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Sergio Monsalve

Sergio Monsalve

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Joined December 2025

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San Francisco Bay Area
Seed stage venture capital investor in future of work, marketplaces, SaaS, and AI

As the Founding Partner of Roble Ventures, I invest in early-stage startups that enable people, teams, and organizations to achieve their most ambitious work. My experience in VC comes from over 13 years at Norwest, and I have served as an investor and/or board member of various multi-billion companies that affect how people learn and work. As part of my mission to support the next generation of passionate entrepreneurs, I co-founded the Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program at Stanford, where I currently teach a course on early-stage entrepreneurship and venture capital. At Roble, we invest $200k-$2M in pre-seed to post-seed startups creating cutting-edge human enablement technologies: Workplace Productivity Solutions, Skills Development Technologies, and Employment Creation & Discovery Platforms. If you want to learn how we work with ambitious founders on a mission to build a better future of work, ping me here or visit robleventures.com/how-we-invest.

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