Ulu Ventures

Ulu Ventures is a Palo Alto, California-based seed and early-stage venture capital firm that backs technology-driven startups across the United States. Founded in 2008, it focuses on internet-enabled consumer and business services and a broad range of sectors including EdTech, FinTech, healthcare, sustainability, enterprise IT, SaaS, IoT, digital media, mobile, agtech, and marketplaces. The firm emphasizes backing diverse entrepreneurial teams and typically engages in co-investments with other investors to pursue meaningful exits. It is described as the first Latina-led venture fund in Silicon Valley and is among the larger seed-focused vehicles in the region.

Andrea Bogarin

Senior Associate

Kathy Chen

Partner

Kevin Hoffberg

Venture Partner

Clint Korver Ph.D

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Stephen Malinak

Venture Partner

Steve Reale

Venture Partner

Miriam Rivera

Managing Director

Maria Salamanca

Partner

Nancy Torres

Partner

David White

Venture Partner

Past deals in Compliance

Lokker

Venture Round in 2024
Lokker is a company that specializes in website privacy solutions, focusing on the protection of both corporate and customer data. It provides a comprehensive platform that enables businesses to gain control over the private data circulating within their web operations. By offering tools for privacy diagnostics, management, and governance, Lokker helps organizations identify and manage unauthorized sharing of sensitive information. The company’s services include real-time detection and response to privacy threats, functioning as a protective barrier against illicit data collection online. Through these capabilities, Lokker empowers companies to enhance their privacy measures and respond effectively to data protection challenges.

Banyan Infrastructure

Series B in 2023
Banyan Infrastructure offers a project finance software platform that simplifies, accelerates, and optimizes sustainable infrastructure financing across the deal lifecycle. The platform automates origination, portfolio management, and compliance for sustainable assets, replacing spreadsheets and email with digitized loans and workflows, automating data aggregation and regulatory tracking. It enables financial institutions to scale investments in clean energy and infrastructure while reducing transaction friction and costs, improving deal velocity and operational efficiency. By streamlining origination and securitization of renewable energy loans and investments, the solution supports higher volume, lower cost, and better governance in sustainable infrastructure finance.

Finalis

Seed Round in 2022
Finalis provides a platform enabling private securities brokers to operate legally and compliantly. It offers a white-labeled regulatory affiliation solution, supporting various deal types such as M&A, capital raising, and alternative investments. Additionally, Finalis offers the Finalis Hub for deal management and collaboration among brokers.

Banyan Infrastructure

Series A in 2022
Banyan Infrastructure offers a project finance software platform that simplifies, accelerates, and optimizes sustainable infrastructure financing across the deal lifecycle. The platform automates origination, portfolio management, and compliance for sustainable assets, replacing spreadsheets and email with digitized loans and workflows, automating data aggregation and regulatory tracking. It enables financial institutions to scale investments in clean energy and infrastructure while reducing transaction friction and costs, improving deal velocity and operational efficiency. By streamlining origination and securitization of renewable energy loans and investments, the solution supports higher volume, lower cost, and better governance in sustainable infrastructure finance.

Apomaya

Venture Round in 2022
Apomaya helps companies meet their privacy goals and obligations. It provides clients complete control over the private data flowing through their web operations.

MosaicVoice

Seed Round in 2022
MosaicVoice provides an AI-based platform for call centers to ensure compliant customer conversations. The system listens to live voice and video calls, identifies compliance violations as they happen, and alerts agents and managers. It equips agents with real-time guidance and analytics across calls, helping businesses track compliance and outcomes through automated insights rather than manual oversight.

Ketch

Series A in 2021
Ketch is a data control platform designed to assist businesses in managing compliance with privacy regulations. It offers a comprehensive solution for automating data privacy, security, and governance, allowing organizations to effectively orchestrate their data management processes. Ketch's platform provides a unified framework that simplifies the handling of complex global privacy programs and facilitates cross-channel data collection and enforcement. By enabling general counsels, engineers, and IT teams to streamline their operations, Ketch helps businesses build consumer trust while harnessing data to drive core functions and growth.

Truthset

Seed Round in 2021
Truthset, Inc. is a data validation platform based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2019 by industry veterans with experience from companies such as Nielsen and Salesforce. The company specializes in validating the accuracy and compliance of consumer data to enhance trust and improve decision-making across various sectors, including marketing and fraud prevention. Truthset employs an artificial intelligence-based algorithm known as Truthscores, which quantifies the accuracy of consumer data records. Unlike data brokers, Truthset does not sell data; instead, it provides a likelihood of truth for individual data entries, enabling businesses to validate data accuracy and facilitate more reliable consumer interactions.

