Lifting up the next generation of trailblazers, Wellington Access Ventures (WAV) partners with early-stage companies who have been historically underrepresented and overlooked in the venture capital space providing them with advice and access to business networks, support, and growth opportunities. Our team, made up of leaders in venture space and integrated into the most prominent networks of diverse entrepreneurs, helps to build the foundation for long-term growth by harnessing the private and public market expertise and contacts of one of the world's largest investment companies.
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Capital. Resources. Networks: Supporting the next wave of industry leaders
Our investments
Accrue
Founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Accrue is a developer of a pricing optimization tool intended to help technology companies increase profit through improved monetization by offering monetization experiments, real-time insights, clear impact and return on investment.
AIN Ventures
A pre-seed and seed- stage focused venture firm that invests in dual-use technology and veteran-led startups.
Binkey
Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Washington, DC, Binkey is on a mission to empower American families with tools to use and manage their FSA dollars to save money and live healthier lives.
Caraway Health
Founded in 2022 and headquartered in New York, NY, Caraway Health offers personalized, evidence-based care 24/7. Lori Evans Bernstein, co-founder and CEO, is creating a revolutionary platform that provides trusted, holistic and compassionate healthcare so women+ can get the care they need when they need it.
Cayaba Care
A company focused on creating a new standard for healthcare for Black communities offering homecare support through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
Chingona Ventures
Chingona Ventures is a venture capital fund that seeks to invest in pre-seed, seed, and early-stage technology and technology-enabled private companies, focusing specifically on technology, female technology, food technology, health/wellness, and future of learning.
Clerkie
Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, Clerkie is a developer of a debt automation platform partnering with users to help ease their debt burden using conversational AI to build in-depth financial knowledge graphs, combined with expert financial advice to manage loan losses and making it easy for users to take action.
CodeSee
Founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CodeSee is a platform that helps developers to visually understand how large scale codebase works, document it, and collaborate continuously.
Concrete Rose
Concrete Rose invests financial & social capital into exceptional ventures led by underrepresented founders of color, founders addressing the needs of underrepresented consumers of color, and founders with a demonstrated commitment to creating inclusive cultures and building diverse teams.
Fearless Fund
Fearless Fund is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women of color led businesses seeking pre-seed, seed level, or Series A financing. Their mission is to bridge the gap in venture capital funding for women of color founders building scalable, growth aggressive companies.
Flavrs
Founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Flavrs is a shoppable platform which leverages video content from professional and home chefs/food creatives and allows consumers to seamlessly shop recipes with the ability to add ingredients directly to their Instacart, moving from content to commerce in one click.
Finvero
Finvero is a credit management platform for the next generation of financial services in Latin America. They provide personalized financing solutions from a single platform to enhance your business, physical or online stores.
Ingressive Capital
Building trans-generational wealth across Africa through entrepreneurship and equity.
January Ventures
Early-stage venture capital company investing in early-stage companies who are trying to change the tech ecosystem by providing guidance, thought partnership, investment, and introductions.
Kinside
Founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Pasadena, CA. They are a developer of dual-sided childcare platform designed to connect working parents with a network of daycares and preschools across the United States.
Lendtable
Founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Lendtable is a financial services company that specializes in providing income-constrained individuals with wealth building cash advances to maximize their employer’s matching contribution to their retirement.
Maza
Maza is a fintech company offering digital banking services opening the path to the US financial system for immigrants in the US.
Meroxa
Meroxa is the industry-leading code-first stream processing application platform built for developers' everyday workflows.
Mindset Care
Mindset Care assists those with a mental illness or physical disability, and their caregivers, in applying for Social Security Disability benefits.
Movn Health
Founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. Moving Analytics is a developer of a virtual care management platform intended to help hospitals implement virtual cardiac rehab and other secondary prevention programs.
New Age Capital Fund I, LP
New Age Capital Fund I, LP will make investments in seed and early-stage technology and technology-enabled companies founded and led by Black and Latino entrepreneurs. Their mission is to work with the best Black and Latino entrepreneurs solving real world problems.
Onu Wellness, Inc.
Founded in 2022 and headquartered in New York, NY, Onu Wellness is a developer-first platform that allows engineers to quickly turn scripts into internal tools. The tools are supported by backend code that lives in your normal code base. There’s basically no learning curve and instead of it taking 5 days to spin up an internal tool, it takes 5 minutes.
Seae Ventures
Seae Ventures I, LP seeks to invest in pre-seed, seed, or early-stage health care and/or technology companies primarily founded by women and people who identify as Black, Indigenous and People of color.
Serena Ventures
The Fund seeks to locate, analyze, and invest in start-up an early-stage companies that embrace diverse leadership, individual empowerment, creativity, and opportunity.
Trace Machina
Trace Machina builds simulation infrastructure by introducing NativeLink. NativeLink is an open-source simulation infrastructure platform, tailored to handle large objects and intricate systems across native and interpreted programming languages. The tool levels-up engineering productivity while delivering massive cost savings on compute resources.
It brings me joy being able to help a founder from idea creation to seeing their life's work and their dreams come true.
Meet the early-stage venture team
News
Forbes | Wellington Access Ventures Raises $150 Million To Back Underrepresented Founders
Our Wellington Access Ventures Team sat down with Forbes to discuss the final close of the private investing platform’s first early-stage venture capital fund and how they look to partner with "the next industry-defining companies."
Source: Forbes.
Wellington Management announces US$150 million final close for Wellington Venture Investments I
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We seek out companies at the nexus of scientific breakthroughs and medical needs with innovations that are improving the standard of care of medicine for patients.
To guide late-stage private companies through the finish line and beyond, we leverage our deep industry expertise, resources, and long-term relationships across public and private markets.
Private credit
This reflects substantially all portfolio company investments made by Wellington Management’s dedicated private equity portfolios. Due to confidentiality restrictions, some company names cannot be disclosed. Additional information is available upon request. As of 31 October 2024.
