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Asylum Ventures
Venture capital · Brooklyn, NY, United States · North America
Asylum Ventures is a venture firm based in Brooklyn, New York. It describes its mission as supporting founders it considers artists, defending their efforts to build novel products and companies.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsfounder-ledearly-stagecreativetechnology
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Or find every investor that fitsAsylum Ventures lists 13 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (38%), E-commerce & Marketplaces (13%) and Enterprise Software (13%). 83% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Andreessen Horowitz, Anfa and Basis Set Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Asylum Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Asylum Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 1 company; its own site lists 13. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundAsylum Ventures does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 100% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 33th | 13 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 72th | 8% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 70th | 38% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 38% | 18% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 13% | 6% |
| Enterprise Software | 13% | 8% |
| Media & Entertainment | 6% | 4% |
| Cybersecurity | 6% | 4% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 6% | 3% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 6% | 1% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 6% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Andreessen Horowitz | 1 |
| Anfa | 1 |
| Basis Set Ventures | 1 |
| BoxGroup | 1 |
| Bullpen Capital | 1 |
| C10 Labs | 1 |
| Compound | 1 |
| Earl Grey Capital | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers13100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Andreessen Horowitz
Compare Asylum Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Asylum Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Jul 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Asylum Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Asylum Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
13 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aranya automates GPU orchestration to turn bare metal into custom production-ready clusters in 48 hours | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
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| Concentric Silicon is a quantitative distributor, helping manufacturers rapidly secure critical components and systems while unlocking inventory liquidity through principal risk capital. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
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| Hilbert models how a business grows, finds the highest-value opportunities, and puts them into action | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Homefig generates kitchen designs in minutes and allows for live design and revision during consultations. | Real Estate & ConstructionE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Kanurra is a pharmacy benefit manager that earns one flat fee whether your drugs are cheap or expensive | Healthcare & Biotech | Jul 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| The company provides an AI platform to automate follow-ups on unsold estimates and convert them into revenue for trade businesses | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Pantograph is a research lab developing generally intelligent robots with simple, scalable methods. | Robotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| The company brings together experts in deep learning and cognitive science to build human-like intelligence in machines. | AI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Recast is a weather company that builds precision weather modification systems | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Riffle provides an online platform for creating and collaborating on music | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
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About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- asylum.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 28 Jul 2026
- Companies checked
- 13
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