Ketch

Series A in 2021
Ketch is a data control platform designed to assist businesses in managing compliance with privacy regulations. It offers a comprehensive solution for automating data privacy, security, and governance, allowing organizations to effectively orchestrate their data management processes. Ketch's platform provides a unified framework that simplifies the handling of complex global privacy programs and facilitates cross-channel data collection and enforcement. By enabling general counsels, engineers, and IT teams to streamline their operations, Ketch helps businesses build consumer trust while harnessing data to drive core functions and growth.

Lokker

Series A in 2020
Lokker is a company that specializes in website privacy solutions, focusing on the protection of both corporate and customer data. It provides a comprehensive platform that enables businesses to gain control over the private data circulating within their web operations. By offering tools for privacy diagnostics, management, and governance, Lokker helps organizations identify and manage unauthorized sharing of sensitive information. The company’s services include real-time detection and response to privacy threats, functioning as a protective barrier against illicit data collection online. Through these capabilities, Lokker empowers companies to enhance their privacy measures and respond effectively to data protection challenges.

Truthset

Seed Round in 2020
Truthset, Inc. is a data validation platform based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2019 by industry veterans with experience from companies such as Nielsen and Salesforce. The company specializes in validating the accuracy and compliance of consumer data to enhance trust and improve decision-making across various sectors, including marketing and fraud prevention. Truthset employs an artificial intelligence-based algorithm known as Truthscores, which quantifies the accuracy of consumer data records. Unlike data brokers, Truthset does not sell data; instead, it provides a likelihood of truth for individual data entries, enabling businesses to validate data accuracy and facilitate more reliable consumer interactions.

SnapCheck

Seed Round in 2018
SnapCheck is a San Francisco-based company that has developed a mobile application offering digital check deposit services primarily for credit unions and banks. The company's platform provides a high-speed, secure, and universally accepted solution aimed at eliminating the use of paper checks, which number around 18 billion annually in the United States. By replacing traditional checks with a digital alternative, SnapCheck enables businesses, consumers, and financial institutions to significantly cut costs and reduce fraud losses. This innovative approach not only streamlines check payments but also has the potential to save the economy over $50 billion each year while also contributing to environmental sustainability by reducing paper usage.

SIPX

Series B in 2013
SIPX, Inc. is a company based in Palo Alto, California, that specializes in providing a web-based service designed to facilitate copyright management and the delivery of digital documents within the higher education sector. Founded in 2012, SIPX enables copyright owners to register their content while establishing access restrictions and pricing rules. It allows university libraries to integrate their institutional holdings, enabling professors to easily search for articles and other documents. Students can access digital content for reading and printing, enhancing their educational experience. The platform also empowers content owners and publishers to monetize requests for individual articles from institutions with limited budgets and offers insights into how content is utilized in academic settings. SIPX operates as a subsidiary of ProQuest LLC, reflecting its commitment to simplifying the processes associated with legally accessing digital content in education.

Everlaw

Venture Round in 2013
Everlaw is a legal technology company based in Oakland, California, with an additional office in London, United Kingdom. Founded in 2010, Everlaw develops a cloud-based e-discovery and litigation platform designed for document analysis, serving law firms, government agencies, and corporations. Its primary products include Discover, which streamlines document management; Reveal, offering analytics, machine learning, and interactive visualization; and Act, managing the end-to-end process of investigations or litigation. The platform enables legal teams to organize, search, and securely share documents, videos, emails, and pictures exchanged between legal teams before a trial. Everlaw's solutions prioritize speed, security, and ease-of-use, facilitating thorough investigations, quick uncovering of truths, and clear presentation of findings.

SIPX

Series A in 2012
SIPX, Inc. is a company based in Palo Alto, California, that specializes in providing a web-based service designed to facilitate copyright management and the delivery of digital documents within the higher education sector. Founded in 2012, SIPX enables copyright owners to register their content while establishing access restrictions and pricing rules. It allows university libraries to integrate their institutional holdings, enabling professors to easily search for articles and other documents. Students can access digital content for reading and printing, enhancing their educational experience. The platform also empowers content owners and publishers to monetize requests for individual articles from institutions with limited budgets and offers insights into how content is utilized in academic settings. SIPX operates as a subsidiary of ProQuest LLC, reflecting its commitment to simplifying the processes associated with legally accessing digital content in education.

Panoptic Security

Series A in 2010
Panoptic Security simplifies PCI-DSS compliance for small merchants. Its intelligent SAQ algorithm reduces time spent on compliance by nearly half, achieving five times the industry average in compliance rates.
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