# Embarcadero Ventures

> Embarcadero Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Apps and Gaming. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jun 2011
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.embarcaderoventures.com/

Embarcadero Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Apps and Gaming. Embarcadero is a Venture Fund founded by Chamath Palihapitiya.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $900k–$33M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 2 | 50% |
| Gaming | 1 | 25% |
| Mobile | 1 | 25% |
| Retail | 1 | 25% |
| Children | 1 | 25% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 50% |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Angel | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 75% |
| Russian Federation | 1 | 25% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chamath Palihapitiya | Founder | 99 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chamath-palihapitiya |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Impermium | Impermium is a cybersecurity technology startup that protects over 1.5M sites and has processed over 8B total transactions in its 3-year history. The company's advanced risk-evaluation platform improves account management by identifying fraudulent registrations, compromised logins, and risky transactions. It has proven successful at stoppingfraudulent user account registrations in real-time — using a blend of machine learning, statistical anomaly detection, and a proprietary database of malicious actors — for hundreds of transactions per second from many of the largest consumer Internet companies. | $1M | Seed | Jun 27, 2011 |  |
| Milk | Milk is a mobile development lab founded by Kevin Rose, Jeff Hodsdon, and Daniel Burka. Milk has announced its first mobile app, Oink, released last fall. The company has since been acquired by Google. | $1.5M | Angel | Apr 01, 2011 |  |
| BabyBoom | BABYBOOM.ru is baby and kid's goods online retailer in Russia. | $900K | Series A | Mar 25, 2011 |  |
| Playdom | Playdom is a game developer with a focus on social, online games. The company has a number of popular titles on the iPhone, Myspace, and Facebook. | $33M | Series A | Jun 21, 2010 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
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- [CRV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crvvc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Embarcadero Ventures invest in?

Embarcadero Ventures invests primarily in Apps, Gaming and Mobile startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 4 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 Embarcadero Ventures's check size?

Embarcadero Ventures typically joins rounds of $900k–$33M 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 Embarcadero Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Embarcadero Ventures?

Public channels for Embarcadero Ventures include 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 Embarcadero Ventures?

The team at Embarcadero Ventures includes Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder). 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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