Investor profile

Ulu Ventures

Venture Capital · Founded 2008 · Palo Alto, United States

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A top seed stage venture fund focused on innovation across enterprise, fintech, consumer, health and sustainability

173 portfolio companies Venture Capital · $1.3B invested · 247 investments · Investor rank #2,318 · Last investment 6/2026

Portfolio companies ↑ 41% 5y

173

Decacorns

Thoroughbreds

Portfolio analysis

Where Ulu Ventures's portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 173 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount

USA166
Mexico3
Singapore2
Portugal1
UK1

By sectorCount

Fintech34
Health25
Enterprise Software24
Education21
Energy13
Marketing12
Legal10
Jobs Recruitment9
Media6
Real Estate6
Security6
Transportation6

By stage enteredCount

Seed125
Series A34
Series B+4

By growth stageCount

Early Growth101
Breakout Stage54
Late Growth18

Portfolio market map

Inside Ulu Ventures's portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 173 tracked.

Real Estate · Unicorn

StarMaker Interactive

Music

$120M

Banyan Infrastructure

Backer (CollegeBacker)

Portfolio founders

Where Ulu Ventures's portfolio founders come from.

154 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount

United States143
Mexico2
United Kingdom2
Argentina1
British Indian Ocean Territory1
Israel1
Peru1

UniversityCount

Stanford University30
Stanford University Graduate School of Business22
University of California, Berkeley14
Harvard University12
Harvard Business School9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology6
MIT Sloan School of Management5
UC Berkeley, Haas Business School5
Princeton University4
Columbia University3

Previous companyCount

Stanford University14
IBM6
McKinsey & Company6
Amazon4
Bain & Company4
Bersin by Deloitte4
ClearCarbon4
Deloitte4
Microsoft4
Stanford University Graduate School of Business4

How Ulu Ventures stacks up

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Key people

Key people at Ulu Ventures.

Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.

Every figure on this page is sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API. Sections v1 shows that the API does not yet expose — shareholding-based holdings, Power-Law rankings & vintage time-series, entity-filtered news, and market sentiment — are omitted here rather than sourced elsewhere.