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What does What If Ventures invest in?
What If Ventures invests most often at Series B (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Mental Health, Nuclear and Psychiatric Drugs.
What If Ventures highlights
- 01
1 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series B: 100% of its rounds
What they do
What If Ventures invests in mental health startups.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries A
- Sectors
- Mental HealthNuclearPsychiatric Drugs
- Based in
- Frisco, United States
- Cold pitches
- Accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first1 appearances
- 2026
1 round
- May
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 registration6 named
BSBrett SaganOfficer of the Issuer's AdministratoriFiling they signed
HPHoang PhanOfficer of the Issuer's Administrative ManageriFiling they signed
JNJeremy NeilsonManaging Director of the Issuer's ManageriFiling they signed
RTRichard ThomsOfficer of the Issuer's ManageriFiling they signed
THTaylor HughesOfficer of the Issuer's AdministratoriFiling they signed
TSTheodore StiefelOfficer of the Issuer's AdministratoriFiling they signed
We also hold 8 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 they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
15 of 24 we have independently watched raise
AaloAffecttherapeuticsAllencontrolsystemsAltoAltoneuroscienceAtaiBeckleypsytechBionautlabsCarbonhealthCipherskinCro-maticEarliEkohealthEllipsishealthEreborAeonindustrialAmyriadtherapeuticsAppliedcognitionAptihealthBlackrockneurotechFieldtriphealthJoincalibrateMedschoolTechtransfer
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.