What If Ventures
What If Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in New York, NY investing in Other, Healthcare. The firm typically writes $50K–$1.5M checks and has 6 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $50K–$1.5M
- Portfolio
- 6 companies on record
- Partners
- 1 listed
- AUM
- $100M
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other, Healthcare
- HQ
- New York, NY
Last verified: 2026-07-09
Pre-Seed, Seed
$50K – $1.5M
$100M
6+ companies
1 partner
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.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (6)
Other
Real
UpLift
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.
Atai Life Sciences
Atai is pioneering the development of more effective and potentially disease-modifying mental health treatments.
Firehawk
Firehawk is enabling the next generation of defense systems with solid rocket motors powered by additively manufactured propellant.
Umbra
A technology company providing intelligence data as a service to both commercial and government customers.
- •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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