# Cambrian Ventures

> Cambrian Ventures is a VC fund in Livermore backing Software and E-Commerce. See 31 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Livermore, United States
- Total investments: 31
- Last investment: Aug 2024
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.cambrianventures.com

Cambrian Ventures is a technology research and venture capital firm. They target disruptive technologies/applications and typically get involved very early with such companies to help shape both the technology and the business.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$9M |
| Series A | $1.1M–$13M |
| Series B | $1M–$17M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 19% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 16% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 16% |
| Shopping | 3 | 10% |
| Mobile | 2 | 6% |

63 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 10 | 32% |
| Seed | 7 | 23% |
| Series B | 7 | 23% |
| Series C | 4 | 13% |
| Angel | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 19 | 61% |
| China | 3 | 10% |
| India | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brico | Brico is a stop licensing platform that helps companies acquire new financial licenses and maintain ongoing licensing requirements. | $8M | Seed | Sep 11, 2024 |  |
| Continuum | Continuum is a technology firm specializing in digital networks for B2B distributors and manufacturers. | $4.1M | Seed | Aug 26, 2024 |  |
| Ansa | Ansa allows merchants to launch digital wallets through our innovative white-label closed-loop payments platform. We want to help merchants strengthen their relationship with most loyal customers, while still optimizing unit economics. | $5.4M | Seed | Apr 26, 2023 |  |
| Keep Financial | Keep Financial is aligning compensation with business objectives, ROI, and performance. Keep Financial is featuring Vesting Cash Plans, provides employees with usable capital up front so companies can attract the best talent, assure retention, and increase overall satisfaction and productivity. | $9M | Seed | May 18, 2022 |  |
| FarCloud | Fangyun Intelligence is industry's first digital and intelligent R&D performance management platform, combining R&D process data with AI algorithms, promotes the active implementation of corporate strategies. | $1.6M | Angel | Apr 13, 2022 |  |
| Roto Travel | Provider of travel photography services. The company has employed many professional photographer and makeup artists and cooperated with stores in different countries, providing travel photography services in Europe, Indonesia, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Japan. | $1.4M | Seed | Aug 14, 2018 |  |
| Robin.io | ROBIN platform extends agility, efficiency, and portability of Kubernetes to all applications, even complex Big Data, Databases, AI/ML and Custom Apps, on Any Infrastructure, On-Premise, Hybrid Cloud or Multi-Cloud.ROBIN facilitates simpler and faster roll-out of critical Enterprise IT and LoB initiatives, such as containerization,cloud-migration, cost-consolidation and developer productivity, solves the fundamental challenges of running big data and databases in Kubernetes and enables the deployment of an agile, and flexible Kubernetes-based infrastructure for your Enterprise Applications.With a team that includes industry veterans from leading enterprise technology companies such as NetApp, Oracle, and Veritas, Robin Systems seeks to disrupt the $20 billion-plus virtualization market with its hyper-converged Kubernetes platform. The San Jose California-based company is backed by leading investors such as Clear Ventures, DN Capital, USAA, Hasso Plattner Ventures and CloudScale Capital Partners. To learn more about our progress or to explore exciting opportunities at Robin, please visit us at www.robin.io. | $15M | Series A | Oct 06, 2015 |  |
| Finger | Finger is a "instrument education + e-commerce shopping guide" platform aimed at the novice music circle. At "Finger", they offer a variety of popular instrument training courses to meet the needs of different levels of people at all stages; real-time simultaneous practice, you do not need any music foundation, you can take youquickly by hand; in the "Finger" community can Grow with you, share your experiences, and develop your own music circle. | $1.2M | Seed | Jan 01, 2015 |  |
| Snapdeal | With millions of customers and more than 500,000 sellers, Snapdeal is India’s largest no-frills ecommerce marketplace. Snapdeal is host to 200 million listings & offers a wide selection of value-focused products across 600 categories such as home, kitchen, apparel, fashion accessories, mobile and electronics, books and more. Some of theInvestors in the company include SoftBank, Alibaba, Temasek, BlackRock, Foxconn, among others. | $50M | Series C | Apr 01, 2013 |  |
| PunchTab | PunchTab is the leading engagement and insights platform committed to creating technology that allows brands and retailers to grow engagement and lifetime value with their consumers across any channel or device.Leading CPG and retail brands like The Yankee Candle Company, PURELL, ConAgra, Arby’s and more use PunchTab’s cloud-based solution todeepen audience engagement, build awareness, and gain a data-driven, 360-degree view of consumer behavior and purchase drivers. PunchTab offers a self-serve, easy-to-implement product, and fully customizable, white-labeled engagement programs. Based in Silicon Valley PunchTab is funded by Mohr Davidow Ventures, Chamath Palihapitiya from The Social+Capital Partnership, Crunch Fund, Venky Harinarayan, and Anand Rajaraman. For more information visit www.punchtab.com. | $4.4M | Series A | Nov 08, 2011 |  |

10 of 31 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Cambrian Ventures invest in?

Cambrian Ventures invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 31 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 Cambrian Ventures's check size?

Cambrian Ventures typically joins rounds of $1M–$9M at Seed, $1.1M–$13M at Series A and $1M–$17M 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 Cambrian Ventures participates in.

### When did Cambrian Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Cambrian Ventures closed in Aug 2024. Shizune tracks 31 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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