# Courtyard Ventures

> Courtyard Ventures is a VC fund in Berkeley backing Software and Information Technology. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berkeley, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/courtyard-ventures

Courtyard Ventures is a VC fund in Berkeley focused on Software and Information Technology. Courtyard is a VC firm focused on UC Berkeley affiliated startups.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 44% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 31% |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 19% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 19% |
| SaaS | 2 | 13% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 63% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 13% |
| Series A | 2 | 13% |
| Angel | 1 | 6% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Thoughtly | Thoughtfully assists companies in creating and implementing AI speech agents that mimic humans. | $5.5M | Seed | Apr 22, 2026 |  |
| Ridepanda | Ridepanda is an online e-ride shop that offers electric vehicles with maintenance support and theft protection. | $12.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 29, 2025 |  |
| Izote Biosciences | Biomanufacturing Scale-Up Solution | $3.1M | Pre-Seed | Feb 01, 2025 |  |
| Hue | Hue is a software as a service platform that finds and incorporates real video evaluations into the marketing channels and websites of e-commerce companies.Hue enables businesses and retailers to incorporate TikTok-style shoppable films on their e-commerce websites, giving customers confidence to add to cart. | $4.5M | Seed | Oct 22, 2024 |  |
| MiLaboratories | MiLaboratories' key product - MiXCR is a top-notch solution to analyze immunology sequencing data. Software is used in the vaccine, cancer, antibodies, and autoimmune diseases drug development pipelines. The original idea is based on a Nature Journal article published in 2015 and developed by founders into a cutting-edge software solutionbased on competitors' reviews by top Pharma and the academic community. | $10M | Series A | Oct 10, 2024 |  |
| Cashmere AI | Mobile application for user generated audio content | $3.6M | Seed | Sep 10, 2024 |  |
| SirenOpt | SirenOpt is accelerating sustainable and smart manufacturing of advanced materials using intelligent characterization and real-time decision-making to drive the creation of innovative, high-performance products that fuel the advancement of society. SirenOpt was founded in 2022 as a spin-out from the UC Berkeley Chemical Engineering Department.SirenOpt is pioneering a paradigm shift in advanced materials characterization by leveraging cold atmospheric plasma, machine learning and predictive analytics to non-destructively create a uniquely distinctive, multifaceted material fingerprint in real-time. SirenOpt transforms measurement blind spots into rich multi-layered material insights, which enable intelligent performance-centric decision-making. SirenOpt thus accelerates R&D and process optimization, enhances product performance, and delivers higher production quality to maximize value in both in-line and off-line applications. SirenOpt’s manufacturing intelligence platform has demonstrated use cases across battery, aerospace, semiconductor, electronic and many other advanced manufacturing segments in both inline production and offline tool deployments. | $6.6M | Seed | Jul 23, 2024 |  |
| Jacobi Robotics | Jacobi Robotics is a software building block for robot arms. | $5M | Seed | Jul 11, 2024 |  |
| Prósperos | Founded in 2023 by Vinay Pai and Salvador Chavez, Prósperos is delivering an innovative financial platform that allows millions of Latinos to manage their finances while taking care of their family in the USA and Latin America.The Prósperos platform provides two bank accounts and two cards– one for the account holder in the USA and one for theirfamily in Mexico, and soon Central and South America. With Prósperos, customers can say goodbye to slow and costly money-transfer solutions, and their families no longer need to wait in line to pick up cash. Within seconds, funds are available to family members in Latin America. | $3M | Seed | Jun 04, 2024 |  |
| Intento | Intento helps global companies procure and utilize the best-fit cognitive AI services. The Intento AI Hub connects AI models trained on multiple platforms (such as Amazon, Google AutoML, or Microsoft Cognitive Services) with many enterprise software systems. Launched in 2017, Intento offers its patented, ISO-27001 certified platform to globaltechnology, retail, and travel companies, augmenting their Localization, Content Management, Customer Support, and Marketing Operations with AI.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California. | $8M | Series A | Oct 11, 2023 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Somersault Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/somersault-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Courtyard Ventures invest in?

Courtyard Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 16 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 Courtyard Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Courtyard Ventures closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 16 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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