Anorak Ventures is a seed-stage venture firm investing at pre-seed and seed in companies "building differentiated technology". The firm takes its name from the dictionary sense it quotes on its own site - "A person who has a very strong interest, perhaps obsessive, in niche subjects" - and says "We invest in Anoraks!", meaning highly specialised founders working in niches that fall inside the fund's areas. The firm's claim. It says it looks for "teams trying to solve these problems and leverage our own knowledge and connections to help them succeed", and states it has made over 120 seed-stage investments. It operates from Los Angeles and San Francisco.