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Unshackled Ventures
Venture capital · Palo Alto, CA, United States · North America
Unshackled Ventures is an inception-stage venture capital firm that backs immigrant founders with capital, community and fundraising support. It also provides an in-house immigration platform that handles visa filings for founders at no cost.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsimmigrant founderspre-seedfirst checkvisa supportearly stage
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Or find every investor that fitsUnshackled Ventures lists 39 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (22%), Healthcare & Biotech (20%) and Fintech (11%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Atacama Ventures and Cantos.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Unshackled 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 Unshackled Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 39. 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 | 67% |
| Series A | 33% |
| 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 77th | 39 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 80th | 67% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 64th | 5% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 22th | 22% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 22% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 20% | 15% |
| Fintech | 11% | 12% |
| Space & Defense | 8% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 6% | 7% |
| Media & Entertainment | 6% | 4% |
| Enterprise Software | 6% | 8% |
| Education | 5% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 6 |
| Atacama Ventures | 2 |
| Cantos | 2 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 2 |
| Pioneer | 2 |
| Wayfinder Ventures | 2 |
| 1517 Fund | 1 |
| 1745 Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers3795%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company25%
- 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 Unshackled 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 Unshackled Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 29 May 2026 | Seed | |
| 20 Apr 2026 | Series A | |
| 1 Apr 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Unshackled Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Unshackled Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
39 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aavia provides a period tracker and symptom relief platform for women to track and understand their hormones and cycle symptoms | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides infrastructure and solutions for private markets investing, enabling efficient capital flows between wealth advisors and asset managers. | FintechHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Apolink provides on-demand access to space for satellite operators to receive timely telemetry and send reliable commands. | Space & DefenseAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company builds a brain wearable device powered by EEG technology. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Bicycle provides AI analytics agents for revenue-critical data | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Cache Energy provides long-term energy storage solutions | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Career Karma helps users find and compare career training programs and provides guidance on career paths and skill-building plans. | EducationAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| CatalyzeX provides open-source AI code for various research applications | AI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Destro is the shared intelligence layer for autonomous warehouse and factory operations | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Dosen provides a platform for companies to assess and improve the capabilities of their employees and teams | EducationHuman Resources | Apr 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Faeth Therapeutics is developing novel therapeutics to treat cancer | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Flowbo provides funding to creators by advancing payments from platforms, brands, and sponsors | FintechEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Cohesive finds, reaches, and follows up with local businesses that traditional sales channels miss, from salons to gyms to grocery stores, all on auto-pilot. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides pricing and monetization strategy consulting services to businesses, particularly in the SaaS and AI sectors. | Space & DefenseFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Gridraster provides a spatial intelligence platform that transforms industrial manufacturing, training, and sustainment using AI. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Kwant.AI provides construction workforce management and access control software | Industrial & ManufacturingReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Lily AI provides product intelligence for e-commerce platforms to make products understandable to search engines and AI agents. | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Livedocs is an advanced AI agent for data analysis | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Luminai automates complex tasks for health systems so their teams can focus on outcomes, not obstacles. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- unshackledvc.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 1 Apr 2025
- Companies checked
- 39
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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