Cove Fund is a seed-stage venture capital fund that provides startup funding for promising new Southern California ventures. The fund is headquartered in “The Cove” at UC Irvine Beall Applied Innovation, a centrally located and vibrant gathering place for entrepreneurs, innovators and investors in the Southern California startup ecosystem.

The fund invests in early-stage technology and life science companies that demonstrate the potential to address large markets with highly differentiated products and services, and that can achieve significant value-creating inflection points with their seed funding.