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Obvious Ventures

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Investment thesis

Obvious invests in exceptional founders tackling the world's biggest problems across three interconnected pillars: planetary health (clean energy, electric mobility, carbon reduction), human health (healthcare, biopharma, consumer wellness), and economic health (financial wealth and prosperity for individuals and small businesses). The firm views profit and purpose as complementary forces that create a virtuous cycle, believing value-based leadership and ethical standards drive both transformative impact and strong financial returns.

Source: firm website, verified Jul 20, 2026.

HQ
San Francisco, US
Tracked investments
56

Team · 35 people

from the firm's website
Andrew Beebe· Managing Director
Ev Williams· Co-Founder
James Joaquin· Co-Founder & Managing Director
Vishal Vasishth· Co-Founder & Managing Director
Kahini Shah· Partner
Mo Islam· Partner
Rohan Ganesh· Partner
Amanda Denney· Marketing Director
Amy Abernethy· Obvious Champion
Aneesh Chopra· Obvious Champion
Anico Steffen· Senior Executive Assistant
Brett Hurt· Obvious Champion
Brian Hamilton· Obvious Champion
Cristina Kilmartin· Office Manager
Eric Ryan· Obvious Champion
Glenn Kelman· Obvious Champion
Jack Rothacher· Chief Financial Officer
Jessica Nett· Chief of Staff
Joanne Bradford· Obvious Champion
Joycelyn Feng· Finance Senior Associate
Julie Blunden· Obvious Champion
Ken Goldberg· Obvious Champion
McKenzie Quinn· Executive Assistant
Michele Catasta· Obvious Champion
Phil Edmundson· Obvious Champion
René Lacerte· Obvious Champion
Richelle Parham· Obvious Champion
Rodney Brooks· Obvious Champion
Sachin Jain· Obvious Champion
Sarah Beresford· Head of Investor Relations
Sarah Whitesell· Finance Manager
Shereef Elnahal· Obvious Champion
Sue Siegel· Obvious Champion
Vivek Murthy· Obvious Champion
Yet-Ming Chiang· Obvious Champion

What they invest in

from 26 of 56 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×7Healthtech ×6Biotech ×5Deep Tech ×5Digital Health ×5SaaS ×5B2B Marketplaces ×4Energy ×4

HQs:United States×22

Investments · 56 tracked

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Fleetzerofleetzero.comin𝕏✓ verified

Fleetzero designs and retrofits commercial vessels with battery-electric propulsion systems to decarbonize ocean shipping. The company builds modular, scalable electrification technology for ship operators and maritime fleets.

Advanced ManufacturingCleantechClimate TechEnergyHardwareHouston, US

Steven Henderson(Co-founder & CEO)inMike Carter(Co-founder & COO)in

Pihealthpihealth.ai✓ verified

Pi Health develops software and AI tools to make clinical research more inclusive, efficient, and globally scalable by eliminating barriers in clinical trial recruitment and execution for pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

AI & Machine LearningBiotechDigital HealthHealthtech

Bobby Reddy(Chief Executive Officer)

ACQUIREDcorvusinsurance.com
AI Fleet

Technology company disrupting the trucking industry by leveraging advanced algorithms to improve efficiency, driver earnings, and retention.

Allinfoodallinfood.com
America's marketplace for small businessesbatonmarket.com

Baton Market is a marketplace platform that facilitates the buying and selling of small to mid-sized businesses by connecting buyers and sellers with data transparency, M&A advisory, and transaction support. The platform charges approximately half the cost of traditional business brokers and reports faster sales timelines and higher close rates.

B2B MarketplacesFintech<UNKNOWN>

AMI Labsamilabs.xyz

AMI Labs develops advanced AI systems that understand the real world through world models and action-conditioned architectures, enabling intelligent agents with persistent memory, reasoning, and safety controls for industrial automation, robotics, and healthcare applications.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechRobotics

Yann LeCun(Founder)

AMPLY

Provides usage-based charging service for fleets transitioning to electric vehicles, managing scheduling, demand charges, and upfront CAPEX.

AMPLY Poweramplypower.com
Arborjoinarbor.comin𝕏

Arbor provides a platform that helps households access renewable electricity at lower costs while reducing energy-related complexity. The company targets individual consumers seeking clarity and savings in their energy purchases.

ConsumerEnergySaaS

Ataraxisataraxis.ai
Bakpaxbakpax.com
Baton

AI-enabled marketplace for buying and selling small businesses with reconciled financials and streamlined underwriting processes.

Beam

Consumer wellness company designing natural, science-backed products to optimize physical and mental health.

Beamtlcbeamtlc.com
Beyond Meatbeyondmeat.comin𝕏

Beyond Meat creates plant-based protein products, including burgers and other foods designed to provide nutritional value while supporting environmental sustainability and soil regeneration.

AgTechClimate TechFoodTech

Block

Renovation platform transforming the home renovation industry by simplifying the process and providing homeowners and contractors with better outcomes.

