# April Underwood

> April Underwood is a seed investor at Adverb Ventures backing Software. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Adverb Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adverb-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 4%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilunderwood
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/aunder
- Website: http://aprilunderwood.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aunder

April Underwood is a seed investor at Adverb Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. April Underwood is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Adverb Ventures. She previously worked at Nearby as a Founder and CEO.April Underwood attended the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.4M–$7M |
| Pre-Seed | $150k–$5.6M |
| Series A | $8M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 26% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 19% |
| SaaS | 3 | 11% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 11% |
| Apps | 2 | 7% |

55 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 48% |
| Series A | 9 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 11% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 21 | 78% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Outset | AI-powered user research | $30M | Series B | Dec 10, 2025 |  |
| Outset | AI-powered user research | $17M | Series A | Jun 11, 2025 |  |
| Arcade | Arcade is a B2C platform that transforms the jewelry market through its prompt-to-product solution, allowing users to create unique designs using AI. The marketplace supports various user roles, enabling customers, designers, and influencers to engage and collaborate. | $25M | Series A | Mar 24, 2025 |  |
| shotsy | Shotsy is a tracking application tailored for users of GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic, Mounjaro, Wegovy, and Zepbound. It enables them to log their weekly injections, monitor side effects, and track weight loss, protein consumption, and other health metrics235. The app offers detailed analytics and charts for visualizing progress | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Feb 13, 2025 |  |
| Panobi | Panobi is a SaaS company currently in stealth. | $5M | Seed | Aug 24, 2023 |  |
| Ambient | Ambient is a technology company focused on helping teams be more productive. |  | Seed | Aug 11, 2023 |  |
| Ambient | Ambient is a technology company focused on helping teams be more productive. | $150K | Pre-Seed | Aug 11, 2023 |  |
| Equals | Equals is the only spreadsheet with built-in connections to any database, versioning, and collaboration. | $16M | Series A | Nov 09, 2022 |  |
| Humaans | Humaans is a provider of HRIS employee management software for remote and distributed teams. Instead of a one-size-fits-all software platform, the company's employee management platform enables organizations to maintain a central hub of employee data while building a customizable people operations stack. The stack assists businesses inmanaging employee data, documents, reporting, and the people processes that drive the entire structure. It allows organizations to create a customizable HR stack that manages employee documents, data, payroll, contracts, and other "people ops" componentsTheir goal is to automate the entire employment lifecycle and simplify complex manual processes like onboarding, offboarding, promotions, compensation management, and more. | $15M | Series A | Oct 04, 2022 |  |
| Indent | Indent is your new teammate that everyone in your company can work with, teach, and improve. | $5.6M | Pre-Seed | Dec 21, 2021 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Offline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/offline-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Upside Partnership](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/upside-partnership) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Adverb Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

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.

2 contacts available at Adverb Ventures.

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

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## FAQ

### What does April Underwood invest in?

April Underwood invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 27 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 April Underwood's check size?

April Underwood typically joins rounds of $2.4M–$7M at Seed, $150k–$5.6M at Pre-Seed and $8M–$25M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds April Underwood participates in.

### When did April Underwood last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for April Underwood closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 27 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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