VC
United States
New Fund 2025

Cambrian Ventures

Check Size
€276K – €920K

Investment Focus

Sectors

Investment Stages

Geographic Focus

Investment Thesis

Cambrian pairs capital with community for early-stage fintech founders, writing $300k to $1M+ checks and often leading as the first check at pre-seed. It covers the full fintech stack including payments, banking, lending, insurtech, wealthtech, and RegTech. A solo-GP firm run by Rex Salisbury, formerly a fintech partner at a16z.

How to Pitch Cambrian Ventures

No Stated Policy
Cambrian Ventures hasn't published an outreach policy. A short, specific cold email is the safest default.

Who To Contact

Rex Salisbury
Solo-GP
Payments
PropTech
Real Estate
Retail and E-commerce
InsurTech
BankTech
Supply Chain
Accounting and Tax

YC Portfolio Overlap

Cambrian Ventures backed 3 Y Combinator companies.

Keep
Keep

The open-source AIOps platform

Winter 2023
B2B
P
Paid

Autopilot for Accounts Receivable

Summer 2014
B2B
Rex
Rex

AI operations partner for enterprise order-to-cash

Summer 2026
B2B

Portfolio Highlights

Cambrian
OatFi
LightSpun
Keep
Oyster
Salsa
Paid
Show
Rex
Salisbury

Team

Auto-detected from Cambrian Ventures's website.

Rex Salisbury
Solo-GP

Engineer and community builder, ex-A16Z investment banker turned fintech software engineer turned fintech VC.

Payments
PropTech
Real Estate
Retail and E-commerce
InsurTech
BankTech
Supply Chain
Accounting and Tax
Checked Sept 2026

Focus and check size from the firm's website. Website reachable as of Oct 2026.

Ready to Reach Cambrian Ventures?

A fit check scores your pitch against their thesis, stage and ticket. An email draft uses their real deals and thesis, not a template.