Kat Orekhova

CEO at Vareto | GP at Darkmode Ventures

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2020
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Aug 2019
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2019
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Investor & Advisor
2019
Spacejoy is an Accel-funded, fast-growing startup based out of the Bay Area, California. We are building the future of home designs by weaving art and interactive 3D technology to enable the joy of designing homes in simple and easy steps. Download the app (on IOS and Android) to experience designing actual spaces in 3D. Everything that a customer sees in the design can be shopped in our partner platform or at Spacejoy itself.
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2021
General Partner
Apr 2021
Darkmode Ventures is an early-stage fund managed by 3 startup founders: Amir Shevat, Kat Orekhova, and Raphael Danilo. We have a “by builders for builders” ethos and invest in the next generation of enterprise software companies with a focus on developer platforms, AI/ML, and the modern data stack. We invest $100K-$200K checks at the early stage (Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A.) Select portfolio companies include: Drata, Merge, Bluesky, Tabnine and Puzzle.
2020
Angel Track
Jun 2020
First Round is a venture capital firm that works with founders exclusively at the earliest stages of company building, often when all they have is an “imagine if.” We fill in where we can until the team is filled out, tackling crucial early hiring and equipping those who are great at building product with the skills to sell it, too. By getting the foundational firsts right, we increase the odds of finding extreme product-market fit. Our founders’ “imagine ifs” have turned into companies like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square.
Sequoia Capital Scout
May 2020
Sequoia helps daring founders build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. We aim to be the first true believers in tomorrow’s most valuable and enduring businesses. We partner with a few outliers each year and go all-in, providing them with the hands-on help required at every stage of the company building journey. Our expertise comes from 50 years of working with legendary founders like Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Jan Koum, Adi Tatarko, Brian Chesky, Jensen Huang, Anne Wojcicki, Eric Yuan, Patrick Collison, Julia Hartz, and Sebastian Siemiatkowski. In aggregate, Sequoia-backed companies account for more than 25% of NASDAQs total value. Since our inception, the vast majority of the money we invest has been on behalf of nonprofits and schools like the Ford Foundation, Mayo Clinic and MIT, which means most of the returns we generate benefit these great causes.
Co-Founder & CEO
Apr 2020
Vareto is a strategic finance platform built for enterprise and growth-stage companies. We automate and streamline routine work so FP&A teams can focus on driving the business forward. Were proudly backed by industry-leading investors, executives, and finance teams.
2019
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Aug 2019
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