# UBS Optimus Foundation

> UBS Optimus Foundation is a VC fund backing Education, Health Care and Medical Device. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.ubs.com/global/en/ubs-society/philanthropy/optimus-foundation.html

UBS Optimus Foundation is a non profit organisation it deliver breakthrough solutions to pressing social and environmental issues.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $1.3M–$7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 3 | 38% |
| Health Care | 3 | 38% |
| Medical Device | 2 | 25% |
| Medical | 1 | 13% |
| Hospital | 1 | 13% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 38% |
| Seed | 2 | 25% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 3 | 38% |
| Kenya | 1 | 13% |
| Germany | 1 | 13% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hewatele | Hewatele is a social enterprise that provides affordable quality medical oxygen to all needy patients together with its affiliates CPHD and Mediquip Global. | $10.5M | Debt Financing | Aug 19, 2025 |  |
| Turn.io | Turn.io powers life-improving conversations across the globe. Turn.io's chat platform enables health and education organisations to scale access to trusted information, empathic support and vital services. | $3.2M | Seed | Apr 01, 2025 |  |
| Kreedo Early Childhood Solutions | Kreedo provides a complete preschool solution. | $4M | Series A | Aug 27, 2024 |  |
| Karma Healthcare | Karman Healthcare are see a world where everyone has an opportunity and means to access equitable and affordable healthcare. | $1.3M | Series A | Aug 07, 2024 |  |
| Hewatele | Hewatele is a social enterprise that provides affordable quality medical oxygen to all needy patients together with its affiliates CPHD and Mediquip Global. | $20M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 14, 2024 |  |
| Elucid Social | Elucid Social integrates businesses with the social good movement through a data-driven strategy that yields measurable results. Elucid Social develops and deploys technologies to assess, report, and minimize human rights risks linked with the sourcing of products and services. |  | Seed | Jan 26, 2024 |  |
| ConveGenius | ConveGenius is focused on nurturing and harnessing value by providing affordable educational solutions to create impact in large volumes. Their core competence lies in building mobile products/ apps/ games catered for global and local markets likewise. The company is focussed towards providing quality education to children at risk byintegrating technology with education and working with state governments to penetrate the rural and semi urban areas of India. It also aims to cater to the global urban market using retailing and e-tailing channels for its various world-class high-end educational solutions. ConveGenius is based out of India and Singapore. Their India office is headquartered in Noida. | $7M | Series A | Jan 11, 2024 |  |
| Hewatele | Hewatele is a social enterprise that provides affordable quality medical oxygen to all needy patients together with its affiliates CPHD and Mediquip Global. | $8.9M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 20, 2023 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [1Crowd](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1crowd) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does UBS Optimus Foundation invest in?

UBS Optimus Foundation invests primarily in Education, Health Care and Medical Device startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is UBS Optimus Foundation's check size?

UBS Optimus Foundation typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$7M 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 UBS Optimus Foundation participates in.

### When did UBS Optimus Foundation last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for UBS Optimus Foundation closed in Aug 2025. Shizune tracks 8 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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