# Allison Pickens

> Allison Pickens is a seed investor at The New Normal Fund backing Software. See 59 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [The New Normal Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-new-normal-fund)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 59
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/allison-pickens/b/121/4a7
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/PickensAllison
- Website: https://x.com/PickensAllison

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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.6M–$10M |
| Series A | $9M–$30M |
| Series B | $30M–$118M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 30 | 51% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 23 | 39% |
| Information Technology | 13 | 22% |
| SaaS | 11 | 19% |
| Internet | 5 | 8% |

82 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 18 | 31% |
| Series A | 18 | 31% |
| Series B | 7 | 12% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 6 | 10% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 7% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 39 | 66% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Sweden | 1 | 2% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Waldo | 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 | Solea is the AI CSR that helps with booking, routing, and logging home service jobs in real time. |  | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2025 |  |
| Glimpse | 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 AI | Fastrak helps people create fully functioning prototypes, refine specs, and show their customers without needing engineers. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Dec 06, 2024 |  |
| Cercli | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| PipeDreams | 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 | Seed | Mar 26, 2024 |  |
| Unstructured Technologies | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 59 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [The New Normal Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-new-normal-fund) — VC Fund, 18 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Amplify Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplify-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Atomico](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atomico) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Amity Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amity-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About The New Normal Fund

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

The New Normal Fund is collaborating with B2B AI companies to expand to IPO and beyond.

1 contacts available at The New Normal Fund.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Allison Pickens | Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allison-pickens |

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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 59 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.

### When did Allison Pickens last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Allison Pickens closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 59 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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