# Obvious Ventures

> Obvious Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Health Care. See 195 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 195
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 30%
- Last fund: Jun 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/obvious-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/obviousvc
- Website: http://www.obvious.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Obvious-Ventures-240587659675882

Obvious Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages. The firm was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$13M |
| Series A | $5.5M–$42M |
| Series B | $15M–$150M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 21 | 11% |
| Health Care | 17 | 9% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 15 | 8% |
| Biotechnology | 11 | 6% |
| Medical | 8 | 4% |

147 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 56 | 29% |
| Series B | 36 | 18% |
| Seed | 31 | 16% |
| Series C | 13 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 4% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 82 | 42% |
| Canada | 4 | 2% |
| Germany | 2 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |
| France | 1 | 1% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| André Heinz | Venture Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andr-heinz |
| James Joaquin | Co-Founder and Managing Director | 31 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-joaquin |
| Andrew Beebe | Managing Director | 18 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-beebe |
| Chris Cheng | Senior Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-cheng-f0d7 |
| Di-Ann Eisnor | Venture Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/di-ann-eisnor |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gritt Robotics | Gritt Robotics is automating renewable energy construction using AI and Robotics. | $26M | Series A | Jul 21, 2026 |  |
| Hostie | Hostie is an AI-first customer experience platform designed for restaurants, automating guest inquiries, reservations, and takeout orders. We proudly partner with some of the world’s top restaurants, including Flour + Water, Nisei, Slanted Door, ILIS, and more. Co-founded by a product designer-turned-restaurateur and an AI engineer, Hostie blendshospitality expertise with cutting-edge technology to enhance restaurant operations. | $12M | Series A | Jul 08, 2026 |  |
| Hostie | Hostie is an AI-first customer experience platform designed for restaurants, automating guest inquiries, reservations, and takeout orders. We proudly partner with some of the world’s top restaurants, including Flour + Water, Nisei, Slanted Door, ILIS, and more. Co-founded by a product designer-turned-restaurateur and an AI engineer, Hostie blendshospitality expertise with cutting-edge technology to enhance restaurant operations. | $12M | Series A | Jul 08, 2026 |  |
| Radical Numerics | Radical Numerics develops a unified AI model that comprehensively understands and generates biological data, integrating DNA, RNA, proteins, and all molecular components of living systems into a single framework. The company is known for its Evo and Evo 2 models, which are large biological AI models that have been trained on extensive DNAsequences. | $50M | Seed | Jun 15, 2026 |  |
| Gray Swan | Gray Swan AI is an AI security company that develops tools for evaluating and protecting large language model deployments. Its platform focuses on identifying vulnerabilities such as jailbreaks, prompt injections, harmful outputs, and other adversarial attacks that can affect AI systems in production. The company offers products including Shade, anautomated red-teaming and vulnerability assessment tool, and Cygnal, a runtime protection layer that monitors and filters AI interactions in real time. Gray Swan’s technology is designed to work with multiple AI providers and is used to test the security and reliability of AI applications, agents, and workflows. The company also operates adversarial testing programs and collaborates with AI researchers and enterprises to study emerging threats and improve AI safety practices. | $40M | Series A | May 28, 2026 |  |
| Iterative Health | Iterative Health is a healthcare technology and services company that focuses on accelerating clinical research to improve patient outcomes through innovative approaches. The company transforms gastrointestinal (GI) care by utilizing AI-driven clinical trials and diagnostics, significantly enhancing access to vital treatments. | $77M | Series C | Apr 30, 2026 |  |
| Iterative Health | Iterative Health is a healthcare technology and services company that focuses on accelerating clinical research to improve patient outcomes through innovative approaches. The company transforms gastrointestinal (GI) care by utilizing AI-driven clinical trials and diagnostics, significantly enhancing access to vital treatments. | $77M | Series C | Apr 30, 2026 |  |
| Halcyon | Halcyon provides an AI-assisted search and information platform to navigate energy transition decision-making for investors and analysts. | $21M | Series A | Mar 16, 2026 |  |
| Zanskar | Zanskar develops a predictive platform informed by massive data for discovering previously unknown geothermal resources. Its platform includes subsurface characterization technology and massive data sets, enhancing and reducing risk in the exploration of geothermal resources. | $115M | Series C | Jan 21, 2026 |  |
| Fleetzero | Fleetzero is building battery electric cargo ships to affordably decarbonize ocean freight. | $43M | Series A | Jan 16, 2026 |  |

10 of 195 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lux Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lux-capital) — VC Fund, 14 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Obvious Ventures invest in?

Obvious Ventures invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 195 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 Obvious Ventures's check size?

Obvious Ventures typically joins rounds of $2M–$13M at Seed, $5.5M–$42M at Series A and $15M–$150M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Obvious Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Obvious Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Obvious Ventures?

The team at Obvious Ventures includes André Heinz (Venture Partner), James Joaquin (Co-Founder and Managing Director) and Andrew Beebe (Managing Director), among 10 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 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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