James Joaquin
Director at Torch
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & Managing Director
2014 - Current
Obvious is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage, purpose-driven entrepreneurs reimagining trillion-dollar industries. Our three investment pillars are planetary health, human health, and economic health. Obvious has over $1 billion AUM.
Investing in entrepreneurs who are reimagining trillion-dollar industries across planetary, human, and economic health.
Director
2024
Clearing the path for small businesses by giving everyone access to reliable data.
Raised $2,800,000.00 from Roman Smolevskiy and Unpopular Ventures.
Dirctor
2024
Director / Board Observer
2017
Incredible Health is a career marketplace that helps hospitals in the hiring of nurses for temporary and permanent positions.
Raised $99,550,000.00 from 444 Capital, Rethink Impact, Obvious Ventures, Stardust Equity, Andreessen Horowitz, Kaiser Permanente, Chano Fernandez, Andre Iguodala and Base10 Partners.
Director
2021
Psychedelic Medicines
Raised $68,000,000.00 from True Ventures, Zen Chu, Obvious Ventures, KittyHawk and Artis Ventures (AV).
Director
2021
Foot and Ankle Center provides treatment for ankle sprains, bunions, hammertoes, athlete's foot, and heel spurs.
Director
2021
Torch is a leadership development platform that provides coaching, software, and feedback to raise performers to the next level.
Raised $87,823,478.00 from 137 Ventures, Initialized Capital, Norwest Venture Partners and Obvious Ventures.
VC Champion
2020
VC mentor for All Raise
All Raise is a nonprofit on a mission to accelerate the success of female founders and funders to build a more prosperous equitable future.
Raised $15,000,000.00 from Silicon Valley Bank, Sequoia Capital, Pivotal Ventures, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Reid Hoffman Foundation, Silicon Valley Bank and Pivotal Ventures.
Director
2019
Beam Organics is a wellness brand offering an innovative line of CBD products.
Raised $10,000,000.00 from Litani Ventures, C2 Ventures, Obvious Ventures, Carter Comstock, Danica Patrick, Camwood Capital Group, Kevin M. Hayes, The Yard Ventures, Brooks Laich and Double J Capital.