# Unreasonable Capital

> Unreasonable Capital is a VC fund in Boulder backing Education and Solar. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boulder, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Mar 2021
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unreasonable-capital
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/beunreasonable
- Website: http://unreasonablecapital.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unreasonable

Unreasonable Capital is a VC fund in Boulder focused on Education and Solar. believes that entrepreneurs building rapidly scalable businesses are their best bet for solving significant social and environmental challenges. They partner with world-class entrepreneurs positioned to bend history in the right direction.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $650k–$1.7M |
| Series A | $2.6M–$4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 3 | 30% |
| Solar | 1 | 10% |
| AgTech | 1 | 10% |
| Credit | 1 | 10% |
| EdTech | 1 | 10% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 30% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 30% |
| Seed | 2 | 20% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 10% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 1 | 10% |
| Kenya | 1 | 10% |
| Canada | 1 | 10% |
| Colombia | 1 | 10% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 10% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ashok Reddy | founder | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashok-reddy-5 |
| Daniel Epstein | Founder and CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-epstein |
| David Friedersdorf | Investor/Mentor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-friedersdorf |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Classcraft | Classcraft is an online educational RPG game. It helps teachers manage their classes and make lessons more engaging. The game is available for Android, iOS, OS X, Chrome, and Windows platforms. It was founded by Lauren Young, Devin Young, Shawn Young, and Devin Young. | $3.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 26, 2021 |  |
| Aflore | Aflore is a financial services company empowering the un-banked of Colombia (65% of the population) to achieve financial goals. Aflore identifies and partners with trusted financial advisors within communities and mobilizes them with support and tools to distribute loans and financial products within their networks. The company was founded in2012 and is headquartered in Bogota, Colombia. | $6.5M |  | Feb 05, 2021 |  |
| Aflore | Aflore is a financial services company empowering the un-banked of Colombia (65% of the population) to achieve financial goals. Aflore identifies and partners with trusted financial advisors within communities and mobilizes them with support and tools to distribute loans and financial products within their networks. The company was founded in2012 and is headquartered in Bogota, Colombia. | $6.5M | Debt Financing | Feb 05, 2021 |  |
| Stones2Milestones | Stones2milestones is on a mission to ‘Create a Nation of Readers’, gifting children the will and skill to read in English.- Freadom is a parent app designed for children aged 3 to 9 to learn to read in English - it provides busy parents with a ready, carefully curated collection of stories, language honing activities, monthly readingcompetitions, and daily positive news matched to their kids’ reading levels.- Built on 7.5 years of primary and secondary research, it first locates the users reading level and then navigates them to the desired level, basis a proprietary reading scale developed by Stones2Milestones. The aim is to encourage family bonding over time spent reading together from an early age, which studies have found to be the most effective way of nurturing a lifelong reading habit.- We use an AI-ready recommendation engine to match users to the most relevant content. Detailed data collection allows us to share regular traction reports for all content on Freadom and customise content for users.- The organisation is in research partnership for impact evaluation with the Human-Centred AI division at Stanford University (Prof. Susan Athey) and IIM Calcutta (Prof. Aditi Bhutoria).- Freadom goes out to parents of 1,00,000 children.- Content partners associated with Freadom include leading book publishers like Harper Collins, Penguin Random House, Champak, Worldreader.- Freadom was featured on Apple App Store as 'Apps we Love', won first prize at GMC Calibrator for EdTech startups in December 2018, was awarded Best Startup-Innovation by CL Educate in January 2019. | $30K |  | Nov 04, 2020 |  |
| Soko | SOKO is a manufacturing platform built using mobile technology to connect independent, distributed artisans to the global marketplace. Its technology suite and mobile app organize over 2300 independent, artisans throughout Kenya to manufacture their jewelry. It has created an efficient and demand-responsive virtual factory. Millenials and Gen Zconsumers are constantly looking for brands that align with their values and are opting for brands that adopt sustained and measurable social impact. Its business model and BCorp certification validate and distinguish us from our competition. Its model also provides economic opportunity and financial inclusion for marginalized artisans who are now earning 4.8X more than an average Kenyan workshop. So, unlike centralized factory production, they are using technology to empower human capital, not displace it. | $2.6M | Series A | Apr 19, 2019 |  |
