Oriza Ventures
VC Fund
Santa Clara, United States
Oriza Ventures is a venture capital fund that primarily invests in early stage technological companies in the United States.Our partners were previously series entrepreneurs, angel investors, and are current professional venture capitalists; thus, we fully understand the startup process, unique culture, and the specific set of skills needed inorder to successfully grow a start-up company. Oriza was founded through the philosophy of nurturing business founders through the ups and downs of starting a company with our own experiences and resources. Oriza seeks to back talented entrepreneurs with emerging, innovative, and disruptive technological pursuits, or creative business ideas. We pride ourselves in our long-term approach to investment, and we invest in the entrepreneurs who deeply understand their market, are passionate about their product, and have the drive to cultivate their businesss towards success. Our team brings together a unique combination of a strong operating background, extensive investment experience, cross-border business development ecosystems, and well-connected networks in China and Silicon Valley.
- Total investments:
- 49
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 2%
- Fund size:
- $100M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Oriza Ventures invests in
Stages Oriza Ventures invests in
Countries Oriza Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
2 more contacts available
Round size
- Seed
- $2.8M–$10M
- Angel
- $411k–$950k
- Series A
- $3.2M–$22M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 11 (22%)
- Artificial Intelligence 9 (18%)
- Biotechnology 7 (14%)
- Machine Learning 7 (14%)
- Mobile 6 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 19 (39%)
- Series A 18 (37%)
- Angel 3 (6%)
- Series B 3 (6%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (4%)
Country
- United States 36 (73%)
- China 6 (12%)
- Canada 2 (4%)
- Germany 1 (2%)
- United Kingdom 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alex Liang
Co-Founder, Founding Partner, and Chief Strategist, Product Hacker
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Co-Founder, Founding Partner, and Chief Strategist, Product Hacker | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
John Yu
Co-Founder and Founding Partner
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Co-Founder and Founding Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Yao Xiao
Vice President, Product Hunter
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Vice President, Product Hunter | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Mila
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Mila is all about providing access to progress. The world around us is moving fast. Technical and digital innovations appear daily. There’s no way they can all keep up with this development. Perhaps you don’t have time or you’re just not up to a technical challenge. Still, everyone should be able to benefit from technological progress. Mila enablespeople to find an expert partner in their neighborhood on demand. Conveniently and easily, at a fair price. | $2M / Seed / May 31, 2022 | |
Unifimoney
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A turn key digital wealth management platform as a service for Community Banks and Credit Unions. With over 70 cryptocurrencies, passive and active investing in over 10K equities and ETF's and precious metals. Unifimoney is already in embedded in Alkami, Q2 and Jack Henry Banno making it easy to implement and embed in a bank or CU'sexisting digital platform. Unifimoney is a low cost, fast and easy way for community FI's to offer a full service money management solution to their members or customers. | $10M / Seed / Apr 06, 2022 | |
Parade
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Parade is the leading capacity management platform for freight brokerages. | $12.7M / Series A / Feb 09, 2022 | |
Lifo
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We empower creators | $3.9M / Seed / Dec 01, 2021 | |
Impulse Technology
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Impulse Technology promotes the interconnection and intercommunication of data production factors in society, and builds reliable, safe, private, fair and efficient data links. Impulse Technology integrates multiple technologies such as privacy computing, blockchain, container cloud, and artificial intelligence to provide users with a reliable,secure, privacy, fair and high-performance data solution——'Impulse Network'. Impulse Technology supports users to conduct safe and convenient data circulation and ecological collaboration with multiple external organizations.Impulse Technology will diverse technical resources such as trusted computing, blockchain, container cloud, and artificial intelligence to build the world's largest trusted computing public cloud-'Impulse Cloud'. Impulse Technology provides privacy, security, fairness, intelligence, and decentralized computing services in a fast and convenient way to build a trusted infrastructure in Web3.0. | Seed / Aug 17, 2021 | |
InnoStar Semiconductor
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InnoStar is a semiconductor storage maker producing storage products in the fields of information security protection, IoT, AI, and cloud. | $100M / Seed / Apr 06, 2021 | |
Teon Therapeutics
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Teon Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to improving the lives of cancer patients by developing a focused portfolio of small molecules that inhibit the immunosuppressive and cancer-promoting signaling pathways in the tumor microenvironment. Teon's lead program is an A2BR-specific antagonist that will enterPhase1b trials in 2021. | $30M / Series A / Feb 23, 2021 | |
APstem Therapeutics, Inc.
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With APstem Therapeutics’ breakthrough discovery of Adult Pluripotent Stem Cells (APSCs™), we are on a mission to eradicate difficult-to-heal diseases and conquer the challenges of aging. | $2.8M / Seed / Sep 01, 2020 | |
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Unifimoney
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A turn key digital wealth management platform as a service for Community Banks and Credit Unions. With over 70 cryptocurrencies, passive and active investing in over 10K equities and ETF's and precious metals. Unifimoney is already in embedded in Alkami, Q2 and Jack Henry Banno making it easy to implement and embed in a bank or CU'sexisting digital platform. Unifimoney is a low cost, fast and easy way for community FI's to offer a full service money management solution to their members or customers. | $1.6M / Pre-Seed / Apr 19, 2020 | |
Rebank
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Keeping track of your finances across multiple tools is painful. Rebank organises your bank accounts and payments in one place, making it the easiest way to keep track of your finances.Your finance admin is distracting you from building and spreadsheets aren't the solution. Rebank auto-categorises spend across your accounts, lets you makebill payments to 150+ countries and pay salaries from one place.We know what it's like to lose days and weeks making sure your finances are in order. Rebank is built for entrepreneurs that want the freedom to focus on building. | $2.8M / Seed / Dec 17, 2019 | |
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FAQ
What does Oriza Ventures invest in?
Oriza Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 49 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 Oriza Ventures's check size?
Oriza Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.8M–$10M at Seed, $411k–$950k at Angel and $3.2M–$22M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Oriza Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Oriza Ventures?
The team at Oriza Ventures includes Alex Liang (Co-Founder, Founding Partner, and Chief Strategist, Product Hacker), John Yu (Co-Founder and Founding Partner) and Yao Xiao (Vice President, Product Hunter). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 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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