Tom V.

Founder-Principal at Esalen Ventures, guiding startups to success in venture capital.

📍 Sausalito, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 92 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2026
VC🌍 United States50+ investmentsInvested this year
92
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27
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36
Mid stage
19
Late stage
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Investor Seed+
Feb 2026
Digital go-to-market has a tool for everything. In-person has a rented badge scanner and a spreadsheet. Mobly is the in-person revenue machine. One platform for the full arc of your event strategy: Scout to find the right events, Capture to scan and enrich every lead, Pulse to engage them while youre still in the same building, Host to run your activations and registration, and Insights to show which events earned their budget. Built for demand gen, field marketing, and revenue ops teams who are tired of proving event ROI two weeks after the event ended.
Private Investor
Sep 2024
ProteinQure is a biotech company focused on the design of novel exotic peptides with broad therapeutic applications. Powered by atomic-level simulations and artificial intelligence, we design dynamic peptides that take drugs straight to their target – outperforming other treatment delivery systems. By daring to deliver therapeutics in a novel way we are changing the game for drug development and bringing hope to patients with previously untreatable diseases. At ProteinQure, we pride ourselves on our unique, diverse and cross-disciplinary team that brings together experts from experimental & computational biology, machine learning and software engineering.
Private Investor - Seed
Jan 2023
At TRAXyL, we are turning every road into a digital highway with our product: FiberTRAX. FiberTRAX is the pathway for any city or town to enable a data driven future. FiberTRAX is a smarter optical fiber distribution system that can be used by municipalities, Internet service providers and anyone looking to distribute optical fiber. FiberTRAX protects fiber strands with a highly durable, road-surface bonding material that avoids the cost of trenching. Applying fiber directly to the road is more efficient, less expensive, safer and easier to install and repair than all other industry distribution techniques. This universal technology can stand alone or enhance existing networks. FiberTRAX is a “last mile” solution that provides communities and disconnected areas with the connectivity necessary for essential Internet services.
Private Investor
Sep 2022
AgVend is the leading provider of digital engagement software to serve the producer of tomorrow. Our white-labeled information and commerce portals are designed to strengthen the relationship between the ag distribution channel and their grower-customers. The AgVend team is composed of individuals with decades of experience in agriculture, digital marketing, and enterprise software for the Fortune 500. Headquartered in Austin, TX, AgVend operates a distributed organization model with local coverage in all major US and Canadian ag regions.
Angel Investor
Sep 2022
SourceMedium provides data-infrastructure-as-a-service for the Commerce vertical. Our data is used across the entire ecosystem, including by brands, B2B SaaS providers, agencies, financial services firms, and investors. By unifying data across all key sales and marketing channels, our technology delivers trustworthy and actionable insights to end-users, while also enabling a wide range of advanced data-driven capabilities.
Angel Investor - Series B+ (I invested in the Seed Round as well)
Sep 2022
Superplastic is a global entertainment brand that creates and manages a roster of world famous synthetic artists and influencers. Often seen and experienced through social media and partnerships ranging from Gucci to Fortnite and beyond. Superplastic is the leader in luxury art toys, music, fashion, and Web3, with countless collaborations and experiences positioned at the intersection of digital and physical realms. Superplastic was created by artist and entrepreneur Paul Budnitz (Kidrobot, Ello, Budnitz Bicycles). A bunch of other brilliant people of all colors, shapes, and sizes also work here. We’re located in Burlington, Vermont because it’s awesome.
Angel Investor
Sep 2022
Virgo Surgical Video Solutions provides the leading cloud video capture, management, and artificial intelligence analysis platform for endoscopic medicine. The Virgo platform is used by a range of academic, integrated, and private practice healthcare providers to advance patient care through video-based research and training initiatives. In 2021, Virgo launched a suite of tools, called VirgoTrials, which helps pharmaceutical trial sponsors and their participating trial sites accelerate patient recruitment and shorten the overall enrollment period for trials. For more information, visit https://www.virgosvs.com
Angel Investor - Series A
Jul 2022
Hammock is a technology platform that provides current account and data analysis services for the property sector. Hammock brings FinTech and PropTech together, helping landlords and property managers save time and money in the management of their finances.
Angel Investor - Seed and Series A
Jun 2022
Inspectiv's Pentesting and fully-managed Bug Bounty as a Service helps security teams discover impactful vulnerabilities before they're exploited without the complexity, cost, and hassle of traditional bug bounty and manual testing. The Inspectiv platform allows you to review prioritized vulnerability findings, filter out the noise, get the signal that matters to you, and seamlessly orchestrate your actions.
