# AvanTech Ventures

> AvanTech Ventures is a VC fund in Santa Clara backing Software, DevOps and EdTech. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Clara, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Feb 2022
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/27201512/
- Website: http://avantechvc.com/

AvanTech Ventures is a VC fund in Santa Clara focused on Software and DevOps. AvanTech Ventures is the early-stage global VC focusing on internet based startups

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| DevOps | 1 | 13% |
| EdTech | 1 | 13% |
| Travel | 1 | 13% |
| Leisure | 1 | 13% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 75% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 63% |
| Canada | 1 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Insense | Insense is a Creator Marketplace for UGC & Creator Content at scale. Our global community of 20,000+ vetted creators delivers cost-efficient creator mobile-first assets in just 10 business days, whilst our managed service provides creative editing & media buying for high performance. Our customers have seen 4x reduction in production costs,3x higher CTR, and up to 12x ROAS. | $3.1M | Seed | Feb 01, 2022 |  |
| Prodly | Prodly helps companies build and continuously improve business applications faster, more reliably, and more frequently. Prodly’s AppOps platform automates the full lifecycle of low-code development, empowers more non-developers to configure applications, removes bottlenecks in the development process, and provides IT governance to mitigate risk ofagile development. Customers like Nutanix, Johnson & Johnson, Splunk, Tableau, and Verizon use Prodly AppOps to update mission critical applications such as Salesforce CPQ, Salesforce Billing, Field Service Lightning, and Salesforce B2B Commerce at the speed of business. The company is based in Palo Alto, California with global operations. For more information, visit prodly.co. | $10M | Series A | Oct 21, 2021 |  |
| Unfurl | Unfurl is a virtual restaurant hall. We offer our customers personalized access to the best local restaurant brands based on the new Curation-as-a-Service (CaaS) concept. We cover the entire value chain from click to fork. |  | Pre-Seed | Mar 22, 2021 |  |
| Prodly | Prodly helps companies build and continuously improve business applications faster, more reliably, and more frequently. Prodly’s AppOps platform automates the full lifecycle of low-code development, empowers more non-developers to configure applications, removes bottlenecks in the development process, and provides IT governance to mitigate risk ofagile development. Customers like Nutanix, Johnson & Johnson, Splunk, Tableau, and Verizon use Prodly AppOps to update mission critical applications such as Salesforce CPQ, Salesforce Billing, Field Service Lightning, and Salesforce B2B Commerce at the speed of business. The company is based in Palo Alto, California with global operations. For more information, visit prodly.co. | $7M | Seed | Jul 31, 2019 |  |
| CareerTu | CareerTu is an online learning platform for today’s most in-demand digital skills, starting with digital marketing, data analytics, and product design. We teach our students real-world business problems via capstone projects to make sure they are equipped with the must-have technical skills.250+ top companies hired CareerTu students in 14countries - including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify, Pinterest, LVMH, TikTok, Expedia, Alibaba, Tencent, Meituan etc. CareerTu's mission is to teach students the industry’s most relevant and in-demand skills, making them the ideal hire at their dream companies, in return providing businesses with experienced and reliable talents to increase their efficiency.华语数字化技能学习平台。通过系统学习高薪数字化技能, 迅速培养新兴行业紧缺的人，为中美科技和新零售企业不断输送优秀人才。关注微信公众号CareerTu, 随时获得互联网和新零售行业最新资讯。 |  | Seed | Apr 30, 2019 |  |
| Kunduz | Kunduz makes study help from a real tutor as affordable as $15 / month thanks to its product that blends its tutor platform and proprietary AI in the same pod. Unlike conventional resources such as private tutors or ed-tech platforms that are practically online solution manuals, Kunduz makes study help accessible without compromising itspersonalized touch nor making it ridiculously expensive.Kunduz raised its Seed Round soon after Y Combinator's 2018 Summer Batch and is currently expanding globally. | $1.5M | Seed | Sep 15, 2018 |  |
| Easol | The all-in-one platform to manage your experience business, on your terms. | $120K | Seed | Aug 18, 2018 |  |
| Helios Wire | Helios Wire is bringing satellite-enabled machine to machine (M2M) and Internet of Things connectivity to the mass market by using priority mobile satellite system (MSS) S-band spectrum to build a two-way global satellite-enabled system for ultra-low-cost short burst data services covering connected assets. The Helios system is designed for bothexisting and emerging IoT and M2M applications, including the monitoring and controlling of both fixed and mobile assets in the transportation, consumer, logistics, security/public safety, energy, industrial/construction, agriculture, animal management, and other industries. Providing M2M with the goal of enabling the Internet of Things from Space will be done by blending terrestrial based networks with our constellation of low earth orbiting satellites in order to use the combined dataset, for analytics, for information, and for actionable insight-as-a-service — with up to 5 billion transmitters, worldwide. | $4M | Seed | Aug 21, 2017 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Norwest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/norwest-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Flyer One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flyer-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Shasta Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shasta-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AltaIR Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altair) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Digital Consumer Brand Laboratory](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-consumer-brand-laboratory-9981) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does AvanTech Ventures invest in?

AvanTech Ventures invests primarily in Software, DevOps and EdTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did AvanTech Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for AvanTech Ventures closed in Feb 2022. Shizune tracks 8 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?

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