Brightsidebrightside.comin𝕏

Brightside provides remote mental health care combining personalized psychiatry and therapy through a technology-enabled platform. The service uses data-driven analysis of 100+ personal data points to deliver precision treatment and tracks patient progress through video sessions, messaging, and regular check-ins.

Digital HealthHealthtechMental Health

Chief Medical Officer & Founder

Brightsidegobrightside.com

Brightside provides financial wellness services to employees through human Financial Assistants who address personal financial needs including emergency loans, budgeting, credit, and retirement planning. The company serves employers seeking to improve employee financial health and reduce costs associated with financial stress.

Enterprise SoftwareFintechHR TechWellness & Fitness

Shawn Leavitt(Founder)

Calcal.com
Canvascanvas.build
Carezonecarezone.com
Concertocareconcertocare.com
Corvus Insurance

Commercial insurance provider using advanced data science and AI to help brokers and policyholders predict and prevent losses.

DarwinAI

Commercializes AI technology to reduce the size of deep learning neural networks while maintaining accuracy and enabling explainable AI.

Devoted Healthdevoted.com

Devoted Health offers Medicare Advantage plans and integrated healthcare services for older Americans, including virtual and in-home care, member support guides, and coordination with local providers across 29 states. The company delivers proactive, coordinated care designed to improve outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries through a combination of insurance products, telemedical services, and care coordination technology.

HealthtechInsurTechUnited States, US

Todd ParkEd Park

Dexteritydexterity.com
Diamond Foundry

Grows cultured diamonds in a California laboratory, producing certified diamonds free of environmental and social damage from mining.

Diamondfoundrydiamondfoundry.com

Diamond Foundry manufactures semiconductor-grade diamond wafers and electronics to address thermal management limitations in AI, electric vehicles, and wireless systems. The company operates proprietary diamond semiconductor production technology at scale with a carbon-neutral manufacturing process.

Deep TechHardwareSemiconductors

Dyno Therapeuticsdynotx.comin𝕏

Dyno Therapeutics develops artificial intelligence-powered genetic technologies for gene therapy, specifically engineering adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsids to improve gene delivery for treating genetic diseases. The company works with pharmaceutical partners including Novartis, Sarepta, Roche, Spark, and Astellas to advance therapies for patients with genetic disorders.

AI & Machine LearningBiotechWatertown, US

Eric Kelsic(CEO & Cofounder)Sam Sinai(Vice President, Head of ML & Cofounder)Adrian Veres(Chief Scientific Officer & Cofounder)George Church(Scientific Cofounder)

Eka Robotics

Develops fast, reliable, and physics-aware robotic systems using foundation models to enable safe, collaborative industrial automation.

Enbalaenbala.com
Enerveeenervee.com
Forum Mobility

Delivers emission-free vehicle and network solutions for electrifying goods movement in and around ports.

Forummobilityforummobility.com
Galileogalileohealth.comin

Galileo Health is a digital health service that connects patients with board-certified doctors and nurse practitioners available 24/7 via mobile app for consultations, prescription management, specialist referrals, and chronic care management. The service functions as a healthcare provider rather than insurance, offering affordable membership plans that cover in-app medical care.

Digital HealthHealthtech

Gandeevagandeeva.com
Good Eggs

Online grocery marketplace delivering curated local, organic produce and sustainable meat and fish to customers in the Bay Area.

Goodeggsgoodeggs.com
Gustogusto.comin𝕏

Gusto provides payroll processing, employee benefits administration, and HR management tools to businesses, offering integrated software alongside support services for these functions.

Enterprise SoftwareHR TechSan Francisco, US

Josh Reeves(Founder/CEO)inEdward Kim(Founder/Empowering Gusto's Engineering Team)inTomer London(Founder/; Empowering Gusto's Product and Design Teams)in

Inceptiveinceptive.life

Inceptive builds foundation models of biological systems for drug discovery, specializing in sequence-based medicines like mRNA and peptides. The company combines deep learning trained on heterogeneous life data with in-house wet lab validation to design novel drug candidates that outperform existing options.

AI & Machine LearningBiotechMedical DevicesPalo Alto, US

<UNKNOWN>

Inductive Bioinductive.bio

Inductive Bio builds AI and machine learning software to accelerate drug discovery for pharmaceutical and biotech researchers, combining computational chemistry with expertise in translating complex drug programs from preclinical to clinical stages.

AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep Tech

Josh HaimsoninBen Birnbaum(Ph.D.)inAlexander Taylor(Ph.D.)in

Joywithjoy.comin𝕏

Joy provides customizable wedding websites and planning tools for couples organizing their weddings. The platform combines personalized website design with organizational features to streamline the wedding planning process for couples and their guests.

B2B MarketplacesConsumerDirect to ConsumerE-commerceMarketplacesSaaSSan Francisco, US

Vishal Joshi(Founder/CEO)inDorian Bach(Founder)inDorianKaiwalya

Lightshiplightshiprv.comin𝕏

All-electric sustainable and efficient towable RVs

Octaveoctavebio.com

Octave develops blood-based biomarker tests for neurodegenerative diseases including multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and Alzheimer's disease. The company's tests enable physicians and patients to measure disease progression and treatment response through blood draws rather than traditional clinical assessments.

