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Campus Founders Fund
Venture capital · Salt Lake City, UT, United States · North America
Campus Founders Fund is a venture fund that invests in student-run startups, managed entirely by students and sponsored by Kickstart. It typically invests $10k-50k in university-based startups, and has deployed over $900,000 across more than 50 such companies.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsstudent founderspre-seeduniversity startupsmountain west
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Or find every investor that fitsCampus Founders Fund lists 32 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (19%), Education (14%) and Healthcare & Biotech (14%). 88% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Kickstart, Y Combinator and Album VC.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Campus Founders 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 Campus Founders Fund's whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 32. 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 | 50% |
| Series A | 50% |
| 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 | 1 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 70th | 32 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 13th | 19% 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 19% | 18% |
| Education | 14% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 14% | 15% |
| Enterprise Software | 12% | 8% |
| Consumer | 10% | 3% |
| Space & Defense | 8% | 3% |
| Fintech | 8% | 12% |
| Media & Entertainment | 4% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Kickstart | 7 |
| Y Combinator | 5 |
| Album VC | 2 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 2 |
| Techstars | 2 |
| University Growth Fund | 2 |
| Avesta Fund | 1 |
| BDev Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers32100%
- 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 Campus Founders 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 Campus Founders Fund| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 13 Aug 2026 | Seed | |
| 16 Oct 2025 | Series A Led |
Round details for Campus Founders Fund
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Campus Founders Fund's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
32 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amano develops and manufactures an automatic pool water testing device that provides digital logs and alerts | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Benji Card processes and manages healthcare payments | Healthcare & BiotechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Blerp provides tools for creators to build personalized interactive alerts and chat commands for various streaming platforms | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Bookroo delivers monthly book subscriptions for kids aged 0-12. | EducationEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Care Weather designs, builds, and operates satellites to improve weather forecasting | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Cinch unifies customer data from every location and puts AI to work analyzing, building, and sending marketing campaigns. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Cortex provides post-acute healthcare solutions to various healthcare providers, including home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, and hospitals. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company offers same-day laundry pickup and delivery services in Salt Lake City. | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Geneial provides a platform for collecting data, managing consent, and advancing rare disease research for advocacy groups, researchers, and families. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Campfire provides flexible leadership development solutions for growing teams | EducationHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| Lovage helps local professionals automatically post their availability and turn views into bookings | Healthcare & BiotechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Grain captures and enriches meetings, then delivers them to AI tools so agents can do the work. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides AI-powered language and skills assessments | EducationHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| HapWare develops a wearable device that helps blind, low vision, and deafblind people access nonverbal social signals through vibration patterns. | Healthcare & BiotechConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| HyImpulse develops and provides launcher and spacecraft technology, including hybrid rocket technology, and offers launch and in-space mobility services | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2025Series A · 2 rounds | Funding round | |
| Relay Health provides a program to help people quit pornography for good through a therapist-designed system and like-minded groups. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Mindsmith creates an AI-native eLearning authoring tool for designing interactive courses. | EducationAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Pura sells smart home fragrance diffusers and premium scents | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides recycling pickups at customers' homes | ConsumerClimate & Energy | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- campusfounders.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 16 Oct 2025
- Companies checked
- 32
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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