Hapiness Ventures

Happiness Ventures is a Palo Alto-based micro venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Ajay Ramachandran, previously Chief Marketing and Product Officer at Dynamic Signal, and Curtis MacDonald, previously Co-Founder and President at hField Technologies. The firm invests in early-stage deep technology companies led by mission-driven entrepreneurs who are not afraid of hard challenges. Happiness Ventures commits $1 million to $5 million per deal at Seed and Series A, and supports startups throughout their entire lifecycle with a long-term investment orientation. The portfolio spans approximately 10 companies across AI and deep tech, enterprise software, health technology, and mixed reality. Named portfolio companies include Chrysalis Cloud (cloud video infrastructure), Particle One (air quality data), Hypersonix (AI-powered revenue optimization), Mae (clinics and outpatient services), onetool (business productivity software), and Mira (AR and mixed reality), which was exited in June 2023. Happiness Ventures concentrates its bets on a small number of high-conviction positions in companies working on genuinely difficult technology problems. Both founders bring hands-on operational backgrounds as former executives and company builders, which shapes the level of strategic engagement the firm offers beyond writing a check. The firm favors founders with a clear mission and the technical depth to pursue it, regardless of whether the problem they are solving is already popular with mainstream venture capital.