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Bearcat Ventures
Venture capital · Cincinnati, OH, United States · North America
Bearcat Ventures is the University of Cincinnati's student-led venture capital initiative, operating an investment fund alongside a Venture Research Studio and a VCIC competition team. Its student-led evergreen fund invests in early-stage companies and provides hands-on training and workshops for students.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechEnterprise SoftwareCybersecurity
In its own wordsuniversitystudent-ledmidwestevergreen fundentrepreneurship
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Or find every investor that fitsBearcat Ventures lists 3 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (50%), Enterprise Software (25%) and Cybersecurity (25%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside CincyTech, Fireroad Ventures and Grand Ventures.
No funding round on record names Bearcat Ventures yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| CincyTech | 1 |
| Fireroad Ventures | 1 |
| Grand Ventures | 1 |
| GreatPoint Ventures | 1 |
| JumpStart Ventures | 1 |
| Techstars | 1 |
| Wireframe Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers3100%
- 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 50% | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 25% | 8% |
| Cybersecurity | 25% | 4% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Bearcat Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
3 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Band Connect provides a hybrid therapy platform for orthopedic rehabilitation that helps providers and patients improve clinical and economic outcomes. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Sense is developing non-invasive technology enabling rapid, comprehensive detection of stroke subtype and traumatic brain injury, and continuous brain injury monitoring. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Tembo allows users to run coding agents in the cloud and provides tools for automating code review and other development tasks. | Enterprise SoftwareCybersecurity | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 8 Nov 2026- Site
- bearcatventures.org
- Last read
- 8 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 3
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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