Ulu Ventures

Ulu Ventures is a leading seed-stage venture fund in Silicon Valley investing in diverse entrepreneurial teams as well as Enterprise IT, EdTech, FinTech, Healthcare, and Sustainability startups. Ulu is the first Latina-led venture fund in Silicon Valley and is one of the largest in the country with over $200M in assets under management. As well, the firm has designed its investment process to reduce risk and produce better, more consistent returns. Ulu’s process structures intuition and applies it intelligently to investments, avoiding cognitive biases common in VC; systematically identifies key drivers of risk and uncertainty, streamlining due diligence; and calculates a probability-weighted multiple(PWM) on invested capital, ensuring consistent decision-making.

Kevin Hoffberg

Venture Partner

Clint Korver

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Nancy Torres

Partner

Past deals in Crowdfunding

Assemble

Seed Round in 2022
Assemble is a compensation management platform for forward-thinking organizations. It helps companies make systematic compensation decisions to attract, motivate, and retain employees while eliminating inequitable pay.

Ugami

Seed Round in 2022
Play. Socialize. Earn. Join the adventure—earn rewards by playing games through WhatsApp and Discord! Discover new games and win gift cards, prizes, and more!

UPTIQ

Seed Round in 2022
UPTIQ connects wealth advisors and their clients to a comprehensive set of financial services products, making holistic wealth management a reality. We help advisors protect their AUM, grow their clients wealth and generate additional income.

FarmRaise

Seed Round in 2021
FarmRaise is a digital platform that offers financial resources for farmers and ranchers to make on-farm improvements. It helps farmers unlock capital to amplify farm profitability and sustainability. It's free to register a FarmRaise account, match with grants, and apply for 3 federal programs currently on the platform. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Cheres

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Cheres is a provider of a digital platform where users can see what their friends are investing in. Its platform can integrate with users' current accounts on investing platforms. The company is headquartered in New York.

Backer

Venture Round in 2021
Backer is the leading fintech company focused on 529 plans. It makes saving for education simple, helping ordinary families tap into tax-free investing with support from family and friends. Backer's crucial technology partnership with numerous 529 programs stems from its high-conversion enrollment, consumer-friendly gifting platform, and innovative mobile app—setting it apart.

TomoCredit

Seed Round in 2021
TomoCredit is building the next generation credit card designed for Millennials with no credit history or credit score by analyzing alternative data sources through its proprietary algorithm. founding team is made up of immigrant founders who all felt the challenge of getting a credit card as foreign nationals. The team is comprised of alum from Coinbase, The Kenetic Hedge Fund and Google and have attended schools including MIT and UC Berkeley.

Mighty

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Mighty helps young entrepreneurs start and grow their own businesses. With Mighty, each kid will master the tools of business and harness the power of social impact. It's the modern day lemonade stand, but this time the products for sale are good for the world. Mighty gathers a dedicated team of investors to hit the ground running. They partner with great companies including Sesame Street, Collaborative Fund, and the founders behind Indiegogo and Flickr. All that's left to do is launch businesses.

RealBlocks

Series A in 2020
RealBlocks is a technology platform that allows investment managers to distribute alternative investment funds online through financial advisors and institutions. Its platform offers all the building blocks needed to globally deliver custom alternative funds, including built-in secondary trading, a modular white-label onboarding experience, and an API dashboard to manage it all.

Pando

Series A in 2020
Pando is the one-stop Basecamp for high-potential dreamers and the ambitious builders who refuse to settle. We leverage world class peer groups and financial tools to supercharge your founder journey. We deliver an experience that aligns incentives to unleash founders’ potential, facilitate connection and realize prosperity.

Cerebro Capital

Seed Round in 2020
Cerebro Capital is to transform the way middle market companies analyze, manage, and source their corporate credit facilities. It offers class online software, world-class security, and industry expertise they are improving the way financial teams evaluate the corporate borrowing industry and how they connect to commercial lenders.

TomoCredit

Seed Round in 2020
TomoCredit is building the next generation credit card designed for Millennials with no credit history or credit score by analyzing alternative data sources through its proprietary algorithm. founding team is made up of immigrant founders who all felt the challenge of getting a credit card as foreign nationals. The team is comprised of alum from Coinbase, The Kenetic Hedge Fund and Google and have attended schools including MIT and UC Berkeley.

Wisetack

Series A in 2019
Wisetack helps in-person businesses offer financing to consumers. Through its suite of APIs, Wisetack embeds financing options into software platforms that businesses are already using in their day-to-day operations.

Wisetack

Seed Round in 2019
Wisetack helps in-person businesses offer financing to consumers. Through its suite of APIs, Wisetack embeds financing options into software platforms that businesses are already using in their day-to-day operations.

RealBlocks

Seed Round in 2019
RealBlocks is a technology platform that allows investment managers to distribute alternative investment funds online through financial advisors and institutions. Its platform offers all the building blocks needed to globally deliver custom alternative funds, including built-in secondary trading, a modular white-label onboarding experience, and an API dashboard to manage it all.

Align17

Seed Round in 2018
Align17 is a private digital marketplace that aims to systematically reduce key frictions encountered by private wealth investors looking to invest capital. They are working to reduce fragmentation and empower partners to connect and collaborate with the full potential of finance to shape a better world through collaboration.

Pando

Seed Round in 2017
Pando is the one-stop Basecamp for high-potential dreamers and the ambitious builders who refuse to settle. We leverage world class peer groups and financial tools to supercharge your founder journey. We deliver an experience that aligns incentives to unleash founders’ potential, facilitate connection and realize prosperity.

ProFounder

Convertible Note in 2011
ProFounder is a crowdfunding platform that enables entrepreneurs to raise investment capital from friends, family, and community members.
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