Miriam Rivera
CEO, Co-Founder & Managing Director @ Ulu Ventures
Palo Alto, United States
Miriam Rivera is a seed investor at Ulu Ventures in Palo Alto focused on Software and Information Technology. Miriam co-founded Ulu Ventures, where she is the Managing Partner. Ulu is an early stage angel fund focused on IT investments and has made 30 investments in the last three years. She is also the co-founder and co-president of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs.
- Total investments:
- 158
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
Last updated:
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Industries Miriam Rivera invests in
Stages Miriam Rivera invests in
Countries Miriam Rivera invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 34 (22%)
- Information Technology 19 (12%)
- FinTech 18 (11%)
- Financial Services 17 (11%)
- Education 16 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 81 (51%)
- Series A 34 (22%)
- Pre-Seed 7 (4%)
- Series B 4 (3%)
- Funding Round 4 (3%)
Country
- United States 113 (72%)
- Mexico 1 (1%)
- Vietnam 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| MiSalud offers a unique combination of personalized preventative wellness services, along with traditional healthcare via Spanish speaking physicians. | Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 06, 2025 | ||
| MiSalud offers a unique combination of personalized preventative wellness services, along with traditional healthcare via Spanish speaking physicians. | $8M / Series A / Dec 09, 2024 | ||
| Dwellsy is an internet company that specializes in the fields of consumer applications, internet, and property management. It features a web-based platform for residential home rentals, built on the radical concept that true, organic search in a free eco-system creates more value than the pay-to-play model embraced by all of the current rentallisting services.The company was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Los Altos, California. | $11.5M / Seed / Nov 15, 2023 | ||
| Pontoro is building a digital asset securitization and liquidity platform to address the $20 trillion shortfall in infrastructure debt finance by enabling broader investor participation in these private assets. Pontoro's team has collectively underwritten, invested in, or built over $100 billion of large-scale infrastructure assets globally.Pontoro has sourced an initial $500M infrastructure loan pipeline from some of its large originating bank relationships. Pontoro is also speaking with several large financial institutions about opportunities to distribute its digital assets to these institutions’ RIA, family office, and ultra-high net worth investor distribution channels. | $4.6M / Seed / Sep 26, 2023 | ||
| Commerce is being revolutionized throughout Latin America. Increasingly, SMBs are restructuring themselves to rely on online conversational platforms (like WhatsApp) as their primary channel for acquiring and servicing their clients. LeadSales is building the platform that will be the dominant operating system for this entire new industry - andwill help businesses manage all of their interactions with consumers ranging from conversational sales, CRM, to order fulfillment, even to payments. | $3.7M / Seed / Aug 28, 2023 | ||
| Commerce is being revolutionized throughout Latin America. Increasingly, SMBs are restructuring themselves to rely on online conversational platforms (like WhatsApp) as their primary channel for acquiring and servicing their clients. LeadSales is building the platform that will be the dominant operating system for this entire new industry - andwill help businesses manage all of their interactions with consumers ranging from conversational sales, CRM, to order fulfillment, even to payments. | $400K / Pre-Seed / Oct 31, 2022 | ||
| Snowball Wealth gives personalized guidance for your student loans. We connect with your student debt accounts and give you a free personalized plan to pay off your loans and help you monitor your progress until you finish paying them off. Comparing refinancing, optimizing payments, and federal programs, Snowball ensures users make the bestdecision for their situation.Snowball Wealth is based in San Francisco, California. | $1.6M / Seed / Oct 18, 2022 | ||
| Bridge is a seed stage fintech startup, built to empower members to make more money. | $5.8M / Seed / Sep 28, 2022 | ||
| Kogniz is an incident and emergency response platform that leverages computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) to help companies increase the safety and wellbeing of their workforce. Its flagship connected platform, Kogniz AssureAI, can be implemented in days and integrates with the existing infrastructure that large-scale companies alreadyuse. Kogniz was founded in 2016 and its award-winning technology has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, NBC and Fox. The company is headquartered in Berkeley, California, boasts a development team in Montreal, Quebec with employees across four continents. | $10M / Series A / Jun 28, 2022 | ||
| Beam is a social impact tech company that provides an app that allows customers to discover mission-driven brands and make an impact while shopping through its e-commerce integration. Beam connects with partner brands that have vetted nonprofits that reflect their values and allows customers to choose a nonprofit while checking out, where the branddonates a portion of their purchase at no additional cost. Beam's mission is to create a community of conscious consumers, mission-led brands, and high-impact nonprofits in order to make impact more accessible and rewarding. | $13.3M / Series A / Apr 14, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Ulu Ventures
Ulu Ventures was the first Latina-led fund in Silicon Valley and is a top seed stage firm. Ulu is focused on innovation across enterprise, fintech, consumer, health, and sustainability. The firm generates great financial results using a disciplined, repeatable decision-making process that analyzes risk-reward trade-offs and also reduces cognitivebias. The majority of Ulu portfolio companies are founded by diverse teams that include women, minority, URM and/or immigrant founders. Ulu’s investment thesis is based on the concept that diversity is profitable. The firm has more than $400M AUM and 10 unicorns in the portfolio.
Ulu Ventures Contacts
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Abby Chao
Entrepreneur In Residence
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Clint Korver
CIO, Cofounder, and Managing Director
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Maria Salamanca
Partner
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Miriam Rivera
CEO, Co-Founder & Managing Director
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Steve Reale
Partner & CFO
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What does Miriam Rivera invest in?
Miriam Rivera invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 158 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Miriam Rivera closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 158 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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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