Allison Pickens
Founder & General Partner @ The New Normal Fund
San Francisco, United States
Allison Pickens is a seed investor at The New Normal Fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Allison Pickens is the founder and general partner at Allison Pickens Ventures. She was also the director on the Board of Directors at Rainforest QA. She attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
- Total investments:
- 60
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Allison Pickens invests in
Stages Allison Pickens invests in
Countries Allison Pickens invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $3.6M–$10M
- Series A
- $9M–$30M
- Series B
- $30M–$118M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 30 (50%)
- Artificial Intelligence 23 (38%)
- Information Technology 13 (22%)
- SaaS 11 (18%)
- Internet 5 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 19 (32%)
- Series A 18 (30%)
- Series B 7 (12%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 6 (10%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (7%)
Country
- United States 39 (65%)
- United Kingdom 2 (3%)
- Canada 1 (2%)
- France 1 (2%)
- Sweden 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Solea is the AI CSR that helps with booking, routing, and logging home service jobs in real time. | $10M / Seed / Sep 25, 2026 | ||
| Waldo is a corporation that provides research services. By making Google search more productive, Waldo assists in finding what is needed faster, such as data points, contact information, insights, and more. X-ray examination Rather than relying on Google's restricted page previews, Waldo thoroughly examines each result and extracts therelevant information in a skimmable, searchable format. | $10M / Series A / Oct 01, 2025 | ||
| Solea is the AI CSR that helps with booking, routing, and logging home service jobs in real time. | Pre-Seed / May 01, 2025 | ||
| Glimpse partners with brands to place their products in luxury short-term rentals as a sales and acquisition channel. Glimpse was founded in 2020 by Kushal Negi, Akash Raju, and Anuj Mehta and was headquartered in New York. | $10M / Series A / Apr 08, 2025 | ||
| Fastrak helps people create fully functioning prototypes, refine specs, and show their customers without needing engineers. | $3M / Pre-Seed / Dec 06, 2024 | ||
| Cercli is a human resources, modern payroll and employee data platform for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). | $4M / Seed / Sep 03, 2024 | ||
| Gradient transforms how enterprises adopt AI, enabling the creation and deployment of domain-focused LLMs for finance, healthcare, and law. It offers full model ownership, rapid LLM creation, and state-of-the-art expert models. Trusted by product teams and ML engineers, Gradient supports AI applications across industries while ensuring privacy andcompliance. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 07, 2024 | ||
| PipeDreams is the next gen, tech-powered home services provider. We buy businesses with amazing teams and use technology to grow them into industry leading organizations.Founded in 2020: The PipeDreams team comes from companies like Nextdoor, Bain, and Roto-Rooter. We have a deep understanding of small business dynamics and unique insights intothe local marketing, technology, and M&A needed to disrupt home services.Backed by world class investors: Our team is well capitalized with funding from top Silicon Valley VCs and Angel Investors. We’re hard at work pursuing our opportunity in a highly fragmented, $830B industry in desperate need of modernization. | $25.5M / Series A / Mar 26, 2024 | ||
| Unstructured Technologies transforms natural language data from raw to machine learning-ready. Its open-source libraries and APIs build custom preprocessing pipelines for labeling, training, or production machine learning pipelines. | $40M / Series B / Mar 14, 2024 | ||
| XBuild is an AI-powered construction platform designed to streamline various aspects of the construction process, including estimation, supplementation, permitting, closeout, and instant financing. The platform specifically caters to the construction industry's needs by offering tools for insurance-ready roofing scopes for immediate approvalsand facilitating access to payments immediately after job completion. XBuild aims to simplify the construction workflow, allowing contractors to focus on the building aspect while it handles the administrative and financial tasks. The platform also features a collection of timber construction and hybrid structural solutions for inspiration and practical application. | Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 28, 2024 | ||
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About The New Normal Fund
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FAQ
What does Allison Pickens invest in?
Allison Pickens invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 60 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Allison Pickens's check size?
Allison Pickens typically joins rounds of $3.6M–$10M at Seed, $9M–$30M at Series A and $30M–$118M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Allison Pickens participates in.
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When did Allison Pickens last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Allison Pickens closed in Sep 2026. Shizune tracks 60 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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