun, PBC | portfolio listing | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | Sep 16, 2026 | Fact Venture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages) |
“This investor” is the amount disclosed for this investor alone; it is unknown unless a source said it. The round size is the whole round.
Co-investors
1 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
Limited partners
0 disclosed
No LP commitment on record. An LP edge needs a public disclosure with a quote: a pension report (see Limited partners for the plans read), a fund announcement naming the LP, or a Form ADV owner. The fund page carries the LP’s reported performance.
Timeline
4 dated events
- Sep 15, 2026E12 Venture Capital, LLC: INSTITUTIONAL_VC -> SEED_FUND_MANAGER (name or self-description says seed)Classification changedClassificationInferenceno URL
- Mar 30, 2023E12 Venture Capital, LLC first filed Form ADV (ERA, venture capital fund adviser exemption)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 30, 2023E12 Venture Capital Fund I, L.P. first reported on Form ADV by E12 Venture Capital, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $105,000,000Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactE12 Venture Capital Fund I, L.P.SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Nov 1, 2022Michael James Marquez joined Schedule A of E12 Venture Capital, LLC as Manager Of E12 Venture Capital, Llc
Classification history
- Sep 15, 2026Seed fund manager (confirmed, 95%, cls-1)name or self-description says seed
- Sep 12, 2026Institutional venture firm (confirmed, 95%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $105M across 1 vehicles
Evidence
47 observations from 3 sources