IDEO
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
IDEO is a global design and innovation consultancy firm. Some of their clients include Procter & Gamble, Pepsi, Microsoft , Nokia , Intel, Eli Lilly, Samsung , and Steelcase.
- Total investments:
- 26
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 19%
Last updated:
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Industries IDEO invests in
Health CareFinTechCryptocurrencyFinancial ServicesSoftware
Stages IDEO invests in
SeedFunding RoundSeries ASeries BVenture - Series Unknown
Countries IDEO invests in
United StatesGermanyUnited Kingdom
Round sizes
Seed $1.3M–$200MSeries A $1M–$14M
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 16 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.3M–$200M
- Series A
- $1M–$14M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 6 (23%)
- FinTech 4 (15%)
- Cryptocurrency 4 (15%)
- Financial Services 3 (12%)
- Software 2 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (31%)
- Funding Round 5 (19%)
- Series A 4 (15%)
- Series B 3 (12%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (8%)
Country
- United States 19 (73%)
- Germany 1 (4%)
- United Kingdom 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Gavin McDermott
Engineering and Research
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Engineering and Research | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Henry Birdseye Weil
Fellow
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Fellow | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Shoshana Berger
Global Editorial Director
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Global Editorial Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Steve Klopf
Senior Director ERP Programs
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Senior Director ERP Programs | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
A F
Product Designer
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Product Designer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 16 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
EarlyBird
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EarlyBird is a Fintech gifting platform that simplifies investing for parents, while empowering friends and family to seamlessly gift financial contributions to the children in their life. EarlyBird is transforming financial gifting, making it personal, purposeful, and timeless. | $4.5M / Seed / Nov 01, 2023 | |
GPx
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GPx is a biotech company that revolutionizes remote chronic disease management with bloodless blood tests. It is dedicated to transforming the standard of care of cardiorenal diseases and enabling patients to better understand their condition, much like the continuous glucose monitor has transformed diabetes care.The company was founded in 2020and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. | $3.3M / Seed / Sep 30, 2022 | |
LifeScore
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LifeScore marries the time-tested 400-year-old technology of musical notation with its proprietary Cellular Composition algorithms, creating a radically innovative, endlessly original platform for musical composition. At LifeScore’s core lie its audio assets – musical building blocks featuring world-class musicians, the finest instruments, historicand cutting edge recording technologies and production in the world’s greatest recording studio.Employing the techniques and processes of professional composers, including those of CEO and Founder Philip Sheppard, LifeScore’s technology rapidly assembles these musical components across multiple audio channels to generate original, unique, adaptive music that is either fully autonomous or responsive in real-time to user and environmental data inputs.LifeScore’s technology can operate across any musical genre – from ambient and classical to pop, EDM, funk and heavy rock – and can be integrated into a vast array of applications across many industry sectors, inextricably linking user-generated, bespoke music to all aspects of life. | $14.4M / Series A / Mar 07, 2022 | |
Curve Health
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Curve Health is senior care without walls. It is a platform that's reduced patient transfers from Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) to Emergency Departments by 50%+, Curve advances connected senior care by bridging the silos that hinder healthcare delivery today; enabling physicians to remotely care for patients in SNFs, at home, in ambulancesor wherever they may be. Curve combines telemedicine, a health information exchange, predictive analytics, and smart billing into a single platform, resulting in higher quality care + significant return on investment while ensuring the most seamless patient experience. | $12M / Series A / Feb 06, 2022 | |
DeSo Foundation
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DeSo is a layer-1 blockchain, like Bitcoin or Ethereum, that recently listed on Coinbase, has accumulated over 1.5 million accounts, and just crossed over $1B in volume transacted on-chain. DeSo is backed by Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Social Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and many others.Our mission is to decentralize social media the same wayBitcoin and Ethereum are decentralizing the financial system.As a layer-1 blockchain, DeSo can be compared to other blockchains like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, etc... However, DeSo has several major advantages over these platforms, the largest being that it is designed to power storage-heavy applications (like social applications and marketplaces). To put it in perspective, storing just a 200-character "Tweet" on Ethereum costs ~$80, and costs ~$0.25-$1.00+ on Solana, Avalanche, Polygon, and virtually all other smart contract chains. In contrast, it costs 1/1,000th of a penny on DeSo, which is why breakthrough apps like Diamond, DAODAO, Pearl, OpenProsper, NFTz, and Entre, now possible exclusively on DeSo.Today, social media is even more centralized than the financial industry was prior to the creation of Bitcoin. A handful of private entities effectively control public discourse, and earn monopoly profits off of content that they don't even create. Society’s answer to financial centralization was not to put Warren Buffett in charge of money, it was to use technology, namely Bitcoin, so we could have nobody in charge.We believe the same type of technology will cause this conclusion to ultimately play out in social. DeSo’s advantages make it capable of breaking this status quo for the first time, and bringing competition and innovation back to social in much the same way Bitcoin and Ethereum have done for our financial system. Moreover, if DeSo succeeds, we will no longer need individual "dictators" to set a homogenous moderation policy for hundreds of millions of people. | $200M / Seed / Sep 21, 2021 | |
