Resolved Ventures

What Resolved Ventures does

Resolved Ventures is a privately held venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, California, operating under the legal entity Purpose Ventures d.b.a. Resolved Ventures. The firm invests in companies tackling societal, environmental, and policy-related issues, with an explicit focus on underrepresented entrepreneurs including Black, LatinX, and female founders. It also selectively backs ESG-focused businesses and applies an impact lens across its investment activity.

The firm invests across multiple stages using both direct equity investments and indirect vehicles such as fund-of-funds, secondary-market purchases, and participating venture funds. Its disclosed portfolio spans four verticals: Marketplace + SaaS (Paladin, Breef, Flow, Tapcart), Fintech + Blockchain (Bounce Finance, Origin, Stripe, Blocknative, Republic, Uphold, Flourish, Securitize), Biotech + Health (Tesseract Health, Irys/Itron, Adagio, Eikon, Kinnate, Kriya), and Travel + Leisure (Azul, Hertz, LATAM Airlines, SpaceX). The inclusion of mature, high-valuation names alongside earlier-stage startups reflects the blended direct/indirect strategy.

Resolved Ventures is staffed by a four-person investment team led by Founding Partner Jesse Martinez and comprising Laura Moreno (former Nasdaq Managing Director who oversaw Airbnb and Lyft IPOs), Brian Lucas (former Credible CTO with four prior exits), and Luis Miguel Alvarez (Investment Team, UC Berkeley Haas MBA). The firm generates revenue through traditional VC mechanics — management fees and carried interest on portfolio exits — though fund economics are not publicly disclosed. Deal sourcing is driven by direct founder applications through the website, complemented by ecosystem engagement in underrepresented-founder communities.

Name

Resolved Ventures

Legal name

Purpose Ventures

Website

https://resolved.vc

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Resolved Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that invests across Marketplace+SaaS, Fintech+Blockchain, Biotech+Health, and Travel+Leisure, with an explicit focus on underrepresented Black, LatinX, and female founders and ESG-oriented companies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Venture Capital Investment Services

NAICS

Other Investment Pools and Funds (5259)

akta.pro primary industry

SDG / Thematic Sustainable Investment Funds (FSANAJAN)

Keywords

• Venture capital funding
• Impact investing
• Diversity-focused investing
• Startup equity investment
• Underrepresented founders

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Investment Returns: Returns on equity investments in portfolio companies across fintech, enterprise SaaS, marketplace, biotech, health, travel, and leisure sectors. Realizes returns through exits including IPOs and acquisitions.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Resolved Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests equity capital in early-stage companies led by entrepreneurs from underrepresented backgrounds, particularly Black, LatinX, and female founders. The firm commits to diverse-led startups across multiple sectors, including Marketplace + SaaS, Fintech + Blockchain, Biotech + Health, and Travel + Leisure, and supports those companies through an operator network and follow-on capital across financing stages.

Product overview

Resolved Ventures is a venture capital firm, not a product company. The firm does not offer products or services in the traditional SaaS/technology product sense. The company provides investment capital and operational support to early-stage startups across multiple sectors including Marketplace + SaaS, Fintech + Blockchain, Biotech + Health, and Travel + Leisure.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• B Capital Group: Multi-stage global VC with operator-led approach and sector breadth across fintech, enterprise, and health. Compares to Resolved's operator pedigree and multi-vertical exposure, though at significantly larger scale and AUM.

Direct peers

• Female Founders Fund: Seed-stage fund investing in female-founded companies across enterprise, consumer, and fintech. Matches Resolved's explicit female-founder focus and similar early-stage check sizes.
• BBG Ventures: Early-stage fund backing female and diverse founders in consumer and enterprise tech. Closely matches Resolved's early-stage check size, thesis, and target founder segments.
• Harlem Capital Partners: Early-stage VC focused on investing in Black and Hispanic/Latino founders. Closely aligned diversity thesis and comparable fund-stage profile to Resolved Ventures.
• VamosVentures: LatinX-focused early-stage VC. Directly comparable as a diversity-mission fund; Resolved's Founding Partner Jesse Martinez also serves as Venture Partner at VamosVentures, indicating overlapping investment thesis and networks.
• SoGal Ventures: Global VC investing in diverse founders across fintech, health, and consumer. Overlaps directly with Resolved's female-founder mandate and multi-sector early-stage approach.
• Impact America Fund: VC firm investing in underrepresented founders in the US, with a focus on companies delivering measurable impact. Comparable mission-aligned investing model.
• Precursor Ventures: Seed-stage generalist fund that explicitly backs underrepresented founders. Comparable fund size, stage, and founder-segment focus even without a single explicit diversity thesis.
• Kapor Capital: Impact-focused seed fund targeting startups closing opportunity gaps for underrepresented groups. Highly comparable diversity-and-impact thesis, with similar stage and sector breadth.
• Backstage Capital: VC fund dedicated to investing in underrepresented founders including women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ founders. Direct competitor in the diversity-mandate early-stage segment.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/ResolvedVc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/resolvedvc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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