Obvious Ventures lands fund five with a 360-degree view of planetary, human, economic health
Yahoo Finance·2026-01-27 02:00

Obvious Ventures, the firm co-founded by Twitter’s Evan Williams, has raised a fifth fund, and this one, just like its predecessors, comes with a “fun” number: 360,360,360.Weinvestinthefrontiersofmathandscienceandphysics,andweliketocelebratemathinourfundnumbersaswell,JamesJoaquin(picturedfarright),thefirmscofounderandmanagingdirector,toldTechCrunch.Thefirmsfirstfundwas360,360,360. “We invest in the frontiers of math and science and physics, and we like to celebrate math in our fund numbers as well,” James Joaquin (pictured far right), the firm’s co-founder and managing director, told TechCrunch. The firm’s first fund was 123,456,789, and the second was $191,919,191 (a palindromic number that reads the same ...