Monthly Ventures

Monthly Ventures is a San Francisco boutique seed-stage venture capital fund founded in 2013 by Yuri Rabinovich. Closely associated with the Startup Monthly community Rabinovich built in the Bay Area, the firm operates as an entrepreneur-led micro-fund with a sweet-spot check size of approximately USD 100,000 and a stated range of $50,000 to $200,000. The fund targets early-stage companies at pre-seed and seed stages across enterprise applications, consumer, and enterprise infrastructure, with the majority of investments in the United States and selective coverage in Romania and the United Kingdom. Over its active deployment period Monthly Ventures backed 16 early-stage startups that collectively went on to raise roughly USD 26 million in follow-on funding. Across 11 disclosed portfolio companies the firm has recorded one exit. The most prominent portfolio name is Lenda, a digital mortgage originator that raised USD 11.5 million across nine rounds before being acquired by Reali in April 2019 — the firm's most notable realized investment. Additional portfolio names include Proto. Managing Partner Yuri Rabinovich has since launched a successor vehicle, VNTR Capital, which serves as his primary investing platform. Monthly Ventures itself has been largely dormant in terms of new-investment activity in recent years. The fund's small scale, fee-light structure, and founder-community roots reflect the micro-VC model common to the early 2010s Bay Area ecosystem.