Obvious Ventures — VC Intelligence

Strategy

Stages

SeedSeries A

Sectors

ClimateHealthcareConsumer

Geographies

USASan Francisco, CA

Check size

$1M-$15M

Funds

Fund	Vintage	Size	Strategy	Stage	Status
Obvious Ventures Fund I	2015	$123M	—	—	closed As of 2015Value Add VC funds tracker

Portfolio

1 total

Radical Numerics

Co-Investors

Emergence Capital · 1 shared Factory · 1 shared First Spark Ventures · 1 shared Patrick Collison · 1 shared Triatomic Capital · 1 shared

Latest Pulse

Jun 24, 2026Radical Numerics Raises $50M Seed to Build AI for Scientific DiscoveryMenlo Park-based Radical Numerics raised a $50 million seed round led by Emergence Capital, with First Spark, Obvious Ventures, Factory and Triatomic participating. The startup is building AI systems aimed at scientific and numerical problems -- a fast-emerging category betting that AI's next frontier is accelerating research itself, from drug discovery to materials and simulation.→

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