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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 59 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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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Record 4030 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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