# Orrick Venture Fund

> Orrick Venture Fund is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Software and Blockchain. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.orrick.com

Orrick Venture Fund is a company that specializes in compensation and benefits solutions.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $300k–$5M |
| Pre-Seed | $580k–$2M |
| Series A | $6.3M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 24% |
| Blockchain | 3 | 18% |
| Legal | 2 | 12% |
| Finance | 2 | 12% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 12% |

48 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 35% |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 35% |
| Series A | 2 | 12% |
| Series E | 1 | 6% |
| Series F | 1 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 65% |
| France | 2 | 12% |
| Israel | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fhenix | Fhenix is the first private blockchain that uses completely homomorphic encryption. Fhenix's use of fhEVM allows Ethereum developers to write encrypted smart contracts and perform encrypted data computations while utilizing Solidity and other familiar, easy-to-use tools. | $15M | Series A | Jun 04, 2024 |  |
| Intu | Intu is a decentralized protocol that enables shared ownership of digital assets using locally encrypted shares and any EVM-compatible chain. Easily share, recover, or even change ownership of your assets while maintaining the security and integrity of your account. Intu is more than just a protocol. It’s a movement towards a fair, decentralized,and open internet of value. Intu’s distributed externally-owned-accounts (dEOA) accounts marry the composability of smart contract wallets with the elegance and security of an EOA. Through a simple SDK developers can create progressive onboarding experiences to any web3 dApp or wallet. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Feb 20, 2023 |  |
| Clarity | Clarity is a clinical-stage company pioneering a new category of non-pharmacological treatments for neurodegenerative diseases. We develop a neuromodulation device combining immersive technology, AI and biosensors to deliver gamma sensory stimulation. Gamma waves’ sensory stimulation has been shown to significantly slow down Alzheimer'sprogression, reducing neurodegeneration and cognitive decline. Clarity takes a platform approach by enabling the customization of sensory stimulation protocols based on patient data, improving experience, efficacy and scalability across a wide range of indications. The company was founded by neuroscientists from UC Berkeley, and Oxford along with execs from OURA and Philips, and is supported by leading institutions such as UCSF's Neuroscape. |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 30, 2022 |  |
| Spice Finance | Spice Finance specializes in the fields of financial services. | $1.7M |  | Oct 27, 2022 |  |
| Spice Finance | Spice Finance specializes in the fields of financial services. | $1.7M | Seed | Oct 27, 2022 |  |
| AltaClaro | Provider of interactive experiential legal training to bring legal associates to practice-readiness. AltaClaro is designed to scale Experiential Learning, making it possible for Firms to facilitate fast, meaningful training to their associates: increasing associate effectiveness, drastically reducing T&D costs, and reducing unconscious bias. | $1.5M | Seed | Mar 29, 2022 |  |
| Topanga.io | Topanga.io develops a reuse platform for sustainably-minded brands, restaurants, and consumers. Its product suite and preferred partner network help businesses launch and grow reusable packaging programs. Its track and trace system captures key events for each reusable container. Users can track where reusable packaging goes and ensure they get itback. Topanga's code-free ReusePass program helps campuses offer effective reusable container programs. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Nov 09, 2021 |  |
| Priori | Priori is the global legal marketplace for in-house teams. We use data and technology to rapidly connect legal departments from 1 to 1000+ with the right outside counsel for projects globally, saving them time and money. Our clients include Fortune 500 enterprises and leading technology companies, who use our platform to find vetted boutique firmsfor projects requiring niche expertise, local counsel, cost-control, overflow, or temporary support. We were shortlisted in both 2018 and 2019 as a Financial Times Intelligent Business for our work reducing the cost of legal services for corporate clients by 60-80%. | $6.3M | Series A | Oct 28, 2020 |  |
| 1sm | The only Revenue Operations System, purpose built for B2B SaaS teams | $580K | Pre-Seed | Jul 13, 2020 |  |
| Arconex | Arconex - Vertical AI SaaS for the Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) Industry. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2019 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hearst Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hearst-interactive-media) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Big Brain Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/big-brain-holdings) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Delta Blockchain Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/delta-blockchain-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GGV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ggv-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Orrick Venture Fund invest in?

Orrick Venture Fund invests primarily in Software, Blockchain and Legal startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 17 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 Orrick Venture Fund's check size?

Orrick Venture Fund typically joins rounds of $300k–$5M at Seed, $580k–$2M at Pre-Seed and $6.3M–$15M 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 Orrick Venture Fund participates in.

### When did Orrick Venture Fund last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Orrick Venture Fund closed in Jun 2024. Shizune tracks 17 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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