# Union Labs Ventures

> Union Labs Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Machine Learning. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 15%
- Last fund: Jun 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unionlabs
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/UNIONLabs
- Website: http://unionlabs.com/

Union Labs Ventures is a DeepTech Seed fund that invests in exceptional founders from diverse backgrounds who are applying deep technologies to solve hard problems in the physical world. Core focus areas include: Industrial IoT, Consumer IoT, Health, Climate Tech, Insuretech, Cyber Security, AI/Machine Learning, Autonomous Technology,Manufacturing.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.3M–$7.8M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.2M–$3.8M |
| Series A | $8M–$23M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 31% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 12% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 12% |
| SaaS | 2 | 8% |

52 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 46% |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 23% |
| Series A | 6 | 23% |
| Series B | 2 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 16 | 62% |
| Estonia | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Annie Le | Director Of Operations | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/annie-le |
| Bogdan Cristei | Investor | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bogdan-cristei |
| Chris Kim | Founder and Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-kim-4 |
| Nathan Williams | Founder and Managing Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nate-williams |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Derapi | Derapi is a universal API for distributed energy resource (DER) devices, including solar, battery storage, EV chargers, smart thermostats, heat pumps, and other behind-the-meter loads. Derapi unlocks the full value of DERs by removing bottlenecks related to data integration, reducing data infrastructure costs and speeding time to market for DERsoftware developers, DER device manufacturers, and others in the DER ecosystem. | $7M | Seed | Feb 03, 2026 |  |
| Raise Robotics | Raise Robotics equips contractors with an extra set of hands. We help our customers build better by ensuring high-quality construction and creating safer job sites. With our machines, it’s easy, safe, and fast to get great results. Let’s build. | $7.8M | Seed | Jul 30, 2025 |  |
| Foundation EGI | The EGI platform from the Foundation is designed to speed up all phases of the product development cycle, from design and research to production and documentation, enabling engineers to create better products more quickly and effectively. | $23M | Series A | Jul 10, 2025 |  |
| Foundation EGI | The EGI platform from the Foundation is designed to speed up all phases of the product development cycle, from design and research to production and documentation, enabling engineers to create better products more quickly and effectively. | $7.6M | Seed | Apr 17, 2025 |  |
| Urban Sky | Urban Sky is developing the first-ever reusable 'micro-sat' version of a near-space balloon, armed with sensors that collect high-value Earth observation data over entire cities, serving a multi-billion dollar imagery market and making daily and weekly aerial imagery collection a cost-effective reality. Leveraging advances in componentminiaturization, first-of-its-kind balloon reusability, and the high vantage point of the stratosphere, the Microballoon drastically reduces the cost of high-resolution remote sensing and weather-related data capture over broad areas, leading to more impactful data over more areas than ever before.With a new wealth of data from the stratosphere - this completely untapped layer of Earth’s atmosphere - we can fundamentally change the collective human understanding of the surface of our planet and urban centers. | $30M | Series B | Feb 06, 2025 |  |
| Butlr | Butlr is an AI people-sensing platform using body heat to detect occupancy, headcount, body posture, and activity, and generate accurate, real-time, and historical spatial insights for healthcare and sustainable buildings. Their sensor technology detects human presence anonymously using low-resolution thermal data and advanced AI and machinelearning. | $38M | Series B | Aug 26, 2024 |  |
| SirenOpt | SirenOpt is accelerating sustainable and smart manufacturing of advanced materials using intelligent characterization and real-time decision-making to drive the creation of innovative, high-performance products that fuel the advancement of society. SirenOpt was founded in 2022 as a spin-out from the UC Berkeley Chemical Engineering Department.SirenOpt is pioneering a paradigm shift in advanced materials characterization by leveraging cold atmospheric plasma, machine learning and predictive analytics to non-destructively create a uniquely distinctive, multifaceted material fingerprint in real-time. SirenOpt transforms measurement blind spots into rich multi-layered material insights, which enable intelligent performance-centric decision-making. SirenOpt thus accelerates R&D and process optimization, enhances product performance, and delivers higher production quality to maximize value in both in-line and off-line applications. SirenOpt’s manufacturing intelligence platform has demonstrated use cases across battery, aerospace, semiconductor, electronic and many other advanced manufacturing segments in both inline production and offline tool deployments. | $6.6M | Seed | Jul 23, 2024 |  |
| Urban Sky | Urban Sky is developing the first-ever reusable 'micro-sat' version of a near-space balloon, armed with sensors that collect high-value Earth observation data over entire cities, serving a multi-billion dollar imagery market and making daily and weekly aerial imagery collection a cost-effective reality. Leveraging advances in componentminiaturization, first-of-its-kind balloon reusability, and the high vantage point of the stratosphere, the Microballoon drastically reduces the cost of high-resolution remote sensing and weather-related data capture over broad areas, leading to more impactful data over more areas than ever before.With a new wealth of data from the stratosphere - this completely untapped layer of Earth’s atmosphere - we can fundamentally change the collective human understanding of the surface of our planet and urban centers. | $9.8M | Series A | Oct 16, 2023 |  |
| Pico MES | Pico MES is a computer software company that offers computer software designed for factory and machinery control. Its driven by its mission is to empower small & mid-sized manufacturers in the United States to take control of their own continuous improvement journey. Using our innovative platform and suite of tools, manufacturers collect andharness the power of data, gaining valuable insights, and taking control of their processes. | $12.4M | Series A | Aug 22, 2023 |  |
| Raise Robotics | Raise Robotics equips contractors with an extra set of hands. We help our customers build better by ensuring high-quality construction and creating safer job sites. With our machines, it’s easy, safe, and fast to get great results. Let’s build. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 24, 2023 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Union Labs Ventures invest in?

Union Labs Ventures invests primarily in Software, Machine Learning and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 26 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 Union Labs Ventures's check size?

Union Labs Ventures typically joins rounds of $3.3M–$7.8M at Seed, $1.2M–$3.8M at Pre-Seed and $8M–$23M 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 Union Labs Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Union Labs Ventures?

Public channels for Union Labs Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Union Labs Ventures?

The team at Union Labs Ventures includes Annie Le (Director Of Operations), Bogdan Cristei (Investor) and Chris Kim (Founder and Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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