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Bright Ventures
Venture capital · New York, NY, United States · North America
Bright Ventures is an investment fund that backs Pre-Seed and Seed-stage ventures. It provides founders with coaching, community and capital.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsfintechdigital healthfuture of workpre-seedseed
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Or find every investor that fitsBright Ventures lists 16 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 (29%), AI & Machine Learning (17%) and Fintech (13%). 78% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Collab Capital, Suncoast Ventures and Techstars.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Bright 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 Bright Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 16. 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 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 42th | 16 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 49th | 29% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 29% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 17% | 18% |
| Fintech | 13% | 12% |
| Consumer | 13% | 3% |
| Enterprise Software | 8% | 8% |
| Legal & Compliance | 4% | 2% |
| Cybersecurity | 4% | 4% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 4% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Collab Capital | 2 |
| Suncoast Ventures | 2 |
| Techstars | 2 |
| Wisdom Ventures | 2 |
| Y Combinator | 2 |
| Acacia Venture Capital Partners | 1 |
| Allegis Capital | 1 |
| Alumni Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers16100%
- 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 togetherCompare Bright 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 Bright Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Oct 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 19 May 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Bright Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Bright Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
16 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AlphaLit automates the vetting process to deliver high-quality cases to attorneys and legal access to plaintiffs | Legal & ComplianceAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Aware Health provides a platform for musculoskeletal care using AI and clinician-led personalized treatment. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company helps families discover new products | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Kairo provides mental training for athletes through visualization techniques. | Healthcare & BiotechEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Keepwol helps teams build relational capital and delivers optimized results through meaningful human interactions and data analytics. | Healthcare & BiotechEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Leadbay.ai qualifies leads and integrates with chat agents to help businesses grow revenue | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | May 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Mae provides doula support and resources to pregnant individuals through a network of community-based doulas and care coordinators. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Nav.it provides financial management tools and services to employees through their employers. | FintechHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Ohai provides a virtual household assistant that helps families manage calendars, tasks, and other household activities. | AI & Machine LearningConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Omabit provides AI analysis for life science R&D data | Healthcare & Biotech | Oct 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Powertime provides an all-in-one app for messaging, calling, and file sharing with a focus on privacy and usability | ConsumerSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Ryse provides financial services to property managers, offering rent advances to property owners and earning a commission on the advances | FintechReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| ShareWell provides online peer support groups and mental health community services. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Tandem helps couples share expenses, track spending, plan purchases, and coordinate their day-to-days. | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Forerunner provides a geospatial intelligence layer for governments and regulated industries to manage properties, inspections, and compliance programs. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- brightventures.io
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 19 May 2026
- Companies checked
- 16
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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