U&I Ventures

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Kim Moore, Founder and General Partner

kim@uandi.vc

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Kim Cooper, Founding Operating Partner

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Joaquin Guzman, Head of Operations

U&I Ventures is a San Francisco-based seed-stage venture capital firm investing in AI-native infrastructure for the enterprise, with a focus on security, engineering, and IT.

The firm writes initial checks of $250,000 to more than $800,000 and plans to back 40 to 45 companies through its debut fund.

U&I Ventures built its platform around a network of more than 1,800 CISOs, CTOs, and CIOs who inform its investment decisions and connect portfolio founders with early customers and product feedback.

U&I Ventures closed its oversubscribed debut fund, Fund I, at $32.2 million.

The fund backs pre-seed and seed-stage founders building AI-native security, engineering, and IT infrastructure for enterprises. Limited partners have not been disclosed.

Leadership

• Kim Moore – Founder & General Partner
• Kim Cooper – Founding Operating Partner
• Joaquin Guzman – Head of Operations

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Investment Strategy

U&I Ventures writes initial checks of $250,000 to more than $800,000 and plans to back 40 to 45 companies through its debut fund.

The firm built its platform around a network of more than 1,800 CISOs, CTOs, and CIOs (roughly 650 security leaders, 850 engineering and CTO leaders, and 300 CIOs) who inform its investment decisions, give founders product feedback, and connect them with prospective enterprise customers.

The firm says it will communicate next steps within 24 hours of meeting founders, with diligence taking two to four weeks.

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Notable Investments

• Pluto Security – secures enterprise adoption of AI coding and app-building platforms; raised $42 million across two rounds with its seed round led by TLV Partners
• ZeroDrift – provides real-time visibility and control over AI compliance decisions; backed by a16z Speedrun

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The fund has also made seven additional stealth investments spanning autonomous vulnerability remediation, agentic digital forensics, identity management, security operations, and testing and evaluating autonomous AI agents in production.

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