Overview

What they do
Better Ventures provides funding and support to technology startups building innovative solutions to big and important problems, from work and education to health and sustainability. Given the magnitude of the these problems and the enormous market opportunities they represent, it takes the best and brightest minds armed with the best resources to address them. These are the people they seek to back, entrepreneurs committed to using the tools and methodologies of the modern technology startup to build world-changing companies that make money and do good. They're thinking big and expecting big results, and so are the entrepreneurs they back.
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What they look for
Focuses on B2B solutions leveraging breakthroughs in AI/ML, software, materials science, and biotechnology that address UN Sustainable Development Goals across building sustainable industry, improving human health, and equipping tomorrow's workforce.
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Stage
Pre-seed, Seed
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Sectors
AI, Climate, Deeptech, Edtech, SaaS, Food and agriculture, Healthcare
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Based
Oakland, US
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Sources

2026-08-29better.vcFounded in 2011, Better Ventures is one of the original venture capital firms to back…
2026-08-29better.vc470 25TH ST, OAKLAND, CA 94612
2026-08-29better.vcWes Selke Founding Partner [https://www.linkedin.com/in/wdselke] Rick Moss Founding Partner…

Portfolio, cheque size and the rest

The 60 companies they have backed that we can see, the cheque they write, and whether they are deploying right now.

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