Investing Profile

April Underwood(271)

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Venture Partner at Obvious Ventures
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53 Investors

Connected to James Currier (NFX), Satya Patel (Homebrew), Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), and 50 other investors on Signal.

Networks April is a member of
NewCo Network
1598 CONNECTIONS
NewCo Network
1598 CONNECTIONS
Google Network
703 CONNECTIONS
Self-Employed Network
495 CONNECTIONS
Self-Employed Network
495 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Obvious Ventures Venture Partner
Investment Range
$100K - $5.0M
Sweet Spot
$1.5M
Investments On Record
40
Current Fund Size
$272M

April Underwood is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

April Underwood's Investments On Record (33)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Outset
Series BDec 2025$30M
Series AJun 2025$17M
SeedOct 2023$4M
$51M
Co-investors: Jack Altman (Benchmark), Jack Moshkovich (8VC), Ben Taft (Sequoia Capital), Liz Wessel (First Round Capital), Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Jessica Verrilli (Adverb Ventures), James Wu (M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund), J Zac Stein (Craft Ventures), Lachy Groom (Physical Intelligence), Ryan Hoover (Weekend Fund), Harj Taggar (Y Combinator), Chris Howard (Fuel Capital), Jake Jolis (Zeno Partners), Guillaume Luccisano, Daniel Kan, Nate Matherson
Arcade
Series AMar 2025$25M
$91M
Co-investors: Terrence Rohan (Index Ventures), Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Kirsten Green (Forerunner Ventures), Lauren Stephanian (Pantera Capital), Evan Williams (Obvious Ventures), Laura Chau (Canaan Partners), Aditi Maliwal (Upfront Ventures), Joanne Chen (Foundation Capital), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Chris Sang (CP Ventures), David Matthews (RevTech Ventures), Chris Shonk (ATX Venture Partners), Adrian Stone (AngelCube), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Jay Po (Stage 2 Capital), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Karlie Kloss (Oath), Alexa von Tobel (Inspired Capital), Brit Morin (Offline Ventures), Richard Ma (Quantstamp, Inc.), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Jonathan Keidan (Torch Capital), Jeffrey Wilke, Jonathan Widawski, Mathilde Collin, Marissa Mayer
shotsy
Pre SeedFeb 2025$2M
$2M
Panobi
SeedAug 2023$5M
$5M
Co-investors: Nina Achadjian (Index Ventures), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Jana Messerschmidt (#ANGELS (Hashtag ANGELS)), Fareed Mosavat, Stewart Butterfield
Ambient
Pre SeedAug 2023$150K
$7.2M
Co-investors: Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Julian Koh
Equals
Series ANov 2022$16M
$23M
Co-investors: Jack Altman (Benchmark), David Sacks (Craft Ventures), Brian Murray (Craft Ventures), Christina Cacioppo, Mathilde Collin
Humaans
Series AOct 2022$15M
$20M
Co-investors: Megan Quinn (Spark Capital), Mattias Ljungman (Moonfire Ventures), Phillip Chambers (Balderton Capital), Jay Simons (Bond), Lachy Groom (Physical Intelligence), Jeff Weiner (Next Play Ventures), Emre Baran (Seedcamp), David Clarke (Frontline Ventures), Scott Belsky (capitalB), Claire Hughes Johnson, Tobias Lutke, Dylan Field, Akshay Kothari, Shane Curran, Stewart Butterfield
Valora
Series AJul 2021$20M
$20M
Co-investors: Katie Haun (Haun Ventures), Cristian Raygoza (Gaingels), Arianna Simpson (Curated), Nitesh Banta (Stellar Capital)

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
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