Sequin
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Sequin is building a suite of credit products for women, starting with a debit card that builds credit. | $5.7M / Seed / Sep 15, 2021 | |
Commonwealth Labs
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Commonwealth Labs is a governing a set of global stakeholders is hard, especially for blockchain-based protocols. Protocols need clear governance for prompt feature implementation, accountable project teams, and correct resource allocation. We facilitate scalable governance and decision making for protocols and organizations. | $3.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 18, 2021 | |
Gitcoin
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Gitcoin is a platform to enable open source developers to monetize their work when it is used.Gitcoin was borne of the community in Boulder, Colorado's thriving tech scene. One of the most amazing things about the Boulder community is the #givefirst mantra. The founding team has built their careers off of advice, mentorship, andrelationships in the local tech community.Gitcoin is built upon the Ethereum network, and the solidity smart contract programming language. Ethereum provides opportunities to align incentives across actors in the ecosystem. By programming rights of stakeholders directly into smart contracts, actors are incentivized to provide value, and edge cases are handled _without_ having to involve legacy legal enforcement mechanisms.The founder of Gitcoin, Kevin Owocki, has experience as an organizer of Boulder Startup Week, Ignite Boulder, StartupCTO.io, Boulder Blockchain Meetup, and the open-source projects by trader, adblock-to-bitcoin, YouveGotETH, and ColoradoCoin. The stronger the community is, the more successful open source projects are. The stronger open source projects are, the stronger the community is.Gitcoin is a project that combines the #givefirst mantra of the Boulder community with capitalistic incentives to write great software. By enabling Repo Maintainers, developers, and financiers to find one another, Gitcoin pushes open-source software forward. | $11.3M / Apr 14, 2021 | |
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Gitcoin
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Gitcoin is a platform to enable open source developers to monetize their work when it is used.Gitcoin was borne of the community in Boulder, Colorado's thriving tech scene. One of the most amazing things about the Boulder community is the #givefirst mantra. The founding team has built their careers off of advice, mentorship, andrelationships in the local tech community.Gitcoin is built upon the Ethereum network, and the solidity smart contract programming language. Ethereum provides opportunities to align incentives across actors in the ecosystem. By programming rights of stakeholders directly into smart contracts, actors are incentivized to provide value, and edge cases are handled _without_ having to involve legacy legal enforcement mechanisms.The founder of Gitcoin, Kevin Owocki, has experience as an organizer of Boulder Startup Week, Ignite Boulder, StartupCTO.io, Boulder Blockchain Meetup, and the open-source projects by trader, adblock-to-bitcoin, YouveGotETH, and ColoradoCoin. The stronger the community is, the more successful open source projects are. The stronger open source projects are, the stronger the community is.Gitcoin is a project that combines the #givefirst mantra of the Boulder community with capitalistic incentives to write great software. By enabling Repo Maintainers, developers, and financiers to find one another, Gitcoin pushes open-source software forward. | $11.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 14, 2021 | |
Dabble
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Founded in 2011, Dabble is a marketplace for affordable, in-person classes. A social experience that fulfills people's desires to learn new things without over-committing themselves. Through an online portal, Dabble makes it easy for people to list classes by facilitating the transaction and providing a market of curious learners. Class topicsrange from arts and culinary to business and technical, and users are encouraged to stretch their imagination in regards to the limitless possibilities for dabbling. Teachers include passionate experts and businesses, and for them, Dabble serves as a lead generation vehicle, additional income stream, and creative outlet. Dabble also offers local businesses the opportunity to host classes that are relevant to them, increasing exposure and driving incremental business. The process for submitting a class occurs online, and anyone is invited to teach. | $375K / Jul 14, 2017 | |
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FAQ
What does IDEO invest in?
IDEO invests primarily in Health Care, FinTech and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 26 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 IDEO's check size?
IDEO typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$200M at Seed and $1M–$14M 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 IDEO participates in.
How do I contact IDEO?
Public channels for IDEO include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 IDEO?
The team at IDEO includes Gavin McDermott (Engineering and Research), Henry Birdseye Weil (Fellow) and Shoshana Berger (Global Editorial Director), among 16 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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