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Ulu Ventures
Venture capital · Palo Alto, CA, United States · North America
Ulu Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests exclusively at the seed stage. It applies decision-analysis methods to evaluate market opportunity and risk/reward, and it emphasizes funding diverse founding teams.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsenterprise softwarefuture of workfintechedtechblockchaindigital health
Your fit with Ulu Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsUlu Ventures lists 154 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 6 funding rounds, 3 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 80% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (18%), Healthcare & Biotech (16%) and Fintech (14%). 92% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside StartX, Western Technology Investment and SeedFolio.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Ulu Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Ulu Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 6 companies; its own site lists 154. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 80% |
| Series A | 20% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 3 | 2 |
| '26 | 3 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 98th | 154 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 83th | 80% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 54th | 2% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 9th | 18% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 84th | 6 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 18% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 16% | 15% |
| Fintech | 14% | 12% |
| Education | 12% | 7% |
| Enterprise Software | 7% | 8% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 7% | 6% |
| Legal & Compliance | 5% | 2% |
| Human Resources | 4% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| StartX | 23 |
| Western Technology Investment | 10 |
| SeedFolio | 8 |
| Y Combinator | 8 |
| PearX | 7 |
| Elemental Impact | 5 |
| Fin Capital | 5 |
| Techstars | 5 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers14896%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company64%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Ulu Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Ulu Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Aug 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 9 Jun 2026 | Seed | |
| 3 Oct 2025 | Round Led | |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Seed Led |
Round details for Ulu Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Ulu Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
154 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company provides infrastructure and solutions for private markets investing, enabling efficient capital flows between wealth advisors and asset managers. | FintechHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| AltitudeIQ builds autonomous agents that deploy and run SAP and enterprise systems, along with a data-quality engine to maintain them. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Arch Systems provides AI solutions for manufacturing and smart factory systems. | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Attivare Therapeutics develops personalized cancer immunotherapy treatments using artificial intelligence and biomaterials | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Avatour provides a 360° video collaboration platform for remote teams to collaborate on-site without travel. | Real Estate & ConstructionEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Avela provides software for K-12 school enrollment and admissions management. | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Axiom Cloud develops software for refrigeration and HVAC management | Industrial & ManufacturingEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Backer builds financial infrastructure and consumer experiences to help families invest in their kids' education through 529 plans. | FintechEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Banyan Infrastructure provides software for project finance management | FintechEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Beam Impact provides a values-based marketing engine to help brands acquire and retain customers | E-commerce & MarketplacesSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| BetterUp offers a platform for workforce development and performance evaluation | Human ResourcesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Big Wolf transforms original and licensed IP into engaging, cross-platform games, collectibles and comics. | Enterprise SoftwareGaming | Portfolio page | ||
| Blitzz provides remote visual assistance software for support, inspections, and jobsites. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| BloomPath brings AI into the systems frontline organizations already use, helping teams perform complex work and understand the data behind it. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Blue River Technology creates intelligent machinery that solves challenges for customers, including a solution that uses computer vision and machine learning to distinguish crops from weeds. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Boombox provides a platform for musicians to store, share, collaborate, and distribute their work. | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Bridge Money offers a debit card and app that rewards users with cash back and other incentives for everyday purchases and activities | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| BridgeUs helps professionals connect with each other at events and conferences using AI-powered networking. | AI & Machine LearningEducation | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- uluventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 10 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 154
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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