# Better Ventures

> Better Ventures is a VC fund in Oakland backing Health Care and Biotechnology. See 99 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oakland, United States
- Total investments: 99
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 21%
- Fund size: $32M
- Last fund: Oct 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/3018222
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/betterventures
- Website: http://better.vc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Better-Ventures-958639274174505

Better Ventures is a VC fund in Oakland focused on Health Care and Biotechnology. Better Ventures provides funding and support to technology startups building innovative solutions to big and important problems, from work and education to health and sustainability. Given the magnitude of the these problems and the enormous market opportunities they represent, it takes the best and brightest minds armed with the best resources toaddress them. These are the people they seek to back – entrepreneurs committed to using the tools and methodologies of the modern technology startup to build world-changing companies that make money and do good. They're thinking big and expecting big results, and so are the entrepreneurs they back.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $750k–$5.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $525k–$2.7M |
| Series A | $2.5M–$26M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 16 | 16% |
| Biotechnology | 12 | 12% |
| Software | 8 | 8% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 8% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 8% |

117 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 57 | 58% |
| Series A | 8 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 7% |
| Series B | 3 | 3% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 2% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 57 | 58% |
| Kenya | 2 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lyndsey Boucherle | Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lyndsey-boucherle |
| Adam Archer | Mentor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-archer |
| Jessica Eastling | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jessica-eastling |
| Rick Moss | Founding Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rick-moss |
| Wes Selke | Managing Director & Founder | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wes-selke |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Prosper Medical | Prosper Medical is a telemedicine platform that connects members with physicians for personalized healthcare services. | $16M | Seed | Jul 23, 2026 |  |
| dehaze | dehaze provides healthcare services by bringing medical AI models into clinical practice. | $3.7M | Seed | Apr 28, 2026 |  |
| Critical Loop | Critical Loop is an energy technology company that provides on-demand power solutions for industrial and infrastructure applications by combining modular hardware and software systems. Its platform integrates behind-the-meter battery storage, on-site generation, and grid power through intelligent controls that dynamically manage energy supply basedon availability and demand. The company develops and deploys scalable microgrid systems, including relocatable batteries and control units, which can be implemented rapidly to address delays or limitations in traditional grid capacity. It also handles project development, system design, deployment, and ongoing operations and maintenance, enabling continuous monitoring and optimization of power performance. Critical Loop’s solutions are used across sectors such as manufacturing, transportation, data centers, and critical infrastructure to ensure consistent and flexible energy access. | $26M | Series A | Apr 13, 2026 |  |
| Oasys Health | AI-native EHR and practice management system with real-time patient monitoring for private practices and therapy networks. Increase your efficiency via automated documentation, scheduling, billing, and teletherapy— all while leveraging advanced data from patients to personalize care. | $4M | Seed | Jan 06, 2026 |  |
| Magnefy | Magnefy (previously known as Infinion) is a Stanford spin-out pioneering an edge AI-powered, high-frequency magnetic sensing platform for real-time predictive maintenance of critical power assets like transformers, switchgear, and generators. Our $500 non-invasive IoT solution captures 250× more low-noise, high-frequency data—accurately detectingfailures like partial discharge and higher harmonics weeks to months in advance, at one-tenth the cost of legacy systems. We help mission-critical facilities—data centers, IPPs, utilities, and manufacturers—avoid outages, boost reliability, and maximize power efficiency. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Aug 04, 2025 |  |
| NuCicer | NuCicer is unlocking chickpea’s full potential - transitioning it from “interesting ingredient” to “staple superfood” by launching new varieties with ground-breaking agronomic and quality traits that deliver better nutrition, improved flavor, and more economical ingredients. NuCicer’s technology combines the world's most diverse chickpeabreeding library and their proprietary breeding innovation platform, built on deep roots in plant genetics and machine learning, to create value across the agri-food system. | $11.5M | Series A | Jul 30, 2025 |  |
| EDEN | EDEN develops operation management software to automate and streamline home service business, customer acquisition, and sales. Its features include lead identification, automatic pricing and system recommendations, online estimate generation, and customer engagement tools that allow residential contractors to improve efficiency.The company'sdata-driven technology, Instant Quote, transforms the traditionally frustrating and lengthy home visit process into a transparent online experience by instantly automating complex job estimation, allowing homeowners to discover the right solutions for their homes and pre-sell themselves. | $3.7M | Seed | Apr 29, 2025 |  |
| Avalo | Avalo is a plant biology company that harnesses interpretable machine learning, genomic discovery, and evolutionary theory to rapidly design new crops for the future of agriculture. Their process uses AI-assisted plant breeding, so all products are non-GMO and support the natural diversity of the world around us. The technological core of Avalo isa discovery engine that can identify the genetic underpinnings of complex traits with minimal training. In turn, these findings are leveraged into high-precision, low-cost simulations and forecasts. Even in understudied crops, Avalo can reduce the time that it takes to produce new crops by years and reduce the cost by an order of magnitude. | $11M | Series A | Mar 06, 2025 |  |
| Cold | Cold is a sustainability compliance platform for startups and medium-sized businesses. | $2.7M | Pre-Seed | Oct 31, 2024 |  |
| Frate | Frate pioneers peer-to-peer returns to save retailer profits and our planet. It enables retailers to drop ship returns from customer-to-customer. | $2.6M | Seed | Sep 18, 2024 |  |

10 of 99 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Better Ventures invest in?

Better Ventures invests primarily in Health Care, Biotechnology and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 99 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 Better Ventures's check size?

Better Ventures typically joins rounds of $750k–$5.5M at Seed, $525k–$2.7M at Pre-Seed and $2.5M–$26M 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 Better Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Better Ventures?

Public channels for Better Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Better Ventures?

The team at Better Ventures includes Lyndsey Boucherle (Partner), Adam Archer (Mentor) and Jessica Eastling (Associate). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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