Human Ventures
VC Fund
New York, United States
Human Ventures is a fund and partner in New York City. They possess their own perspective on evaluating companies due to their experience in building businesses themselves. Consequently, Human Ventures focuses on supporting founders who are establishing category-defining companies in the pre-seed and seed stages. In terms of their investment focus,they concentrate on the Human Needs Economy, which encompasses areas such as health and wellness, the future of work and finance, the attention economy, and human connection through experiences.
- Total investments:
- 136
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 7%
- Fund size:
- $50M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Human Ventures invests in
Stages Human Ventures invests in
Countries Human Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.8M–$7M
- Pre-Seed
- $20k–$750k
- Series A
- $4.5M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 20 (15%)
- Wellness 11 (8%)
- Software 10 (7%)
- Artificial Intelligence 9 (7%)
- Food and Beverage 8 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 55 (40%)
- Pre-Seed 24 (18%)
- Series A 15 (11%)
- Convertible Note 6 (4%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (3%)
Country
- United States 81 (60%)
- United Kingdom 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Chelsea Boyes
Head Of Accounting
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Head Of Accounting | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Elise King
Senior Associate and Investor
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Senior Associate and Investor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Heather Hartnett
Founder & CEO
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Founder & CEO | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
Joe Marchese
Executive Chairman & Build Partner
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Executive Chairman & Build Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Melani Price
Office Manager & Head of Community
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Office Manager & Head of Community | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Breakaway Group
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Breakaway Music Festival is a performing arts company of pop, dance, and hip-hop music festival series. Breakaway Music Festival hosts college students and young professionals annually, touring college campuses across the US, and activating a small army of college student ambassadors. Founded by Adam Lynn in 2016 and is located in Columbus,Ohio. | $48.9M / Series B / Mar 12, 2026 | |
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Breakaway Group
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Breakaway Music Festival is a performing arts company of pop, dance, and hip-hop music festival series. Breakaway Music Festival hosts college students and young professionals annually, touring college campuses across the US, and activating a small army of college student ambassadors. Founded by Adam Lynn in 2016 and is located in Columbus,Ohio. | $48.9M / Series B / Mar 12, 2026 | |
Greeter
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Greeter is an AI-powered storefront marketing platform that helps physical businesses create and manage hyper-localized campaigns through digital displays. Its platform uses data and automation to deliver relevant, location-based content that attracts foot traffic, engages customers, and drives in-store conversions. | $7.8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 06, 2026 | |
Salvo Health
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Salvo is emerging as the leader in helping GI providers leap into a hybrid-care vision of the future of medicine, providing brick & mortar clinics with an easy to implement continuous care platform that saves time, increases revenue and improves patient outcomes.The company has announced agreements with 771 GI’s, representing 15% of allindependent GI’s in the US, to deploy wraparound care for their clinic patients. Included in its customers are five of the largest GI practices in the country, together seeing over 1.1 million GI patients a year. Salvo provides the tech and care delivery for modern, interdisciplinary care to treat chronic conditions that have surged in cost and prevalence: --IBS and IBD (over 40M affected) -- GERD and Celiac (over 50M affected) --MASH/MASLD, what was previously called “fatty liver disease” (over 80M) --Obesity (over 100M) The care benefits patients (76% of patients reported improved symptoms, five accepted medical conference abstracts on outcomes), generates incremental profit for practices (over $2M EBITDA improvement for a 100 GI practice), and reduces total healthcare costs (79% drop in GI-related ER utilization). | $8.5M / Series A / Jan 22, 2026 | |
Formulary Financial
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Formulary Financial designs tools that enhance financial decision-making, streamline workflows, and optimize portfolio oversight for institutional clients. Its technology applies machine learning to improve the accuracy and efficiency of financial processes while maintaining compliance with industry standards. | $4.6M / Seed / Jan 20, 2026 | |
Goodword
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Goodword is a networking and relationship intelligence platform which helps users with personal and business connections. | $4M / Seed / Oct 30, 2025 | |
Parento
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Parento provides research on employee retention, recruitment, and satisfaction in parents enabling companies to retain and elevate working parents, especially working moms, through a holistic approach to paid parental designed to support the modern workforce at the most critical juncture in their professional and personal paths. | $5.9M / Seed / Sep 09, 2025 | |
Cartwheel
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Cartwheel is a powerful text-to-animation platform. Type animate characters for video, game, app, ad, social, AR, or VR projects simply. It builds to help tell stories faster, and more creatively. | $10M / May 15, 2025 | |
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Cartwheel
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Cartwheel is a powerful text-to-animation platform. Type animate characters for video, game, app, ad, social, AR, or VR projects simply. It builds to help tell stories faster, and more creatively. | $10M / Seed / May 15, 2025 | |
Capsule
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Founded in 2021 by Champ Bennett and Joseph Jorgensen, Capsule is designed to help businesses meet the growing demand for video. Built with CapsuleScript, a first-of-its-kind markup language for video that automates video post-production and makes desktop-quality video possible from any device with a browser, Capsule makes it easy to crowdsource,edit and distribute video. Try it at Capsule.video.Capsule has raised funding from top investors in the AI and creative tools space, including Array Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Swift Ventures, Clark Valberg (Founder of InVision), Amjad Masad (CEO, Replit), Arash Ferdowsi (CTO, Dropbox), Kyle Parrish (Head of Sales, Figma), Mike Mignano (ex-Head of Audio & Video, Spotify), Roy Raanani (Co-Founder, Chorus.ai) and Sahil Lavingia (Founder, Gumroad). | $12M / Series A / Apr 16, 2025 | |
| See all 136 investments → | |||
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7 deals together
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6 deals together
Actions Capital (fka K50 Ventures)
5 deals together
Torch Capital
5 deals together
Craft Ventures
4 deals together
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FAQ
What does Human Ventures invest in?
Human Ventures invests primarily in Health Care, Wellness and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 136 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 Human Ventures's check size?
Human Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$7M at Seed, $20k–$750k at Pre-Seed and $4.5M–$20M 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 Human Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Human Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Human Ventures?
The team at Human Ventures includes Chelsea Boyes (Head Of Accounting), Elise King (Senior Associate and Investor) and Heather Hartnett (Founder & CEO), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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