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What does Ulu Ventures invest in?
Ulu Ventures invests most often at Seed and Venture (70% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Female Led, Semiconductor and Woman Lead.
Ulu Ventures highlights
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12 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Venture: 70% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 19 rounds, median $1.7M
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7 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Ulu Ventures is a venture capital firm that actively seeks and funds women and diverse founder teams.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $100K – $2.0M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- Female LedSemiconductorWoman Lead
- Based in
- Palo Alto, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first172 appearances
- 2026
7 rounds
- Oct
- Sept
- Aug
- Jun
- Apr
- Jan
- Jan
- 2025
20 rounds
- Dec
- Dec
- Nov
- Nov
- Nov
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Jul
- Jun
- Jun
- Jun
- May
- May
- Apr
- Apr
- Apr
- Feb
- Feb
- 2024
13 rounds
- Dec
- Oct
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
- Jun
- May
- May
- Mar
- Mar
- Feb
- Feb
- Jan
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration4 named
CKClint KorverManaging Director of Ulu Ventures Fund III GP, LLC, General PartneriFiling they signed
MRMiriam RiveraManaging Director of Ulu Ventures Fund III GP, LLC, General PartneriFiling they signed
SVStephen Vincent RealeCFO & PartneriForm ADV
SASummer Alexandra BarghoutiChief Operating OfficeriForm ADV
We also hold 13 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$415Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- ULU Ventures Management Company, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 286433
Funds they back
1 fund commitment on record
- Managers
- 1
Every fund on record that it has committed money to, and the managers who invest it.Source: fund news.
Managers it backs most
Most recent commitments
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
60 of 60 we have independently watched raise
AllocateArch SystemsAssembleAvatourAxiom CloudBackerBanyan InfrastructureBeam ImpactBetterupBloomPathBlue River TechnologyBoomboxBridge moneyBuzz SolutionsCapConnect+CenoaCerebro CapitalCitrine InformaticsCoding DojoDeliberate.aiDelporDuo OncologyEllevestEmpo HealthEverlawFarmRaiseFast ForwardFigureFinalisFleet PandaFood HealthFormallyFreewillFuture FamilyGableGoodwordGuildeducationHabuHevoHey JaneHire an esquireHomelightInside MapsIrrigreenKetchLandedLeadsalesLex CheckLex machinaMedrioMile AutoNanoPharma solutionsNovoEdNowstaOchoPalantirPontoroPresence learningPrixzProterraand 99 more
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed7 in all
Lex MachinaBought by LexisNexisUndisclosedNov 2015
SIPXBought by ProQuestUndisclosedApr 2015
ModeWalkBought by Moda OperandiUndisclosedOct 2014
HuddlerBought by WikiaUndisclosedMay 2014
Ness ComputingBought by OpenTable$17MFeb 2014
Loki StudiosBought by Yahoo!UndisclosedMay 2013
Panoptic SecurityBought by SysnetUndisclosedNov 2012
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.