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UP2398, VC Fund

UP2398

VC Fund

Redwood City, United States

UP2398 is a VC fund in Redwood City focused on Software and SaaS. UP2398 invests in and serves pre-Series A companies. UP2398 was founded by Pierre Omidyar, Alex Poon and Randy Ching. It is based in Redwood City, California.

Total investments:
39
Last investment:
Lead investor:
13%

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Industries UP2398 invests in

SoftwareSaaSInternetMachine LearningArtificial Intelligence

Stages UP2398 invests in

SeedSeries AFunding RoundSeries BPre-Seed

Countries UP2398 invests in

United StatesGermanyRomania

Contacts

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Alex Poon Alex Poon
Randy Ching Randy Ching

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Investment Focus

Industry

  • Software 7 (18%)
  • SaaS 5 (13%)
  • Internet 4 (10%)
  • Machine Learning 4 (10%)
  • Artificial Intelligence 4 (10%)
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Stage

  • Seed 19 (49%)
  • Series A 8 (21%)
  • Funding Round 4 (10%)
  • Series B 2 (5%)
  • Pre-Seed 1 (3%)
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Country

  • United States 24 (62%)
  • Germany 1 (3%)
  • Romania 1 (3%)

Team

NameTitleInvestmentsLinksEmail
Alex Poon
Alex Poon Co-founder and General Partner
Co-founder and General Partner Total investments: 3
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Randy Ching
Randy Ching Co-Founder
Co-Founder Total investments: 2
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Investments

CompanyDescriptionRoundLinks
Standard Fleet Standard Fleet
Software for electric vehicle owners $13M / Series A / Sep 10, 2025
Deep Sentinel Deep Sentinel
Founded by serial entrepreneur David Selinger, Deep Sentinel is betting that its emphasis on user experience can provide needed differentiation in the crowded space. The company is producing a series of cameras powered by deep learning that can evaluate threats on a property. This is the same technology that automakers are using for self-drivingcars and companies like Facebook use to identify people and objects within your photos. The system is designed to consume video streams and other contextual information to analyze threats facing a home. $15M / Series B / Jun 03, 2025
Rad AI Rad AI
Rad AI develops an artificial intelligence automated report generation platform to automate repetitive tasks for radiologists. Its platform integrates with existing workflow, automating repetitive tasks, and enabling radiologists to improve radiology workflow that maximizes efficiency and accuracy while reducing burnout for radiologists andimproving patient care. $60M / Series C / Jan 25, 2025
Standard Fleet Standard Fleet
Software for electric vehicle owners $7M / Seed / Jun 14, 2023
Deep Sentinel Deep Sentinel
Founded by serial entrepreneur David Selinger, Deep Sentinel is betting that its emphasis on user experience can provide needed differentiation in the crowded space. The company is producing a series of cameras powered by deep learning that can evaluate threats on a property. This is the same technology that automakers are using for self-drivingcars and companies like Facebook use to identify people and objects within your photos. The system is designed to consume video streams and other contextual information to analyze threats facing a home. $15M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 31, 2023
Grips Intelligence Grips Intelligence
Grips Intelligence is an e-commerce market research platform that provides the insights necessary for manufacturers, retailers, and investors to identify growth opportunities. Thousands of businesses around the world rely on Grips Intelligence's transactional intelligence data to optimize their online sales performance and unlock their fullpotential. $12M / Series A / Oct 25, 2022
MakerDojo MakerDojo
MakerDojo is a data analytics platform that helps answer users blockchain questions by allowing them to ask in simple English. Our AI engine will query the corresponding data sets and present the data in an easy to understand format. Build and share dashboards on top of these questions. Also track tokens and dApps using our pre-built dashboards $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Oct 11, 2022
Convex Convex
Convex is a trusted provider of powerful, unique, and data-rich software designed by and for the commercial services industry. Unlike spreadsheets and generic solutions, we leverage a powerful combination of geographic data and easy-to-use software that digitally transforms organizations into efficient, winning teams.Our product, Atlas, providesrich data on virtually every commercial property in North America along with pipeline management tools to help commercial services companies find and win new business. Whether it’s a sales representative trying to identify new opportunities in an area, a manager looking to increase rep productivity, or an executive expanding into a competitive market—Atlas is purpose-built to help exceed sales targets in record time.Convex was founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. $39M / Series B / Oct 12, 2021
Slapdash Slapdash
Slapdash is a re-imagining of how we work with cloud applications with a focus on speed. Use the Slapdash Command Bar (kind of like Spotlight) to achieve day-to-day work tasks (find a document, join a meeting, create a lead, find out who's who) order of magnitudes faster. $3.7M / Seed / Mar 18, 2021
Rad AI Rad AI
Rad AI develops an artificial intelligence automated report generation platform to automate repetitive tasks for radiologists. Its platform integrates with existing workflow, automating repetitive tasks, and enabling radiologists to improve radiology workflow that maximizes efficiency and accuracy while reducing burnout for radiologists andimproving patient care. $8M / Seed / Aug 20, 2020
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