Contact

For all inquiries, please use one of these points of contact:

PRESS

pr@obvious.com

Location

Obvious Ventures is located two blocks from The Embarcadero in San Francisco, on the northwest corner of Sydney Walton Park. If you see the red brick building where Pacific Avenue runs into Front Street, you're in the right place.

190 Pacific Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94111

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Industrials

As technology breaks out of Silicon Valley’s sandbox, traditionally analog industries are just beginning to realize their benefits. We are investing in companies bringing distributed services, software-defined operations, advanced robotics, and more to the largest sectors of the economy. We envision an imminent, positive transformation of legacy sectors like construction, manufacturing, agriculture, and pharmaceuticals.


  

    
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“Data science, machine learning, robotics, distributed services, automation, and software-defined operations are just beginning to transform many more ‘traditional’ industries like construction, logistics, and manufacturing.”






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The Frictionless Future

          
An article I recently co-wrote with Di-Ann Eisnor sparked some controversy. The post, about cities of the near future, took as a[…]

        

      

                      
                      

        

          
                      
        

        

          
A Sea Change in Seafood

          
Valerie Robitaille has been building businesses with family since she was ten, from hawking homemade insect repellent to lemonade-standing on[…]

        

      

                      
                      

        

          
                      
        

        

          
The New Intelligence

          
The days of traditional, human-driven problem solving—developing a hypothesis, uncovering principles, and testing that hypothesis through deduction, logic, and experimentation—may[…]

        

      

                      

        

          
                      
        

        

          
The Seeds of a Building Revolution

          
Welcome to the slow, unreliable, expensive, and dirty world of residential construction: Neighborhood disruption. Delays. Change orders. Cost overruns. Permitting problems.[…]

        

      

                      
                      

        

          
                      
        

        

          
Manufacturing Goes Digital

          
It’s hard to imagine an industry as harsh and unforgiving to technological deployment as manufacturing. Remote facilities. Spotty internet connectivity.[…]

        

      

            












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