Pre-Seed to Succeed

VC Sacramento, United States · Founded 2023

Pre-Seed to Succeed (P2S) is an early-stage investment program and venture capital firm that provides initial funding, structured fundraising guidance, and a 50% follow-on commitment for subsequent rounds. The firm targets early-stage startups with a working MVP and initial traction, focusing on sectors such as B2B/SaaS, FinTech, AI, and Digital Health.

About Pre-Seed to Succeed

Pre-Seed to Succeed, with website at p2s.vc, is a venture vehicle whose name explicitly signals first-money-in pre-seed positioning. The source data carries no disclosed healthcare thesis, sub-vertical focus, AI angle, geography or check size. Founders should treat the firm as a generalist pre-seed candidate, with plausible check sizes in the $50K to $500K range as a participant in earliest-stage rounds and limited capacity to lead larger seed rounds. The fund is most plausibly a fit for very early-stage digital health, healthcare IT, wellness and consumer-health founders where the firm can underwrite team and idea risk and the round structure accommodates small participatory checks. Therapeutics, regulated devices, diagnostics and any capital-intensive healthcare business are poor fits at this stage and check size. Healthcare AI founders pitching Pre-Seed to Succeed should expect to drive the regulatory, clinical and reimbursement education themselves, and should not assume the firm comes with sector-specific operating muscle, hospital relationships or payer access. The realistic entry path is direct LinkedIn outreach to firm principals, ideally warmed by a fellow founder or angel, with a tight pitch focused on team quality, problem clarity and earliest-stage capital efficiency. In a first conversation, founders should clarify fund size, lead capacity at pre-seed, average check, current deployment pace, healthcare exposure in the existing portfolio and what hands-on support the firm offers beyond capital. Treat as a list-builder candidate for pre-seed rounds, not a primary lead investor target for healthcare-specific raises.

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Igor Ryabenkiy
Managing Partner at AltaIR Capital / Founding Partner
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Sergei Bogdanov
Managing Partner at Yellow Rocks! / Founding Partner
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Nikolay Kirpichnikov
Managing Partner at Smart Partnership Capital / Founding Partner
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Alexander Korchevsky
Managing Partner at I2BF Global Ventures / Founding Partner
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Denis Kalyshkin
Principal at I2BF Global Ventures and Program Manager
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Last updated 2026-05-06. Sourced from this fund's published materials.
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