Omidyar Network
VC Fund
Redwood City, United States
Omidyar Network is a VC fund in Redwood City focused on Financial Services and Software. Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, and his wife, Pam, established Omidyar Network based on the belief that every person has the potential to make a difference. Since 2004, they have worked with their partners to create opportunities for people to tap that potential, enabling them to improve their lives and make powerful contributions to theircommunities.They support, scale, and champion the work of their partners in order to maximize social impact. As a philanthropic investment firm, they make both investments and grants, identifying like-minded organizations that they support, help scale, and collaborate with to help realize their full potential. Their efforts are organized around two investment initiatives Access to Capital, and Media, Markets and Transparency.
- Total investments:
- 302
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 27%
Last updated:
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Industries Omidyar Network invests in
Stages Omidyar Network invests in
Countries Omidyar Network invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 13 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $738k–$4M
- Series A
- $2.2M–$14M
- Series B
- $5.3M–$35M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 40 (13%)
- Software 35 (12%)
- Information Technology 35 (12%)
- FinTech 34 (11%)
- Education 33 (11%)
Stage
- Series A 83 (27%)
- Seed 53 (18%)
- Series B 51 (17%)
- Series C 26 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 18 (6%)
Country
- United States 88 (29%)
- India 58 (19%)
- Kenya 6 (2%)
- Brazil 6 (2%)
- United Kingdom 6 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Aviva Aminova
Associate General Counsel
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Associate General Counsel | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Pam Omidyar
Co-Founder
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Co-Founder | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Pierre Omidyar
Founding Partner, Co-Founder, and Chairman
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Founding Partner, Co-Founder, and Chairman | Total investments: 15 | Find email | |
Allen Babaran
Director Of Information Technology
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Director Of Information Technology | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Andrew Brennen
Associate
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Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 13 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
FinReach
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FinReach Solutions is a company providing innovative credit guarantee programs to facilitate lending for underserved micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), particularly those lacking collateral or formal credit history. Their solution enables financial institutions to extend credit to entrepreneurs, including women-led businesses andclimate-focused ventures, by de-risking loans through guarantees and leveraging data-driven borrower risk assessment. FinReach aims to expand financial inclusion in India’s lower-tier regions, helping thousands of borrowers access formal finance through partnerships with development finance institutions and global impact investors. | $2.5M / Seed / Nov 24, 2025 | |
| Provides affordable and unlimited Internet to Middle and lower middle income households | $35M / Series B / Jun 18, 2025 | ||
| Qoala is a disruptive InsureTech company that leverages big data, machine learning, IoT, and blockchain aiming to revolutionize the insurance landscape in Indonesia. Qoala partners with big companies, including e-commerce and travel platforms, to enhance their customer experience through unique and innovative insurance products. | $45M / Series C / Mar 26, 2024 | ||
| Anthropic conducts AI research and develops AI products, including the Claude AI model family. The company focuses on building AI for human well-being, emphasizing safety in its research, policy work, and product design. Anthropic offers various Claude models, such as Opus and Sonnet, for AI-powered applications and custom experiences, supportingcoding and AI agents. | $884.1M / Secondary Market / Mar 22, 2024 | ||
| RailYatri's goal is to provide the most up to date information to the 25 million passengers who board a train every day. RailYatri mobile app provides real-time information on live train status, PNR Status, seat availability predictions, fare calculator, platforms/ facilities at stations, personalized alerts, access to essential travelservices like meals and taxi.... and much more.RailYatri provides information on over 9000 locations and 14500 trains (including long distance trains, local trains and metros). Within its first year of the launch, RailYatri's Android app has crossed 1 million downloads. The company has also partnered with taxi services firms across 20 cities and food vendors across 300 stations.RailYatri's mission is to simplify train travel and they are doing it one traveller at a time. | $3M / Series C / Feb 19, 2024 | ||
| Doubtnut leverages technology to make education accessible for all. It offers an App in which students can ask study questions in Math by clicking the picture of the problem or concept.The application offers personalized live online solutions for all user's math doubts. In its online doubt clearing platform, students get to learn fromteachers who have studied from top colleges and institutes across India. It also provides solutions for CBSE & ICSE board school students so that students can understand maths in a structured manner at the comfort of their home. Doubtnut was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, India. | $2.5M / Convertible Note / Apr 12, 2023 | ||
| Vyng has built a next-generation Caller ID platform that visualizes every call. Vyng is helping start better conversations between friends, family, and businesses for the next half billion smartphone users in India and beyond.Vyng boasts 4 billion videos played across 170 countries since its launch in 2018. The company has raised $7MM and isbacked by March Capital, Omidyar Network, a Sequoia Capital partner, and the founders of Giphy and GroupMe. | $5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 04, 2022 | ||
| Kaleidofin is a fintech platform that provides complete financial solutions for excluded individuals and households. The platform propels under-banked customers towards meeting their real life goals by providing intuitive and tailored financial solutions. Their solutions take into account the financial roadblocks and vulnerability that thesesegments, such as volatile income streams and limited understanding of the fine print in financial products.Kaleidofin creates individual profiles of households based on several sources and uses that information to tailor its services for each customer. It also provides curated, goal-based financial solutions to people in the underbanked segments. It will leverage the full India stack, existing networks, analytics, structuring, and user-centered design to drive outcomes for customers, in the processKaleidofin was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. | $10M / Series B / Jan 12, 2022 | ||
| ShopUp is Bangladesh’s full-stack B2B commerce platform for small businesses, providing easy access to B2B sourcing, last-mile logistics, and BNPL solutions. The company provides easy access to B2B sourcing, last-mile logistics, digital credit and business management solutions to small businesses. ShopUp is headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh. | $34M / Series B / Jan 04, 2022 | ||
| Otipy is an emerging Indian startup and the social commerce venture of farm-to-fork agri-tech startup Crofarm. The platform aims to connect farmers directly to their customers through online channels and vice versa. The goal of the platform is to provide fresh produce directly from the farm, using something called demand harvesting. By usingAI-based demand prediction tools, the platform collects historical data to predict the demand for products. This is then used to procure just the right amount of produce, facilitating on-demand harvesting, and thereby ensuring delivery of fresh produce on the same day. Moreover, this also precludes the wastage of food items. | $28.6M / Series B / Dec 08, 2021 | ||
| See all 302 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Omidyar Network invest in?
Omidyar Network invests primarily in Financial Services, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 302 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 Omidyar Network's check size?
Omidyar Network typically joins rounds of $738k–$4M at Seed, $2.2M–$14M at Series A and $5.3M–$35M 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 Omidyar Network participates in.
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Who are the partners at Omidyar Network?
The team at Omidyar Network includes Aviva Aminova (Associate General Counsel), Pam Omidyar (Co-Founder) and Pierre Omidyar (Founding Partner, Co-Founder, and Chairman), among 13 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 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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