Obvious Ventures

We’re excited to announce our latest #generativescience investment!

At Obvious Ventures, we invest in three main areas: Planetary, Economic, and Human Health. Human Health means products and services that lead to healthier lives. By strengthening these systems, we anticipate a future of proactive health, better care, and more consumer choice. #worldpositive

It’s here! The 2025 World Positive Report has arrived and covers the incredible impact our portfolio companies are making on the world. obvious.com/wpr/

We founded Obvious Ventures to invest in companies solving humanity's biggest challenges. In this year’s World Positive Report, we’re sharing with you 25 companies that are solving these problems, one piece of the puzzle at a time. obvious.com/wpr/ #worldpositive

AI for the GI: How Iterative Health’s founder and CEO is bringing precision care to the masses If there’s been a driving force in Jonathan Ng’s career, it is this: provide healthcare to as many people as possible. This is the force that propelled Jon to fundraise for a Cambodian health cli...

Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States. Iterative Health and Jonathan Ng are changing that with AI, one polyp at a time. obvious.com/ideas/ai-for...

Bringing Credit Scores into the 21st Century Why we invested in Prism Data

As open banking accelerates, Prism Data is using real-time financial data to give millions of people access to credit while helping banks make smarter lending decisions. medium.com/@vishalvasis...

Climate Ag’s Moment in the Sun Decarbonizing any industry delivers benefits that go way beyond sustainability. How we cultivate soil, grow crops, and raise livestock has been in a state of tech-enabled evolution ever since the cot...

Decarbonizing any industry delivers benefits that go way beyond sustainability. Agriculture creates approximately 10% of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and it’s time for that to change. Andrew Beebe dives into four possible ways we can make ag greener. obvious.com/ideas/climat...

FedEx’s New Robot Loads Delivery Trucks Like It’s Playing 3D Tetris FedEx handles over 15 million packages daily. A two-armed, AI-infused robot is now helping pack some of them into delivery trucks with expert care.

Autonomous robots that can load and unload trailers using AI. The team gave them a sense of touch so they could sense how to gently nudge boxes together and create tightly packed walls. Fantastic work from Dexterity Robotics! www.wired.com/story/fedexs...

Discovering the impossible: How the founder of Gandeeva decided to take on cancer Lucky accidents. That’s what Sriram Subramaniam attributes everything interesting that has happened in his career to—from landing a job in a government lab to his current role as the founder of Ga...

Discovering the Impossible: How Gandeeva and Sriram Subramaniam are using AI and cryo-EM to take on cancer. obvious.com/ideas/discov...

To Wall Street and Beyond At Obvious, we celebrate the founder’s journey from idea to IPO. After signing a term sheet, we send our founders a levitating light bulb representing their brilliant idea and the team we have inves...

We have a motto at Obvious: “Don’t be boring.” So when it came time to celebrate the IPOs of our portfolio companies, the tombstone didn’t feel right. Instead, we went for something more Obvious: handmade rockets from the uniquely talented Jeff Brewer. obvious.com/ideas/to-wal...

Former Google AI expert raises $100mn for biotech start-up Inceptive’s Jakob Uszkoreit, a pioneer of the technology behind ChatGPT, attracts Nvidia funding to design ‘biological software’

Biological software is a synthetic molecule that executes functions, specified from a program, in a biological system. We're proud to support Inceptive in its mission to use bio software to create broadly accessible medicines previously out of reach. www.ft.com/content/dd55...

Flipping the Switch on Home Decarbonization Why we invested in Arbor

Arbor monitors the electricity market, switching users to the lowest possible rate and improving how power is used—a change we believe is essential in decarbonizing the home. Because of this, we're thrilled to announce our investment in Arbor: medium.com/obvious-vent...

Nectar Allergy Center The most innovative and comprehensive center to test and treat allergies, asthma, and eczema for all ages

Congrats to Nectar for opening their new flagship clinic in New York City! This center will greatly expand upon the company's at-home allergy testing and treatment, offering patients a new hybrid care solution to fight allergies. www.mynectar.com/allergycenter

TechBBQ: Where Hygge and Tech Meet We support and strengthen Nordic startup community by bringing together talent, capital and knowledge during our annual event & for the rest of the year.

If you happen to be in Copenhagen for @techbbq on Sept 13-14, our co-founder @vishalvasishth will be speaking about the current venture climate and all things world positive! techbbq.dk

We're honored that our own Andrew Beebe was included in Fortune's top 13 climate tech VCs to watch. fortune.com/2023/08/22/t...

Fixing the carbon market, one credit at a time Adrian Wons never expected to take a hard right into sustainability and build the world’s first blockchain-based carbon marketplace.

Adrian Wons and Senken are fixing the carbon market, one credit at a time. obvious.com/ideas/fixing...