# Upside VC

> Upside VC is a VC fund backing SaaS, Content Creators and Artificial Intelligence. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.upsd.vc

Upside VC is a venture capital firm that provides investment services for the creator economy.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 2 | 33% |
| Content Creators | 2 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 33% |
| Social | 1 | 17% |
| FinTech | 1 | 17% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 83% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 33% |
| Ireland | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wonder Studios | Producing world-class original content | $12M | Seed | Oct 23, 2025 |  |
| Pinpoint | Pinpoint automates SMS and email flows within Instagram and TikTok DMs, converting audience interactions into transactions. It collects contact information, sends campaigns, and manages customer engagement at scale. The platform integrates with Shopify, Klaviyo, Attentive, and Postscript for workflow management. | $2.5M | Seed | Oct 09, 2025 |  |
| FanBasis | FanBasis is a digital experience marketplace that enables celebrities, athletes, musicians, and other creators to monetize their brand and build a sustainable revenue stream through customizable storefronts. On our platform, celebrities have the power to sell a wide range of digital experiences, including live experiences, pre-recorded experiences,lessons, social media interactions, sweepstakes, memberships, merchandise, and more. FanBasis offers the largest and most comprehensive monetization toolset on the internet--making the possibilities limitless. We provide personalized support, analytics, and promotional materials to help creators make the most of our platform and efficiently sell their digital experiences. By providing genuine and personal ways for celebrities to interact with their fans, FanBasis helps fans support their favorite creators and have meaningful experiences with them. | $20M | Series A | May 20, 2025 |  |
| Pockla | POCKLA is a London-based content strategy and marketing agency. Powered by our proprietary AI technology, we take an audience-first approach to levelling up organic content and paid ads for social-first brands.Our vision is to help brands market like the world's best content creators. We do that by helping brands find an authentic internetvoice, and engage on topics that actually matter to their audience.POCKLA acts as an extension of your team. Combining the expertise of world class content strategists, paid media and organic experts, designers, technology and growth specialists. Find out how we can help your business today. | $2.1M | Seed | Mar 31, 2025 |  |
| Ceartas DMCA | The world's most advanced copyright protection service for content creators! With Ceartas DMCA, you can easily monitor your content and manage your rights-lines. Our proprietary technology keeps you safe from copyright infringement, protecting you and the value of your creations with lightning-quick takedowns at a price to suit every need. | $4.5M | Seed | Apr 30, 2024 |  |
| Benbase | Benbase delivers modern employee benefits by combining AI-driven agents with human brokerage services to simplify insurance for startups and mid‑sized companies. Their platform streamlines selection, enrollment, and administration of health, life, and lifestyle benefits, ensuring personalization and compliance across markets. The company isredefining benefits as more than just coverage, but as a seamless start-to-finish experience. | $5.3M | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Adobe Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adobe-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Atomico](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atomico) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blackbird Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackbird-ventures-australia) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bulletpitch](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bulletpitch-1ed4) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Connexa Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/connexa-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Upside VC invest in?

Upside VC invests primarily in SaaS, Content Creators and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Upside VC last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Upside VC closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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