# Ethos VC

> Ethos VC is a VC fund in San Francisco backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 46 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 46
- Last investment: Feb 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last fund: Mar 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ethosvc/
- Website: https://ethos.vc/

Ethos VC is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on FinTech and Financial Services. The firm invests in both primary rounds, tenders, and secondary transactions with company executives or employees. We are focused primarily on US-based companies with some concentration in Africa & LATAM FinTech.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $150k–$17M |
| Series C | $60M–$170M |
| Series D | $185M–$450M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 17 | 37% |
| Financial Services | 15 | 33% |
| Payments | 6 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 13% |
| Finance | 4 | 9% |

76 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 24% |
| Series C | 5 | 11% |
| Series D | 5 | 11% |
| Series A | 4 | 9% |
| Series B | 4 | 9% |

13 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 31 | 67% |
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| Colombia | 1 | 2% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anthony Zepponi | Venture Capital Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthony-zepponi-7d00 |
| Mick Eddy | General Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mick-eddy |
| John Andreini | General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-andreini |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Figure | Figure is an AI robotics company that develops autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots to address labor shortages and reduce the number of workers in unsafe jobs. It also develops commercially viable autonomous humanoid robots that lend support across manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, and retail. | $675M | Series B | Feb 24, 2024 |  |
| Setscale | Cash flow issues should never stop your momentum. Setscale helps your business scale with purchase order financing and the capital you need to grow.We evaluate purchase orders of all sizes. We are effective, efficient and experienced in helping you scale.A cash flow shortage can interrupt growth when business is still coming in. Setscale givesyour business an advance, directly paying manufacturers up to 100% of the production costs.We don’t get paid until you do — when your customer receives the goods, you invoice them for the order and they pay us directly. |  | Debt Financing | May 04, 2023 |  |
| Clara | Clara is a spending management platform for companies in Latin America. Their end-to-end solution includes their locally-issued corporate cards, Bill Pay, financing solutions, and their software platform used by companies across the region.The platform includes features like AI-driven insights to identify cost-saving opportunities, such asdetecting duplicate subscriptions and monitoring spending patterns. This functionality aims to enhance financial decision-making and operational efficiency for its users. | $60M | Series B | Apr 26, 2023 |  |
| Clara | Clara is a spending management platform for companies in Latin America. Their end-to-end solution includes their locally-issued corporate cards, Bill Pay, financing solutions, and their software platform used by companies across the region.The platform includes features like AI-driven insights to identify cost-saving opportunities, such asdetecting duplicate subscriptions and monitoring spending patterns. This functionality aims to enhance financial decision-making and operational efficiency for its users. | $60M | Series C | Apr 26, 2023 |  |
| Payday | Payday is a fintech that offers global payment solutions such as Virtual Mastercards and foreign employee payments. | $3M | Seed | Mar 29, 2023 |  |
| Parker | Parker is a developer of a digital financial platform designed to help users to pay expenses and manage their e-commerce finances. | $31.1M | Series A | Mar 16, 2023 |  |
| TIER Mobility | TIER Mobility is a shared micro-mobility provider, with a mission to change mobility for good. The company provides a range of shared, light electric vehicles, from e-scooters to e-bikes and e-mopeds, powered by a proprietary Energy Network and helps cities reduce their dependence on cars.TIER is committed to being climate-neutral that willbenefit the environment and also ensure a liveable and sustainable future. TIER was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 21, 2023 |  |
| Prism | Prism is a marketplace that provides liquidity for startup founders, employees, and investors. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Omneky | Omneky is an AI-agentic advertising platform that generates and orchestrates personalized omni-channel ad campaigns. By analyzing cross-channel marketing data from platforms like Meta, Google, TikTok, Reddit and LinkedIn, Omneky identifies the specific design elements and messaging that drive conversions. It then leverages generative AI to quicklyproduce and launch highly tailored image and video ads across various advertising channels, helping brands optimize their campaigns, reduce creative fatigue, and ultimately increase return on ad spend. | $7M | Seed | Nov 15, 2022 |  |
| Nibiru Chain | Nibiru Chain is a breakthrough L1 blockchain and smart contract ecosystem providing superior throughput and unparalleled security. Nibiru aims to be the most developer-friendly and user-friendly smart contract ecosystem, leading the charge toward mainstream Web3 adoption by innovating at each layer of the stack: dApp development, infrastructure,consensus, a comprehensive developer toolkit, and value accrual.Since late 2022, dozens of projects have begun building on Nibiru across sectors such as DeFi, gaming, real-world assets, NFTs, developer tools, and bridges—each sharing the common mission of making interactions with digital assets fast, secure, and user-friendly for everyone.Core Token Utility: The staking and utility token of Nibiru Chain is called ‘NIBI’. This token plays a pivotal role in powering the network’s Proof-of-Stake consensus and decentralized governance, a process by which NIBI stakers can decide on and bring about changes in the network. Additionally, NIBI is utilized to secure the network and pay for computation in the form of gas fees, essential for facilitating the creation of new blocks on the chain.“Dev Gas” Royalty Mechanism: Imagine protocols like Uniswap or Aave earning half of the ETH expended on them. This distinctive feature attracts developers to Nibiru, where builders automatically earn half of the NIBI gas expended on their smart contracts, encouraging network growth and sustained development of the ecosystem. | $8.5M | Seed | Sep 15, 2022 |  |

10 of 46 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Ethos VC invest in?

Ethos VC invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Payments startups, most often at Seed and Series C stage. Most of the 46 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 Ethos VC's check size?

Ethos VC typically joins rounds of $150k–$17M at Seed, $60M–$170M at Series C and $185M–$450M at Series D. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ethos VC participates in.

### How do I contact Ethos VC?

Public channels for Ethos VC include LinkedIn 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 Ethos VC?

The team at Ethos VC includes Anthony Zepponi (Venture Capital Investor), Mick Eddy (General Partner) and John Andreini (General Partner). 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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