# 4-Good Ventures

> 4-Good Ventures is a VC fund in Menlo Park backing Music, Internet and Software. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/4-good-ventures
- Website: https://www.4-good.com/

4-Good Ventures is a VC fund in Menlo Park focused on Music and Internet. 4-Good Ventures focus on those in science, technology, education, and democracy who impugn incumbency, transform markets and industries, and solve for the world's Grand Challenges.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Music | 1 | 20% |
| Internet | 1 | 20% |
| Software | 1 | 20% |
| Publishing | 1 | 20% |
| Advertising | 1 | 20% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Convertible Note | 2 | 40% |
| Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |
| Series B | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 40% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LifeScore | LifeScore marries the time-tested 400-year-old technology of musical notation with its proprietary Cellular Composition algorithms, creating a radically innovative, endlessly original platform for musical composition. At LifeScore’s core lie its audio assets – musical building blocks featuring world-class musicians, the finest instruments, historicand cutting edge recording technologies and production in the world’s greatest recording studio.Employing the techniques and processes of professional composers, including those of CEO and Founder Philip Sheppard, LifeScore’s technology rapidly assembles these musical components across multiple audio channels to generate original, unique, adaptive music that is either fully autonomous or responsive in real-time to user and environmental data inputs.LifeScore’s technology can operate across any musical genre – from ambient and classical to pop, EDM, funk and heavy rock – and can be integrated into a vast array of applications across many industry sectors, inextricably linking user-generated, bespoke music to all aspects of life. | $14.4M | Series A | Mar 07, 2022 |  |
| Rizzle | Rizzle is a short video platform bringing unique formats and simplifying high-quality video creation using AI-based camera experiences. Rizzle is one of the top platforms for original content. With video responses, Rizzle enables a positive creator community. Rizzle supports sponsorships for creators, making it an integrated platform for creation,distribution, and monetization. | $10M | Series B | Mar 04, 2022 |  |
| Rizzle | Rizzle is an AI video creation platform. Rizzle works with Media and Publishers to transform their written content (articles, stories, newsletters and blogs) into engaging videos. Rizzle then helps its media and publishing customers distribute their content onto media and social platforms, as well as on their own sites and other video distributionnetworks. Finally, Rizzle drives the monetization of those videos as well as the measurement and analytics to determine what is working best and what is not yet working. | $10M | Seed | Mar 04, 2022 |  |
| Rizzle | Rizzle is a short video platform bringing unique formats and simplifying high-quality video creation using AI-based camera experiences. Rizzle is one of the top platforms for original content. With video responses, Rizzle enables a positive creator community. Rizzle supports sponsorships for creators, making it an integrated platform for creation,distribution, and monetization. | $17M | Convertible Note | Sep 16, 2021 |  |
| Rizzle | Rizzle is an AI video creation platform. Rizzle works with Media and Publishers to transform their written content (articles, stories, newsletters and blogs) into engaging videos. Rizzle then helps its media and publishing customers distribute their content onto media and social platforms, as well as on their own sites and other video distributionnetworks. Finally, Rizzle drives the monetization of those videos as well as the measurement and analytics to determine what is working best and what is not yet working. | $17M | Convertible Note | Sep 16, 2021 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lucas Venture Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lucas-venture-group) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does 4-Good Ventures invest in?

4-Good Ventures invests primarily in Music, Internet and Software startups, most often at Convertible Note and Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did 4-Good Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for 4-Good Ventures closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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