UpHonest Capital
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
UpHonest Capital is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. UpHonest Capital directs its investment activities toward sectors including consumer technology, enterprise software, deep technology, and artificial intelligence. Beyond providing capital, the firm maintains an ecosystem that incorporates media outreach, community building, and incubation programs for entrepreneurs and professionals. It provides support to ventures that operate within areas such as clean energy, agricultural technology, and various digital platforms.
- Total investments:
- 399
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 3%
- Fund size:
- $43k
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries UpHonest Capital invests in
Stages UpHonest Capital invests in
Countries UpHonest Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $600k–$10M
- Pre-Seed
- $500k–$5M
- Series A
- $5M–$31M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 68 (17%)
- Artificial Intelligence 58 (15%)
- Information Technology 38 (10%)
- Internet 30 (8%)
- Health Care 29 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 218 (55%)
- Pre-Seed 49 (12%)
- Series A 39 (10%)
- Angel 20 (5%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 9 (2%)
Country
- United States 259 (65%)
- China 15 (4%)
- Singapore 8 (2%)
- Canada 4 (1%)
- United Kingdom 3 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Chunyang Shen
Scout
|
Scout | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ellen Ma
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 40 | Find email | |
Teddy Chen
Chief of Staff
|
Chief of Staff | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Wei Guo
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 184 | Find email | |
|
Yiren Du
Venture Scout
|
Venture Scout | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT for your business made simple. AI Virtual Agent trained using your website and data. Set up in 10 clicks, engage customers 24/7 | $2.3M / Seed / Sep 15, 2026 | ||
| Palona AI offers a range of artificial intelligence technologies that boost D2C growth. | $20M / Series A / Aug 17, 2026 | ||
| MainFunc is a technology company building AI‑driven productivity tools, with a focus on enabling users, including knowledge workers and teams, to get real work done via autonomous AI agents. The company’s flagship product is Genspark, an AI workspace that automates tasks by collecting information from web searches, emails, meetings, and calls,processing it through a “Super Agent” that orchestrates many specialized AI sub‑agents, and generating outputs like full reports, slide decks, spreadsheets, or even prototype applications.In addition to productivity automation, MainFunc markets Genspark as an enhanced search and research tool: when users query the web, Genspark generates consolidated, bias‑reduced summaries using multiple underlying large‑language or multimodal models rather than relying on traditional keyword‑based ranking. | $100M / Series B / Jun 11, 2026 | ||
| Orbital is a startup that is creating artificial intelligence data centers for deployment in low-Earth orbit to circumvent terrestrial power and cooling limits. The company specializes in satellite-based compute for AI inference workloads, utilizing continuous solar power and space's inherent radiative cooling. | $5M / Pre-Seed / Jun 09, 2026 | ||
| AEON is a crypto payment framework designed for AI-driven and real-world transactions. It supports omni-chain payments across ecosystems like EVM, SVM, and TON, enabling seamless cross-chain usage. Its solutions include AI-powered payments, Web3 online and mobile payments, QR/contactless acceptance, and swap pay, all designed to simplifyadoption for users and merchants. | $8M / Pre-Seed / May 18, 2026 | ||
| Proximitty offers software to build and manage browser and voice AI agents that collect and service loans across channels. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Mar 24, 2026 | ||
| MainFunc is a technology company building AI‑driven productivity tools, with a focus on enabling users, including knowledge workers and teams, to get real work done via autonomous AI agents. The company’s flagship product is Genspark, an AI workspace that automates tasks by collecting information from web searches, emails, meetings, and calls,processing it through a “Super Agent” that orchestrates many specialized AI sub‑agents, and generating outputs like full reports, slide decks, spreadsheets, or even prototype applications.In addition to productivity automation, MainFunc markets Genspark as an enhanced search and research tool: when users query the web, Genspark generates consolidated, bias‑reduced summaries using multiple underlying large‑language or multimodal models rather than relying on traditional keyword‑based ranking. | $300M / Series B / Jan 29, 2026 | ||
| ATDev provides assistive technology and medical device solutions. | $3M / Seed / Oct 16, 2025 | ||
| Cookiy AI is an Agentic Voice AI that aims to bring customer voices back in the heart of commercial decision-making. Cookiy enables teams to work quicker, decrease risk, and create solutions that customers genuinely want. | $7M / Pre-Seed / Oct 06, 2025 | ||
| AI Agent built for Marketing to automate Marketer's workflows and maximize ROI. | $25M / Seed / Sep 30, 2025 | ||
| See all 399 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does UpHonest Capital invest in?
UpHonest Capital invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 399 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does UpHonest Capital invest in?
UpHonest Capital typically joins rounds of $600k–$10M at Seed, $500k–$5M at Pre-Seed and $5M–$31M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not UpHonest Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds UpHonest Capital took part in.
How do I contact UpHonest Capital?
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Who are the partners at UpHonest Capital?
The team at UpHonest Capital includes Chunyang Shen (Scout), Ellen Ma (Managing Director) and Teddy Chen (Chief of Staff). 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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