# UpHonest Capital

> UpHonest Capital is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 272 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 272
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 4%
- Fund size: $43k
- Last fund: Mar 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/uphonest-capital/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/uphonestcapital
- Website: https://www.uphonestcapital.com/

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.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for UpHonest Capital. Shizune tracks 5 team members at UpHonest Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/uphonest-capital?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $700k–$10M |
| Pre-Seed | $500k–$7M |
| Series A | $3.8M–$24M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 37 | 14% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 25 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 22 | 8% |
| Health Care | 18 | 7% |
| Internet | 17 | 6% |

228 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 115 | 42% |
| Series A | 25 | 9% |
| Pre-Seed | 24 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 11 | 4% |
| Angel | 9 | 3% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 139 | 51% |
| China | 9 | 3% |
| Singapore | 5 | 2% |
| Canada | 2 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chunyang Shen | Scout | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chunyang-shen-ee36 |
| Ellen Ma | Managing Director | 38 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ellen-ma |
| Teddy Chen | Chief of Staff | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/teddy-chen |
| Wei Guo | Founding Partner | 155 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wei-guo-2 |
| Yiren Du | Venture Scout | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yiren-du |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 | ATDev provides assistive technology and medical device solutions. | $3M | Seed | Oct 16, 2025 |  |
| Cookiy AI | 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 |  |
| M.AI Unbound | AI Agent built for Marketing to automate Marketer's workflows and maximize ROI. | $25M | Seed | Sep 30, 2025 |  |
| M.AI Unbound | AI Agent built for Marketing to automate Marketer's workflows and maximize ROI. | $25M | Seed | Sep 30, 2025 |  |
| ChatSlide | Create slides with words, PDF, and Youtube videos | $1M | Pre-Seed | Sep 06, 2025 |  |

10 of 272 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 62 deals together
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 18 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 16 deals together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Liquid 2 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liquid2-ventures) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Amino Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zpark-venture) — VC Fund, 9 deals together

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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?

Public channels for UpHonest 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 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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