Seed Stage Investing
Seed Stage Investing 101
What makes Ulu Ventures excited about investing in a startup? Managing Director Clint Korver talks about the essentials founders need before Ulu makes the decision to invest.
Compelling Customer Insight
Of the things that get me excited about a seed stage company, first would […]
Ulupreneurs in the News: June 2021
June was a banner month for Ulu portfolio companies. Two debuted on Wall Street and another raised $150M tripling its worth to a $3.8B valuation! SoFi CNBC featured a piece [...]
Changing Access to Capital
https://vimeo.com/565268251 Ulu Ventures changes access to capital by following multiple strategies. We invest in diverse founding teams ourselves. We've built a methodology to help us do that by reducing [...]
Ulupreneurs in the News: May 2021
Wow! May was an incredible month for Ulu Ventures as we soared past our initial target for Fund III raising $138M! Our portfolio firms celebrated an acquisition, another innovative public [...]
Ulupreneurs in the News: April 2021
Innovations in fintech, the future of work, and raising some healthy rounds....April was a good month for Ulupreneurs. SoFi Bloomberg interviewed Sofi CEO Anthony Noto about the firm taking a [...]
Ulupreneurs in the News: March 2021
Ulupreneurs continue making headlines, promoting diversity, driving innovation….and hitting some big numbers! Ellevest Forbes featured news that Ellevest now has $1B assets under management. CBS interview with Ellevest CEO Sallie [...]
Ulupreneurs in the News: February 2021
More Ulupreneurs hitting out of the ballpark...in February we celebrated Ulu’s 8th unicorn! Better-Up, a startup with a LatinX, first-gen college grad COO now valued at $1.73B. Investors included [...]
Ulu in the News: January 2021
Innovative Public Offerings is the theme for Ulu founders for January's "In the News". Ulu celebrates the 4th innovative public offering in the last five months! SoFi is going public [...]
Fireside Chat with Serial Ulupreneur: Tom Chavez
Dynamic people driven by intense passion. Risk takers willing to go where few (or none) have gone before. High achievers determined to get to their goal, no matter what. If [...]
Ulu in the News: December 2020
Grit and Determination are the words for Ulu founders for December’s "In the News" During the final month of the tumultuous year, one Ulu firm raised a significant round and [...]
Ulu in the News: November 2020
Empowerment is the word for the November issue of Ulupreneurs in the News. Forbes, International Business Times, and U.S. News & World Report were just some of the media outlets [...]
Ulu in the News: October
An IPO, a Series A Financing and fascinating founders continue to draw headlines from major news outlets for Ulu Ventures portfolio companies. Zebit Zebit became the second Ulu Ventures portfolio [...]
Ulu Thought Leadership: Q3 Edition
Ulu's long term focus on diversity and venture capital drew intense interest over the last quarter and Miriam was in demand to share that perspective with entrepreneurs, LPs and other [...]
Ulupreneurs in the News: Q3 Edition
Ulu's portfolio companies continue to make headlines in top media outlets including Forbes, Fortune, CNN, CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, TechCrunch, Bloomberg and even Variety. Palantir Bloomberg features Palantir’s plans to go [...]
The Insanely Fast Wave of Octant Bio
Why a hot startup open-sourced their most in-demand technology during COVID19 Octant Bio, an Ulu portfolio company, uses synthetic biology to advance computational drug discovery. They are developing a [...]
Managing Risk in a “Risky” Environment
Venture investing has always been based on a healthy understanding of and appetite for risk. Even during the long bull expansion that ended in the first quarter of 2020, success [...]
How to be an Ally in a Diverse Community (part 2)
With the pandemic and the uprisings profoundly affecting minority communities across the country, people go to work everyday and may have no idea that their colleagues of color are undergoing [...]
Only Justice Will Heal Our Wounds
This pandemic is a kaleidoscope of images, a swirl of feelings for many of us, especially among people of color who, according to ABC News, are 3 or 2.5 [...]
Rever: Empowering Frontline Workers
An Ulu Ventures Interview with Errette Dunn CEO/Co-Founder Rever Rusty Dornin, Ulu Ventures: We are pretty excited about Rever and just made an investment. It's an improvement AI software [...]
Emerging from the Fallout
As the nation attempts to kickstart the economy and re-open safely, the fallout from the shutdown is becoming more clear, exposing the devastation in vulnerable communities. But researchers, entrepreneurs, [...]
Building a Bridge for the Underserved
Over 65 million Americans are underbanked, and either use limited banking services, or are forced to use expensive alternative financial services like Western Union, Green Dot, and others for cash [...]