Tango.vc

Tango.vc is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by solo GP Ivan Kirigin, based in Redwood City, California. It invests in pre-seed and seed-stage startups across artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics, structured as a fully public 506(c) fund with transparent, publicly shared fund mechanics and performance. Kirigin brings deep technical and operating experience, having studied robotics at Carnegie Mellon, driven growth at Dropbox, and sold his startup YesGraph to Lyft, where he later worked on autonomous driving simulation at Lyft Level 5. The firm typically writes $100K to $250K checks, backing over 50 companies across Fund I and Fund II combined, including Terraform Industries, Clone Robotics, Vici Robotics, Adagy Robotics, Superfocus, and Lovable, which later raised a Series B. Kirigin's earliest angel investment, Cruise Automation, returned 62x. Tango's investment approach favors deep technical diligence over committee-based decision-making, with Kirigin personally vetting each deal much like an angel investor rather than a traditional VC firm. Fund III is currently active, targeting $25M and continuing to write $100K checks into AI, ML, and robotics companies at the preseed and seed stages.