Narrative Fund
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Narrative Fund is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Retail and CleanTech. We invest in high-impact, early-stage founders using technology to leave the world a better place. We lead and follow.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 43%
Last updated:
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Industries Narrative Fund invests in
Stages Narrative Fund invests in
Countries Narrative Fund invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2.2M–$4.8M
- Series A
- $8.5M–$8.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Retail 2 (29%)
- CleanTech 2 (29%)
- SaaS 1 (14%)
- Solar 1 (14%)
- AgTech 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (43%)
- Series A 1 (14%)
- Funding Round 1 (14%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (14%)
Country
- Canada 3 (43%)
- United States 2 (29%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Erik Blachford
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 49 | Find email | |
Jamie Wong
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
|
Co-Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jamie Wong
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
|
Co-Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| We're sherpa° and we’re passionate about freedom of movement. Our mission is to help travellers move freely around the world and to shift the way the world's leading travel providers approach border crossing. Through unmatched industry knowledge and expertise, we help our partners—from airlines to cruise lines to online travelagencies—open new ancillary revenue streams to help them reduce costs and operational risk while enhancing the customer journey and growing consumer confidence in travel.More than simply providing a product or service, we're moving travel forward. Away from stress and confusion, and towards ease and connection. So travellers can move freely wherever life takes them. This is the future of international travel. | $8.5M / Series A / Apr 30, 2021 | ||
| dcbel's mission is to deliver energy that lets people live a life without compromise.dcbel™ (formerly known as Ossiaco) sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home, and customer-centric utilities. The dcbel team has a proven history of rethinking energy distribution for everything from largeutility customers to distributed energy resource providers.dcbel's AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes, and their lifestyles.dcbel has numerous worldwide patents in power electronics and power conversion and is backed by a number of globally respected investors. | $40M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 14, 2021 | ||
| Future Fields is committed to producing sustainable components for science through insect biotechnology. Its EntoEngine™ platform is the first to harness the genetic prowess of fruit flies to produce Earth’s most environmentally and economically sustainable biomolecules. Founded in 2018, Future Fields is headquartered in Edmonton, Canada andproudly backed by marquee venture capital firms and investors from Silicon Valley and beyond. Learn more about how Future Fields is enabling great science at https://futurefields.io/. | $2.2M / Seed / Feb 25, 2021 | ||
| Arrive Recommerce is leading the resale market with a profitable, sustainable and scalable branded resale channel. Returns to Recommerce™ focuses on turning a cost center into a profit center by helping brands and retailers divert products such as non-new returns, excess inventory, and damaged inventory into a fully-branded revenue generatingresale channel. Arrive’s Recommence Management Technology, Recommerce Storefront Technology and Analytical Tools allow brands to drive more revenue, more customers and improve operational efficiency. Arrive collaborates with companies in adjacent verticals such as returns management, logistics, and ecommerce enablement to increase margin and value for our brands. Arrive was named the 4th Most Innovative Retail Company by Fast Company in 2022. Notable partners include brands like YETI and Burton Snowboards. | $4.8M / Seed / Jul 23, 2020 | ||
| Arrive Outdoors is an outdoor travel firm that connects with outdoor gear providers to rent out their gear on their website. | $4.8M / Seed / Jul 23, 2020 | ||
| See all 7 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Narrative Fund invest in?
Narrative Fund invests primarily in Retail, CleanTech and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Narrative Fund invest in?
Narrative Fund typically joins rounds of $2.2M–$4.8M at Seed and $8.5M–$8.5M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Narrative Fund's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Narrative Fund took part in.
How do I contact Narrative Fund?
Public channels for Narrative Fund 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 Narrative Fund?
The team at Narrative Fund includes Erik Blachford (Partner), Jamie Wong (Co-Founder and Managing Partner) and Jamie Wong (Co-Founder and Managing 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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