California Technology Ventures

California Technology Ventures (CTV) is a US-based venture firm with a multi-decade track record investing across information technology, healthcare, life sciences, and enabling technologies. The firm’s positioning is generalist within tech and healthcare and they have historically backed both software and life-sciences companies, with selective bets on medical devices, diagnostics, and digital health. Stage focus is typically Series A and Series B, though CTV has the flexibility to participate at seed and growth in the right situations. Check sizes are plausibly $1M to $5M per round, with capacity to follow on. For healthcare AI founders, CTV is most relevant if you have validated science or commercial traction and are looking for a generalist healthcare-aware co-investor that can complement a domain-specialist lead. Founders who should approach: clinical AI, diagnostics, digital health, and medtech founders with a credible US commercial pathway and real data behind the platform; teams looking for a steady, long-track-record investor rather than a category-defining brand. Founders who should not approach: pre-seed teams without traction, founders whose round absolutely requires a specialist lead with deep therapeutic-area expertise, and consumer-only digital health plays without a B2B angle. CTV’s value-add is institutional patience, follow-on capital discipline, and a pragmatic operating posture; it is not high-touch operator engagement at the level of the most active digital-health funds. Entry path is warm introduction through portfolio CEOs, co-investors, and the California life-sciences network. Their LinkedIn and Crunchbase pages list partners and portfolio. Be prepared for a longer diligence process than the brand-name digital-health funds.