UpHonest Capital
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
UpHonest Capital is an early-stage, industry-agnostic venture capital firm that partners with companies from pre-seed stage to Series A. The firm invests in entrepreneurs and early-stage startups and then uses its resources to boost value creation through disruptive means.
- Total investments:
- 272
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 4%
- 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
- $700k–$10M
- Pre-Seed
- $500k–$7M
- Series A
- $3.8M–$24M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 37 (14%)
- Artificial Intelligence 25 (9%)
- Information Technology 22 (8%)
- Health Care 18 (7%)
- Internet 17 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 115 (42%)
- Series A 25 (9%)
- Pre-Seed 24 (9%)
- Funding Round 11 (4%)
- Angel 9 (3%)
Country
- United States 139 (51%)
- China 9 (3%)
- Singapore 5 (2%)
- Canada 2 (1%)
- United Kingdom 2 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Chunyang Shen
Scout
|
Scout | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ellen Ma
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 38 | Find email | |
Teddy Chen
Chief of Staff
|
Chief of Staff | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Wei Guo
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 155 | Find email | |
|
Yiren Du
Venture Scout
|
Venture Scout | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
MainFunc
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
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ATDev provides assistive technology and medical device solutions. | $3M / Seed / Oct 16, 2025 | |
Cookiy AI
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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 | |
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M.AI Unbound
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AI Agent built for Marketing to automate Marketer's workflows and maximize ROI. | $25M / Seed / Sep 30, 2025 | |
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M.AI Unbound
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AI Agent built for Marketing to automate Marketer's workflows and maximize ROI. | $25M / Seed / Sep 30, 2025 | |
ChatSlide
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Create slides with words, PDF, and Youtube videos | $1M / Pre-Seed / Sep 06, 2025 | |
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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 Series A stage. Most of the 272 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 UpHonest Capital's check size?
UpHonest Capital typically joins rounds of $700k–$10M at Seed, $500k–$7M at Pre-Seed and $3.8M–$24M 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 UpHonest Capital participates 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 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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