# Unlock Venture Partners

> Unlock Venture Partners is a VC fund backing Software. See 96 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 96
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 16%
- Fund size: $60M
- Last fund: Jan 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unlock-venture-partners/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/unlockvp/
- Website: https://unlockvp.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unlockvp

Unlock Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in seed-stage tech entrepreneurs. The firm was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $750k–$6.5M |
| Series A | $9M–$40M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 18 | 19% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 6% |
| SaaS | 5 | 5% |
| Mobile | 4 | 4% |
| FinTech | 4 | 4% |

95 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 33 | 34% |
| Funding Round | 12 | 13% |
| Series A | 8 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 7% |
| Series B | 5 | 5% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 35 | 36% |
| Mexico | 1 | 1% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andy Liu | Co-founding Partner | 21 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-liu |
| Sanjay Reddy | Co-founding partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sanjay-reddy |
| Jason Seleno | Limited Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-seleno |
| Matthew McRae | Limited Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthew-mcrae |
| Raazi Imam | Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/raazi-imam |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sophia Space | Sophia Space is a space-tech startup building an orbital computing infrastructure. | $10.4M | Seed | Jan 09, 2026 |  |
| Sophia Space | Sophia Space is a space-tech startup building an orbital computing infrastructure. | $3.5M | Pre-Seed | May 19, 2025 |  |
| SEASALT.AI | SEASALT.AI provides holistic AI solutions to enterprise customers. | $4.2M | Seed | Nov 18, 2024 |  |
| Picnic | Picnic is an innovator of food production technology and robotics solutions. Picnic has collected an experienced team of food and technology industry veterans to develop and provide specialized intelligent technology and exclusive solutions for the food service and hospitality industries. Picnic's Pizza Production System is the firstautomated pizza system designed for commercial kitchen retrofit or new installations, producing hundreds of custom pizzas per hour with chef-chosen ingredients and recipes. | $5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 29, 2024 |  |
| Enzzo | Enzzo is an AI-powered platform that aims to expedite and streamline the creation of innovative hardware products, from requirement generation to risk mitigation and seamless collaboration. | $3M | Seed | Mar 05, 2024 |  |
| Hyphen AI, Inc | Built by developers, for developers, Hyphen automates access management and connects your team with the services and cloud resources they need to ship great software. | $5M | Seed | Mar 01, 2024 |  |
| Augie Studio | Aug X Labs is an AI-based “prompt to video” technology and publishing startup focused on helping creators bring relevant and compelling visuals into their video stories. Our primary focus is to build tools for creators that help democratize video creation by transforming anyone’s words or thoughts into dynamic, engaging, and relevant video contentin mere minutes. We are a company intent on making technology easier for creators, allowing them to focus on having fun while engaging with their communities. | $3.1M | Seed | Sep 27, 2023 |  |
| Auriga Space | Next-generation space launch company providing frequent, sustainable and affordable transport to low Earth orbit |  | Seed | Aug 03, 2023 |  |
| Auriga Space | Next-generation space launch company providing frequent, sustainable and affordable transport to low Earth orbit | $5M | Pre-Seed | Aug 03, 2023 |  |
| Continuum Space Systems | Continuum Space Systems specializes in enabling the sequencing of every mission stage from ideation to design to operations. Its module-based Continuum platform empowers all stakeholders to collaboratively achieve their space needs and objectives. | $3M | Seed | Jun 22, 2023 |  |

10 of 96 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Canvas Prime](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canvas-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Unlock Venture Partners invest in?

Unlock Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 96 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 Unlock Venture Partners's check size?

Unlock Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $750k–$6.5M at Seed and $9M–$40M 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 Unlock Venture Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Unlock Venture Partners?

Public channels for Unlock Venture Partners 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 Unlock Venture Partners?

The team at Unlock Venture Partners includes Andy Liu (Co-founding Partner), Sanjay Reddy (Co-founding partner) and Jason Seleno (Limited Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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