Unshackled Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($100K–$2.5M Checks)
Unshackled Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, CA investing in Fintech, Other. The firm typically writes $100K–$2.5M checks and has 17 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $100K–$2.5M
- Portfolio
- 17 companies on record
- Partners
- 2 listed
- AUM
- $80M
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Fintech, Other
- HQ
- Palo Alto, CA
Last verified: 2026-06-06
Pre-Seed, Seed
$100K – $2.5M
$80M
17+ companies
2 partners
Investment Thesis
Invests in immigrant founders and companies solving global and cross-border problems with scalable solutions.
How Unshackled Ventures invests
Unshackled Ventures is a vc firm based in Palo Alto, CA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Fintech, Other.
Unshackled Ventures typically writes checks of $100K–$2.5M per investment, backed by approximately $80M in assets under management.
Unshackled Ventures has backed 17 companies in our records, including DiaM Intelligence, Shift One, Civic IQ.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (17)
Other
DiaM Intelligence
Shift One
Civic IQ
AI-driven intelligence platform for companies selling to US local governments.
TODAQ
USD payments infrastructure enabling AI agents to pay per API call in real-time.
Gridraster
Polygone Systems
Plantible Foods
Pine Park Health
Pod Foods
Lily AI
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Fintech, Other — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $100K – $2.5M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Nitin Pachisia, Founding Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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