# Willowtree Investments

> Willowtree Investments is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Financial Services and Payments. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last fund: Mar 2025
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/willowtree-vc/
- Website: http://amara.vc

Willowtree Investments is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Financial Services and Payments. Willowtree Investments operates as an early stage venture capital firm.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.5M–$11M |
| Pre-Seed | $2M–$4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 7 | 39% |
| Payments | 5 | 28% |
| SaaS | 4 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 22% |
| Advice | 3 | 17% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 44% |
| India | 3 | 17% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 17% |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Valence AI | Valence is a communication tool that delivers emotional feedback in real-time conversation, aiming to augment emotional perception across different neurotypes, languages, communication styles, and cultures. | $5M | Seed | Jun 23, 2026 |  |
| Fibr | Fibr helps brands enhance their conversion rates by truly bridging the gap between sales and marketing efforts, enabling accurate attribution even on Amazon. The kickass technology provides a seamless multi-channel checkout experience, enabling consumers to buy from anywhere, incl. Amazon, marketplaces, or brand websites. Fibr SuperLinks aredesigned to attribute sales to specific campaigns, providing brands with their real marketing ROI. Our vision is to unlock the ultimate future of e-commerce through the power of our Connected Commerce Platform. | $5.7M | Seed | Feb 04, 2026 |  |
| RapidFire AI | RapidFire AI provides an agile deep learning development platform to accelerate AI development while reducing infrastructure costs | $4M | Pre-Seed | Sep 23, 2025 |  |
| Tensec | Founded in 2023, Tensec is a global fintech that enables small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to enter global trade and thrive by giving them access to global transaction banking solutions that are user-friendly, efficient, and secure.Tensec founders have driven startups from foundation to exit, built decacorns, and led global teams atcompanies such as PayPal, Credit Karma, Facebook, Goldman Sachs, Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. We’re putting together a world-class team to disrupt the $50 trillion cross-border b2b financial services industry by providing SMBs the financial strength to participate and win in the global economy.We believe that successful companies and teams are directly correlated to a company's cultural DNA. At Tensec, we make a deliberate effort to create values and foster a culture able to unleash both human and organizational potential. We strongly believe that the best business results derive from teams that have a strong identification with a mission, push themselves to the edge, and love what they do.The Tensec team is diverse and global, with members in New York, San Francisco and São Paulo. We are funded by top venture capital firms such as Costanoa Ventures, Quiet Capital, Cambrian Ventures, Ignia Partners and WillowTree Investments. | $12M | Seed | Jun 18, 2025 |  |
| Gable | Gable is a B2B data infrastructure SaaS that offers a platform for collaboration to write and execute data contracts. Gable supports communication between data providers and consumers using data contracts, assisting companies to increase data quality at scale. | $20M | Series A | Mar 31, 2025 |  |
| Mindgard Ltd | Mindgard Ltd specializes in providing comprehensive AI security solutions to enterprises. Our operations center around a sophisticated platform designed to determine, detect, and remediate adversarial attack vulnerabilities within AI models. The platform is built on over four years of PhD-led research in AI and cyber security, ensuring advancedprotection that traditional Cyber Security platforms cannot offer.Our platform integrates seamlessly with existing AI and Cyber Security tools, enabling automated and repeatable vulnerability testing across the entire AI estate. This integration allows enterprises to efficiently assess and mitigate risks, optimizing their AI and cyber security resources.Key operational features include: - Automated Security Testing: Utilizing a library of adversarial attacks, our platform conducts thorough and repeated security tests to identify vulnerabilities. - Detection and Response: The platform continuously monitors AI models for threats and provides rapid detection and response capabilities to neutralize potential attacks. - Seamless Integration: Designed for compatibility with existing operational tools, our platform can be easily incorporated into current security infrastructures.Mindgard Ltd's operations ensure that businesses can securely adopt and innovate with AI technologies while protecting their digital assets, brand, and reputation in the evolving AI landscape. |  |  | Dec 20, 2024 |  |
| Mindgard | Mindgard is an AI security company that helps enterprise to test, detect, and respond to cyber threats against their AI models.Given that businesses are increasingly focused on offering AI-driven services such as LLMs, securing this new way of conducting business is equally important. Mindgard ensures that your business can safely and securelymove into the new AI world and continue to protect your digital assets, brand and reputation.Our platform enables enterprise customers to determine, detect, and remediate against any adversarial attack vulnerabilities within all their AI models. This answers the “What is my AI risk?” and “How do I mitigate my AI risk?” questions that currently cannot be answered using traditional Cyber Security platforms. By designing our platform from the ground up to integrate with existing AI and Cyber Security operational tooling, Mindgard can be seamlessly added to your organization, providing repeatable and automated AI model vulnerability testing.The Mindgard platform has been in development for over 4 years based on cutting edge PhD-led, AI & cyber security research, also used by the global Intelligence Community. As well as providing a library of adversarial attacks based on deep research, leveraging our platform that can automate repeated security testing, detection, and response across the entire AI estate. By leveraging the Mindgard platform, our clients free up precious AI and cyber security resources and at the same time understand, detect, and mitigate risks across their entire AI model portfolio, which currently takes too long and is too expensive. Our platform ensures that business can rapidly embrace LLMs and other AI technologies whilst protecting their digital assets, brand, and reputation within the new AI world. | $8.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 20, 2024 |  |
| Distributional | Distributional makes AI safe, reliable and secure. | $11M | Seed | Dec 14, 2023 |  |
| KUmar Pradeep | Cart Abandonment Rate is the percentage (%) of online visitors who add items to their shopping cart but then abandon it without making a purchase. It shows the rate at which your potential customers are leaving without buying. | $3.5M | Seed | Mar 28, 2023 |  |
| CoinCRED | CoinCRED allows users to buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies. |  | Seed | Mar 28, 2023 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Willowtree Investments invest in?

Willowtree Investments invests primarily in Financial Services, Payments and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 18 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 Willowtree Investments's check size?

Willowtree Investments typically joins rounds of $3.5M–$11M at Seed and $2M–$4M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Willowtree Investments participates in.

### When did Willowtree Investments last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Willowtree Investments closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 18 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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