Ulu Ventures

Ulu Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm investing in U.S.-based software and internet businesses. The firm concentrates exclusively on the seed stage, backing early-stage founders building companies around significant customer needs and large market opportunities. Areas of interest span enterprise software, fintech, education technology, digital health, blockchain and sustainability.

Investment decisions are informed by a data-driven approach and by decision-analysis methods - structured criteria applied to assess market opportunity, risk and potential returns. Central to this is the firm's Market Mapping process, a collaborative exercise undertaken with founders to examine the assumptions underlying a company's opportunity and to inform the investment decision.

Ulu describes diversity of founding teams as a component of its investment thesis and states that it seeks promising founders across a wide range of backgrounds. Post-investment, the firm works with portfolio companies as both investors and partners in building the business. Fund size, founding date and team composition are not disclosed in the material reviewed.