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 is tracked in the API Evangelist network. This page is the human-readable profile that sits on top of the machine-readable index we maintain at apis.io.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Obvious Ventures is in the network as a tracked entity. We haven't yet indexed a public API surface for it — when one is published, the artifacts, score, and agent-readiness read will appear here automatically. The source repository is where that profile is built.
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