Angel Investor - Seed
May 2022
At Three Ships we believe all beauty products should be 100% natural and 100% affordable. Here’s our promise to you. 1) Utter Transparency We are proud of our ingredient list. This is why we not only list what they do for your skin, but also share the scientific studies backing each component of our formulations and where they are sourced from. 2) Love the Lab You can’t make quality natural skincare products without loving the science behind them. We research and perform iterative tests on everything that goes into our formulations. 3) More is More Our products have the highest concentrations of active ingredients ranging all the way up to 99%. This ensures that our products produce visible results, while avoiding unnecessary fillers. 4) Natural (Not “Natural”) We aren’t interested in being natural with an asterisk. To us, natural means 100% plant-derived, with no artificial ingredients. We formulate according to strictest EU standards, meaning we avoid +1,400 potentially harmful chemicals.
Seed Investor
May 2022
Andi is search for the next generation using generative AI. Instead of links, Andi gives you answers - like asking a smart friend. Andi uses language models combined with live data to generate answers to questions, and to explain and summarize information combined from the best sources. Search is broken because of SEO spam, ads, and surveillance capitalism. Andi cuts through the clutter to get you straight to the knowledge you need. It presents it visually in a way thats easy to understand, and protects you from ad tech and distraction.
Private Investor - Series C
May 2022
Unit21 helps protect businesses against adversaries through a simple API and dashboard for detecting and managing money laundering, fraud, and other sophisticated risks across multiple industries.
Private Investor
Apr 2022
Gavel (formerly Documate) is an easy-to-use platform for building legal products. It allows you to automate powerful documents, conduct client intake, and create white-labeled tools that generate revenue for your firm.
Angel Investor
Apr 2022
Join us in the Melonverse
Private Investor - Series C
Mar 2022
Bambee was founded on the disruptive idea that every business should have access to an affordable human resource manager and every business can run like a Fortune 500 company.
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2026
Investor Seed+
Feb 2026
Digital go-to-market has a tool for everything. In-person has a rented badge scanner and a spreadsheet. Mobly is the in-person revenue machine. One platform for the full arc of your event strategy: Scout to find the right events, Capture to scan and enrich every lead, Pulse to engage them while youre still in the same building, Host to run your activations and registration, and Insights to show which events earned their budget. Built for demand gen, field marketing, and revenue ops teams who are tired of proving event ROI two weeks after the event ended.
2024
Private Investor
Sep 2024
ProteinQure is a biotech company focused on the design of novel exotic peptides with broad therapeutic applications. Powered by atomic-level simulations and artificial intelligence, we design dynamic peptides that take drugs straight to their target – outperforming other treatment delivery systems. By daring to deliver therapeutics in a novel way we are changing the game for drug development and bringing hope to patients with previously untreatable diseases. At ProteinQure, we pride ourselves on our unique, diverse and cross-disciplinary team that brings together experts from experimental & computational biology, machine learning and software engineering.
2023
Private Investor - Seed
Jan 2023
At TRAXyL, we are turning every road into a digital highway with our product: FiberTRAX. FiberTRAX is the pathway for any city or town to enable a data driven future. FiberTRAX is a smarter optical fiber distribution system that can be used by municipalities, Internet service providers and anyone looking to distribute optical fiber. FiberTRAX protects fiber strands with a highly durable, road-surface bonding material that avoids the cost of trenching. Applying fiber directly to the road is more efficient, less expensive, safer and easier to install and repair than all other industry distribution techniques. This universal technology can stand alone or enhance existing networks. FiberTRAX is a “last mile” solution that provides communities and disconnected areas with the connectivity necessary for essential Internet services.
2022
Private Investor
Sep 2022
AgVend is the leading provider of digital engagement software to serve the producer of tomorrow. Our white-labeled information and commerce portals are designed to strengthen the relationship between the ag distribution channel and their grower-customers. The AgVend team is composed of individuals with decades of experience in agriculture, digital marketing, and enterprise software for the Fortune 500. Headquartered in Austin, TX, AgVend operates a distributed organization model with local coverage in all major US and Canadian ag regions.
Angel Investor
Sep 2022
SourceMedium provides data-infrastructure-as-a-service for the Commerce vertical. Our data is used across the entire ecosystem, including by brands, B2B SaaS providers, agencies, financial services firms, and investors. By unifying data across all key sales and marketing channels, our technology delivers trustworthy and actionable insights to end-users, while also enabling a wide range of advanced data-driven capabilities.
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