# Veenu Aulakh

> Veenu Aulakh is a seed investor at Acumen (San Francisco) backing Health Care and Medical. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Acumen](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acumen-fund)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/veenu-aulakh-5994b
- Website: https://x.com/veenu_a

Veenu Aulakh is a seed investor at Acumen in San Francisco focused on Health Care and Medical. Veenu Aulakh is the former Executive Director at the Center for Care Innovations. Currently, she serves as the Director of Acumen. Veenu attended the University of Michigan.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 2 | 100% |
| Medical | 1 | 50% |
| Women's | 1 | 50% |
| Hospital | 1 | 50% |
| Software | 1 | 50% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Series A | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Malama Health | Malama Health offers holistic support through community-based doulas, covering various services like pregnancy care and postpartum recovery. The company connects community-based doulas, health plans, and clinical systems across Medicaid markets through a unified operating model that standardizes referral processes, data tracking, risk management,and quality assessment. By incorporating remote patient monitoring, chronic disease management, and Doula-Care Navigators, Malama Health assists women from pregnancy through the postpartum period, addressing clinical requirements, social health factors, and long-term disease prevention all in one location. | $6.9M | Seed | Mar 12, 2026 |  |
| Pear Suite | Pear Suite is a digital health company that helps community health workers to address social determinants of health through culturally sensitive care navigation.. The cloud-based platform of Pear Suite enables anyone to better assess and address social determinants of health in a scalable, cost-effective, and person-centered manner. Its platform,unlike other assessment tools, enables anyone to assess and address an individual's social drivers of health through smart scripts, logic modeling, and actionable dashboards. | $7.6M | Series A | Oct 14, 2025 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Capital F](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-f) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Rock Health Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rock-health) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [7BC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/7bc-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alpine Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpine-investors-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [California HealthCare Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/california-healthcare-foundation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Coyote Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coyote-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Acumen

VC Fund · New York, United States

Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people.

5 contacts available at Acumen.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adekemi Ajayi | Regional Director, West Africa | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adekemi-ajayi |
| Carsten Stendevad | President and CIO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carsten-stendevad |
| Veenu Aulakh | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/veenu-aulakh |
| Ajit Mahadevan | Country Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajit-mahadevan |
| Amon Anderson | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amon-anderson |

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## FAQ

### What does Veenu Aulakh invest in?

Veenu Aulakh invests primarily in Health Care, Medical and Women's startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 2 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 Veenu Aulakh last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Veenu Aulakh closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 2 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?

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