# Ideaship

> Ideaship is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 61 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Portland, United States
- Total investments: 61
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 26%
- Fund size: $4.7M
- Last fund: Apr 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ideaship/
- Website: https://www.ideashipfund.com/

Ideaship is a VC fund in Portland focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Ideaship is patent development capital for early stage ventures.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Ideaship. Shizune tracks 5 team members at Ideaship. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/ideaship?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $100k–$1.7M |
| Pre-Seed | $100k–$825k |
| Series A | $100k–$100k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 19 | 31% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 11 | 18% |
| Health Care | 10 | 16% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 11% |
| SaaS | 6 | 10% |

111 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 41 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 12 | 20% |
| Series A | 2 | 3% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 3% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kazuki Kawakami | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kazuki-kawakami |
| Masa Murayama | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/masa-murayama |
| Michael Lubitz | Co-Founder & General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-lubitz |
| Amanda Oborne | Managing Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amanda-oborne |
| Hiroo Morinaga | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hiroo-morinaga |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Airbuild | By integrating the photosynthetic ability of microalgae with photovoltaic cells, Airbuild is enabling companies and governments to sequester carbon, generate energy, and filter wastewater onsite. | $393K | Pre-Seed | Oct 31, 2024 |  |
| Beginly Health | The job matching platform for every physician & advanced practice clinicianBeginly Health is a platform that enables clinicians to get the most out of their career, education and lifestyle. We know there's much more to job satisfaction than just salary and location. Beginly Health challenges you to consider every possibility for ameaningful career.Easily build your profile and let our algorithm do the rest. Your unique clinical and lifestyle preferences dictate the best job matches for you, so you can focus on being a great clinician — not a professional job seeker. |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 01, 2023 |  |
| Phuc Labs | Phuc Labs implements robotics to automate the method of identifying, separating, and reclaiming particles from water. |  | Seed | Apr 28, 2023 |  |
| Wonderfil | Wonderfil goal is to create bulk distribution infrastructure for liquid and cream products that is as reliable as single-use plastic bottles, preventing plastics from being made in the first place. |  | Seed | Apr 25, 2023 |  |
| Canopii | Canopii is a greenhouse technology company providing turn-key farms integrated with cost-effective labor automation and energy management systems to support local and sustainable production of fresh produce. |  | Pre-Seed | Apr 25, 2023 |  |
| mpathic.ai | mpathic is keeping humans safe in the AI era through automated tools and expert datasets that are rooted in psychology and powered by clinicians. | $4M | Seed | Jun 21, 2022 |  |
| Insight Optics | Insight Optics, is an impact driven startup dedicated to connecting Primary Care Providers with local specialists for assisted diagnostics. We do the heavy lifting with machine learning and computer vision to ensure untrained individuals have captured the right content and that it is of a diagnosable quality prior to transmission. We have built oursolution to ensure that we can capture non-adherent patients where they already are by deskilling the process and improving accessibility for the most rural, impoverished, and marginalized populations.Business Overview: Insight Optics empowers primary care providers (PCPs) to record and refer preventative pre-screening videos to local specialists for assisted diagnostics. Our goal is to enable PCPs to efficiently detect early signs of preventable diseases before permanent damage is done. We accomplish this by providing PCPs a platform to connect and send patient data to local specialists. This allows both users to monetize otherwise unrealized referral incentives and provide better care.Problem: Over 154 million patients in the United States are recommended for an annual retinal exam, especially those with a history of diabetes or high blood pressure. Unfortunately, less than 50% of this population will receive their screening due to the difficulty of visiting a specialist, lack of education or available specialists. However, most of these patients do see PCPs annually. Solution: We’ve developed a telemedicine PaaS, enabling PCPs to record and refer retinal exams to local specialists for assisted review. PCPs create a new revenue stream through reimbursements and government incentives. Specialists find qualified leads and increase their screening capacity without the need for in-person appointments in a non-adherent population.Benefits: The OptoView system acts as a new revenue stream for both PCPs and specialists through reimbursement. The tool satisfies HEDIS requirements for PCPs and acts as a lead generation tool for specialists to find new patients. Annual reports determine whether managed care organizations receive reimbursements or penalties from state and federal agencies. Our application is designed to satisfy the requirements for annual diabetic eye screenings, increasing an organization’s compliance rates and ophthalmologists prioritize sick patients. | $590K | Seed | Jun 02, 2022 |  |
| Photon Marine | Photon Marine is to preserve our waterways and oceans through increased adoption of electric marine propulsion technology. | $2M | Seed | Jun 01, 2022 |  |
| Canopii | Canopii is a greenhouse technology company providing turn-key farms integrated with cost-effective labor automation and energy management systems to support local and sustainable production of fresh produce. | $437.3K | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2022 |  |
| SANGROVE® \| Home of Impact Shopping™ | Sangrove is a patent-pending made-to-order B2B marketplace platform that disrupts legacy distribution of fashionable consumer goods. With the goal of making sustainability a profit center, we boost design makers profits and reward independent retailers with the benefit of bulk prices. | $618K | Seed | Feb 17, 2022 |  |

10 of 61 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Portland Seed Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/portland-seed-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Elevate Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elevate-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ONAMI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/onami) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AngelList](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angellist) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Business Oregon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/business-oregon-ddf3) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Corl](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/corl) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Ideaship invest in?

Ideaship invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 61 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 Ideaship's check size?

Ideaship typically joins rounds of $100k–$1.7M at Seed, $100k–$825k at Pre-Seed and $100k–$100k 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 Ideaship participates in.

### How do I contact Ideaship?

Public channels for Ideaship 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 Ideaship?

The team at Ideaship includes Kazuki Kawakami (Co-Founder), Masa Murayama (Co-Founder) and Michael Lubitz (Co-Founder & 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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