Investing Profile

April Underwood(274)

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Managing Director and Co-Founder at Adverb Ventures

adverb.vc/the-teamUnited States

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Current Investing Position

Adverb Ventures Managing Director

Investment Range

$100K - $5.0M

Sweet Spot

$1.5M

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$75M

April Underwood's Investments On Record (33)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Outset	Series BDec 2025$30M Series AJun 2025$17M SeedOct 2023$4M	$51M
Co-investors: Jack Altman (Benchmark), Jack Moshkovich (8VC), Garry Tan (Initialized Capital), Ben Taft (Sequoia Capital), Liz Wessel (First Round Capital), Jessica Verrilli (Adverb Ventures), James Wu (M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund), J Zac Stein (Craft Ventures), Guillaume Luccisano (AngelList Syndicator), Lachy Groom (Physical Intelligence), Ryan Hoover (Weekend Fund), Harj Taggar (Y Combinator), Chris Howard (Fuel Capital), Jake Jolis (Zeno Partners), Daniel Kan, Nate Matherson
Arcade	Series AMar 2025$25M	$91M
Co-investors: Lauren Stephanian (Pantera Capital), Jay Po (Bessemer Venture Partners), Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Evan Williams (Obvious Ventures), Terrence Rohan (Index Ventures), Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), Aditi Maliwal (Upfront Ventures), Laura Chau (Canaan Partners), Joanne Chen (Foundation Capital), Chris Sang (CP Ventures), David Matthews (RevTech Ventures), Chris Shonk (R360), Adrian Stone (AngelCube), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Karlie Kloss (Oath), Alexa von Tobel (Inspired Capital), Brit Morin (Offline Ventures), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Elad Gil (Gil Capital / Gil & Co), Jonathan Keidan (Torch Capital), Richard Ma (Quantstamp, Inc.), Mathilde Collin, Marissa Mayer, Jeffrey Wilke, Jonathan Widawski
shotsy	Pre SeedFeb 2025$2M	$2M
Panobi	SeedAug 2023$5M	$5M
Co-investors: Nina Achadjian (Index Ventures), Fareed Mosavat (Andreessen Horowitz), Jana Messerschmidt (#ANGELS (Hashtag ANGELS)), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Stewart Butterfield (Slack Technologies, Inc)
Ambient	Pre SeedAug 2023$150K	$7.2M
Co-investors: Julian Koh (Ribbon Finance), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems)
Equals	Series ANov 2022$16M	$23M
Co-investors: Jack Altman (Benchmark), Brian Murray (Craft Ventures), David Sacks (Craft Ventures), Christina Cacioppo, Mathilde Collin
Humaans	Series AOct 2022$15M	$20M
Co-investors: Megan Quinn (Spark Capital), Jay Simons (Bond), Lachy Groom (Physical Intelligence), Stewart Butterfield (Slack Technologies, Inc), Jeff Weiner (Next Play Ventures), Shane Curran (Evervault), Emre Baran (Seedcamp), David Clarke (Frontline Ventures), Scott Belsky (A24), Mattias Ljungman (Moonfire Ventures), Phillip Chambers (Balderton Capital), Akshay Kothari, Dylan Field, Claire Hughes Johnson, Tobias Lutke
Vanta	Series BJun 2022$110M SeedApr 2018$3M	$470M
Co-investors: Andrew Reed (Sequoia Capital), Terrence Rohan (Index Ventures), Diogo Monica (Haun Ventures), James Flynn (Deerfield Management), Jim Andelman (Bonfire Ventures), Matthew Witheiler (Flybridge Capital Partners), Peter Bordes (Trajectory Ventures), Chloe Sladden (Broadway Angels), Jana Messerschmidt (#ANGELS (Hashtag ANGELS)), J Zac Stein (Craft Ventures), Ethan Ruby (Craft Ventures), David Sacks (Craft Ventures), Christina Cacioppo, Akshay Kothari, Andy Coravos

April Underwood's Experience

Managing Director and Co-Founder Adverb Ventures2023 - Present

Board Director Eventbrite2022 - Present

Founder and CEO Local Laboratory Corp2020 - Present

Texas McCombs Advisory Council The University of Texas at Austin2020 - Present

Board Director Zillow2017 - Present

Board Director Zillow Group2017 - Present

Co-Founder #ANGELS (Hashtag ANGELS)2015 - Present

Co-Founder #ANGELS2015 - Present

Founder and CEO StartupsPresent

Founder and CEO ruby labsPresent

Product Manager & Software Engineer Robyn FrankelPresent

Founder and CEO Robyn FrankelPresent

Product Manager & Software Engineer IT CRUX Mobile Apps SolutionsPresent

Founder and CEO IT CRUX Mobile Apps SolutionsPresent

Product Manager & Software Engineer Self-EmployedPresent

Founder and CEO Self-EmployedPresent

Venture Partner Obvious Ventures2020 - 2022

Founder and CEO NewCo2020 - 2021

Founder and CEO Nearby2020 - 2021

Founder and CEO Childhood Leukemia Study UC Berkeley2020 - 2021

Founder and CEO Self-employed2020 - 2021

Chief Product Officer Slack2018 - 2019

Vice President of Product Slack2015 - 2018

Director of Product X2010 - 2015

Director of Product Twitter2010 - 2015

Product Manager, Travel Climate2009 - 2010

Product Manager, Travel The Climate Corporation2009 - 2010

Product Manager, Travel Weatherbill2009 - 2010

Senior Partner Technology Manager Google2007 - 2009

Senior Partner Technology Manager Google 2007 - 2009

MBA Intern Apple Retail2006 - 2006

MBA Intern Apple2006 - 2006

MBA Intern Apple Computer2006 - 2006

Product Manager & Software Engineer Travelocity2002 - 2005

Product Manager & Software Engineer Childhood Leukemia Study UC Berkeley2002 - 2005

Product Manager & Software Engineer Self-employed2002 - 2005

Product Manager & Software Engineer NewCo2002 - 2005

Enterprise Applications Developer Intel Corporation2002 - 2002

Enterprise Applications Developer Intel Corporation 2002 - 2002

Summer Analyst Deloitte Consulting2001 - 2001

Summer Analyst Deloitte2001 - 2001

Software Development Intern 3M Electronic Monitoring Ltd.2000 - 2000

Software Development Intern 3M2000 - 2000

ISP Technical Support teleNetwork1999 - 2000

ISP Technical Support OneSupport1999 - 2000

April Underwood's Education

The University of Texas at Austin BBA Management Information Systems, Business Honors Program

University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business MBA

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