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Jul 10, 2017

Building Root Ventures: Retro Power Mac G5 Hackintosh

Rescuing a trashed retro Apple computer.

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Jan 29, 2018

So you want a flamethrower

Elon Musk’s the Boring Company recently went viral selling a flamethrower…

Avidan Ross in Root Ventures

Dec 4, 2017

The best office coffee you’ll ever have.

Engineering in pursuit of the perfect espresso shot.

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Jul 15, 2020

The Hidden Costs of Hardware

An explanation of the indirect costs associated with shipping a consumer…

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Aug 23, 2022

Announcing Root Ventures Fund III: $150M for technical founders

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Feb 9, 2018

Why Facebook can’t be WeChat

Hint: liberty and greed

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Avidan Ross in Root Ventures

Jul 26, 2018

Root Ventures' Second Act

We raised a mach1 sized fund to hook up our fellow engineers

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Jun 26, 2017

The Root Ventures Conference Cabin Part I

Building a conference room in a log cabin from scratch.

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Sep 11, 2018

Welcoming Lee Edwards to Root Ventures

Angel investor Lee Edwards joins Root Ventures to invest in…

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Oct 20, 2017

Welcoming Chrissy Meyer to Root Ventures

Chrissy brings over a decade of hardware engineering…

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Root Ventures is a $325M seed stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco. We invest in technical teams at the earliest stages, focusing on founders building products at the frontier of technology and founders building the tools to make it all possible. Learn more at https:

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