Adverb Ventures
Venture capitalActively deployingSan Francisco · Pre-Seed–Series A · 8 people tracked
Also known as ADVERB VENTURES MANAGEMENT, LLC
Investment thesis
Adverb Ventures focuses on a company's earliest stages, writing checks between $500k and $5M. The firm invests in and advises founders who bring unique insight about a market, an audience, or a problem space and who have the drive to fully realize their vision at the largest possible scale.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 25, 2026.
Team · 8 people
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What they invest in
from 28 of 33 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×18SaaS ×7Consumer ×6Developer Tools ×4Enterprise Software ×4Biotech ×3Creator Economy ×3Deep Tech ×3
HQs:United States×14
Who they back
founder profiles across 12 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×52 founders×53 founders×2
Where their founders studiedfrom 14 founders with education data
Stanford University ×3Stanford University Graduate School of Business ×3Harvard University ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 15 founders with career history
Brex ×2Uber ×2Untapped ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Investments · 33 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 22025 · 32024 · 12020 · 12016 · 18 dated
San Francisco, US
Board seatJessica Verrilli· per SEC Form D · $74.4M raise · filed Aug 2020
Accend is an AI platform for financial institutions to automate business underwriting, onboarding, and risk assessment.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSSilicon Valley, US
Pranjal Daga(Founder)inYutong Pei(Founder)inJoseph Zhou(Founder)Mario F. Spinella(Executive Officer)Jeffrey Scott Szorik(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsY Combinator
Alpaca Health connects families of children with developmental differences to a network of independent ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis) therapy providers for in-home, school, or virtual sessions.
Digital HealthHealthtech
Co-investorsJ-ImpactTau Ventures
Sam Partee(Founder)in
Co-investorsCanaan PartnersFactorial FundsInspired CapitalTorch CapitalSound Ventures
Behance is a portfolio and community platform for creative professionals to showcase their work, discover clients, and grow their careers.
B2B MarketplacesCreator EconomyImpact & Social GoodMedia & Entertainment
Scott Belsky(Founder)inMatias Corea
Co-investors500 GlobalHawke VenturesUnion Square Ventures (USV)ChemistryPace Capital
Bezi is an AI agent that operates within Unity to assist game developers with code generation, scene building, debugging, and automation tasks.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareGamingOakland, US
Cecilia Uhr(Co-founder and Chief Product Officer / Founding Designer)inJulian Park(Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer)inDenys Bastov(Co-founder and technical/security leader)
BoardChetan Puttagunta(Director)inSusan Liu(Director / investor representative)in
Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersDesigner FundUncork Capital2.12 Angels8VCAirAngels+15 more
Bioqore builds Voyager, an AI-powered closed-loop bioprocess intelligence platform that combines predictive modeling with micro-scale laboratory experiments to recommend and validate optimal process conditions for producing preclinical- and clinic-ready therapeutic candidates.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep Tech
Joshua Hinckley(CEO)inBrendan Dang(COO)in
Co-investorsFifty YearsMaC Venture Capital
Cambio provides a platform for sustainability compliance, reporting, and retrofit planning across commercial real estate portfolios.
AI & Machine LearningClimate TechEnterprise SoftwareFintechPropTechSan Francisco, US
Leia de Guzman(Founder)inStephanie Grayson(Founder)inKevin Hartley(Sole Manager of the Issuer)Leon(Head of Engineering)in
Co-investorsMaverick VenturesThe MBA FundY CombinatorBuildersDVCGoodwater Capital+2 more
Casa provides homeowners with a dedicated team that manages home maintenance and repairs, handling vendor coordination and home care decisions aligned with the homeowner's interests rather than vendor profits.
B2B MarketplacesConsumerPropTechSan Francisco, US
Michael York(Co-founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsForerunner VenturesMaven VenturesTrue VenturesAvon Ventures
Palo Alto, US
Andy Szybalski(Founder)Mike Chu(Founder)Stephen Chau(Founder)
Co-investorsHomebrew
Foundation Farms operates a members-only private farm collection accessible by invitation.
AgTechConsumer
Foundational is building a network of AI-native, autonomous factories to reshore manufacturing of critical supply chains, aiming to let companies produce high-quality products domestically at competitive cost.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningRobotics
Granola is an AI notepad app that transcribes meetings from computer audio (without joining as a bot), enhances user notes, and generates action items and follow-ups.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkSaaSDover, US
Sam Stephenson(Co-founder)inChristopher Pedregal(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsBetaworksfirstminute capitalIndex VenturesKleiner PerkinsLightspeed Venture PartnersNFDG+1 more
Hypernatural is an AI video editor that lets brands and storytellers generate, storyboard, and edit full-length videos from scripts, visuals, and audio.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMarketing TechMedia & EntertainmentElm Grove, US
Chris Kolbe(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsAIX VenturesUnderscore VCCharacterCharacter VC
Known is a dating and relationship app built around understanding the user first rather than emphasizing profile swipes and likes.
