# Ranch Ventures

> Ranch Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Software and E-Commerce. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Aug 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Fund size: $1.5M
- Last fund: May 2016
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/howiejdiamond
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ranchvc
- Website: http://www.ranch.vc/

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.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 19% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 19% |
| FinTech | 2 | 13% |
| Computer | 2 | 13% |
| Web Design | 2 | 13% |

58 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 50% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 38% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 88% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Howie Diamond | Managing Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/howie-diamond |
| Howie Diamond | Managing Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/howie-diamond-bfa9 |
| Kimberly Weiner | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kimberly-weiner |
| Rick Levin | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rick-levin-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Twelve | 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 | 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 | 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 | Barn & Willow is a vertically integrated home decor brand making custom-made window coverings effortless and accessible. | $1.4M |  | May 10, 2017 |  |
| Albert | 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 | 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. |  |  | Nov 01, 2016 |  |
| Imperfect Foods | 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 | 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 |  |
| Simbi.com | Simbi is an online marketplace that runs on talents, services, and skills, not cash, credit, or check. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, Simbi provides a way for freelancers and independent workers to turn their unbooked hours into real economic value. Simbi simultaneously increases the size of the economy while supporting small-scaleentrepreneurs to do the flexible work they love. | $1.2M | Seed | Aug 16, 2016 |  |
| Standard Cyborg | Build 3D scanning, analysis, and design into your digital and physical applications. |  | Seed | Jul 01, 2016 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cantos](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cantos-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Breakout Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breakout-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Elementum Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elementumventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Evok Innovations](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evok-innovations) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lionheart Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lionheart-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Ranch Ventures invest in?

Ranch Ventures invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Ranch Ventures?

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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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