# GW Ventures

> GW Ventures is a VC fund in San Mateo backing Internet and Machine Learning. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Dec 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.gw.ventures/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GWVentures/

GW Ventures is a VC fund in San Mateo focused on Internet and Machine Learning. GW Ventures focuses on investments in early-stage startups. Their portfolio spans diverse areas of leading edge technology with big industry impact. They cover IoT, Robotics, Mobility Tech, Wearables, Healthcare, Security, RetailTech, FinTech, Entertainment and AR/VR.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 2 | 29% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 29% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 29% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 29% |
| CRM | 1 | 14% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 29% |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 29% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 57% |
| Japan | 1 | 14% |
| Singapore | 1 | 14% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Yoshinari Yoshikawa | Founder & Managing Director | 4 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Culina Health | Culina Health is a personalized nutrition platform powered by registered dietitians to help you prioritize the way you want to live. We make insurance-covered nutrition care accessible and easier to understand so that you can fuel a satisfying and well balanced life. | $7.9M | Series A | Dec 19, 2024 | https://culinahealth.com |
| Anifie | Anifie is a an online virtual concert room that connects artists and fans online. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 24, 2022 | https://www.anifie.com/about.html |
| Water X Technologies | Water X Technologies is a water technology company that produces and sells cleaning toilet seats. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2021 | https://waterx.co.jp/ |
| Trueface | Trueface is a face recognition company that applies advanced computer vision technology to camera footage and images to enable businesses to make immediate decisions based on identified patterns. We believe that through the responsible use of computer vision technology, we can live in a smarter and safer world. Our partners are industry leaders inretail, Fintech, security and hospitality. | $3.7M | Series A | Jul 31, 2019 | https://www.trueface.ai |
| Gatik | Gatik is a startup developing technology for autonomous light & medium duty trucks for B2B short-haul logistics. It specializes in the fields of artificial intelligence, automotive, and logistics. It was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Mountain View, California. | $4.5M | Seed | Jun 06, 2019 | http://www.gatik.ai/ |
| Playlist Media | Playlist, already a top iOS app, is uniting people, music, and messaging. Their fully licensed, ad-supported music streaming platform generates 10 times the user engagement of Pandora. On mobile, people spend more time listening to music than any other application and the message most frequently. Playlist combines music and messaging forunprecedented engagement. On Playlist, people listen together at the exact same time and chat while they listen, follow one other, collaborate on playlists, and share their favorite songs. Playlist pioneered social music.Playlist is a proven platform for artists and influencers to connect live with fans, hold virtual concerts, and release new music to millions of listeners at the same time. Our community describes Playlist as Spotify plus Instagram and now Tinder, given our introduction of Music Match which connects people with similar music tastes.Three years in the making, Playlist’s patent-pending technology includes synchronized streaming, machine learning-based social recommendations, collaborative playlists, large-scale group chat, behavior-based music programming, and Music Match algorithms. The company is now working on blockchain.Founders, Karen Katz, and Steve Petersen are Stanford engineers and serial entrepreneurs with 2 IPOs, a $300M exit, 36 patents, and over 10 years’ experience each in digital music. They’ve raised over $60M in VC funding across multiple start-ups and built ad-supported, consumer-facing platforms with tens of millions of users, including one of the fastest-growing streaming music services in U.S. history. Their experience also includes developing the software and chip inside the iPod, which revolutionized digital music and mobile listening. As operators, they’ve recruited and managed tech teams of over 75 engineers and generated nearly $100M in digital ad revenues. As innovators, they’ve worked at Bell Labs, architected platforms for social networking, location-based services, cloud-based media; and applied advanced analytics, machine learning, and big data for recommendations. | $5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 16, 2019 | https://www.playlist.com/ |
| Quanta | QUANTA is on a mission to develop the first public blockchain infrastructure to provide instant liquidity many orders of magnitude faster than existing solutions. With an experienced technical team, our unique approach to liquidity leverages significant advances in system architecture - featuring a cross-chain architecture, on-chain order bookmatching, distributed memory ledger, and dual-ledger BFT consensus - to achieve up to 5M tx/s at < 1-sec latency. |  |  | Jan 01, 2018 | https://quantadex.com/ |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does GW Ventures invest in?

GW Ventures invests primarily in Internet, Machine Learning and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact GW Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at GW Ventures?

The team at GW Ventures includes Yoshinari Yoshikawa (Founder & Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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