Better Ventures is a venture capital firm that backs entrepreneurs with funds and supports entrepreneurs for building technology solutions. The firm provides funding and support to early-stage companies harnessing innovations in software, data science and life sciences sectors. It is based in Oakland, California.
Better Ventures seeks to back entrepreneurs committed to using the tools and methodologies of the modern technology startup to build world-changing companies that make money and do good. They're thinking big and expecting big results, and so are the entrepreneurs they back.
Better Ventures invest early and typically write checks of $500,000 in pre-seed stage startups with strong technical teams. They take a hands-on approach with their portfolio companies, helping them achieve key milestones for the next round of financing, attract high quality follow-on investors, and leverage their mission as a competitive advantage.
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Emergy Food is a Boulder, Colorado-based company founded in 2016 by Tyler Huggins.
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Aleksander Holm
Interested in understanding the world we live in. - 2
Lyndsey Boucherle
Investor backing companies using science and technology across sustainability, health, and future of work. - 3
Aime Anne Nisay
QA Engineer of web and mobile applications - 4
Melanie Manipula
Helping organize knowledge. - 5
Jed Christiansen
Special Projects & Business Development at Golden, Founder - Seed-DB. - 6
Neelam Jhaveri
Techno Geek + Gamer + Fashionista + Sense of Humor = It's ME - 7
Elliot Page
Coffee obsessed, interested in Fintech and Ecology. Degrees in Film and Technology Management - 8
Julius John Villarisco
Every day is a new learning for me, new opportunity every time. Never limit my self, think outside the box.