AI & Machine LearningBiotechDigital HealthMedical DevicesMenlo Park, US

William Hagstrom(Founder and Chairman)Doug Biehn(President and CEO)

Octavefindoctave.comin

Octave is a mental health practice platform that connects licensed therapists with patients seeking in-network mental health care. The company handles insurance credentialing, billing, scheduling, and client matching to support therapists and expand access to effective mental health treatment.

Digital HealthHealthtechMental HealthSaaS

Sandeep Acharya(Founder, CEO)

Planet Labsplanet.comin𝕏

Planet operates a web-geo platform that provides daily satellite imagery and foundational analytics of Earth's landmass for businesses, governments, and research institutions. The company serves customers across agriculture, defense, and other sectors seeking to monitor global change, scale operations, and mitigate risk through satellite data and APIs.

AgTechData & InfrastructureDeep TechSpace TechSan Francisco, US

Will Marshall(Co-founder and CEO)Robbie Schingler(Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer)

Pykaflypyka.comin𝕏

Pyka develops all-electric cargo aircraft for military logistics applications. The company delivers autonomous aircraft to the U.S. Air Force through AFWERX to support contested logistics operations.

Advanced ManufacturingAgTechClimate TechDefense TechHardwareLogistics & Supply ChainRoboticsSpace TechSan Francisco, US

Michael Norcia(Founder/CEO)inNathan White(Founder/CEO)inKyle Moore(Founder)inChuma Ogunwole(Founder/COO)in

Recursionpharmarecursionpharma.com
Synopsynop.ai

Synop provides an all-in-one platform for managing electric vehicle fleets and charging infrastructure, optimizing performance and energy management for commercial fleet operators. The software helps businesses manage EV charging at scale with AI-powered insights, energy storage coordination, and grid integration.

EnergyEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Tentrrtentrr.com

Tentrr is a marketplace connecting travelers with privately owned camping and glamping sites across the United States. The platform offers curated outdoor accommodations ranging from backcountry tent sites to glamping experiences on working farms and private properties.

MarketplacesTravel & Hospitality

Theaifleettheaifleet.com
Tomorrow Healthtomorrowhealth.com

Tomorrow Health operates a managed marketplace platform for home-based healthcare services, connecting patients, clinicians, and health plans. The platform addresses fragmentation in the home health system by coordinating care delivery and improving outcomes for patients transitioning from traditional healthcare settings.

Enterprise SoftwareHealthtechMarketplaces

Vijay

Visit Blockblockrenovation.comin

Block Renovation is a residential and commercial construction platform that connects homeowners and builders with vetted contractors and provides project management, pricing transparency, and buyer protections for renovation and new build projects across the United States.

B2B MarketplacesConstruction TechPropTech

Visorvisor.vinin

Visor is a car search and market research platform that aggregates inventory from multiple sources and provides buyers with transparent pricing, listing history, and market insights without dealer-influenced rankings or advertising. It serves individual car buyers looking for used and new vehicles across the United States.

B2B MarketplacesConsumerData & InfrastructureSaaSWilmington, US

<UNKNOWN>

Zanskarzanskar.com

Zanskar develops geothermal energy projects using AI and advanced geoscience to map subsurface resources and deliver utility-scale, carbon-free power. The company operates projects in the western United States that provide 24/7 firm power generation.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnergy

Board seats · per SEC filings · 10

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Pi Health Inc.SEC filing

$18M raise · filed Apr 2026 · via Rohan Ganesh, Rohan Y Ganesh

Well Found, Inc.SEC filing

$13M raise · filed Mar 2026 · via James Joaquin

Lightship Energy, Inc.SEC filing

$35M raise · filed Dec 2025 · via Andrew Beebe

Miyoko's, PBCSEC filing

$8M raise · filed Jun 2025 · via James Joaquin, James Joaquin

Inductive Bio, Inc.SEC filing

$25.1M raise · filed May 2025 · via Rohan Edward Ganesh

All in Food PBCSEC filing

$4M raise · filed Jun 2024 · via James Joaquin

Plant Prefab, Inc.SEC filing

$7.5M raise · filed Jan 2024 · via Andrew Beebe

GENHEALTH, INC.SEC filing

$13.2M raise · filed Jun 2023 · via Vishal Vasishth

Forum Mobility, Inc.SEC filing

$29.4M raise · filed Dec 2022 · via Andrew Beebe

SINAI Technologies Inc.SEC filing

$13.3M raise · filed Sep 2022 · via Andrew Beebe

Inferred from directors named on each company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.

Frequently asked questions

What sectors does Obvious Ventures focus on?
Obvious Ventures focuses on Biotech, Cleantech, Climate Tech, Digital Health, Fintech, Impact & Social Good, Wellness & Fitness.
Where is Obvious Ventures located?
Obvious Ventures is headquartered in San Francisco, US.

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