Ulu Ventures

Ulu Ventures

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Investment Firm

Overview

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.

Highlights

Founded

2008

Industry

Information Technology

Employees

11-50

Investment

292

Lead Investment

41

Exits

43

Stages

Seed, Late Stage Venture, Early Stage Venture

Investor Type

Micro Vc, Venture Capital

Location

United States, North America

Contact Information

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Ulu Ventures, established in 2008 and headquartered in United States, North America., specializes in Seed, Late Stage Venture, Early Stage Venture investments across Information Services, Software, Finance, Big Data, Analytics, Stock Exchanges, Web Browsers, Funding Platform, Enterprise Software, Fraud Detection. The organization boasts a portfolio of 292 investments, with an average round size of $10.8M and 43 successful exits. Their recent investments include Trefis, ProFounder, Palantir Technologies, Founders Fund, Lauder Partners. The highest investment round they participated in was $200.0B. Among their most notable exits are Trefis and ProFounder. Explore their portfolio in detail, see who is connected to them, and find their contact information on our platform.

Employees

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Clint Korver

Co-Founder & Managing Director

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Steve Reale

CFO & Venture Partner

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Marc Schneider

Entrepreneur in Residence

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Miriam Rivera

CEO, Co-Founder & Managing Director

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Nancy Torres

Partner

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Trina Weller

VP, Analytics & Operations

Investment portfolio

Ulu Ventures has made 292 investments. Their most recent investment was on Mar 27, 2024, when NewRetirement raised $20.0M.

Ulu Ventures has made 174 diversity investments. Their most recent diversity investment was on Jul 16, 2024, when Seven Starling raised $10.9M.

investments

292

Diversity investments

174

Lead investments

41

Number of exits

43

Investments

292

Annouced DateOrganization NameIndustryMoney Raised
Mar 20, 2024
Wisetack Wisetack
Financial Services20.4M
Mar 27, 2024
NewRetirement NewRetirement
Financial Services20.0M
May 29, 2024--15.0M
Jul 16, 2024
Seven Starling Seven Starling
Health Care10.9M

Exits

43

Funding Timeline

Funding rounds

292

Investors

0

Funds

4

Funding Rounds

292

Ulu Ventures has raised 292 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Jul 16, 2024 from a Series A - Seven Starling round.

Annouced DateTransaction NameNumber of InvestorsMoney RaisedLead Investor
Mar 20, 2024
Venture Round - Wisetack Venture Round - Wisetack
-20.4M-
Mar 27, 2024
Series A - NewRetirement Series A - NewRetirement
-20.0M-
May 29, 2024
Seed Round - Novel Capital Seed Round - Novel Capital
-15.0M-
Jul 16, 2024
Series A - Seven Starling Series A - Seven Starling
-10.9M-

Investors

0

There is no funding round available on this profile

Fund raised

2

Susa Ventures has raised a total of $590M across 6 funds, their latest being Susa Ventures Opportunities II. This fund was announced on Aug 30, 2021 and raised a total of $250M.

Annouced DateFund NameMoney Raised
May 10, 2013
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1.0M
May 11, 2013
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1.0M

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