Better Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($100K–$5.0M Checks)
Better Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Oakland, California, United States investing in SaaS, Other. The firm typically writes $100K–$5.0M checks and has 16 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $100K–$5.0M
- Portfolio
- 16 companies on record
- Partners
- 3 listed
- AUM
- $108M
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- SaaS, Other
- HQ
- Oakland, California, United States
Last verified: 2026-09-08
Pre-Seed, Seed
$100K – $5.0M
$108M
16+ companies
3 partners
Investment Thesis
Invests in early-stage technology startups—pre-seed and seed—that are mission-driven, leveraging tech to address social, environmental, health, and sustainability challenges, especially in large markets.
How Better Ventures invests
Better Ventures is a vc firm based in Oakland, California, United States. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on SaaS, Other.
Better Ventures typically writes checks of $100K–$5.0M per investment, backed by approximately $108M in assets under management.
Better Ventures has backed 16 companies in our records, including Hustle, Pachama, Hubstaff.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (16)
Other
Hustle
Pachama
Hubstaff
Job Blaze
Debut
Harnessing science and nature for sustainable beauty.
Synop
The operating system for commercial electric vehicles.
Eko
Better cardiac care through cloud-based diagnostics.
RxDiet
Using AI to scale food as medicine.
Adept ID
AI-based skills matching to identify hidden talent in the workforce.
Zya
Enzyme ingredient that turns sugar into fiber.
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in SaaS, Other — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $100K – $5.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Rick Moss, Managing Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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