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Black Diamond Ventures
Venture capital · Glendale, CA, United States · North America
Black Diamond Ventures is a venture capital firm founded by second-generation VC Chris Lucas that makes multi-stage investments in companies. It provides capital and strategic and operational support to portfolio companies through its partner network.
Invests inHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsbiotechdeep techmed techaimachine learningsemiconductors
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Or find every investor that fitsBlack Diamond Ventures lists 27 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (39%), Industrial & Manufacturing (13%) and Fintech (8%). 94% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Lucas Venture Group, Moneta Ventures and Celesta Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Black Diamond 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 Black Diamond Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 27. 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 roundShow as a table
| 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 | 2 | 1 |
| '26 | 0 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 64th | 27 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 59th | 4% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 71th | 39% 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 39% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 13% | 7% |
| Fintech | 8% | 12% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 8% | 18% |
| Media & Entertainment | 8% | 4% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 5% | 6% |
| Consumer | 5% | 3% |
| Enterprise Software | 5% | 8% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Lucas Venture Group | 3 |
| Moneta Ventures | 3 |
| Celesta Capital | 2 |
| Civilization Ventures | 2 |
| SOSV | 2 |
| SeedFolio | 2 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 1 |
| Arrowroot Capital | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2593%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company27%
- 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 Lucas Venture Group
Compare Black Diamond 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 Black Diamond Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Dec 2025 | Seed | |
| 26 Sept 2025 | Seed Led |
Round details for Black Diamond Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Black Diamond Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
27 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Altwork designs and sells workstations, including the Signature Station, and various accessories for them. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Alveo develops and provides molecular testing and diagnostic solutions | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| App Orchid provides an enterprise semantic layer and decision intelligence platform for AI-ready data | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Ares Materials designs, formulates and scales materials to empower higher levels of performance through its AI driven causal intelligence system. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Black Diamond Ventures invests in visionary founders pioneering market transforming technologies, focusing on multi-stage investments in the biotech, deep tech, and med tech sectors. | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | |||
| Cerus Corporation develops and supplies vital technologies and pathogen-protected blood components to blood centers, hospitals, and patients | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Dexcom develops and sells continuous glucose monitoring systems | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| DivX provides free video software to play and convert video. | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Earli uses AI to build genetic switches that program only cancer cells to make their own therapies | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Engage3 provides competitive pricing data and analytics to help retailers and brands optimize their prices and improve their price perception | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| ESS Technology, Inc. produces audio solutions, including CODECs, converters, amplifiers, and soundbars. | ConsumerIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Finicast provides a database for AI agents to use for financial models | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Globallogic helps transform businesses and refine industries through intelligent products, platforms, and services | Industrial & ManufacturingMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| GoTo provides business communication and IT support software | EducationHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Immunovec is pioneering the next generation of precise, durable in vivo medicines for cancer and autoimmune disease | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Innova Vascular is engaged in developing innovative medical devices for treating vascular disease using minimally invasive approach. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| LiquidSpace provides a platform for finding and managing flexible office space | Real Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Lyric Bio develops bioreactors to produce human immunoglobulin for therapeutic use | Healthcare & Biotech | Dec 2025Seed | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- bdventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 26 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 27
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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