Ulu Ventures

Palantir builds platforms for integrating, managing, and securing data, enabling human-driven analysis of real-world data. Their products are designed to empower users to ask complex questions without needing advanced technical skills.

SoFi is a leader in marketplace lending and investing, offering a range of financial products including loans, investing options, banking services, and insurance.

Figure is an AI Robotics company building the world's first commercially viable autonomous humanoid robot.

Guild offers education benefits and skilling programs to develop talent. It partners with companies like PepsiCo and Disney for tuition-free learning.

Vytala is a FoodTech company dedicated to advancing nutrition through innovative solutions, particularly focusing on gastrointestinal health by addressing nutrient deficiencies and enhancing fat absorption.

Pando is a financial ecosystem designed for high-potential founders, enabling income pooling and liquidity products to help them realize their potential and diversify risk.

MiSalud is on a mission to make healthcare accessible and affordable for all by removing barriers through innovation, compassion, and collaboration. They blend clinical insights with technical creativity to address complex healthcare challenges.

TrueMeter is an AI-driven energy management platform that helps multi-site operators reduce their utility bills by automatically auditing, optimizing, and consolidating energy expenses without requiring any upfront investment.

Seven Starling provides specialized mental health care designed for women's motherhood journey, offering personalized therapy, group support, and expert medical evaluations, all covered by insurance.

Labra provides a zero-engineering solution for cloud marketplace listings, enabling companies to go to market quickly and efficiently. They automate co-selling processes and integrate with existing CRM systems to enhance sales efficiency.

Founded by Arlan Hamilton while homeless with no finance or tech background, Backstage Capital requires at least one founder to be a woman, person of color, or LGBTQ. The fund treats capital allocation as activism and argues that 'underestimated' founders are systematically mispriced assets that create alpha rather than requiring concessionary returns.

Built on a national community of Black technologists and an integrated nonprofit-for-profit talent pipeline, providing structural access to Black operators and focusing on overlooked founders outside Silicon Valley. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, deliberately positioning the city as a national hub for Black venture capital while funding Black founders and developing Black venture capitalists as a talent factory for the next generation.

Views underfunding of women and founders of color as a pricing inefficiency, sourcing deals via Serena Williams' sports, entertainment and communities-of-color networks while leveraging 15+ years of experience and brand.

RareBreed Ventures focuses on pre-seed founders outside of large tech ecosystems like SF and NYC, particularly backing first-time, under-networked entrepreneurs from Black and Brown communities who don't fit typical Silicon Valley pedigrees. The fund was built through founder Mac Conwell's Twitter presence rather than traditional institutional networks, and operates with unusual transparency by publicly sharing fundraising tactics and term sheet learnings to help overlooked founders access capital. They invest in CPG/D2C, Ecommerce, SaaS, Web3/Crypto, and Health sectors.

Focuses on ambitious female founders who show the X Factor: the insight and drive to build the next billion-dollar company.