Venture Partner at Necessary Ventures
Check size: $1M-$2M when leading pre-seed rounds; the firm also participates from pre-seed through pre-IPO.
Deepa Sheth invests or supports investments through Necessary Ventures's published strategy: Back ambitious founders across deep tech, hard tech and AI who address fundamental needs in healthcare, reindustrialization, climate, finance and education.
Define why the problem is necessary, the technical or market insight, evidence, commercialization path and how the requested capital changes the trajectory.
Mission-driven founders using defensible technology to solve a necessary, large-scale problem with both commercial and societal value.
No categorical pass list is public; incremental products without a fundamental need, defensible technology or large outcome appear less aligned.