Ulu Ventures

Ulu Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2008 by Clint Korver and Miriam Rivera. The firm specializes in seed-stage and early-stage investments, primarily targeting technology-enabled services across various sectors, including enterprise IT, educational technology, legal informatics, digital media, mobile, IoT, FinTech, AgTech, and online advertising. Ulu Ventures focuses on opportunities within the Bay Area, particularly in the Stanford and Silicon Valley ecosystems. The firm typically collaborates with other investors to make cumulative investments ranging from $500,000 to $1 million, emphasizing a disciplined approach to decision-making that carefully weighs risk-reward trade-offs. Ulu's investment strategy aims to identify viable exit opportunities for portfolio companies as they progress through their growth stages.

Kevin Hoffberg

Venture Partner

Clint Korver

Co-Founder & Managing Director

Stephen V. Reale

Venture Partner

Miriam Rivera

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director

Nancy Torres

Principal

Past deals in Smart Home

Span

Series A in 2020
Span.IO, Inc. develops and supplies renewable energy products for homes. It offers smart electrical panels that replace the electrical panel to become the center for connected power in the homes. The company also provides The Span, an application that enables users to understand and control their home energy from anywhere and at any time; and is used for scheduling and get alerts. It serves homeowners through installers, technology providers, and energy companies. Span.IO, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Span

Seed Round in 2018
Span.IO, Inc. develops and supplies renewable energy products for homes. It offers smart electrical panels that replace the electrical panel to become the center for connected power in the homes. The company also provides The Span, an application that enables users to understand and control their home energy from anywhere and at any time; and is used for scheduling and get alerts. It serves homeowners through installers, technology providers, and energy companies. Span.IO, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

InsideMaps

Seed Round in 2014
InsideMaps is a smartphone and tablet app that enables anyone to easily create photorealistic 3D models and virtual tours of their homes. It disrupts other available solutions through a simple, inexpensive APP designed for anyone to use. The 3D model that is created is an immersive, fast, web-based 3D environment with innovative tools to help potential home buyers visualize the interior of a home and for homeowners to try the furniture and make home improvements in their virtual home.