ConsumerSocialSan Francisco, US
Asher Allen(Director)inCeleste Amadon(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsForerunner Ventures
LeWalk is a mobile app that acts as a private audio tour guide, delivering guided walking tours through headphones in 22+ languages.
ConsumerTravel & Hospitality
Co-investorsPoint72 VenturesLerer HippeauOrigins
Linum builds generative video models for animation that provide creative controls like consistent characters, camera movement, and motion control.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerCreator EconomyDeep TechSan Francisco, US
Sahil Chopra(Founder)inManu Chopra(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorAmino Capital
Prasso provides an engineering intelligence platform that automatically tracks changes across an engineering organization, offers AI-based code review, and includes an agent that answers questions and performs actions.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Mecka builds a data and integration layer for robotics, providing annotation, context, QA, motion understanding, and evaluation workflows that turn real-world activity into training data for robot learning.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureRobotics
Josh Gao(Founder)inDuy Nguyen(Founder)in
Co-investorsCade VenturesForerunner Ventures
Mozi is a private social network mobile app for sharing plans and locations with friends, showing when contacts are in the same city or their schedules overlap.
ConsumerSocial
Molly DeWolf Swenson(Founder)in
Co-investorsObvious VenturesProgression
Oncko develops machine learning and experimental platforms to discover optimized multi-drug cancer treatment combinations by screening against resistance mechanisms.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep Tech
Atray Dixit(Co-founder, CEO)inBill Grossman(Co-founder, Strategic Advisor)in
Co-investorsIllumina VenturesTenmile
Outset is an AI-powered research platform that combines conversational AI, behavioral intelligence, and emotional analysis to conduct moderated research interviews and synthesize consumer insights at scale across multiple languages and countries.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Aaron Cannon(Founder)inMichael Hess(Founder)in
Co-investors8VCRadical VenturesRitual CapitalY CombinatorRebel FundWEEKEND
Particle provides edge-to-cloud infrastructure for connected devices, including over-the-air software and model updates, abstracted wireless connectivity (LTE, 5G, Wi-Fi, satellite, LoRaWAN), real-time data automation, and a management console.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsIoT
Zach Supalla(Founder)in
Co-investorsBonfire VenturesCounterpart VenturesEnergy Impact PartnersGraph VenturesGreen Meadow VenturesHeavybit+3 more
Particle is a news application.
AI & Machine LearningMedia & EntertainmentSan Rafael, US
Marcel Molina(Founder)
Co-investorsKindred Ventures
Piramidal bridges in-vivo and in-silico intelligence for neuroscience research and clinical applications.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechHealthtechMedical DevicesNew York City, US
Dimitris Fotis Sakellariou(Founder)inKris Pahuja(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorLIONHEART VENTURESfutureland venturesGeek VenturesRitual Capital
Defakto provides an identity security platform for non-human actors such as workloads, CI/CD jobs, APIs, machines, and AI agents, issuing short-lived, verifiable identities instead of secrets, API keys, or standing access.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Co-investorsBloomberg Beta
Untold is a voice-first journaling app that lets users speak or type their thoughts, then asks optional guiding questions and responds with personalized insights, themes, and patterns over time.
AI & Machine LearningMental HealthWellness & Fitness
Co-investorsVisible Ventures
Valet provides AI agents that work with teams inside Slack to perform research, follow-ups, syncing, and reporting across a company's tools.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkSaaS
Co-investorsBetter Tomorrow Ventures
Workmate builds an AI executive assistant that handles administrative and busy work tasks for businesses and individuals.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkSaaS
Co-investorsAC Ventures
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Granola · computerworld.com · Aug 6, 2026
Bezi · startupintros.com · Jul 13, 2026
Mecka · fundraiseinsider.com · Jun 7, 2026
Behance · comfyui.org · Apr 25, 2026
Accend · ycombinator.com · Mar 25, 2026
Cambio · proptechconnect.com · Jan 26, 2026
Outset · pulse2.com · Dec 15, 2025
Le Walk · pulse2.com · Sep 23, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Adverb Ventures made?
- Adverb Ventures has 29 tracked investments, including 4 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Adverb Ventures invest at?
- Adverb Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Adverb Ventures's typical check size?
- Adverb Ventures typically writes checks of $500K – $5M.
- What sectors does Adverb Ventures focus on?
- Adverb Ventures focuses on E-commerce, Media & Entertainment, SaaS.
- Where is Adverb Ventures located?
- Adverb Ventures is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Who does Adverb Ventures co-invest with?
- Adverb Ventures most often shares deals with Y Combinator, Forerunner Ventures, Ritual Capital, among 37 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamHypergrowth 101 with April Underwood from Adverb Ventures | Next Gen Builders, Ep. 16
Amplitude · April Underwood
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Firms observed investing alongside Adverb Ventures, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Adverb Ventures's recorded portfolio.
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