Sergio Monsalve
Founding Partner at Roble Ventures
· San Francisco, United States
Check size
$500K - $2M
Lead stage
Pre Seed
Deals tracked
11
Sectors
SaaS, Consumer Internet
SaaS
Consumer Internet
Marketplaces
Education
Cloud Infrastructure
Future of work
Pre Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B
United States
North America
About Sergio
Sergio Monsalve is Founding Partner of Roble Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm focused on the future of work. With over 13 years of experience at Norwest Venture Partners, he has invested in and served on the boards of multiple multi-billion dollar companies. He co-founded Stanford's Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program and teaches early-stage entrepreneurship and venture capital
Investment thesis
Seed-stage investor in future of work, marketplaces, SaaS, and AI
Sergio Monsalve is a Founding Partner at Roble Ventures deploying $500K–$2M per check into seed through Series B stage companies. The fund focuses on human enablement technologies across SaaS, consumer internet, marketplaces, education, and cloud infrastructure. Monsalve leverages a decade of venture experience at Norwest Venture Partners (where he backed Kahoot! and Udemy) combined with operational leadership at eBay, PayPal, and Portal Software to identify early-stage founders building transformative technologies
Investment philosophy
Sergio Monsalve leads Roble Ventures as a Founding Partner, backing early-stage founders building human enablement technologies that improve how people, teams, and organizations work. Roble focuses on seed and post-seed companies in workflow, upskilling, learning, workplace productivity, and AI-enabled application software, with check sizes typically in the $500K-$2M range according to investor profiles and firm materials.
Investment focus
Seed to post-seed stage companies building AI-native human enablement technologies, including workplace productivity solutions, skills development platforms, and employment discovery marketplaces. Roble invests $200K–$2M in founders solving future-of-work challenges
Areas of expertise
Recent activity
Live platform data · proprietary, citable layer
Notable portfolio
Hyperbound
Manzana verde
Dragonboat
Udemy
Adaptive Insights
Gemvara
Good.co
Motif Investing
Rafter
ZIRX
Notable deals
Udemy – E-learning marketplace with 73M students, $1.8B market cap, IPO 2021
Frequently asked
Does Sergio Monsalve invest at Pre Seed stage?
Yes. They invest at Pre Seed, Seed, Series A stage.
Their geographic focus includes United States, North America.
What is their typical check size?
Sergio Monsalve's typical check size is $500K - $2M.
They currently invest through Roble Ventures.
What sectors does Sergio Monsalve focus on?
Sergio Monsalve primarily invests in SaaS, Consumer Internet, Marketplaces, Education.
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