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What If Ventures

VC
New York, NYWebsite
How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$50K – $1.5M

AUM

$100M

Portfolio

6+ companies

Team

1 partner

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

What If Ventures exclusively invests in startups focused on mental health and wellness, particularly those leveraging technology to create scalable solutions.

How What If Ventures invests

What If Ventures is a vc firm based in New York, NY. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Healthcare.

What If Ventures typically writes checks of $50K–$1.5M per investment, backed by approximately $100M in assets under management.

What If Ventures has backed 6 companies in our records, including Real, UpLift, Alto Neuroscience.

Meet the Team

SH

Stephen Hays

Managing Partner

Mental Health
HealthTech
Wellness

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
Healthcare

Portfolio Companies (6)

Other

RE

Real

Mental Health
UP

UpLift

Mental Health
AL

Alto Neuroscience

Alto Neuroscience is developing a new generation of psychiatric drugs that are more effective by virtue of personalization, achieved by integrating biomarkers into psychiatric drug development.

AT

Atai Life Sciences

Atai is pioneering the development of more effective and potentially disease-modifying mental health treatments.

FI

Firehawk

Firehawk is enabling the next generation of defense systems with solid rocket motors powered by additively manufactured propellant.

UM

Umbra

A technology company providing intelligence data as a service to both commercial and government customers.

How to pitch What If Ventures
  • Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in Other, Healthcare — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $50K – $1.5M check.
  • warm intro preferred
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Stephen Hays, Managing Partner.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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