| BuffaloGrid | BuffaloGrid is a multi award-winning company with a mission to bring power and connect the next billion, helping frontier market smartphone users to use their phones more often and for more. We serve the billions of overlooked customers who with access to mobile digital services could improve their quality of life and business activities. | $1.7M | Seed | Dec 12, 2018 |  |
| eFishery | eFishery is an internet of things startup for fish/shrimp farming. The company builds technology solutions from smart feeding, cloud-based dashboard, and data platform to help the fish/shrimp farmers to grow their business sustainably. eFishery is trying to solve the biggest problem from one of the most crucial and fastest-growingindustries in the world: aquaculture. | $4M | Series A | Nov 13, 2018 |  |
| Stones2Milestones | Stones2milestones is on a mission to ‘Create a Nation of Readers’, gifting children the will and skill to read in English.- Freadom is a parent app designed for children aged 3 to 9 to learn to read in English - it provides busy parents with a ready, carefully curated collection of stories, language honing activities, monthly readingcompetitions, and daily positive news matched to their kids’ reading levels.- Built on 7.5 years of primary and secondary research, it first locates the users reading level and then navigates them to the desired level, basis a proprietary reading scale developed by Stones2Milestones. The aim is to encourage family bonding over time spent reading together from an early age, which studies have found to be the most effective way of nurturing a lifelong reading habit.- We use an AI-ready recommendation engine to match users to the most relevant content. Detailed data collection allows us to share regular traction reports for all content on Freadom and customise content for users.- The organisation is in research partnership for impact evaluation with the Human-Centred AI division at Stanford University (Prof. Susan Athey) and IIM Calcutta (Prof. Aditi Bhutoria).- Freadom goes out to parents of 1,00,000 children.- Content partners associated with Freadom include leading book publishers like Harper Collins, Penguin Random House, Champak, Worldreader.- Freadom was featured on Apple App Store as 'Apps we Love', won first prize at GMC Calibrator for EdTech startups in December 2018, was awarded Best Startup-Innovation by CL Educate in January 2019. | $650K | Seed | Jul 06, 2018 |  |
| Eneza Education | Eneza Education, a.k.a. MPrep, was founded in 2011 by Kenyan teachers and educators serious about making technology useful for their students. From the rural areas of Nyanza to Wajir Town and the Mombasa Coast, Kenyan teachers united to create the content of our initial Class 7 and Class 8 study tool. We wanted a tool that combined the best ofgreat teaching practices: scaffolded assessments, direct feedback, and high engagement. And we wanted to make sure ALL kids had access to our system. What better way to start than with a simple SMS-based system? | $3M | Series A | Mar 01, 2018 |  |
| Soko | SOKO is a manufacturing platform built using mobile technology to connect independent, distributed artisans to the global marketplace. Its technology suite and mobile app organize over 2300 independent, artisans throughout Kenya to manufacture their jewelry. It has created an efficient and demand-responsive virtual factory. Millenials and Gen Zconsumers are constantly looking for brands that align with their values and are opting for brands that adopt sustained and measurable social impact. Its business model and BCorp certification validate and distinguish us from our competition. Its model also provides economic opportunity and financial inclusion for marginalized artisans who are now earning 4.8X more than an average Kenyan workshop. So, unlike centralized factory production, they are using technology to empower human capital, not displace it. | $1.3M |  | Oct 28, 2016 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Unreasonable Capital invest in?

Unreasonable Capital invests primarily in Education, Solar and AgTech startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Unreasonable Capital's check size?

Unreasonable Capital typically joins rounds of $650k–$1.7M at Seed and $2.6M–$4M 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 Unreasonable Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Unreasonable Capital?

Public channels for Unreasonable Capital 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 Unreasonable Capital?

The team at Unreasonable Capital includes Ashok Reddy (founder), Daniel Epstein (Founder and CEO) and David Friedersdorf (Investor/Mentor). 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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