Omidyar Technology Ventures
VC Fund
Redwood City, United States
Omidyar Technology Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based investment firm created and solely funded by eBay founder, technologist, and philanthropist Pierre Omidyar.
- Total investments:
- 25
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 8%
Last updated:
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Industries Omidyar Technology Ventures invests in
SoftwareArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSBig Data
Stages Omidyar Technology Ventures invests in
SeedSeries ASeries BSeries CSeries D
Countries Omidyar Technology Ventures invests in
United StatesIndiaCanadaThe Netherlands
Contacts
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4 more contacts available
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (36%)
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (28%)
- Machine Learning 5 (20%)
- SaaS 2 (8%)
- Big Data 2 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (24%)
- Series A 5 (20%)
- Series B 4 (16%)
- Series C 4 (16%)
- Series D 2 (8%)
Country
- United States 12 (48%)
- India 2 (8%)
- Canada 1 (4%)
- The Netherlands 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Pierre Omidyar
Founder
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Founder | Total investments: 12 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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project44
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project44 is on a mission to make supply chains work. As the supply chain connective tissue, project44 operates the world’s most trusted end-to-end visibility platform that manages more than 1 billion unique shipments annually for over 1,300 of the world’s leading brands, including top companies in manufacturing, automotive, retail, life sciences,food & beverage, CPG, and oil, chemical & gas. Using project44, shippers and carriers across the globe drive greater predictability, resiliency and sustainability. The undisputed leader in the market and innovator of Movement GPT, project44 was named the Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, #1 in FreightWaves FreightTech 2023, a ten-time leader in customer satisfaction on G2’s Supply Chain Visibility Grid, one of SupplyChainBrain’s 100 Great Supply Chain Partners of 2022, and the Customer’s Choice in Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer report. project44 is headquartered in Chicago with a diverse team spanning 15 global offices including Amsterdam, Kraków, Paris, São Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo. Learn more at project44.com. | $80M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 03, 2022 | |
Overstory
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Overstory combines AI and advanced satellite imagery to help electric utilities pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. With Overstory's vegetation intelligence, transmission and distribution operators can make smarter decisions about the vegetation around their power corridors, optimizing resources and improvingoperational efficiency. This helps prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid. | $3.8M / Seed / Nov 05, 2021 | |
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Overstory
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Overstory combines AI and advanced satellite imagery to help electric utilities pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. With Overstory's vegetation intelligence, transmission and distribution operators can make smarter decisions about the vegetation around their power corridors, optimizing resources and improvingoperational efficiency. This helps prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid. | $3.9M / Seed / Nov 01, 2021 | |
Akili Interactive Labs
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Akili Interactive Labs their broad pipeline of programs to treat cognitive deficiency and improve symptoms associated with medical conditions across neurology and psychiatry, including attention-deficit hyperactivity and disorder (ADHD), major depressive disorder (MDD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and various inflammatory diseases. | $110M / Series D / May 26, 2021 | |
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project44
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project44 is on a mission to make supply chains work. As the supply chain connective tissue, project44 operates the world’s most trusted end-to-end visibility platform that manages more than 1 billion unique shipments annually for over 1,300 of the world’s leading brands, including top companies in manufacturing, automotive, retail, life sciences,food & beverage, CPG, and oil, chemical & gas. Using project44, shippers and carriers across the globe drive greater predictability, resiliency and sustainability. The undisputed leader in the market and innovator of Movement GPT, project44 was named the Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, #1 in FreightWaves FreightTech 2023, a ten-time leader in customer satisfaction on G2’s Supply Chain Visibility Grid, one of SupplyChainBrain’s 100 Great Supply Chain Partners of 2022, and the Customer’s Choice in Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer report. project44 is headquartered in Chicago with a diverse team spanning 15 global offices including Amsterdam, Kraków, Paris, São Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo. Learn more at project44.com. | $100M / Series D / Dec 21, 2020 | |
Braintrust
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Braintrust is a blockchain-powered freelancer marketplace that connects technical and design talents with organizations.The marketplace that the company offers a user-controlled talent network that provides enterprises with highly skilled technical and design talent that they need. It connects organizations directly to top tech talent, offering40-70 percent savings by removing middlemen. The company charge a flat 10 percent project fee and talent keep 100 percent of their revenue. Braintrust aims to build a talent platform that disrupts traditional hiring methods and aligns incentives and redistributes value to talent and organizations.Adam Jackson, Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski, and Brian Flynn co-founded Braintrust in San Jose, California in 2018. | $18M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 01, 2020 | |
Otipy
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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. | $1M / Seed / Aug 24, 2020 | |
DrinkPrime
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DrinkPrime was started to solve a personal problem - How do people get access to clean, safe, and healthy drinking water?First, most of the water in plastic cans isn’t fit for drinking. Second, less than 5% of Indians actually own a water purifier. That’s when DrinkPrime's founders realized this wasn’t just a personal problem but anopportunity to help a lot of people.It’s been five years since DrinkPrime started on this journey. Today, more than 25,000 households in 7 cities trust DrinkPrime to access clean and safe drinking water. | $2.8M / Seed / Aug 04, 2020 | |
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DrinkPrime
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DrinkPrime was started to solve a personal problem - How do people get access to clean, safe, and healthy drinking water?First, most of the water in plastic cans isn’t fit for drinking. Second, less than 5% of Indians actually own a water purifier. That’s when DrinkPrime's founders realized this wasn’t just a personal problem but anopportunity to help a lot of people.It’s been five years since DrinkPrime started on this journey. Today, more than 25,000 households in 7 cities trust DrinkPrime to access clean and safe drinking water. | $2.5M / Aug 04, 2020 | |
Common Sense Machines
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Common Sense Machines is building artificial intelligence that learns to translate the world into a 3D simulation. Our platform, Real-to-Sim-to-Real, leverages the flexibility of human-like learning and the speed and precision of machines to enable one-shot 3D perception and manipulation of everyday objects. | $5.1M / Seed / Jun 08, 2020 | |
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FAQ
What does Omidyar Technology Ventures invest in?
Omidyar Technology Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 25 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 team at Omidyar Technology Ventures includes Pierre Omidyar (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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