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Berkeley Frontier Fund
Venture capital
Berkeley Frontier Fund is a philanthropic venture fund that invests in startups founded by Berkeley alumni and provides a revenue source for the university. It commits a share of fund profits to support student programs in entrepreneurship, diversity and inclusion.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsfrontier techartificial intelligencehardwarematerials sciencebiotechuniversity alumni
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Or find every investor that fitsBerkeley Frontier Fund lists 17 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (34%), Enterprise Software (13%) and Cybersecurity (13%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Lightspeed Venture Partners, Y Combinator and Accel.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Berkeley Frontier Fund, 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 Berkeley Frontier Fund's whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 17. 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 roundBerkeley Frontier Fund 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 44th | 17 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 66th | 6% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 63th | 34% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 34% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 13% | 8% |
| Cybersecurity | 13% | 4% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 6% | 15% |
| Fintech | 6% | 12% |
| Space & Defense | 6% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 3% | 7% |
| Consumer | 3% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 5 |
| Y Combinator | 5 |
| Accel | 4 |
| Coatue | 4 |
| CapitalG | 3 |
| Kleiner Perkins | 3 |
| SV Angel | 3 |
| Salesforce Ventures | 3 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers1694%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company16%
- 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 Lightspeed Venture Partners
Compare Berkeley Frontier Fund 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 Berkeley Frontier Fund| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Jan 2026 | Seed | |
| 7 Dec 2025 | Round |
Round details for Berkeley Frontier Fund
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Berkeley Frontier Fund's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
17 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | |||
| Atrios offers tools and perks for businesses, including exclusive deals with various vendors. | FintechSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Axent Biosciences is a biotechnology therapeutics company developing next-generation cell therapies using engineered biomaterials. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| d-Matrix develops and manufactures memory-centric compute technology for AI inference | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Databricks provides a unified platform for data, analytics, and AI. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Discord provides a group chat platform for users to communicate and hang out with friends and communities. | GamingMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Kanu creates software that automates an organization's workflows using its data, system integrations, documents, and learned processes | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company produces a device that captures and summarizes conversations and thoughts | AI & Machine LearningConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Multifactor allows users to securely share online accounts with people and AI agents without sharing passwords. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Netskope provides security and networking products for the cloud and AI era | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Resemble AI develops and provides deepfake detection and watermarking technology for enterprises. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Dec 2025Round | Page + round | |
| Rippling provides a workforce management system that automates tasks for HR, IT, finance, and payroll | Human ResourcesFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| SambaNova develops and provides AI inference platforms and related products | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Skild Ai builds artificial intelligence to control robots for various tasks in the physical world | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Supabase provides a Postgres development platform with features such as database, authentication, storage, and edge functions. | Enterprise SoftwareCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Traceroot continuously improves AI agents by finding patterns in production issues and shipping verified fixes | AI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools | Portfolio page | ||
| Vivere Oncotherapies develops next-generation cancer therapies that activate the immune system to detect and destroy cancer cells | Healthcare & Biotech | Jan 2026Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- berkeleyfrontier.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 7 Dec 2025
- Companies checked
- 17
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