Ranch Ventures
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Ranch Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and E-Commerce. We're a progressive micro-fund that partners with technically ambitious, high value companies to help build the future.
- Total investments:
- 18
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
- Fund size:
- $1.5M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Ranch Ventures invests in
SoftwareE-CommerceFuelFinTechChemical
Stages Ranch Ventures invests in
SeedVenture - Series UnknownSeries AFunding Round
Countries Ranch Ventures invests in
United StatesCanada
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (22%)
- E-Commerce 3 (17%)
- Fuel 2 (11%)
- FinTech 2 (11%)
- Chemical 2 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 10 (56%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (22%)
- Series A 2 (11%)
- Funding Round 2 (11%)
Country
- United States 15 (83%)
- Canada 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Howie Diamond
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Howie Diamond
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Kimberly Weiner
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Rick Levin
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twelve is the carbon transformation company, a new kind of chemical company built for the climate era. We make essential products from air, not oil. Our groundbreaking technology eliminates emissions by transforming CO2 into critical chemicals, materials and fuels that today are made from fossil fuels. We call it carbon transformation, and itfundamentally changes how we can address climate change, reduce emissions and reverse the carbon imbalance. Reinventing what it means to be a chemical company, we’re on a mission to create a climate positive world and a fossil free future through the power of chemistry. The company is based in Berkeley, California. | $11M / Seed / Aug 16, 2019 | ||
| Twelve is a carbon transformation company converting captured carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals, fuels, and other essential products. Their technology eliminates emissions by turning CO2 into essential products that are made from fossil fuels. They specialize in the fields of CO2 electrocatalysis and electrochemical reactor design. | $11M / Seed / Aug 16, 2019 | ||
| Qwil provides individual contractors, freelancers, and small businesses with financial tools and solutions. It offers an application that enables its users to manage and spend their earnings through their Qwil debit card. Qwil also enables its users to earn and spend money before they are paid for their services.The company was founded in 2015and is based in San Francisco, California. | $5M / Series A / Apr 03, 2018 | ||
| Barn & Willow is a vertically integrated home decor brand making custom-made window coverings effortless and accessible. | $1.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 10, 2017 | ||
| Teamable is an employee referral and diversity hiring platform that transforms social networks into high-performance talent pools. Teamable scales and optimizes referral programs and diversity initiatives by replacing spreadsheet-based approaches with intuitive search and cloud-based, mobile-friendly referral flows. Teamable makes it easy foremployees to share their connections and for recruiters to source and request warm introductions. Teamable helps scale and optimize referral recruiting to fill business-critical roles while driving down time-to-hire and cost-per-hire metrics. | $5M / Series A / Apr 12, 2017 | ||
| Albert is a financial technology company aiming to democratize money management by making financial advice accessible and affordable.Its financial advisory platform enables customers to chat directly with financial experts about any money issue, build a personalized financial plan, and access automated investing. The company’s free featuresinclude automatic savings, financial health monitoring, budgeting, detailed spending reports, and Albert Instant, which offers customers an advance against their paychecks to help avoid overdrafts. Albert is backed by investors General Atlantic, along with 500 Startups, Financial Solutions Lab, CapitalG, Portag3, and QED.Yinon Ravid and Andrzej Baraniak established the fintech company in Culver City, California in 2015. | $2.5M / Seed / Nov 23, 2016 | ||
| Quip is an oral care company designing and delivering products, advice and professional services to make oral health more simple, accessible, and enjoyable — starting with a better electric toothbrush. As the first to market direct-to-consumer oral care subscription service — with fresh supplies delivered every three months, oral care advice sentstraight to hundreds of thousands of consumers, and a bidirectional tech platform in development to connect users with a large dental professional network — quip is working to elevate every part of the oral care experience for everyone. | Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 01, 2016 | ||
| Imperfect Foods provides grocery delivery service rescuing and redistributing food across multiple grocery categories – including produce, shelf-stable goods, dairy, meat and seafood. Imperfect Foods has remained hyper focused on eliminating food waste and supporting farmers and producers when it comes to excess and imperfect products. The companynow rescues and redistributes food across multiple grocery categories - including produce, shelf-stable goods, dairy, meat and seafood. Its performance and agility during the COVID-19 pandemic illustrates that this mission-driven model is poised for success in the long term.- | $2.3M / Seed / Oct 23, 2016 | ||
| Teamable is an employee referral and diversity hiring platform that transforms social networks into high-performance talent pools. Teamable scales and optimizes referral programs and diversity initiatives by replacing spreadsheet-based approaches with intuitive search and cloud-based, mobile-friendly referral flows. Teamable makes it easy foremployees to share their connections and for recruiters to source and request warm introductions. Teamable helps scale and optimize referral recruiting to fill business-critical roles while driving down time-to-hire and cost-per-hire metrics. | Oct 01, 2016 | ||
| Instrumentl provides a comprehensive grant management platform that supports organizations throughout the entire grant lifecycle. The platform integrates grant discovery, application tracking, and post-award management into a unified system. Key features include intelligent matching to identify suitable funding opportunities, a centralizeddocument library for secure storage, and tools for tracking grant performance metrics. Instrumentl also offers functionalities such as automated deadline reminders, task assignments, and integration with existing tools like Salesforce and calendar applications. Designed to serve nonprofits, grant consultants, and academic institutions, Instrumentl facilitates efficient collaboration and streamlined grant processes. Users can access a vast database of funding opportunities and utilize tools for peer prospecting and funder insights. The platform aims to simplify grant management by consolidating essential functions into a single, accessible interface. | Seed / Aug 24, 2016 | ||
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FAQ
What does Ranch Ventures invest in?
Ranch Ventures invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Fuel startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 18 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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Who are the partners at Ranch Ventures?
The team at Ranch Ventures includes Howie Diamond (Managing Director), Howie Diamond (Managing Director) and Kimberly Weiner (Venture Partner). 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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