# Marisa Warren

> Marisa Warren is a seed investor at ALIAVIA Ventures backing Information Technology. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [ALIAVIA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aliavia-ventures)
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marisawarren/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/MarisaWarren16
- Website: https://aliavia.vc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marisa.warren.98

Marisa Warren is a seed investor at ALIAVIA Ventures in Los Angeles focused on Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence. Marisa Warren is the Founder & Chair at ELEVACAO. She attended Canberra Girls Grammar School.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 2 | 40% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 40% |
| Big Data | 1 | 20% |
| Software | 1 | 20% |
| Analytics | 1 | 20% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 3 | 60% |
| United States | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| InsightWise | InsightWise is an AI-powered platform for consultants and strategy teams. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Apr 11, 2025 |  |
| Neighbourlytics | Neighbourlytics is an protech insights platform that enables property developers to make more informed and confident development decisions. Neighbourlytics unique data process capabilities have been utilised across 12 countries, enabling users to make urban development decisions that mitigate risk, maximise returns and optimise community outcomes. | $1.3M | Seed | Dec 13, 2022 |  |
| HowToo | HowToo is the only eLearning authoring tool your team will want to use. Full of ready-to-go content, simply copy and paste your content into our huge library of templates. Add quizzes and assessment blocks with a click of a button and launch in just minutes. With the powerful insights of data, research and analytics we have created a tool thatallows you to build incredible learning experiences for success. HowToo is also the first tool to meet the WCAG 2.1 AA standard. | $1.7M | Series A | Jun 29, 2021 |  |
| HowToo | HowToo is the only eLearning authoring tool your team will want to use. Full of ready-to-go content, simply copy and paste your content into our huge library of templates. Add quizzes and assessment blocks with a click of a button and launch in just minutes. With the powerful insights of data, research and analytics we have created a tool thatallows you to build incredible learning experiences for success. HowToo is also the first tool to meet the WCAG 2.1 AA standard. | $915K | Seed | Jun 29, 2021 |  |
| Wakefully | Wakefully is an interactive dream analyzer journal and dream therapy coach. It is a category-defining mental wellness app that activates humans' built-in resource the dreaming mind. | $200K | Pre-Seed | Jun 03, 2021 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [LaunchVic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/launch-vic) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Scale Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scale-investors) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FB10x adVentures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fb10x-adventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Jelix Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jelix-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [MA Growth Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ma-growth-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [No Brand](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/no-brand) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About ALIAVIA Ventures

VC Fund · Los Angeles, United States

ALIAVIA Ventures is a California-based firm focused on venture capital investing in U.S. and Australian-based female founders building world-changing enterprise and consumer tech companies. Their team is made up of operators and investors who have scaled tech businesses from $0 to $500 million through an IPO with a unique deal flow source and anextensive global network that supports high-potential female founders to deliver outsized long-term performance. Potential portfolio companies have at least one female founder with a significant equity position and a C-level role.

3 contacts available at ALIAVIA Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kate Vale | Co-Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kate-vale |
| Ben Macpherson | Investment Committee Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-macpherson |
| Marisa Warren | Co-Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marisa-warren |

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## FAQ

### What does Marisa Warren invest in?

Marisa Warren invests primarily in Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Marisa Warren last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Marisa Warren closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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