# Informed Ventures

> Informed Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 35%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/informed-ventures
- Website: https://informedventures.com

Informed Ventures is a Menlo Park-based venture capital firm specializing in early-stage transformative companies across digital health, SaaS, and artificial intelligence applications.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Informed Ventures. Shizune tracks 3 team members at Informed Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/informed-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$15M |
| Series A | $10M–$26M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 23% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 23% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 19% |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 15% |
| Health Care | 4 | 15% |

64 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 38% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 7 | 27% |
| Series A | 4 | 15% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 12% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 38% |
| Singapore | 5 | 19% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 8% |
| Brazil | 1 | 4% |
| Vietnam | 1 | 4% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Yuechen Zhao | Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yuechen-zhao |
| Richard Lim | Managing Director & Founder | 24 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-lim |
| Sunny Kumar | Partner | 16 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sunny-kumar-21bc |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lexi | Lexi stands to transform AI and community health delivery so that everyone may receive multilingual, relationship-centered care. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Feb 17, 2026 |  |
| Omneky | Omneky is an AI-agentic advertising platform that generates and orchestrates personalized omni-channel ad campaigns. By analyzing cross-channel marketing data from platforms like Meta, Google, TikTok, Reddit and LinkedIn, Omneky identifies the specific design elements and messaging that drive conversions. It then leverages generative AI to quicklyproduce and launch highly tailored image and video ads across various advertising channels, helping brands optimize their campaigns, reduce creative fatigue, and ultimately increase return on ad spend. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 20, 2026 |  |
| AllScale | AllScale is a next-generation platform empowering small businesses to scale globally faster with stablecoin. Payroll: Automate cross-border payroll in stablecoins—simplify contractor payments, eliminate costly intermediaries, and ensure instant global delivery.Invoicing: Create, e-sign, and send professional contracts and invoices in seconds.Get paid by clients in their preferred method and instantly receive stablecoin—maximizing liquidity, minimizing friction.Social Commerce: Transform your followers into customers. Embed a dynamic AllScale biolink on your social profiles, showcase your offerings, and securely collect instant stablecoin payments directly from your audience. | $5M | Seed | Dec 08, 2025 |  |
| TransCrypts | TransCrypts is a tool for Human Resource Departments to automate the issuance of employment and income verification documents using the blockchain. Our proprietary process not only saves HRs time, money, and headache in dealing with compliance but also gives employees total control over how their work information is being shared. | $15M | Seed | Oct 08, 2025 |  |
| Optain | Optain is a manufacturer of medical equipment and software. Optain is to make healthcare available to all people so that all can live healthy lives. Optain uses AI to create affordable clinical assistance solutions that make illness screening simple, anytime, and anywhere. | $26M | Series A | Sep 10, 2025 |  |
| Bluente | Bluente is a mobile app that specializes in helping users pick up professional-level Mandarin. It does this through a variety of methods, including using flashcards with business terms, offering a question bank of 2,000 practice questions, and hosting role-plays of business scenarios. | $1.5M | Seed | Aug 27, 2025 |  |
| Autopoiesis Sciences | Autopoiesis Sciences builds next-generation AI models designed to unlock transformative scientific breakthroughs across all critical research domains. The company's approach focuses on developing foundational reasoning capabilities that can autonomously drive discovery in areas where traditional AI has failed to deliver reliable results. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 30, 2025 |  |
| Autopoiesis Sciences | Autopoiesis Sciences builds next-generation AI models designed to unlock transformative scientific breakthroughs across all critical research domains. The company's approach focuses on developing foundational reasoning capabilities that can autonomously drive discovery in areas where traditional AI has failed to deliver reliable results. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 30, 2025 |  |
| Autopoiesis Sciences | Autopoiesis Sciences builds next-generation AI models designed to unlock transformative scientific breakthroughs across all critical research domains. The company's approach focuses on developing foundational reasoning capabilities that can autonomously drive discovery in areas where traditional AI has failed to deliver reliable results. |  | Seed | Jul 30, 2025 |  |
| Glimpse | Glimpse partners with brands to place their products in luxury short-term rentals as a sales and acquisition channel. Glimpse was founded in 2020 by Kushal Negi, Akash Raju, and Anuj Mehta and was headquartered in New York. | $10M | Series A | Apr 08, 2025 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Informed Ventures invest in?

Informed Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown 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 Informed Ventures's check size?

Informed Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$15M at Seed and $10M–$26M 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 Informed Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Informed Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Informed Ventures?

The team at Informed Ventures includes Yuechen Zhao (Partner), Richard Lim (Managing Director & Founder) and Sunny Kumar (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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