# Worklife

> Worklife is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 62 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 62
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 6%
- Fund size: $5M
- Last fund: Sep 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/work-life-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/briannekimmel
- Website: https://www.worklife.vc/

Worklife is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. Worklife Ventures is the first venture capital firm designed for the new era of builders, creators, and individual contributors. At the forefront of Worklife’s narrative is the idea that the future of work will be the end of traditional jobs and anyone can start their own business or creative empire from anywhere.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 22 | 35% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 11% |
| FinTech | 6 | 10% |
| Developer Tools | 6 | 10% |
| Analytics | 5 | 8% |

89 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 33 | 53% |
| Series A | 16 | 26% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 3% |
| Series B | 2 | 3% |
| Series C | 1 | 2% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 47 | 76% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brianne Kimmel | Founder | 35 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brianne-kimmel |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| General Counsel AI | General Counsel AI is web-based legal AI copilot for in-house counsel | $1.6M | Seed | Sep 16, 2024 |  |
| Knock | Knock helps product and engineering teams send notifications to their customers. | $12M | Series A | Feb 15, 2024 |  |
| Alinea | Alinea is a mobile investing platform that enables users to invest in stocks and exchange-traded funds. The platform allows users to create curated playlists of investments, offering a structured way to diversify portfolios based on interests and themes. Alinea provides tools to automate investing through recurring contributions and supports usersin making financial decisions by presenting relevant insights. The platform also includes a social component, where users can view and share investment strategies with peers. Alinea targets individuals seeking a simplified approach to personal finance and investing. The app is designed for those looking to start investing without requiring advanced financial knowledge. Alinea operates as a self-directed investment service with an emphasis on thematic and goal-based investing. | $3.4M | Seed | Jan 25, 2024 |  |
| Shimmer | Shimmer provides a platform for 1:1 remote ADHD coaching. Our platform matches users to an ADHD coach who helps guide them towards identifying and meeting goals, maintaining a positive approach to change, and improving productivity while providing a source of accountability. | $2.2M | Seed | Jan 10, 2024 |  |
| TextQL | TextQL is a platform that simplifies the data-to-insight process for organizations. The platform indexes BI tools and semantic layers, documents data in dbt, and uses OpenAI and language models to provide self-serve power analytics. With TextQL, non-technical users can easily and quickly work with data by asking questions in their work context(Slack/Teams/email) and getting automated answers quickly and safely. The platform also leverages NLP and semantic layers, including the dbt Labs semantic layer, to ensure reasonable solutions. TextQL's elegant handoffs to human analysts, when required, dramatically simplify the whole question-to-answer process with AI. | $4.1M | Seed | Dec 12, 2023 |  |
| Codédex | Codédex is a brand new way to learn to code for Gen Z. Journey through the fantasy land of Python, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, earn XP to unlock new regions, and collect all the badges at your own pace. | $750K | Pre-Seed | Nov 14, 2023 |  |
| Cromatic | Cromatic is building software to help life-sciences companies outsource R&D. With Cromatic, outsourcing is easier than ever, allowing clients to concentrate on the science. Cromatic enables scientists to launch and scale ventures in the life sciences without the need for a physical lab. Cromatic helps scientist entrepreneurs focus on science bymaking R&D more efficient than ever. | $5.3M | Seed | Nov 09, 2023 |  |
| BuildShip | BuildShip enables organizations to quickly build powerful AI-enabled workflows and automation. The platform's intuitive visual and low-code interface allows users to create APIs, schedule jobs, handle backend tasks, and build ETL data pipelines. It seamlessly connects AI models, databases, and tools in your stack, facilitating rapid innovationby combining the ease of no-code with AI-powered coding. | $3M | Seed | Nov 01, 2023 |  |
| Highlight | Highlight develops a platform for debugging apps and gives full transparency into the errors, interactions, and performance metrics. They believe that by giving people the best tools to solve customer and engineering issues, they can spend more time building their business, and less time searching through logs, manually trying to reproduce errors,and investing too early in their support processes. | $8M | Seed | Aug 15, 2023 |  |
| AudiencePlus | AudiencePlus is pioneering the industry's first owned media software for marketers, enabling companies to build, engage, and monetize an owned audience. We believe that every company is becoming a media company, and are creating software, content, and community to help. | $5.4M | Seed | May 11, 2023 |  |

10 of 62 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Craft Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craft-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Soma Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soma-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [BoxGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxgroup) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Gradient](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gradient-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Worklife invest in?

Worklife invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 62 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Worklife?

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### Who are the partners at Worklife?

The team at Worklife includes Brianne Kimmel (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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