PWV (formerly Preston-Werner Ventures) is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm led by Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder of GitHub. The firm backs category-defining software- and AI-driven companies at the pre-seed and seed stages. In 2025, the firm was rebranded from Prestonon-Werner Ventures to PWV and announced PWV Fund I, targeting $100M.
Their most common stage is seed (48% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $17.1M (across 19 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
18
Fund Size
$100M
Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
0
Team
DT
David Thyresson
Cofounder & General Partner
DS
David S. Price
Investor
TP
Tom Preston-Werner
Cofounder
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
23 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Earthmover | Seed | $7.2M | Sep 2025 |
 Aalo | Series B | $100M | Aug 2025 |
| CCommutator Studios | Unknown | — | Jul 2025 |
| CCommutator Studios | Unknown | — | Jun 2025 |
 Myriad AI | Seed | $7.8M | Jan 2025 |
| Earthmover | Seed | $7.2M | Jan 2025 |
 Brightband | Series A | $10M | Sep 2024 |
 Inngest | Seed | $6.1M | Jan 2024 |
 Freeplay | Seed | $3.3M | Nov 2023 |
 Flux | Seed | $12M | Oct 2021 |
 eTheRNA | Series B | — | Jun 2020 |
 Netlify | Series C | $53M | Mar 2020 |
| LL'école AI | Seed | $3M | — |
 Aalo Atomics | Series A | $27M | — |
 BuildPass | Seed | $7.5M | — |
| AAlinia AI | Pre-Seed | $2.4M | — |
| Aalo | Series A | $27M | — |
 Cleanlab | Series A | — | — |
 Chatterbug | Series A | $8M | — |
 Unkey | Seed | $4.5M | — |
 Elicit | Series A | $22M | — |
| Elicit | Seed | $9M | — |
| AAlinia AI | Seed | $7.5M | — |
Top Co-Investors
Garage Capital3 shared
Crosscut Ventures3 shared
Alumni Ventures3 shared
Harpoon Ventures3 shared
Gaingels3 shared
Valor Equity Partners3 shared
Y Combinator3 shared
Wayfinder Ventures2 shared
VamosVentures2 shared
Speedinvest2 shared
Precursor Ventures2 shared
Blue Sky2 shared
Bain Capital Ventures2 shared
Essence VC2 shared
Fifty Years2 shared
Costanoa Ventures2 shared
Lowercarbon Capital2 shared
Basis Set Ventures2 shared
Kleiner Perkins1 shared
EQT Ventures1 shared
Last updated: 8 November 2026