# Happiness Ventures

> Happiness Ventures is a VC fund backing Information Technology and Software. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Jul 2020
- Lead investor: 73%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/18021130/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/happinessvc?lang=en
- Website: https://www.happinessvc.com/
- Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/happinessventures/

Happiness Ventures is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Information Technology and Software. Happiness Ventures invests in early stage technology companies lead by entrepreneurs who have a passion and mission to make the world a happier place.The fund group concentrates on both early stage (Seed and Series A) start-ups and growth stage companies.Happiness Ventures invests with a long-term view and supports their startups throughouttheir entire lifecycle.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 4 | 36% |
| Software | 3 | 27% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 27% |
| SaaS | 2 | 18% |
| Mobile | 2 | 18% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 36% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 18% |
| Series A | 2 | 18% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Curtis MacDonald | Managing Partner | 3 | — |
| Ajay Ramachandran | Founding Partner | 6 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mira | Mira is an operator of a mobile augmented reality company used to provide industrial-grade wearables and hands-free software technologies. Its compliance software enables simple authoring of workflows and procedures on the company's web platform thereby leading to lower friction from mobile device management and information technology. Thecompany deploys accessible and scalable AR solutions to enhance safety and oversight in industrial environments such as in the manufacturing of chemical explosives and maintenance of military equipment.Mira was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. | $10.2M | Seed | Jul 23, 2020 |  |
| onetool | Onetool is an app-store for business software. It enables businesses to access all software with one membership, centralized login and provisioning, one login, and one centralized invoice in one subscription. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Jul 10, 2020 |  |
| Hypersonix | Hypersonix is designed to help direct to consumer businesses drive profitable revenue growth by providing a system of actionable intelligence and recommendations. Hypersonix persistently monitors various commerce systems and data signals to optimize financial performance with predictions that have prescriptive recommendation. The product iscompletely comprehensive in that the entire insights, action, testing and performance measurement are contained to ensure accuracy and time to completion. Its an easy bolt on to e-commerce platforms. | $11.5M | Series A | May 01, 2020 |  |
| Hypersonix | Hypersonix is designed to help direct to consumer businesses drive profitable revenue growth by providing a system of actionable intelligence and recommendations. Hypersonix persistently monitors various commerce systems and data signals to optimize financial performance with predictions that have prescriptive recommendation. The product iscompletely comprehensive in that the entire insights, action, testing and performance measurement are contained to ensure accuracy and time to completion. Its an easy bolt on to e-commerce platforms. | $11.5M | Series A | May 01, 2020 |  |
| Particle.One | Particle AI captures and processes structured and unstructured data for commodity market participants, translating data into actionable intelligence. | $2.5M | Seed | Dec 09, 2019 |  |
| Verbz.ai | Verbz instantly tasks, emails, or messages teams using voice. Verbz makes it easy to be more productive while working from your mobile.Verbz is developing a voice-based communication and collaboration application for executives, business professionals and salespeople. It combines voice, text and AI to deliver instantaneously communication acrossmultiple systems. Its vision is to make remote work as quick and easy as talking. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 30, 2019 |  |
| Mira | Mira is an operator of a mobile augmented reality company used to provide industrial-grade wearables and hands-free software technologies. Its compliance software enables simple authoring of workflows and procedures on the company's web platform thereby leading to lower friction from mobile device management and information technology. Thecompany deploys accessible and scalable AR solutions to enhance safety and oversight in industrial environments such as in the manufacturing of chemical explosives and maintenance of military equipment.Mira was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. | $3M | Seed | Jul 01, 2019 |  |
| Hypersonix | Hypersonix is designed to help direct to consumer businesses drive profitable revenue growth by providing a system of actionable intelligence and recommendations. Hypersonix persistently monitors various commerce systems and data signals to optimize financial performance with predictions that have prescriptive recommendation. The product iscompletely comprehensive in that the entire insights, action, testing and performance measurement are contained to ensure accuracy and time to completion. Its an easy bolt on to e-commerce platforms. | $3.6M | Seed | Oct 01, 2018 |  |
| Cocoon Cam | Cocoon Cam is a Silicon Valley-based technology company using computer vision for remote health monitoring. The company's first product is a category-defining baby monitor that detects a baby's vitals purely by passively collecting a video feed from the baby monitor and analyzing the data in the cloud. Parents gain instant access, viatheir mobile devices, to longitudinal data and real-time alerts for metrics such as breathing, and with future releases, temperature fluctuations, heart rate and movement. Unlike competing technologies in the baby monitoring space, Cocoon Cam is completely non-invasive and requires no connected wires or wearables. | $4M | Series A | Jun 28, 2017 |  |
| ZaiNar | ZaiNar is a technology that can track the real-time location of anything. The company's platform uses radio signals including cellphones, IoT sensors, and chipless RFID tags for positioning that is far more scalable, cost-effective and accurate than existing alternatives, enabling enterprises to track locations with over 200 meters range andsub-meter accuracy. | $3.3M | Seed |  |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Firebolt Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firebolt-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Sherpalo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sherpalo-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Happiness Ventures invest in?

Happiness Ventures invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 11 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 Happiness Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Happiness Ventures?

The team at Happiness Ventures includes Curtis MacDonald (Managing Partner) and Ajay Ramachandran (Founding Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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