Untapped Ventures
Los Angeles, CA, 90017, United States
Overview
Untapped Ventures is a venture studio and pre-seed fund in Los Angeles on a mission to help people achieve the best version of themselves, personally and professionally. Leveraging our powerful network and unique methodology, we found and fund companies at the intersection of the Future of Work, HRTech, and Mental Wellness.
- Total investments
- 5
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 2
- Active investors
- 1
Sector focus
- FinTech
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Lemurian Labs
Participated · Series A · Dec 2025
Headquartered in San Francisco and led by CEO Jay Dawani, Lemurian Labs has built a platform that combines compiler technology with runtime orchestration to let developers write AI code once and deploy it on any hardware. Its hardware-agnostic approach promises faster deployment cycles, greater flexibility and lower infrastructure costs at scale. The company is positioning the platform for organizations seeking sustainable compute and open AI innovation. Fresh capital will be directed toward expanding the engineering team, accelerating product development and deepening partnerships across the AI ecosystem. Although specific revenue or user figures were not disclosed, the company previously completed a seed round in 2022. Lemurian Labs believes its technology can reduce the friction of moving AI workloads between edge devices, cloud instances and on-prem servers, potentially widening its addressable market.
- Woz
Participated · Seed · Oct 2025
Woz offers a production-ready "AI App Factory" that decomposes the software-building process into discrete steps handled by specialized AI agents, with expert engineers intervening whenever the system encounters edge cases and completing a rigorous quality review. The resulting codebases are clean, secure, and human-readable, differentiating the company from rapid-prototype “vibe-coding” tools that often create throw-away code. Today the platform can generate thousands of high-quality mobile apps in parallel for entrepreneurs, SMBs, and global brands that lack large engineering teams. Management plans to expand beyond mobile into web, TV, IoT, AR/VR, and highly regulated verticals such as healthcare and insurance. Founded by MIT engineers Ben Collins and Brad Eckert, Woz positions itself as an enterprise alternative to consumer-grade AI app builders whose traffic is already declining. The company’s headquarters are in San Francisco, and the new capital will be used for product development and key hires. To date, Woz has raised $6 million in external funding.
- Nexxa.ai
Participated · Seed · Jul 2025
Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Nexxa.ai develops Nitro, a multi-agent orchestration platform that layers on top of legacy industrial engineering software to automate complex, non-standard workflows. The system allows Forward Deployed Engineers to embed compliant, explainable AI into rail, construction, manufacturing and other critical-infrastructure processes, delivering measurable ROI within weeks. Current enterprise users include Siemens, Matikon and additional undisclosed customers, and the product is also distributed via the Siemens Xcelerator Marketplace. Management plans to leverage its new capital to scale revenue 10× during 2026 by expanding across core heavy-industry sectors. Nexxa.ai positions its technology as a catalyst for modernizing America’s industrial backbone without ripping out existing systems. The company has secured $14 million in total funding to date, comprised of a pre-seed and the latest seed round, to accelerate product development and go-to-market execution.
- BlueQubit
Participated · Seed · Dec 2024
BlueQubit, founded in spring 2022, builds a Quantum Software-as-a-Service (QSaaS) platform that gives end users access to QPUs and quantum computing emulators. The company leverages large-scale classical compute—a fleet of GPUs—to develop and test quantum algorithms before deploying them on real quantum processors. Its software stack runs emulators up to 100 times faster than commonly available alternatives and includes algorithms for quantum machine learning and quantum optimization. BlueQubit targets use cases in financial modeling, pharmaceutical development, and materials‑science visualization, aiming to marry enterprise applications with advanced quantum hardware. Founders Hrant Gharibyan and Hayk Tepanyan met at Stanford; Gharibyan co-authored a wormhole teleportation algorithm later implemented by Google Quantum AI, and Tepanyan previously worked on Google’s infrastructure team. The company recently raised a $10 million Seed round to advance product development and commercialization.
- Finnt
Participated · Seed · Jun 2022
Finnt builds a platform that enables international families to set up joint savings accounts and move money using digital assets and blockchain technologies. The product offers inflation-beating interest rates on joint savings accounts and is designed to help family members support each other financially across borders. Finnt has developed an MVP that is currently in private beta with a few hundred users. The company plans to launch a full public version, including a mobile app, by the end of 2022 and will use new funding to establish necessary banking infrastructure. Founders plan to expand the team from six to roughly 10–12 employees, hiring customer success, design, and marketing in Miami while keeping engineering in France. Finnt participated in Y Combinator’s winter 2022 cohort.
Team
Michael Malatesta
Limited Partner
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