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 109
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 27.08.2026 | TerraBlast... | terrablaster.com | $12.5M | United Sta... |
| 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 | United Sta... |
| 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 | United Sta... |
| 19.05.2021 | Avatour | avatour.co | $2.9M | United Sta... |
| - | TeachFX | teachfx.com | $10M | United Sta... |
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News 23
| Date | Title | Description |
| - | 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 Data and Metrics Should Matter More Than Gut in The VC World | Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Venture capitalists worldwide make more than $100 billion in investments annually, but rather than making those choices by following a rigorous, analytic process, the average professional looking to finan... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | If you don’t want to get fired from your startup, founders should remember these 3 things | It’s a sad reality, but many chief executives and company founders get fired. Even the great ones like Apple’s Steve Jobs and JetBlue’s David Neeleman get pushed out. However, for any founder who wants to beat the odds and keep his or her... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Host Howard Wolf, President of the Stanford Alumni Association interviews Miriam Rivera | Announcer: Sirius XM presents Stanford Pathfinders… Howard: Stanford has 225,000 alumni living all over the globe in 151 countries. They are some of the most amazing people you would ever want to meet. Announcer: A show about how the gr... |
| - | Picking Winners is a myth | When Lightspeed Venture Partners became the first outside investor in Snap, putting in $485,000 and then investing in subsequent rounds, it produced a return of $2 billion and instantly became the stuff of legend. The deal marked Lightsp... |
| - | 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... |
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Mentions in press and media 30
| Date | Title | Description |
| 31.08.2026 | TerraBlaster Secures $12.5M: Real-Time Soil Intelligence Redefines Precision Ag | TerraBlaster, a Redwood City agtech firm, secured $12.5 million in seed funding. This crucial capital pushes total investment to $16.5 million. The company's advanced IoT soil-nutrition monitoring system utilizes Mars rover-derived Laser-In... |
| 27.08.2026 | TerraBlaster Raises $12.5M in Seed Funding | TerraBlaster, a Redwood City, CA-based developer of agricultural hardware and soil-nutrition sensors, raised $12.5m in seed funding. The round was led by Ulu Ventures, with participation from Khosla Ventures, Trailhead Capital, Builders Vis... |
| 25.08.2026 | TerraBlaster raises $12.5m for real time NPK soil mapping at tractor speed | TerraBlaster—a startup using tech first deployed on the Mars rover to determine levels of key nutrients in the soil—has raised a $12.5 million seed round as it gears up for commercial operations in 2027. The round, which takes the firm’s cu... |
| 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, ... |
| 06.11.2025 | MiSalud Health Raises New Funding | MiSalud Health, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a bilingual AI-powered health platform, raised an undisclosed amount in funding. The round was led by IGNIA with participation from Redwood Ventures, Amplifica Capital, and existing inve... |
| 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... |
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