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Unshackled Ventures

VC
Palo Alto, CAWebsite

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.

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$100K – $2.5M

AUM

$80M

Portfolio

17+ companies

Team

2 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

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.

Meet the Team

NP

Nitin Pachisia

Founding Partner

immigrant founders
fintech
cross-border commerce
MM

Manan M.

Founding Partner

Industry Focus

Invests In

Fintech
Other

Portfolio Companies (17)

Other

DI

DiaM Intelligence

fintech
SH

Shift One

fintech
CI

Civic IQ

GovTech·Pre-Seed

AI-driven intelligence platform for companies selling to US local governments.

TO

TODAQ

Fintech·Pre-Seed

USD payments infrastructure enabling AI agents to pay per API call in real-time.

GR

Gridraster

PO

Polygone Systems

PL

Plantible Foods

PI

Pine Park Health

PO

Pod Foods

LI

Lily AI

How to pitch Unshackled Ventures
  • 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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