GGoodwater Capital
Goodwater Capital is a Burlingame, California-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Chi-Hua Chien and Eric Kim that invests only in consumer technology. It backs consumer internet, fintech, e-commerce, health and social start-ups worldwide, from seed through growth stage, and runs a separate seed programme that has made more than 600 seed investments in over 50 countries. In 2023 it closed more than $1 billion across new early-stage and growth funds, taking its committed capital to $3.3 billion across nine funds. Its portfolio includes Toss, Coupang, Monzo, Weee!, Stash, Getir, Everly Health, Midi Health and musical.ly (acquired by ByteDance).
SectorsConsumer, Fintech, E-commerce, Health, Social
VC MapSeed
Team
T
Timothy Chang
Managing Director
C
Chi-Hua Chien
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Eric Kim
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Barrett Parkman
Partner and Head of Investor Relations
C
Coddy Johnson
Investing Partner
J
Jin Oh
Investing Partner
V
Vivek Subramanian
Investing Partner
E
Ed Robinson
Venture Partner
Portfolio companies 4
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Funding rounds 5
Open as list →| Date | Company | Round | Amount | Lead |
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| 2024-09-16 | Webel | Seed (estimated) | €1.4M |
Goodwater Capital
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| 2023-01-27 | Fever | Series E (estimated) | approximately $110M |
Goldman Sachs Asset Management
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| 2022-01-26 | Fever | Series E (estimated) | $227M |
Goldman Sachs Asset Management
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| 2021-09-06 | Gamestry | Seed | €7M |
Goodwater Capital, Target Global, Kibo Ventures
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| 2019-01-10 | Badi | Series B | $30M |
Goodwater Capital
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| 2026-08-17 |
Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation ↗
TechCrunch
2026-08-17 |
| 2026-02-26 |
Humand Closes $66M Series A to Build the AI Operating System for the World's 2.7B Deskless Workers ↗
The AI Insider
2026-02-26 |
| 2026-02-03 |
Midi Health Surpasses $1B Valuation with $100M Series D led by Goodwater Capital ↗
Business Wire
2026-02-03 |
| 2025-12-16 |
Hong Kong's RedotPay raises nearly $110 million Series B to push global stablecoin payments ↗
CoinDesk
2025-12-16 |
| 2024-11-27 |
Teachy Raises $7M in Series A Led by Goodwater Capital and Reach Capital to Empower Schools in LATAM and Asia with AI ↗
Business Wire
2024-11-27 |
| 2024-11-05 |
Spain-based personal services marketplace Webel commences international expansion ↗
AIM Group
2024-11-05+1 source |
| 2024-04-02 |
Read AI raises $21M from Goodwater and Madrona, adds AI summaries for email and messaging ↗
GeekWire
2024-04-02 |