Enterprise Technology Fund · Founded 2025

Built by
Operators,
for Founders.

We back early-stage enterprise technology founders before most funds will take the meeting, with capital, technical credibility, and a genuine willingness to work.

Pitch Us Our Thesis
$50K
Minimum Check
$500K
Maximum Check
Pre-seed
Investment Stage
4
Core Focus Areas

"We have spent our careers inside the enterprise systems founders are now trying to replace. That context is the whole point."

Investment Focus

What We
Invest In

We invest in a narrow band of territory we know well: the infrastructure and software layers that large organizations depend on, and where getting the technology right actually matters.

Enterprise Technology
01

Enterprise Technology

Software that sits at the core of how large organizations run, where switching costs are real and the sales motion requires genuine domain credibility.

Cloud & Datacenter Infrastructure
02

Cloud & Datacenter Infrastructure

The hardware and software layer underneath everything else: compute, storage, networking, and the systems that tie them together across cloud and on-premise environments.

Enterprise SaaS
03

Enterprise SaaS

Software sold to enterprise procurement teams, with the kind of stickiness that comes from being embedded in workflows rather than bolted on top of them.

AI / ML & Data Intelligence
04

AI / ML & Data Intelligence

The tooling and platforms that make machine learning actually work in production, data pipelines, model infrastructure, and the operational layer most teams underestimate.

Our Approach

How We Invest

We look for founders who understand the problem from the inside, people who have worked in or sold to the enterprise and can see what the existing solutions get wrong.

Stage

Idea & Pre-Seed

We get involved early, often before there is a product, when the foundational decisions about architecture, hiring, and go-to-market still have room to be shaped.

Founder Profile

Technical Depth First

We back founders who have a real point of view on the problem, usually because they have worked close enough to it to know exactly where the current tools fall short.

Check Size

$50K – $500K

We write checks sized to what the round actually needs. We keep reserves to follow on when a company is working, and we do not stretch to lead rounds where we are not adding value.

Engagement

Hands-On by Design

We are not passive capital. We get on calls with enterprise prospects, review architecture decisions, open doors where we can, and stay involved through the messy early stages.

Team collaboration Founders at work Enterprise environment

How We Help

What We
Actually Do

We have been on the operator side of most of the problems early enterprise founders run into. That means our support tends to be specific rather than advisory.

PoC and MVP Design
⬡

PoC & MVP Design

We help think through what needs to be true for a PoC to be convincing, both technically and from the buyer's perspective, and work with founders to scope it accordingly.

Operational Guidance
◎

Operational Guidance

We have navigated enterprise pricing conversations, procurement cycles, and early team builds at places like Dell, Nvidia, and Veritas. We share what actually worked.

Enterprise Network Access
⬢

Enterprise Network

We have relationships with technology buyers, procurement leads, and engineering leaders at large companies, and we make introductions when there is a genuine fit, not just a warm email.

Domain Expertise
◈

Domain Expertise

HPC, distributed storage, cloud infrastructure, MLOps: we have built and shipped in these areas. When a technical question comes up, we can usually engage with it directly rather than outsourcing the answer.

"The hardest part of selling into the enterprise is rarely the technology. It is understanding how decisions actually get made inside large organizations, and building accordingly."
— From the Lakeline Ventures investment thesis

Managing Partners

The Team

We spent our careers building enterprise systems at scale. Now we back the founders doing the same.

Abhi Dinkar, Managing Partner

Managing Partner & Co-Founder

Abhi Dinkar

Abhi Dinkar is a veteran technology executive and investor with decades of foundational expertise in high-performance computing (HPC) and complex networked storage systems, gained during his tenure at industry leaders Dell, Nvidia, and Veritas. He currently serves as the President of Acaisoft, an elite technology services firm specializing in advanced data engineering, MLOps, and scalable AI/ML infrastructure solutions.

Prior to his current roles, Abhi co-founded CloudLanes, an innovative data-platform company. At CloudLanes, he pioneered systems for seamless multi-cloud data governance, orchestration, and lifecycle management across distributed data centers, public clouds, and cold-storage topologies.

HPC & Storage AI / MLOps Cloud Infrastructure Data Engineering Enterprise GTM
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Adam Nowaczyk, Managing Partner

Managing Partner & Co-Founder

Adam Nowaczyk

Adam is a software engineer and engineering leader who has spent over fifteen years building enterprise systems. He started his career at IBM and Motorola before moving into architecture and leadership roles, and holds an MSc in Computer Science from AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków.

As CEO of Acaisoft, he has built the firm into a software delivery partner for companies ranging from early-stage startups to large enterprises across the US and Europe. His work spans full-stack architecture, data platform engineering, and MLOps, areas where he can engage with portfolio founders at a technical level from the first conversation.

Enterprise Software Cloud-Native Delivery Full-Stack Architecture MLOps Engineering Leadership
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Get in Touch

Let's Talk

We invest at the idea stage. If you are a technical founder working on an enterprise problem and want a conversation with people who have been inside these systems, reach out.

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