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Bison Ventures
Venture capital · San Francisco, CA, United States · North America
Bison Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in frontier technology companies applying AI to physical industries. It describes its focus as "Real World Intelligence," where AI meets the physical economy.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsphysical airoboticshuman healthenergycomputemanufacturing
Your fit with Bison Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsBison Ventures lists 19 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 11 funding rounds, 7 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (52%), Healthcare & Biotech (24%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (14%). 92% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Defined, Alumni Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Bison Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 20% |
| Series A | 50% |
| Series B | 30% |
| 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 1 |
| '26 | 8 | 6 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 49th | 19 companies |
| Recent activity | 94th | 9 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 58th | 20% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 98th | 37% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 85th | 52% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Defined | 3 |
| Alumni Ventures | 2 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 2 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 2 |
| E14 Fund | 2 |
| Flare Capital Partners | 2 |
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 2 |
| Plum Alley Ventures | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers19100%
- 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
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 52% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 24% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 14% | 7% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 3% | 1% |
| Cybersecurity | 3% | 4% |
| Enterprise Software | 3% | 8% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Bison Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
from public registers and its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Bison Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 9 Oct 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 22 Jul 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 19 May 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 13 Mar 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 26 Jan 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 12 Jan 2026 | Series B Led | |
| 10 Dec 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Bison Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Bison Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
19 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allonnia develops and deploys industrial biology solutions for mining and metal extraction | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Jul 2025Series A · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| Bonsai develops and deploys autonomous farm robots for various off-road environments, including tree crops, bedded crops, trellised crops, and row crops. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Cadstrom provides continuous AI validation for PCB design | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| CHIPADD builds cooling technology which can be manufactured directly onto silicon to unlock the future of computing. | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops an AI agent for product development that assists hardware teams with tasks such as modeling parts and setting up simulations across CAD, CAE, and PLM workflows. | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | May 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| The company is building intelligence for the physical world through robotics. | Robotics & Hardware | Oct 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Frontera develops software and technology for behavioral health and autism care | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Great Sky develops hardware and systems for artificial intelligence computing using physics-based approaches. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Mar 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Grid Aero is building a new class of scalable, autonomous, optionally attritable aircraft for contested environments | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Jan 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Inner Logic provides development infrastructure for the next generation of procedural medical devices | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| InnerPlant creates plants that communicate to help farmers make management decisions with data tied to plant physiology | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Juvena Therapeutics engineers proteins that human stem cells naturally secrete into regenerative medicines to restore muscle | Healthcare & Biotech | Jan 2026Series B | Page + round | |
| Kapta Space develops and uses advanced radar sensing technology to deliver geospatial intelligence and data products | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Passkey Therapeutics develops and maps synergistic drug combinations to treat various diseases by utilizing its Locksmith platform | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides development infrastructure for creating medical devices, such as surgical robots and orthopedic implants. | Healthcare & Biotech | Jul 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Sleuth provides biopharma intelligence and strategic insights to biopharma teams | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Thinking Machines Lab is an artificial intelligence research and product company. | AI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Vivodyne trains biological superintelligence to transform therapeutic hypotheses into medicines using lab-grown human tissues and AI platforms. | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Zyphra develops and provides cloud-based artificial intelligence products and solutions, including optimization engines and customization studios. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- bison.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 10 Apr 2024
- Companies checked
- 19
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