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Buff Gold Ventures
Venture capital · CO, United States · North America
Buff Gold Ventures invests in startups founded by University of Colorado Boulder faculty, students, alumni, and companies licensing CU intellectual property. It provides capital and hands-on collaboration to help early-stage companies grow.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechAI & Machine LearningEducation
In its own wordsuniversity spinoutsdeep techdisruptive technologycoloradoearly stage
Your fit with Buff Gold Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsBuff Gold Ventures lists 12 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 60% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (24%), AI & Machine Learning (18%) and Education (18%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Service Provider Capital, CU Healthcare Innovation Fund and Deming Center Venture Fund.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Buff Gold 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 Buff Gold Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 5 companies; its own site lists 12. 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 | 60% |
| Series A | 20% |
| Series B | 20% |
| 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 | 4 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 30th | 12 companies |
| Recent activity | 82th | 4 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 76th | 60% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 98th | 33% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 29th | 24% 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 24% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 18% | 18% |
| Education | 18% | 7% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 18% | 7% |
| Cybersecurity | 12% | 4% |
| Climate & Energy | 6% | 1% |
| Fintech | 6% | 12% |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers12100%
- 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.
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Service Provider Capital | 3 |
| CU Healthcare Innovation Fund | 2 |
| Deming Center Venture Fund | 2 |
| Wireframe Ventures | 2 |
| AV8 Ventures | 1 |
| Adjuvant Capital | 1 |
| Avila VC | 1 |
| Axial | 1 |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Service Provider Capital
Compare Buff Gold 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 Buff Gold Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 15 Sept 2026 | Series B | |
| 13 Mar 2026 | Seed | |
| 1 Jan 2026 | Series A | |
| 18 Aug 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Buff Gold Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Buff Gold Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
12 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Codebreaker edits variants into primary human cells and measures what they actually do. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Great Sky develops hardware and systems for artificial intelligence computing using physics-based approaches. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Mar 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| LongPath Technologies delivers methane monitoring performance through patented laser line sensor technology | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| The company manufactures sodium-ion batteries and electrolytes for various applications. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Oct 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Polaris Electro-Optics develops optical interconnects for data transfer and computation using integrated photonics technology. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Sept 2026Series B | Page + round | |
| The company develops novel therapies for chronic sinusitis patients | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Swept AI provides private and governed AI solutions for insurance carriers | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Aug 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| The company develops small-molecule drugs using synthetic biology | Healthcare & Biotech | Jan 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Tynt Technologies develops and provides smart tinting technology for various surfaces, including wearables and windows. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| VitriVax is a formulation technology company engineering innovative solutions to maximize global accessibility and utility of human vaccines | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Manifest makes optical elements in one continuous volumetric step using proprietary Parallax Volumetric Manufacturing technology. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Vycarb develops and deploys tools for scalable, fully-measured carbon capture, removal, and storage | Climate & Energy | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 8 Nov 2026- Site
- buffgoldventures.com
- Last read
- 8 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 18 Aug 2025
- Companies checked
- 12
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