Obvious Ventures
obvious.com Direct investor
Obvious Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in companies addressing planetary health, human health, and economic health. It was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco.
Obvious Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, United States, founded in 2014. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in planetary health, human health and economic health.
“We back exceptional founders tackling the world’s biggest problems across planetary health, human health, and economic health.”
— Obvious Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Sectors
- planetary health, human health, economic health
- Founded
- 2014
Team, as Obvious Ventures publishes it
- James Joaquin Co-Founder & Managing Director
- Vishal Vasishth Co-Founder & Managing Director
- Andrew Beebe Managing Director
- Kahini Shah Partner
- Rohan Ganesh Partner
- Mo Islam Partner
- Ev Williams Co-Founder
- Jack Rothacher Chief Financial Officer
- Sarah Beresford Head of Investor Relations
- Sarah Whitesell Finance Manager
- Amanda Denney Marketing Director
- Joycelyn Feng Finance Senior Associate
Names and roles exactly as listed on obvious.com. 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. 189 co-investors found.
- Bling Capital 2 shared companies: airtable.com, gusto.com
- Collide Capital 2 shared companies: airtable.com, fundpanel.io
- CRV 2 shared companies: airtable.com, dynotx.com
- Designer Fund 2 shared companies: airtable.com, gusto.com
- Friends & Family Capital Management, LLC 2 shared companies: airtable.com, gusto.com
- Iconiq Capital 2 shared companies: airtable.com, devoted.com
- Summit Peak Investments, LLC 2 shared companies: airtable.com, fundpanel.io
- Bonfire Ventures 2 shared companies: fundpanel.io, gusto.com
- Congruent Ventures 2 shared companies: fundpanel.io, amplypower.com
- Tierra Adentro Growth Capital 2 shared companies: fundpanel.io, zanskar.com
and 179 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Obvious Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://obvious.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, description, founded, status
- https://obvious.com/ideas/introducing-the-obvious-360-fund/stage_min, stage_max
- https://obvious.com/about/sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
- https://obvious.com/team/people
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Record 1316 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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