A seed stage venture firm focused primarily on enterprise IT, Ulu focuses on the market opportunity created by the Stanford and Silicon Valley communities. The firm seeks to generate great financial results using a disciplined, repeatable decision making process that analyzes risk-reward trade-offs. Ulu also follows logical principles of portfolio construction. This approach makes the firm conventional in the world of institutional investors but contrarian as compared to other VCs.
Location: United States, California, Palo Alto
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2008
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Seed; Series A; Series B
Portfolio 108
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 18.09.2025 | Seven Star... | sevenstarling.com | $21.8M | United Sta... |
| 11.09.2025 | TrueMeter | truemeter.com | $4M | United Sta... |
| 08.08.2023 | Grapevine ... | grapevine.org | $1.85M | United Sta... |
| 29.03.2023 | Irrigreen | irrigreen.com | $34M | Liberia, E... |
| 28.02.2023 | Gable | gable.to | $16M | - |
| 29.09.2022 | Bridge | bridgemoney.co | $5.8M | United Sta... |
| 27.06.2022 | Banyan Inf... | banyaninfrastructure.com | $33.2M | - |
| 19.05.2021 | Avatour | avatour.co | $2.9M | United Sta... |
| - | TeachFX | teachfx.com | $10M | United Sta... |
| - | MODIT | modit3d.com | - | - |
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News 23
| Date | Title | Description |
| - | Early days at Google taught me the power/value of diversity in tech | Developing a diverse workplace where all races, backgrounds, and genders feel supported seems a nearly impossible goal for many tech companies in 2018, and several, including Google have come under fire recently for not making it a priori... |
| - | Rever: Empowering Frontline Workers | Rusty Dornin, Ulu Ventures: Hi, I'm Rusty Dornin, Marketing and Communications Director for Ulu Ventures. On the call with us right now is Kevin Hoffberg, a venture partner at Ulu. And also Errette Dunn, the CEO and co-founder of Rever. W... |
| - | Miriam Rivera: Changing the Venture Capital Diversity Equation | Photo By Edward Caldwell MIRIAM RIVERA’ S DESK AT ULU VENTURES IS LOCATED UP A NARROW, WINDING STAIRCASE, IN A QUAINT VICTORIAN HOUSE ON A SIDE STREET IN PALO ALTO. Shared with the rest of the small team, the office is used for meetings, m... |
| - | Recent blowup at Google highlights the real mistake tech companies are making | Like other biases, sexism and racism are often spread with the use of insidious coded language, inappropriate appeals to freedom of speech and harmful pseudoscientific data promoting biological difference as “inferiority.” For example, a... |
| - | Revenue Velocity | As an early attorney at Google, I found the length of new business contracts was slowing down the pace of business just as the search firm was moving at rocket speed. Our contracts were initially eight pages long. I slimmed the contract d... |
| - | Questioning the Conventional Wisdom of the Reserve Fund | Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash When AppDynamics was acquired by Cisco just before its planned initial public offering, reports credited early investor Greylock Partners with a return of 100x on its investment in the San Francisco-b... |
| - | Why a VC marriage is not like a unicorn | Married couples obviously love each other, but ask them if they want to work together and you’ll get an eye roll from a lot of them. It’s tough enough to agree on where to have dinner, let alone where to take your jointly owned business. ... |
| - | Say Bye to Bias: Why Ulu Ventures Relies on Analytics for Better Portfolio Picks | When Miriam Rivera and Clint Korver initially founded Ulu Ventures in 2009, their mission was simple: Draw on their previous careers to help founders launch and grow their own startups. Once the pair — she one of the first attorneys at G... |
| - | Working Moms Battle Dual Bias | While female founders may be forced to overcome stereotypes to win the respect and trust of investors, customers and sometimes even their own team, working moms often face tougher hurdles than their single counterparts. Men may be hesitan... |
| - | How to be an ally in a diverse community | Diversity of perspectives, life experiences, and training can help propel organizations to greater success. But what about aspects of diversity where there is a history of discrimination, prejudice or other painful stereotyping of diversi... |
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Mentions in press and media 26
| Date | Title | Description |
| 06.11.2025 | MiSalud Health: New Funding Raised To Expand Bilingual Healthcare Access Across North America | MiSalud Health, a bilingual health platform that integrates human care with AI to make healthcare more accessible for underserved workers, has raised a new funding round led by IGNIA. The round included participation from Redwood Ventures, ... |
| 18.09.2025 | Seven Starling Raises $8M to Expand Maternal Mental Health Platform Nationally | What You Should Know: – Seven Starling, a virtual provider of women’s behavioral health services secures $8M in Series A funding led by Rethink Impact. The round includes participation from insiders Pear VC, Zeal Capital Partners, Magnify... |
| 14.09.2025 | TrueMeter: $4 Million Seed Funding Raised For Expanding AI Energy Savings Platform | TrueMeter, a startup specializing in AI-powered energy optimization, has raised $4 million in seed funding to scale its platform for brick-and-mortar businesses. The round was led by Ulu Ventures with participation from Pear VC, e2.vc, Rive... |
| 11.09.2025 | TrueMeter Raises $4M in Seed Funding | TrueMeter, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an AI-powered platform to automate energy savings for multi-location businesses, raised $4M in Seed funding. The round was led by Ulu Ventures with participation from Pear VC, e2.vc, RiverPar... |
| 20.06.2025 | RevelAi Health Closes $3.1M to Scale its Conversational AI Platform for Musculoskeletal Care | What You Should Know: – RevelAi Health, a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) platform built for musculoskeletal care, has closed an oversubscribed $3.1M seed round led by Ulu Ventures and Symphonic Capital, with participation from ... |
| 19.02.2025 | Ulu Ventures: Fourth Fund Grown To $208 Million | Ulu Ventures, a top seed-stage VC firm, is the largest Latina-led fund in the US and it focused on high-growth and market-leading information technology and internet companies. Ulu raised $208 million for Fund IV, which is an increase of ov... |
| 01.06.2024 | Fintech Novel Announces Funding Round to Accelerate Expansion of Capital Intelligence Platform | Novel announces a $15M oversubscribed Pre-Series A round, co-led by IGNIA Partners and Ulu Ventures, to propel the fintech’s expansion of their Capital Intelligence platform. The investment round also includes participation “from MatterScal... |
| 29.05.2024 | Buzz Solutions Announces Momentum as Power Utilities Accelerate Adoption of AI-based Solutions for Infrastructure Inspections and Security | Buzz Solutions The company's growth underscores the power utility industry's digital transformation and rise of AI for efficient and accurate infrastructure inspections and substation security PALO ALTO, Calif., May 29, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRW... |
| 05.01.2023 | Eight VC Funding Tips For Digital Health And Wellness Startups | Jeff Yasuda is the CEO and cofounder of Feed Media Group, which powers music for apps and websites. |
| 13.09.2022 | Why this consumer investor is switching VC firms after making partner last year | Maria Salamanca, one of the few Latina investors at a partner level within the often homogenous world of venture capital, is shaking things up. The investor tells TechCrunch that she is leaving Unshackled Ventures, a pre-seed venture firm t... |
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