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Obvious Ventures

Obvious Ventures portfolio

Obvious Ventures has 21 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding, with 3 investments in the last 12 months.

Website: obvious.com.

X: @obviousvc.

Type: Venture capital.

Portfolio on Recent Funding: 21.

Deals, last 12 months: 3.

Rounds led: 9 of 22.

Capital in their rounds: $1.34B.

Latest deal: Humble · Nov 5, 2026.

About this page

It is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, US, founded in 2014. It led 9 of the 22 rounds it joined. Its most recent investment on record is Humble's $51M Series A round in November 2026, which it led, alongside Eclipse and Energy Impact Partners. By category, its portfolio leans toward Health and bio (9) and Insurance (5). It has co-invested with Andreessen Horowitz, Lux Capital and Gradient Ventures, most often Andreessen Horowitz (4 rounds).

About Obvious Ventures

Firm type: Venture capital.

Headquarters: San Francisco, US.

Founded: 2014.

Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth, Late Stage.

Sectors: AI & Machine Learning, Biotech, Cleantech, Climate Tech, Digital Health, Energy, Fintech, FoodTech, Healthtech, Impact & Social Good, Longevity, Mobility & Transportation, Robotics, Wellness & Fitness.

Check size: $250K to $6M.

Leads rounds: Yes.

Portfolio companies: 104.

Exits: 6.

Rounds led: 16.

Funds raised

Fund	Fund #	Size	Announced
OObvious Ventures Bay Area	Ifirst fund	$123M	May 2015 venturebeat.com

What Obvious Ventures invests in

Obvious Ventures recent investments

Company	Round	Date	Alongside
HHumble	Series A · $51M · lead	Nov 5, 2026	Eclipse, Energy Impact Partners
MMithrl	Series A · $20M · lead	Sep 19, 2026	none named
IIterative Health	Series B+ · $77M	Apr 30, 2026	EDBI, Insight Partners, GV (lead) +1
IInductive Bio	Series A · $25M · lead	May 1, 2025	Jakob Uszkoreit, Character, Jeff Hammerbacher +6
BBaton	Series A · $10M · lead	Jan 21, 2025	none named
LLabGenius	Series B+ · $44M	May 21, 2024	Kindred Capital, Atomico, Octopus Ventures +4
LLightship	Series B+ · $34M · lead	Jan 17, 2024	Green D Ventures, Prelude (lead), Thor Industries +6
PPrism Data	Seed · $5M · lead	Oct 23, 2023	Third Prime, Synchrony Ventures, RiverPark Ventures +6

How Obvious Ventures invests

Stage	Deals	Capital in rounds
Series B+	12 55%	$1.11B
Series A	9 41%	$223M
Seed	1 5%	$5M

Year	Deals	Capital in rounds
2016	1 5%	$15M
2017	1 5%	$62M
2018	1 5%	$50M
2019	2 9%	$25M
2020	4 18%	$520M
2021	2 9%	$140M
2022	3 14%	$260M
2023	1 5%	$5M
2024	2 9%	$78M
2025	2 9%	$35M
2026	3 14%	$148M

Obvious Ventures portfolio companies

HHumble$51MSeries A · Nov 2026
MMithrl$20MSeries A · Sep 2026
IIterative Health$77MSeries B+ · Apr 2026
IInductive Bio$25MSeries A · May 2025
BBaton$10MSeries A · Jan 2025
LLabGenius$44MSeries B+ · May 2024
LLightship$34MSeries B+ · Jan 2024
PPrism Data$5MSeed · Oct 2023
IIncredible Health$80MSeries B+ · Sep 2022
OOpenly$75MSeries B+ · Jun 2022
CConcertoCare$105MSeries B+ · Feb 2022
DDexterity$140MSeries B+ · Oct 2021
MMedableSeries B+ · Apr 2021
DDevoted Health$450MSeries B+ · Apr 2020
GGood Eggs$50MSeries B+ · May 2018
OOpenHandsbacker
CCal.combacker
RRadical Numericsbacker
BBoltzbacker
GGenHealth.aibacker
OOumibacker

Company	Round with Obvious Ventures	Total raised	Latest raise
HHumble Robotics and hardware	Nov 5, 2026 Series A · $51M · lead	$75M	Nov 5, 2026 Series A
MMithrl	Sep 19, 2026 Series A · $20M · lead	$20M	Sep 19, 2026 Series A
IIterative Health Health and bio	Apr 30, 2026 Series B+ · $77M	$77M	Apr 30, 2026 Series B+
IInductive Bio Health and bio	May 1, 2025 Series A · $25M · lead	$29.3M	May 1, 2025 Series A
BBaton Commerce and retail	Jan 21, 2025 Series A · $10M · lead	$10M	Jan 21, 2025 Series A
LLabGenius Health and bio	May 21, 2024 Series B+ · $44M	$73M	May 21, 2024 Series B+
LLightship Robotics and hardware	Jan 17, 2024 Series B+ · $34M · lead	$57M	Jan 17, 2024 Series B+
PPrism Data Fintech	Oct 23, 2023 Seed · $5M · lead	$25M	Oct 19, 2026 Series A
IIncredible Health AI agents	Sep 12, 2022 Series B+ · $80M	$97M	Sep 12, 2022 Series B+
OOpenly AI agents	Jun 21, 2022 Series B+ · $75M	$237.65M	Sep 25, 2025 Series B+
CConcertoCare Insurance	Feb 3, 2022 Series B+ · $105M	$105M	Feb 3, 2022 Series B+
DDexterity Robotics and hardware	Oct 14, 2021 Series B+ · $140M	$235M	Mar 11, 2025 round
MMedable Health and bio	Apr 15, 2021 Series B+	$633M	Mar 25, 2026 Series B+
DDevoted Health Insurance	Apr 2, 2020 Series B+ · $450M	$2.27B	Mar 26, 2026 Series B+
GGood Eggs Commerce and retail	May 15, 2018 Series B+ · $50M	$86M	Feb 3, 2021 round
OOpenHands Developer tools and cloud	backer · source	$23.8M	Nov 18, 2025 Series A
CCal.com Developer tools and cloud	backer · source	$32M	Apr 1, 2022 Series A
RRadical Numerics	backer	$50M	Jun 15, 2026 Seed
BBoltz Health and bio	backer	$28M	Jan 8, 2026 Seed
GGenHealth.ai Health and bio	backer	$16.5M	Oct 8, 2026 Series A
OOumi Foundation models and research	backer	$10M	Jan 29, 2025 Seed

Most frequent co-investors

Similar investors

Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Health and bio).

How this is counted

Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-11, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.

Venture funds Obvious Ventures raised, from the list of new VC funds compiled by Shai Goldman (Brex). Each size links to the article that states it, or to that list where no article was found. All new funds: new VC funds.

Share is of the 22 rounds on Recent Funding that name Obvious Ventures. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.

Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists Obvious Ventures, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/obvious-ventures (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.