Investor Profile: Informed Ventures — Thesis, Cheque Size & How to Apply

Founders tracking Informed Ventures funding are tracking one of 2025's notable new firms. Launched in March 2025, Informed Ventures is the formal establishment of GSR Ventures' US operations as an independent Menlo Park firm — led by founder and managing director Richard Lim with the tenured GSR US partners. Per the launch announcement, the fund had invested approximately $300 million in US startups to date and "will continue to invest upwards of $200 million from its existing capital pool"; Fierce Healthcare describes it as a $200 million fund.

Thesis and focus: how to get funding from Informed Ventures

The firm backs early-stage transformative companies in digital health, fintech and vertical applications of AI (plus SaaS and consumer products and services), investing in "founders and startups who are dedicated to building products and services that drive change and redefine markets". Its tagline — "Thoughtful, Creative Partners for Transformative Companies" — reflects a founders-first, long-haul approach: the team of physicians, entrepreneurs and engineers has worked together for nearly a decade. Stages are early-stage, seed to Series A, with partners citing seed-to-IPO experience. Cheque size is not publicly disclosed.

Notable portfolio

Verified names carried over and added include Medable, Nimble, AppliedVR, HealthRhythms, Evereden, Venteur, Advance Intelligence Group, Fintern, Nium, Firework, PlusAI, PocketRN, Akia and GigSafe. The firm also runs a PULSE insights content series.

Partners

Leadership includes Richard Lim (Founder & Managing Director) and partners Sunny Kumar, Yuechen Zhao, Wei Li Tan and David Yin.

How to apply for funding

No public pitch portal or application route is verified on informedventures.com; founders reach the team via the firm's website contact routes. As a newly independent firm actively deploying, warm introductions through its digital-health and fintech portfolio founders are the strongest path in.

The spinout formalises what was already true operationally: the GSR US team had worked together for nearly a decade and deployed roughly $300 million into American startups before becoming Informed Ventures. The firm is careful not to overstate the separation's motive — it presents the move as the establishment of the US arm as an independent firm, not a rupture. Its PULSE insights series and the physician-entrepreneur-engineer makeup of the team signal a research-driven, founder-supportive culture from day one of independence.