# Figure 8 Investments

> Figure 8 Investments is a VC fund in Boulder backing Education and E-Learning. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boulder, United States
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Mar 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/figure-eight-investments/
- Website: https://www.figure8.vc

Figure 8 Investments is a VC fund in Boulder focused on Education and E-Learning. Figure 8 Investments catalyzes social mobility through investments in education and healthcare.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 5 | 24% |
| E-Learning | 4 | 19% |
| Health Care | 3 | 14% |
| SaaS | 2 | 10% |
| Software | 2 | 10% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 48% |
| Series A | 3 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |
| Series C | 1 | 5% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 43% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 14% |
| India | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Clever Care Health Plan Inc. | Clever Care Health Plan is a healthcare company that offers medicare advantage health plans to its members. Clever Care Health Plan offers culturally sensitive health care solutions that provide members better access to the services they need, in the language they understand.The company was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Westminster,California with a second office in Arcadia, CA. | $42M | Series C | Mar 15, 2023 |  |
| Valera Health | Founded in 2015, Valera Health combines digital technology and data science with human touch to deliver best inclass clinical services to patients with mild to severe mental health conditions including depression to schizophrenia. With a focus on outcomes and servicing hard to reach populations, Valera Health is redefining high-performing mentalhealthcare. | $45M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 07, 2022 |  |
| Sparkwise | It's hard to achieve both impact AND scale in learning.Solve for scale, and you’re left with click-click content or big video calls that suffer from low engagement. Solve for impact, and you need high-touch group workshops or coaching that are costly to scale.At Sparkwise, we’re building AI-enabled group learning to inspire impact atscale. We build to inspire, with active group learning that sparks practice and insight. We build for impact, with decades of expertise in how adults learn best. And we build for scale, with innovations that make quality learning accessible for all. |  | Seed | Oct 01, 2022 |  |
| Fair.xyz | Fair.xyz provides a new launch experience that is free of gas wars, accessible, and fair for both NFT collectors and creators. By becoming a one-stop shop for NFTs, Fair.xyz aspires to be the Amazon Marketplace of Web3. It started with digital art and has since expanded to include digital wearables, social tokens, music, architecture, fashion, anda variety of other things.Fair.xyz was founded by a group of engineers from Meta, Instagram, and Goldman Sachs with the goal of developing the best consumer products available on the Web3. | $4.5M | Seed | Aug 09, 2022 |  |
| DNABLOCK | DNABLOCK is leading the way to personalized entertainment, interaction, and inclusion by removing the barriers of 3D content creation. Our platform and REPLIKANT™ animation engine allows creatives, brands, and individuals the ability to generate bespoke, high-quality, digital beings without prohibitive post-production costs or specialized 3Dprogramming knowledge. Our platform supports the exporting of content onto ANY device, making it simple to create fulfilling interactions with an enormous reach.We operate a scalable, high-end, computer graphics pipeline. This pipeline, combined with advanced machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and sentiment analysis, is our recipe for engaging, real-time, interactive, digital beings and the future of digital interface. As a forward-thinking company, we have focused on likeness protection and ownership; adding authentication mechanisms to guarantee control and transparency. | $7M | Seed | Mar 01, 2022 |  |
| Learnfully | Learnfully is a personalized online learning platform that provides recommendations and records progress toward goals. | $3M | Seed | Dec 08, 2021 |  |
| Valera Health | Founded in 2015, Valera Health combines digital technology and data science with human touch to deliver best inclass clinical services to patients with mild to severe mental health conditions including depression to schizophrenia. With a focus on outcomes and servicing hard to reach populations, Valera Health is redefining high-performing mentalhealthcare. | $15M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 04, 2021 |  |
| Valera Health | Founded in 2015, Valera Health combines digital technology and data science with human touch to deliver best inclass clinical services to patients with mild to severe mental health conditions including depression to schizophrenia. With a focus on outcomes and servicing hard to reach populations, Valera Health is redefining high-performing mentalhealthcare. | $3.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 03, 2021 |  |
| Mursion | Mursion provides immersive simulated practice for essential skills in the workplace powered by humans and assisted by AI. Its virtual reality platform uses a combination of artificial intelligence and live actors to deliver powerful and personalized simulations. It provides a wide range of immersive and authentic workplace environments in which tosimulate challenging interpersonal on-the-job exchanges. |  | Series B | Nov 30, 2020 |  |
| BitClass | BitClass is a PAAS (Platform As A Service) solution for teachers to set up and manage their independent live classes.BitClass empowers anyone who wants to teach their skills to the world. The startup helps them set up and grow their business online by providing them with all the tools. The platform is designed to allow teachers with no technicalknowledge to set up live classes in just a few minutes and grow their personal brand. | $2M | Seed | Nov 10, 2020 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Windham Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/windham-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [AVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/axa-strategic-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Norwest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/norwest-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Sfermion](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sfermion) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Solana Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/solana-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Figure 8 Investments invest in?

Figure 8 Investments invests primarily in Education, E-Learning and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 21 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 Figure 8 Investments last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Figure 8 Investments closed in Mar 2023. Shizune tracks 21 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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