Obvious Ventures
Obvious Ventures is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Ev Williams, James Joaquin, and Vishal Vasishth, investing in entrepreneurs building "world positive" companies that solve humanity's biggest problems through technology. The firm invests across three thesis pillars: planetary health (sustainable energy, food, mobility, climate), human health and longevity (healthcare, biotech, wellness), and economic health (fintech, the future of work, robotics, and inclusive systems). Obvious writes approximately 10 new checks per year, typically $5M to $12M into seed and Series A rounds, deliberately keeping fund sizes small enough that a single durable public company can return an entire fund. It closed its fifth fund at $360,360,360 in early 2026 and has backed 90+ companies since inception, including Beyond Meat, Planet, Gusto, Recursion, Devoted Health, Diamond Foundry, and Proterra. Obvious is a Certified B Corporation headquartered at 190 Pacific Avenue, San Francisco, CA.
Obvious Ventures has 90 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 6 (7%) publish APIs indexed here.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Dexterity, Cal, Canvas, Gusto, Planet.
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