# Adverb Ventures

> Adverb Ventures is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 25 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 25
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 28%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/adverb-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/adverbvc
- Website: https://www.adverb.vc

Adverb Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Our typical investments are between $500k and $5M, in a company's earliest stages. We invest in and advise founders who bring unique insight about a market, an audience, or problem space with a drive to fully realize their vision on the largest possible scale.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 32% |
| Software | 3 | 12% |
| Web Development | 3 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 12% |
| Consulting | 2 | 8% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 48% |
| Series A | 6 | 24% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 8% |
| Series B | 2 | 8% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jessica Verrilli | Co-Founder and Managing Director | 19 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jessica-verrilli |
| April Underwood | Managing Director and Co-Founder | 27 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/april-underwood |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Foundational Industries | Foundational Industries develops, finances, and operates autonomous manufacturing facilities for contract manufacturing. Its factories use AI-enabled robotics and a unified factory operating layer to coordinate activities from product design through production. The company serves businesses that require domestic production and manufacturingcapacity for critical components and products. | $25M | Seed | Jul 30, 2026 |  |
| Foundation Industries | Foundation Industries provides manufacturing technology and services focused on fast, low-volume, high-mix CNC machining for hard tech companies. The company offers an online portal where engineering teams can upload designs, define specifications, and receive transparent quotes for custom components. Its system supports domestic production runswith turnaround times as short as two days for qualifying orders. Foundation Industries focuses on helping hardware teams move efficiently from design to production by simplifying quoting, ordering, and tracking in one place. The company serves deep tech and physical engineering organizations that need rapid prototyping and small-batch production of precision-machined parts. Its services are intended to reduce lead times, increase predictability, and support the development and launch of complex hardware systems. | $25M | Seed | Jul 30, 2026 |  |
| Centralize | Centralize is an IT firm that analyzes touch points with the help of tools and stakeholders for pre and post-sales teams. | $15M | Series A | Jul 29, 2026 |  |
| Cambio | Cambio is an AI-powered commercial real estate operations platform that automates the collection, analysis, and reporting of building data to support workflows like capital planning, compliance, sustainability tracking, and retrofit planning. It uses large language models and agentic AI to ingest unstructured documents, integrate utility andperformance data, and produce actionable insights and priority-ranked recommendations for property owners, asset managers, and investors. The platform consolidates disparate data into a unified system of record and generates automated reporting for regulatory and investor frameworks. Cambio also supports collaboration across teams and helps clients evaluate investment opportunities and monitor progress toward financial and performance goals. | $18M | Series A | Jan 22, 2026 |  |
| GoodDay Software | GoodDay Software innovating on the most challenging problems facing commerce brands today. As former brand operators, we’re passionate about helping brands become more efficient and profitable, with fewer resources. | $7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 15, 2026 |  |
| Outset | AI-powered user research | $30M | Series B | Dec 10, 2025 |  |
| Outset | AI-powered user research | $30M | Series B | Dec 10, 2025 |  |
| Defakto Security | Defakto secures the next era of automation with the only complete Non-Human IAM platform, purpose-built for end-to-end NHI lifecycle management. By eliminating static secrets and overprivileged accounts, Defakto helps enterprises reduce breach risk, simplify compliance, and scale automation with confidence. Trusted by Global 2000 companies, Defaktowas founded by leaders in large-scale identity deployments. The platform secures every automated interaction across workloads, pipelines, multi-cloud environments, and AI agents. | $30.8M | Series B | Oct 21, 2025 |  |
| Le Walk | Le Walk is an AI-powered app that provides guided experiences through on-demand audio tours, offering users personalized and immersive explorations. | $4.1M | Seed | Aug 14, 2025 |  |
| Macroscope | Macroscope wants on-demand analytics to take the place of status meetings. Use the highest signal-to-noise code reviews to merge code more quickly and with fewer problems. | $30M | Series A | Jul 01, 2025 |  |

10 of 25 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Abstract](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-list-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Ritual Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ritual-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [20SALES](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/20sales) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Adverb Ventures invest in?

Adverb Ventures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Web Development startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 25 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Adverb Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Adverb Ventures?

The team at Adverb Ventures includes Jessica Verrilli (Co-Founder and Managing Director) and April Underwood (Managing Director and Co-Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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