Casey Caruso
Founder, Topology Ventures
About
Casey Caruso is an American venture capitalist and former software engineer best known as the founder and solo general partner of Topology Ventures, a San Francisco-based early-stage firm she launched in 2024 with a $75 million debut fund focused on frontier technologies including AI, decentralized networks, neurotechnology, aerospace, and robotics. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree (2022), Caruso began writing open-source code at 15, mined cryptocurrency to fund early angel investments, worked as an engineer at Google, served as Bessemer Venture Partners' crypto specialist, and was an investment partner at Paradigm before striking out on her own—drawing backing from notables like Marc Andreessen, an OpenAI cofounder, and Paris Hilton.
