Better Ventures Central LLC
better.vc Direct investor
Better Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 that invests in early-stage technology companies addressing sustainability, health, and workforce challenges. It focuses on pre-seed and seed investments in B2B solutions leveraging AI, software, biology, and materials science.
Better Ventures Central LLC is a venture capital firm headquartered in Oakland, United States, founded in 2011. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in sustainable Industry, human Health and Tomorrow's Workforce. Its stated cheque size is $500k to $1M. $108M under management and 87 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We back founders on a mission to build a better world.”
— Better Ventures Central LLC, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Oakland, United States
- Invests in
- US
- Sectors
- Sustainable Industry, Human Health, Tomorrow's Workforce
- Cheque size
- $500k to $1M
- Founded
- 2011
- Assets under management
- $108M
- Portfolio
- 87 companies
Team, as Better Ventures Central LLC publishes it
- Wes Selke Founding Partner
- Rick Moss Founding Partner
- Lyndsey Boucherle Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on better.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 59 co-investors found.
- iSelect Fund Management, LLC 3 shared companies: one.bio, plutonbio.com, pow.bio
- Leaps by Bayer 2 shared companies: one.bio, nucicer.com
- Siddhi Capital 2 shared companies: one.bio, zya.co
- Illumina Ventures 2 shared companies: nucicer.com, plutonbio.com
- Lever VC 2 shared companies: nucicer.com, missionbarns.com
- Mudcake 2 shared companies: nucicer.com, missionbarns.com
- KdT Ventures 2 shared companies: debutbiotech.com, cyprismaterials.com
- Newfund 1 shared company: agathos.io
- Acre Venture Partners 1 shared company: one.bio
- Collaborative Fund 1 shared company: one.bio
and 49 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Better Ventures Central LLC publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.better.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, aum, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://www.better.vc/abouthq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, people
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